Copper Swim Suit Ad for Arizona (Jan, 1933)
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1933
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Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Jan, 1933
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Copper Swim Suit Ad for Arizona
ALTHOUGH not guaranteed to make swimming easier, this jaunty copper bathing suit will cause many a reclining sun bather to sit up and take notice. The suit is generously sprinkled with copper and was worn by Miss Helen Brow of Phoenix, Arizona, recently chosen as “Miss Arizona.” The real purpose of the suit is to advertise Arizona.
This seems to be a fixation with 1930s Arizona.
Write Letters on Copper Paper!
Today, Congress is considering making pennies out of steel or zinc as they did in World War II, because copper is now worth far more than a pennyweight of it.
Comment by Baron Waste — July 31, 2008 @ 1:41 am
She is quite the floozy in that suit!
I think she has a grounding wire attached to her right wrist.
Comment by Mike — July 31, 2008 @ 5:31 am
Baron, US pennies have been made from copper-plated zinc since 1983 for exactly the reason you stated.
Comment by Randy — July 31, 2008 @ 8:09 am
Is that a lightning rod she’s holding?
Comment by Joey O'Neill — July 31, 2008 @ 8:41 am
You’re right Mike, probably to avoid to generate a static electricity shock in anyone that could had kiss her or shake hands with her
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Comment by JM — July 31, 2008 @ 8:50 am
They had a thing about belly-buttons. You couldn’t show them. This taboo lasted into the 60s I think.
Neilster
Comment by Joey O'Neill — July 31, 2008 @ 9:00 am
Would you wear the copper swimsuit with a tinfoil hat?
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Comment by jayessell — July 31, 2008 @ 9:30 am
Showing belly buttons? Thirty years before this they didn’t show ankles. Her outfit was probably considered somewhat advanced at the time (I mean other than the fact that it’s made of copper).
Comment by Charlene — August 1, 2008 @ 2:43 am
In the summer of that year my mother was arrested for wearing the first two-piece bathing suit on Miami Beach. The charge, because she exposed her navel along with about 2″ of skin, was Indecent Exposure. She was 15 and it was something I never knew until I was well out of my teens!
Comment by StanFlouride — August 1, 2008 @ 8:52 am
Gene Roddenberry was not allowed by the network to show in the original Star Trek series (1966-1969). He compensated by giving the Terranean mutants two navels in his “Genesis II” pilot film in 1973.
Comment by Randy — August 1, 2008 @ 10:43 am
“…to show NAVELS in…”
Comment by Randy — August 1, 2008 @ 10:44 am