Pitch perfect: hosiery
As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market ladies’ hosiery and stockings (and even a few mens’ socks).
All that its name implies (True Shape Hosiery Co.).
As you like it (hosiery), J. R. Baston Co., Inc.
Background of beauty (Virginia Maid Hosiery), Pulaski, Va.
Because you love nice things (silk stockings), Van Raalte Co., New York.
Be sporty in ’40 (hosiery), C. H. Roth Co., New York.
Be sporty and fine in ’49 (Rose Specialty Shoppe), Brooklyn.
Be wiser, buy Kayser (hosiery, gloves, lingerie).
Chosen for lasting loveliness (Orient hosiery).
Dependable hosiery, The (Mojud).
Eye line of smartness, The (St. Johns Silk Co.).
For good and FITTING reasons (Kayser gloves and hosiery).
For sheer loveliness wear Chatelaine Silk Hosiery (St. John’s Silk Co.).
For the loveliest legs in the world (Berkshire Knitting Mills).
Free from “rings” and “shadows” (No-Sha-Do hosiery).
From mill to millions (Real Silk Hosiery), Indianapolis.
Full fashioned for flawless fashion (Belle-Sharmeer hose).
Hosiery of distinction, The (Chatelaine).
In the California manner (Gude’s, Inc.), Los Angeles.
Jewel of hosiery, The (Bijon), New York.
Knit to fit with the comfort foot (hosiery), Burson Knitting Co.
Leg-size stocking for leg-wise women (Belle-Sharmeer).
Longer wear in every pair (Blue Moon Silk Hosiery Co.), Philadelphia.
Long Milage Hosiery (Phoenix Hosiery Co.).
Long stocking that fits every leg, The (Gotham Gold Stripe).
Made the strongest where the wear is hardest (Durham Hosiery Mills, Inc.).
Mile of silk, inspected inch by inch, A (Berkshire stockings).
Not just nylons, but Cannon nylons.
On a pedestal (Gold Stripe stockings).
Rollins answers the gift question (Rollins Hosiery Mills), Des Moines.
Sheath the leg in loveliness (Cameron nylons), Burlington, N. C.
Sheer enduring beauty (stockings), Aberle, Inc.
Sheer, sheer, Berkshire (Berkshire Knitting Mills).
Silk stockings that wear (Gotham Silk Hosiery).
Sings its own praise (hosiery), Rosenberg & Brand.
Smartest thing on two feet, The (Esquire Sock), New York.
Sock America wears to work, The (Nelson Knitting Co.).
Sporty Forty (hosiery), C. H. Roth Co.
Stocking beautiful, The (La France Hosiery), Fieldcrest Mills.
Stockings of matchless beauty (Hoover Sales Corp.), Concord, N. C.
Style and wear in every pair (Hosiers, Ltd.).
Take to water like a duck (Adler socks).
That’s all you need to know about stockings (Mojud).
There’s longer wear in every pair (hosiery), Largman Gray Co., New York.
They do things for your legs (Rollins Hosiery Mills), Des Moines.
They’re wear-conditioned (Monmouth Hosiery Mills), Trenton.
This is, indeed, hosiery “as you like it” (Berkshire Knitting Mills).
Try them on for sighs (Strutwear nylons), Minneapolis.
Warm toes in Fox River Hose.
Wash them any way you like, we guarantee the size (Adler socks).
Wear-conditioned stockings (Monmouth Hosiery Mills).
Wear Kayser, you owe it to your friends (gloves, hosiery).
Wear longer (Davenport Hosiery Mills).
Will not kink (Milo Hose), Boston Woven Hose Co., Cambridge, Mass.
World’s most beautiful stockings (Canadian Silk Products, Ltd.).
You just know she wears them (McCallum Hosiery Co.).
You’ll love the look of your leg in Larkwood (hosiery).
You’re asking for a good sock (Westminster sock).
You’re sure of yourself in Phoenix (Phoenix Vita Bloom Hosiery), Milwaukee.
Pitch perfect: furniture
As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market furniture, beds, rugs and baby furniture.
America’s finest mattress (Spring-Air), Holland, Mich.
America’s most luxurious mattress (Englander).
America’s quality mattress (Ostermoor)
Ask for Karpen furniture, find the nameplate before you buy.
Baby’s best bed builders (Gem Crib and Cradle Co.), Gardner, Mass.
Beautiful sheets with wear woven in, The (Pepperell).
Bedspring luxurious, The (Rome Co.), Rome, N. Y.
Berth of a nation, The (Greenpoint Metallic Bed Co.).
Better bedding by Burton.
Better sleep makes better husbands (Englander).
Better your home, better your living (Drexel furniture).
BETTER your home, better your LIVING (Drexel furniture), New York.
Built for sleep (Ostermoor & Co.), mattress.
Built for sleep (beds), Simmons Co.
Burlington, the scatter rug of beauty (Lack Carpet Co.).
Buy Castle Furniture for your castle.
Buyword for quality, A (Wellsville Upholestering Co.).
Chair of amazing comfort, The (Jamestown Upholstery Co.), Jamestown, N. Y.
Come take a trip around our Castle (Castle Furn. Co.), Union City, N. J.
Comfort first (Nachman Spring Filled Co.).
Cradle of liberty, The (Paragon Furniture Co.), New York.
Double your pleasure out of doors, sleep on air anywhere (Hodgman Rubber Co.).
Enduring masterpieces (Kiel Furniture Co.).
Everything in floor coverings (Claflins, Inc.).
Famous overnight (Eclipse Sleep Products), Brooklyn.
Feels like kid (Gunn Furniture Co.), Grand Rapids.
Feels like walking on velvet (Clinton Carpet Co.), Chicago.
First in sleeping comfort (blankets), G. E. Automatic.
For America’s royalty (bedding).
For better baby furniture (Glass Novelty Co.), Chicago.
For controlled warmth (thermostatic blankets), Fieldcrest Mills
For gracious living (Northern Furniture Co.).
For lucky babies (Whitney Carriage Co.), Leominster, Mass.
For relaxation and sleep (Manhattan-Rome Co.).
For the best night’s rest you ever had, sleep on a Hodgman Air Bed.
For the REST of your life (Slumber Chair), C. F. Streit Mfg. Co.
For the sleep that rests (Burton Dixie Corp.), Chicago.
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Pitch perfect: office machines
As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market business machines and office supplies.
Anything that sticks (Mystik), Adhesive products.
As easily as the sun shines (Blue Reprint machines), Wicker Bros.
As new as tomorrow (Dictaphone).
Better protection with Meilink-built safes (Meilink Steel Safe Co.).
Brush with a backbone, The (gummed paper moistener), A. C. Hummel.
Built for business (paper clipper machine), Sibley Mfg. Co.
Built like a safe (Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co.).
Built like a skyscraper (steel filing cabinets), Shaw-Walker Co.
Built to endure (Globe-Wernicke Co.).
Built to last a business lifetime (Monroe Calculating Machine Co.).
Business pencil, The (J. Dixon Crucible Co.).
Business tools (Diebold Safe & Lock Co.).
Buying a cheap show case to save money is like stopping the clock to save time.
Buy only what you need when you need it (Visible filing system), Diebold.
Census takers of industry, The (Root Co.), Bristol, Conn.
Certified on checks; Lawrence on warehouse receipts (Lawrence Warehouse Co.).
Clean floors reflect clean business (Finnell System Inc.).
Clean service for every customer, A (Paper Cup & Container Institute).
Clean service for every customer every time, A (Paper Cup Institute).
Compare the work (Typewriter Co.).
Dawn of a new era, multiple copy forms for clerical efficiency, The.
Dictate to the dictaphone (Columbia Gramaphone Co.).
Don’t write, Voice-O-Graph (voice recorder), Int. Mutoscope Corp.
Doubles your ability to get things done (Dictaphone).
Each rug cleaned in our $25,000 washer (Shampay Bros.), Indianapolis.
Electro-Copyst, a photo-copying machine for every office (Electro-Copyst).
End the day with a smile (Standard typewriters), Royal.
Every business form for every form of business (Baltimore Salesbook).
Every type of adhesive for every industrial use (National adhesives).
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Pitch perfect: tobacco
As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market pipes, cigars, tobacco, and smoking accessories.
Aged in the wood (Velvet Tobacco).
America’s finest pipe tobacco (Edgeworth).
America’s most distinguished cigarette holder (Kirsten Pipe Co.), Seattle.
America’s most popular cigar (King Edward).
America’s smoothest tobacco (Velvet), Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
Aristocrat of cigars, The (Robert Burns).
Aristocrat of pipe tobacco, The (Old Briar), United Cigar Stores.
Aromatic in the pack, aromatic in the pipe (tobacco), Holiday.
Ashless ashstand, The (Smokador Mfg. Co.), New York.
Ask him why he smokes a Webster (Webster Cigar Co.), Detroit.
Ask your dealer, he knows (Garcia y Vega cigar).
Barking Dog never bites (Continental Tobacco Co.).
Best cigar in any case, The (Justin Seubert Co.), Syracuse.
Best for half a century, better than ever today (Admiration cigar).
Best in the Union, in pocket tins, The (Union smoking tobacco), Lorillard.
Best of the best (Optimo cigars).
Biteless blend, The (Briggs pipe mixture).
Brand with the grand aroma, The (Mail Pouch Tobacco Co.), Wheeling, W. Va.
Buy word of millions (King Edward cigar).
Caterers to the tobacco trade (Dillon Supply Co.), Raleigh, N. C.
Champion of blends (Sportsman pipe mixture).
Champion of pipes (Sportsman).
Change to Bond Street for fragrant smoking (pipe tobacco).
Choice of successful men, The (Blackstone cigar).
Cigar made with good judgment, The (Tom Keene), General Cigar Co.
Cigar that breathes, The (Roi-Tan).
Classic in wood, A (pipe), Kaywoodie Co.
Cooler on the draw (pipe), Royal Duke
Dependable all ways (Berkeley lighter).
Dignifying the pipe (One-Up tobacco case), Smokers Products, Inc.
Double-value cigar that guarantees more satisfaction (La Fendrich).
Everybody loves Admiration (cigar).
Every El Dueno cigar is smooth sailing (El Dueno Cigar Co.).
Every puff a pleasure (cigar), Gonzalez & Sanchez Co., Jacksonville, Fla.
Exclusive, not expensive (pipe, tobacco and men’s gift shop), Boyce, San Jose, Calif.
Executive America’s top cigar (Webster).
Faithfully maintaining quality at no advance in price (Dr. Grabow pipes).
Famous for quality (Dexter cigar).
Famous name in tobacco for nearly 200 years (Old Gold).
Filters the smoke from bowl to tip (Forecaster pipe).
First different smoking tobacco in a generation, The (Half & Half).
First in the social register (cigars), Webster-Eisenlohr, Inc.
For my pipe (Granger tobacco).
For real enjoyment (El Producto), Cigar.
For solid comfort (LHS pipes).
For young men and men with young ideas (General Cigar Co.).
Four inches of a 25-cent cigar (The In-B-Tween Co.), Baltimore.
Friendly smoke, The (Royalist cigar), Grabowsky Bros., Inc., Philadelphia.
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Pitch perfect: musical instruments
As the Pitch Perfect series continues, we today feature a collection of 1949 advertising slogans that were used to market musical instruments.
Acknowledged the world’s best piano (Wm. Knabe & Co.)
Beautiful piano with a magnificent tone, A (Betsy Ross Spinet).
Beautiful piano with a magnificent name, A (Lester).
Canada’s biggest piano value (Sherlock-Manning). London, Ont.
Choice of the masters (organ), George Kilgen & Son.
Choose your piano as the artists do (Baldwin Piano).
Craftsmen built the Kurtsmann (piano).
Cultivate your musical bump (instruments), C. G. Conn, Inc.
Drum makers to the profession (Ludwig & Ludwig).
Drum standard of the world, The (Ludwig & Ludwig).
Easy to play (Gulbransen Co.), Chicago.
Easy to play, pay and carry (Clark Harp Mfg. Co.).
For everything musical (Street Music Co.), Kansas City, Mo.
For those friendly notes (White & Wyckoff Mfg. Co.), Holyoke, Mass.
Hammond is the largest-selling organ in the world, The.
If it’s a Steger, it’s the most valuable piano in the world.
Instrument of the immortals, The (piano), Steinway & Sons.
Instruments of quality by one family for 100 years (spinet), Story & Clark.
In tune with a tune (Ladd Ocarina), Hill, N. H.
Keyboard of the nation (Kimball piano).
Little piano with the big tune (Miessner Piano Co.), Milwaukee.
Made by masters, played by artists (Buescher Band Instrument Co.).
Made by the makers of the Hammon organ (Solovax), Piano attachment.
Master’s fingers on your piano, The (Auto-Pneumatic Action Co.).
Most valuable piano in the world, The (Steger & Sons).
Musical fun for everyone (Wurlitzer phonograph).
Name to remember in flutes, The (Armstrong).
No other instrument so richly rewards the efforts of the beginner (Hammond).
Piano of international fame, The (Steinway & Sons).
Popular as music itself (Pianos and player pianos), Winter & Co.
Rhythm magic in modern mood (Daum-Sanderson Orchestra).
Richest child is poor without a musical education, The.
School of achievement, The (Pizzitola Music Studios), Holyoke, Mass.
Serves you right (music distributors), Ashley.
Voice of the cathedrals, The (bells), Liberty Carillon.
We challenge comparison (Vose & Sons Piano Co.), Boston.
We teach, we don’t confuse (Pizzitola Music Studios).
Wholesale music center, The (Targ & Dinner).
With all the grace and beauty of its name (Minute Model Gulbransen Piano).
World’s most respected accordian (Nunziola).
You can bank on a Frank (trumpet), Wm. Frank Co., Chicago.
You can’t fool the microphone (string instruments), Lyon & Healey.
You can’t go wrong with a Feist song (Leo Feist, Inc.).
On A Simmery Summery Day
Give me a book that's entertaining
When I'm lying in the hay
To while away the hours
On a simmery summery day.
Want to be lazy like a daisy
In the middle of July
And watch the pretty pictures in the sky.
Ho-hum, dreaming in the sun,
I'm a lucky one, it's true.
Ho-hum, I'm not so very dumb.
I'll bet you'd like to dream there, too.
Beautiful butterflies are dancing
In the field across the way,
The nearest thing to heaven
On a simmery summery day.
What is the use of hustle-bustle?
Find a little time to play
And you'll never simmer
On a summer day.
---James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Frank Weldon




