I just love the fact that alongside all the bloodcurdling news of tanks, invasions, bombings and bombardments, there is ALWAYS an advert for some item of ladies fashion.
And today ladies, we bring you the “Pouf Tam”.
The department stores are paying the Times' bills, that's for sure. I don't go out of my way to find ladies' apparel ads. I normally only print the ones next to the articles I want. What you see is probably a pretty fair sample of what the sales department placed. Though anything larger than a quarter page is unlikely to show up here, so if some business advertises exclusively in that size or larger we will miss it. I think those are mostly department stores, too.
Think of it this way. The old man is reading his morning paper on the war and he thinks, "Thinking of the old battleship, I think her birthday is coming up". And there's an ad for what to get her right there.