Vintage Knitting pattern booklets – The 50′s (part 2)

I’m sorry its taken a couple of days for me to get these up.  I’m continuing with the photos from Columbia Minerva Fashions for Men and Boys.  (Don’t worry: we’ll have some 50′s fashions for women and girls in the next blog post ).

In the last post, we exhausted all of the photography/film based scenes.  Lets move on to winter sports:

I actually really like the collar on the left.  No idea what’s going on with the pattern for the sweater on the right though.

"Hey! You're doing it wrong!" ... "Do you want to walk to the ski resort?"

Boy, are these guys really enjoying that popcorn.  In a really special way, I’ll bet.

"Popcorn?"... "Don't mind if I do..."

I’m not sure why these guys are just standing around.  Maybe it’s kiddie-skate time in the rink?  Maybe they’re just watching.  But it makes for a nicely posed photograph, don’t you think?

I can't think of a good caption for this one... yaaaaawn...

Well, that’s it for Winter Sports.  What’s up next?  I’m calling this section Leisure Activities.  It’s the sort of thing you’d want young men to do to keep themselves out of trouble.  With a capital T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for… uh oh…

"I can smell a sucker a mile off..." ... "That's my aftershave."

So, if you’re not the hanging out at the pool hall hustling people for money type, you can always try ping-pong.  This next one is actually my favorite.  I’d have captioned it completely differently if I weren’t trying to maintain a mostly PG-rated image for my blog.

"I'll give you ten dollars to swallow this ping-pong ball"

And what list of leisure activities would be complete without a little voyeurism?  What’s more healthy and wholesome for young boys than spying on your neighbor as she changes in her room?

"If anyone asks, I'm just bird watching."

The last type of photo in this knitting booklet was one I like to call “Hanging out in the study with Dad”  It’s where they get to show the man-size and mini-me versions of the sweaters at the same time.

First, a little reading help for the old man:

" Kuh....Ahhhhh....Tuh. CAAAAAAAT. Cat!" .... "Good Job Dad!"

And lastly:  it’s never too early (especially in the cold war era) to begin indoctrinating your children about world politics:

"Right! And which country to the dirty commies want to blow up with their nukes?"

My next entry will still be from the 50′s, but it’s a different pattern booklet.  I’m not going to promise when I’ll post it, because Life Happens.

If anyone can come up with a funnier caption for these pictures, I’ll give some free yarn for it (and this will be separate from the yarn being given away for captioning the pervious post’s pictures – which it looks like Crafycripple is well on her way to winning ).