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Chesty Bond was conceived as a likeable and heroic character in a continuous newspaper comic-strip, intended as a marketing campaign to sell the Bonds Athletic singlet. The comic-strip format, with a constantly changing storyline, proved to be extremely popular and continued to be published until 1963.
Detail from a 'Chesty Bond' comic-strip by Syd Miller, published in The Sun, 13 February 1942. The 'Chesty Bond' character was a co-creation of Miller and Moloney. [37] [46] [47] It was Ted Moloney who suggested to Miller the name "Chesty Bond" as "an image character" for their cartoon advertisements. The concept, as devised between the ...
Other colours are not referred to as a wife beater. They're usually referred to by colour instead (eg a blue singlet is usually referred to as a "bluey"). ShaneKing 04:50, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC) In australia i have only ever heard the blue bonds chesty been refered to as a wife beater never the white ones. TJ
To facilitate easy access to Bond's Spinning Mills for employees, a railway station and eventually a whole new suburb were created. [2] The company went into liquidation in December 1927 and a public company, Bonds Industries Limited, was established. In 1970 the company merged with Coats Paton Pty Ltd.
It is called a singlet in Australia and New Zealand, and a banian or banyan in the Indian subcontinent. In the Philippines, a sleeveless undershirt is called a sando . In addition to athletic usage, tank tops have traditionally been used as undershirts, especially with suits and dress shirts.
Chesty Sanchez is a fictional character and comic book superheroine created by Steve Ross. The character made her first appearance in Chesty Sanchez #1 (Nov. 1995) published by Antarctic Press. [1] Maria Sanchez was born in a small village near Cuernavaca, Mexico to a father who had prayed for a son. As if to compensate, Maria grew taller and ...
Between 1948 and 1954, Bond Clothes operated a massive sign on the east side block of Broadway between 44th and 45th streets in New York's Times Square. The sign had nearly 2 miles of neon and included two 7-story-tall nude figures, a man and a woman, as bookends.
Chesterfield was the first cigarette to add an extra layer of wrapping to their pack to preserve moisture. [citation needed] In 1926, Chesterfield's "Blow some my way" advertising campaign targeted women smokers, [1] while a 1948 advert produced for NBC claimed that the brand was "preferred by professional smokers". [2]