It’s been a while since I’ve done a ‘Random Ossies in Adverts’ post, so it was high time I found another one. Bottom left, definitely one of my holy grail pieces.
I knew there was another one! From 1972…
I think that printed dress turns up in several adverts spanning several years. I’m assuming one photographer or stylist had the dress and just plonked every model in it when they needed a ‘floaty’ look. I shall scan further examples in when I can!
Jenny is 17 and lives in Cheam, Surrey. Jenny is 17, has perfect skin and is wearing a Celia print Ossie. For these reasons, I doth growl at her.
Another in my [very] occasional series, Random Ossies in Adverts. Scanned from Cosmopolitan, July 1974
Continuing my tradition of Random Ossies in Adverts, here we have a Thea Porter gypsy dress in a promotional piece for Kraft. You will be able to see plenty of not-so-random Thea Gypsies in the flesh next year as the gorgeous Laura Helms and the Fashion and Textile Museum open their new show on the…
Scanned by Miss Peelpants from 19 Magazine, October 1974 Combining two of my favourite blog threads, this is yet another in the series of eccentric Smirnoff adverts but is also a clear example of Random Ossies in Adverts. I am never sure whether Ossie was actually used more in adverts at the time, or if…
