The text reads:
LIFE IS HOW YOU CHANGE IT - 360°
Perry Ellis Fragrance - Robinson's/May
Maybe she's a member of an all girl topless marching band and synchronized swim team.
Here's another magazine ad from Playboy, September 1964. We see a different beautiful skinny model, not topless but wearing a skimpy bikini, while sitting side saddle on the back of a red Honda scooter. She too is wearing a sousaphone. Maybe she's on the way to a gig at the beach and the guy in the suit is the band director.
(Click any picture for an enlargement. The text of this ad is included at the end of this post so Google's bots can enjoy it too.)
The similarity of elements in these two pictures - pretty girl, sousaphone, references to the beach plus a bright red visual accent - are probably just a coincidence.
Here are two other pictures of art, one created with a sousaphones the other with a tuba (which is a sousaphone twisted differently.)
I took the first one at an art gallery in Carmel California which overlooks the Pacific. Another beach reference. The second one was sent to me by I don't remember who. I do seem to remember that it is from the garden of a local tubist - but again I don't remember who. It's not on the beach but there's plenty of water.
The Honda ad:
Some tootin'Here and here and here and here are links to a few women who play the tuba. I wonder what they think of the sousaphone/beach-bunny ads.
She likes to blow her own horn.
And she's got the displacement for it, too: 90cc compression ratio 8:1. And hits 6.5 hp at 8000 rpm.
There's a lot of lungpower for a lightweight.
What's more, she tops 55 mph without pressing. Delivers 165 miles to a gallon of gas. She's a four-stroker, OHV aircooled, of course, with a 4-speed foot shift. Never fails to meet you more than halfway.
Look for the new Honda 90. Always hits the right note.
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Read about the video game Sousaphone Hero
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4 comments :
The ads, Freudian pure and simple. The tuba represents man's obsession with having a large penis and thus counters the wimpy implications of wearing perfume and riding a crappy little scooter. There is the added excitement that despite all she sees the woman is still prepared to blow.
No matter how you twist it, I have a hard time seeing the Tuba as a phallic symbol. And if I had to push the symbolism, I'd say a sousaphone was a symbol of the things feminine rather than masculine. Imagine that instead of being a painter, Georgia O'Keefe had created sculptures out of large pieces of metal tubing.
Both advertisements do trade heavily on attracting your attention by putting the sousaphone into an improbable environment.
OK, maybe, but guys don't care about the large pieces of tubing. When it comes right down to it, they just care about the mouthpiece.
The idea goes back a ways...
ttp://www.geocities.com/bixfest/images/tuba_girl.jpg
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