LOVELY PINK KITCHEN

PINK CHEVYS

PINK EVERYWHERE

Brooks Brothers has been making a pink shirt for decades but it was largely unnoticed until it caught on with college students around 1950. It was a short lived fashion for girls, but really caught on with the men.

The craze quickly spread from shirts to tie to slacks and soon make the jump to non-clothing items. Home furnishings, such as carpets, paint, wallpaper and linoleum were soon spouting pink colors. This quickly spread to dishes, towels, pots and pans furniture items and even automobiles. For a few years everything seemed to be various shades of pink, this was one of the earliest 1950’s fads, but not nearly the last.

Fearless Fosdick

Fearless Fosdick was a well-known Dick Tracy parody from Al Capp’s popular comic strip Li’l Abner. The dimwitted detective appeared in a comic strip within the strip, as Li’l Abner’s favorite comic. Fosdick is pure, moral, dumb, underpaid, very put upon and prone to shooting innocent bystanders. The character was very funny and actually had his own TV show for a time, but never its own stand-alone comic.
Fosdick also didn’t appear in much advertising, unlike Li’l Abner, his Wildroot Cream Oil adds were an exception and were popular in the 1940’s well into the 1950’s.