01-02-2022, 08:27 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-02-2022, 09:06 PM by Bob Culver.)
With that dress presumably the lady was riding the red bike side saddle. Otherwise the boy would have made some more impudent observation.
It is intriguing how extensively pictures of healthy young were used to sell. Raleigh bikes had numerous similar adverts. Now such ads would imply blatant basic sexual attraction, but it requires no mean imagination to read muchof that into the 1950s versions.
I read somewhere that just post war only about half or so UK men wore underpants. Hopefully that did not apply to the class who could afford a Bantam and tennis shorts.
(On further examination there is a subtle touch which even I did not intially notice...)
I trust the huge windows in the tram were safety glass.
It is intriguing how extensively pictures of healthy young were used to sell. Raleigh bikes had numerous similar adverts. Now such ads would imply blatant basic sexual attraction, but it requires no mean imagination to read muchof that into the 1950s versions.
I read somewhere that just post war only about half or so UK men wore underpants. Hopefully that did not apply to the class who could afford a Bantam and tennis shorts.
(On further examination there is a subtle touch which even I did not intially notice...)
I trust the huge windows in the tram were safety glass.