Nobody beats Anne Taintor's ability to marry vintage images with saucy commentary. The company calls itself "the original vintage humour company," a label likely necessitated by the vast number of imitators who've taken Taintor's 1950s-domestic-goddess-style picutres + cutout-typeset collage formula and tried to replicate it. In my opinion, and though we've carried funny products from Taintor-esque companies, no others quite measure up in terms of quote choices (Taintor's generally have a timelessness and universality) and product choices.
To some degree, I guess you can slap a funny saying and a price tag on just about anything, and eventually someone will buy it. This line, however, is made up entirely of high-quality items that are a mixture of practical and fun, slightly higher-cost to super-affordable. Maybe not everyone would agree with me, but I would categorize the ol' stainless steel hip flask as a practical item. And I would categorize the following saying as hi-larious:
And actually, at $30, this is the most expensive item we carry from the line, so the prices are really pretty awesome. There's also some Anne Taintor stuff I think to be especially clever. For instance, we've seen emery boards printed with a variety of things from a number of suppliers over the years. The Anne Taintor version, however, is made like a big pack of matches with a whole bunch of little "purse-size" emery boards inside ($6) :
So very cool. To add to that, on a recent buying trip, I discovered some *new* Anne Taintor items, which I immediately ordered. The company is now producing a gorgeous line of soaps in flavours like Lemon Verbena, Olive Soy and Grapefruit!
One last thing! I recently discovered something cool- if you go to the Anne Taintor website, you will find on the front page The Anne Taintor Caption Contest! You can enter your suggestion for a photo caption that might end up on their products. Here's the image for February's contest:
So many possibilities...how would YOU caption this?
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