First use of "hobble skirt" to describe Coca-Cola bottles?

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Speaking of Mae West ...

This is one of the best websites about her and it has tons of great pictures. I'm still clicking/reading through it myself ...

http://www.maewest.nl/
 

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Just about the only thing missing from this thread is this ...


Original - Corrugated - Hobbleskirt - Mae West - Wasp Waisted - Coca Cola Bottle ...

Coca Cola 1915 Hobbleskirt Drawing and Bottle (2) (418x450).jpg

Coca Cola Prototype Drawing and Bottle Superimposed.jpg

Coca Cola Prototype Bottle - 1915 - Base (2) (600x577).jpg
 

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Plus this patent ...


November 16, 1915

Which is partially incorrect because it was designed by Earl R. Dean and not Alexander Samuelson!

Coca Cola Bottle Patent 1915 (2).jpg
 

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Please stay tuned for a new thread I'm currently working on that will include ...

1. Coca Cola newspaper ads from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.

2. Coca Cola newspaper ads from the 1920s to the present that use the nickname "Hobble Skirt"

(But it will be on a separate thread and not this one that I feel has pretty much run its course)


And what the heck happened to member Little Rock Bottle/Jill, anyway?
 

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Because I already know they answer, and besides I don't want to steal Bob's thunder........................how else will we get 30+ pages.
 

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Time for a pause that refreshes!

Have a great ...



Super Bowl Sunday
 

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I'm on the trail of something but not sure where it will end up. It involves ...

Mae West "hourglass figure" vs. Coca Cola "hourglass shaped" bottle.

1. 1936

2. 1955

Mae West Hourglass figure 1936.jpg

Coca Cola Hourglass Bottle 1955.jpg
 
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In case you're wondering where I'm going with this, I have a nagging hunch that somewhere along the line someone thought that Coca Cola's early references to the contour bottle as being "Hourglass Shaped" somehow or another originated with references pertaining to Mae West "Hour-Glass Figure" and as a result of the similar descriptions they nicknamed the Coca Cola bottle the "Mae West" But if this is even remotely possible, I don't know who that someone might have been or when they coined the term, and I have a lot more research to do before drawing any conclusions.

In other words ...

I'm thinking the Coca Cola Hourglass Bottle nickname morphed into the Coca Cola Mae West Bottle nickname.

(To be continued)
 
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