I was looking around wishbookweb.com, which I love to do a disturbing amount, and decided to flip through the 1972 Sears Wishbook. Here’s some of the things I found:
The 1972 Sears Wishbook – Fun Bags should not be marketed to kids.
I was looking around wishbookweb.com, which I love to do a disturbing amount, and decided to flip through the 1972 Sears Wishbook. Here’s some of the things I found:
I don’t even know where to begin. First of all, the silverware in that second picture is about the size of her head. Second, what’s with the Princess Leia hair with pajama girl (I guess that’s the least of her problems, considering the get-up she’s in.) And that doll has scared me for life.
In other words, this was awesome.
Yeah, I noticed the hair, too. She obviously hasn’t gone to bed yet because those things wouldn’t hold up.
I remember most of those (because I wasted years of my life looking in the Sear’s wishbooks) …. So funny!
I loved them, too. It was kinda the highlight of my year.
How on earth did those pajama/dress/polo things never catch on? Tragic.
I can’t remember when they sold lesbians in the catalog. Must have been a slow year.
And what’s with the sexually suggestive kids products? No wonder we are all so fubar’d. Kid of the 70’s right here, folks. Exhibit A.
(Now . . . Imma gonna check the “Notify me of followup comments” button. But I know damn well it’s for naught).
Did you get this!?
I started to come up with some things the Pillow Talkin’ phone might say but then I started to feel really dirty.
Did not get it. Grrrrrr.
I had no idea that footie pajamas were ever such a popular item for anyone over the age of 1!
Also I feel like the “Pillow Talkin’ Phone” must exist to train young children for future careers in the lucrative 900-number service sector.
Ah, that’s a good theory. Now I’m imagining a bunch of current 40 year olds in footie pajamas workin’ their sex phone jobs.
It’s bipolar doll! If only I had that as a child, I might have been diagnosed years earlier. “She’s just like me, Mom!”
I wonder if she came with a DSM.
That panda bear does not look friendly.
NO! I noticed him, too. Terrifying.
Dear God. I had no idea such a website existed, but now I will probably never leave it. I just looked through the 1983 Sears Wish Book, I swear I remember it. It’s how I used to make my Christmas lists.
Great post!!
Thanks! Good luck tearing yourself away from the site, I have a hard time doing that.
Oh how I loved the Sears wish book – my sister and I had those feety pajamas!!
They were a sweat containment system.
Ah, this was awesome! I used to LOVE the Wish Book from Spiegel’s & Sears. I’d get it in November and then go through it, page by page, thoughtfully marketing all the things I wanted for Christmas.
I particularly love the pajamas bit. Awesome.
Yep, I’d sit down with my pen and circle, circle, circle.
I maintained my innocence for a while. I didn’t get into “fun bags” until I was about 15, then, they’re all i wanted to play with. Wait, we’re talking about sears things?
Did you not get the wishbook? Is that why you had such a late interest in fun bags?
1972 sounds flippin’ awesome! Pillow talk phones and fun bags on sale at Sears – Jump Back! Love it, Carrie.
I didn’t realize 1972 was such a swinging year.
On the one hand… I completely love this with all my heart. I mean, you only THOUGHT the hot pink dress / blue polo combo was horrible bedtime attire until you got to the flannel footies versus the brushed nylon tricot.
On the other hand… I’m now completely addicted to wishbookweb.com so, that’s unfortunate.
Sorry about that. Isn’t it great, though? I you want to get really unhealthy you can start searching for some of the stuff on eBay, which I haven’t done at all.
Also, should you make your way to the 1980 Christmas book, check out the series of awkwardly posed models starting on page 72 and culminating on page 81 with a series of poses I like to call…
C) The Fake Monocle
D) The Champ
E) The “Oh Ho Hoooo”,
G) The Painfully Feigned Enthusiasm
F) The “I Think My Head’s On Backwards”
I will definitely be looking for that.
That doll seems too advanced for 1972. Someone definitely sold their soul to the devil to make that doll change expressions.