Buying the New Yorker 1996 - page 69

When I had a look at the 2006 French Country Waterways ad, I mentioned how minimal it was. Here it is a decade earlier and apart from the word "Bliss" it is exactly the same (The word for 2006 is "Irresistible.") I notice that their recent ads are a bit more ornate. I'd like to think that I had a small hand in that.

The Vermont Bird Company has gone out of business. Fortunately, the Cashmere Watchcap lives on at the Golightly Cashmere Company. "Year after year, their ad was placed in the New Yorker and year after year, their following grew." It's like they knew I was coming! The price has been bumped to $125 and the colors have been adapted to the whims of our current decade. Gone is the intriguing "Bright Booby Foot Blue" and in its place is the cunningly named "a suggestion of pink." Time marches on!

Verbatim is a blog now. The actual magazine seems not to have been published since 2004. You can still order back issues and download them as pdf files. I now present the very first sentence of the first article of the last issue: "Name giving among the Xhosa of South Africa takes on other proportions than in a Euro-Western context." Perhaps they have an article on color-naming in expensive cashmere product production.

Hey Inca Floats! You already had an ad on page 29. Remember? The Valentine's Day one? You're starting to look all desperate.

The Gordon S Converse Company doesn't just specialize in clocks, they also have quite an eye for doggerel:

Converse is the site for clocks-
to help keep track of ticks and tocks.
We have a style for every taste--
don't let a minute go to waste!

Cut through that stuff and have a look at some gorgeous old clocks.