The Grandest Chicken in the Easter Parade

It’s a little late for Easter-themed posts, but how could I pass up the chance to share this 1947 ad with you? It is from the New York Times. The ads were not all that amusing, mostly – it being the Times and all.

This is what ladies wanted to get from their beaux at Easter. The jeweled Easter egg with It’s You perfume is at the top, and would set a guy back $6.50; at the bottom is a lovely Acetate Corsage Box with Violet Essence for an even $5.

I’ll tell you what I would have liked to get – and it’s the most expensive thing, too ($8.50)! Check out the Satin Chicken (containing Blue Grass sachet) and the jeweled egg with the It’s You perfume in it. The chicken appears to be nesting on a plastic box. Egg’s not going to hatch like that. But who cares? A satin chicken  – I love it. I wish they still made them. I’d be hinting around, you know. Even the hinting would make me laugh.

This is just to get the party started - I have a couple more posts for today: a meme and a vintage show-and-tell. So I’ll be back. Have to hunt down something to show you. Hopefully something almost as great as a vintage satin chicken!