Girls Can’t Resist this KISS ME NECKTIE as it GLOWS in the DARK! (Mar, 1945)
Source: Popular Science ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Mar, 1945
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Does anybody know how this worked? Since it pulses and glows I would guess electric, but I’m not sure what the mechanism would be. Incandescent light bulbs seem a bit bulky but any other method seems a bit futuristic for a $1.40 gag gift from 1945.
Girls Can’t Resist this KISS ME NECKTIE as it GLOWS in the DARK!
Men! Boys! Amaze your friends, surprise and thrill the girls! Here’s the most amazing, spectacular necktie you ever wore, smart, wrinkle-proof, tailored, by day a lovely swank tie in special color combinations to look smart with any suit, and at night like a miracle of light it leaps to life with pulsing, glowing question— “Will You Kiss Me In The Dark, Baby?” Think of the fun in any crowd! Think how the girls gasp with wonder as the question takes form so amazingly. And here’s wonderful news! You can see, examine this new, utterly different, glorious tie yourself without risking a penny!
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I’m guessing radium paint.
But for the modern equivalent look at these:
I suggest you look at the bras-
http://enlighted.com/pages/gallery.shtml
Comment by Stannous — June 15, 2007 @ 10:19 am
So you think the “pulsing” part is just hyperbole?
Comment by Charlie — June 15, 2007 @ 10:26 am
Good guess Stannous, but I think actual Radium would cost too much, even in microscopic quantities.
Double that for being Wartime!
I’m guessing phosphorescent paint.
Expose to light first, it glows for a few minutes.
Were it actual miniture lightbulbs as used in model railroads (”grain-of-wheat”?)(again…Wartime!) they’d mention batteries.
Comment by jayessell — June 15, 2007 @ 10:27 am
“Think how the girls gasp with wonder as the question takes form so amazingly”?
Yeah, they’d wonder. They’d be wondering all the way to the door.
Comment by Blurgle — June 15, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
I think I could resist that tie.
Comment by Anne — April 8, 2008 @ 9:56 pm