Buster Brown Erases Your Hips!

This Buster Brown ad circa 1946 suggests that wearing Buster Brown shoes makes your hips disappear. Perhaps, they should've been marketing to overweight adults instead of children in short pants.

In reality, it's likely that the inker just got distracted and missed a few lines since the pencil lines could well have still been showing on the original. But that nobody noticed before it went to press seems a bit odd.

(Image borrowed from The Ephemerist.)

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