From the Oct, 1947 Popular Science, an ad for a glow-in-the-dark “strip tease” necktie whose “glorious, gleaming blonde beauty” is chastely clothed in a formal gown by day, but who reveals herself to be an eerily glowing bathing beauty in a beefy one-piece suit when the darkness is summoned. My grandfather — who had a rec-room bar with novelty bottles and hula-dancer tumblers that turned into (anatomically incorrect) naked ladies when filled with cold liquids and shelf after shelf of his bowling trophies — would have loved this. He may have owned one, in fact.
Calling all Men… STRIP-TEASE NECKTIE That Glows in the Dark (Oct, 1947)