Vintage ad for leisure suits from Sayvette.
Overheard when passing by The Five-Year-Old’s bedroom while storytime was in progress.
The Five-Year-Old: “Daddyo, what did our ancestors grow out of?”
Father: “Oh, lots of things.” (slight pause, then…) “Leisure suits.”
(Image from jbcurio, whose Flickr photostream is a virtual goldmine of old-timey ads, and rather fun reading, if you like that sort of thing.)
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About Shala Howell
Writer of things ranging from optical network switching white papers to genetic testing patient education materials to historical fiction set in an 1880s asylum. When I’m not scratching my head over pesky characters who refuse to do things how I want them done or dreaming of my next book (which will of course be much easier to write and research than the current one), my writerly self can be found sifting through the stacks in my church’s archives looking for a few good stories to tell, blogging about life with a very curious Six-Year-Old at Caterpickles.com, or musing about books and the writing life at BostonWriters.wordpress.com.
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