It's Retro Tuesday all in pastels...
It's Retro Tuesday!
I found something interesting in the first magazine I pulled out this morning. I've always known that some colors were associated with certain eras but I never realized how pervasive they were in advertising. I should have, I suppose. If that wasn't the case, a pink kitchen wouldn't scream 1950's to me, right?
Even if it was just the background...
This ad is an explosion of kitcheny pastel sweetness...
And I really want these...
Not so much this...
I really like the colors... I really like the aqua/pink/blue/yellow/tangerine thing. It's nice, it's sweet... But beyond that, it's really attractive. And it's stood the test of time. All these years later it still looks fresh. Right. Even current.
Want a bit of yummy sherbet of your own?
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I started leafing through a 1958 McCalls magazine and saw this add...
And than this one...
And this ad was a wonderland of pastels....
A lot more like looking down into a gallon of rainbow
sherbet than at a bunch of sheets...
And I realized almost every ad had the same pastel color scheme. Even the ads that weren't selling magically colored things fit it in somewhere...A lot more like looking down into a gallon of rainbow
sherbet than at a bunch of sheets...
Even if it was just the background...
This ad is an explosion of kitcheny pastel sweetness...
And I really want these...
Not so much this...
I really like the colors... I really like the aqua/pink/blue/yellow/tangerine thing. It's nice, it's sweet... But beyond that, it's really attractive. And it's stood the test of time. All these years later it still looks fresh. Right. Even current.
Want a bit of yummy sherbet of your own?
Click here to enter my Sondra Roberts Creamsicle colored purse giveaway
Want to join in on RETRO TUESDAY?
Link to me and add your name here
5 Commented:
I love pastels too. Isn't that Pyrex in the fridge? On the third shelf you have a blue casserole with snowflakes and a white space saver with a black butterprint like motif.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29805442@N06/3025985208/
Love the creamsicle purse as well!
Now these ads I love! Very Suzie Homemaker. The colors are so comfy. After these the fashionable colors were avocado green, harvest gold and brown. Why? I understand change but still, why?
Suddenly I have a craving for those mint pastel creme mints, that look like a flattened herseys kiss, you know which ones I mean??
The ones that taste like wax??
Thanks for the inspiration!
Ooooh, I want that fridge! And its contents.
Well, maybe not the green jello thing, but everything else in it!
I never realised there were so many pastel hues in the 1950s!
I am SOOOOO late in linking this week, but am here. Love your pics!
(I like green jello :)
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