{"id":11150,"date":"2014-11-06T04:38:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=11150"},"modified":"2014-11-06T04:38:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T11:38:39","slug":"forbes-wallace-ad-1964-the-watusi-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/06\/forbes-wallace-ad-1964-the-watusi-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes &#038; Wallace Ad, 1964 &#8212; The Watusi Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>04 October 1964<\/p>\n<p>Couldn&#8217;t resist posting this &#8230; Forbes &amp; Wallace advertising the &#8220;watusi dress.&#8221;\u00a0 Okay ladies &#8230; tell us if you owned a fringed dress!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11149\" style=\"width: 117px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/2014\/11\/06\/forbes-wallace-ad-1964-the-watusi-dress\/04-october-1964-watusi-dress\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11149\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11149\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11149\" alt=\"Forbes and Wallace The watusi dress: Fringe fling in motion 1964\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/04-October-1964-Watusi-Dress-107x300.jpg\" width=\"107\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/04-October-1964-Watusi-Dress-107x300.jpg 107w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/04-October-1964-Watusi-Dress.jpg 309w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 107px) 100vw, 107px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Forbes and Wallace<br \/>The watusi dress:<br \/>Fringe fling in motion<br \/>1964<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Few wore fringed dresses, at least in my own experience, but a lot of people danced the watusi, including Lucy Baines Johnson who did the dance with actor Steve McQueen in August of the very same year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tEylxVSxBTQ\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The fringed dresses, commonly thought of as a &#8220;go-go&#8221; dress &#8212; likely seen on Rowan &amp; Martin&#8217;s Laugh-In, Nancy Sinatra and others, was inspired by Candy Johnson who was best known for her dancing in a series of &#8220;Beach Party&#8221; films released around the same time. Interesting to note Candy Johnson and her band, &#8220;The Exciters&#8221; played at the 1964 World&#8217;s Fair in Queens, NY. After seeing her show, the New York rock group <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Strangeloves\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Strangelove<\/strong><\/em><\/a>s were inspired to write their hit single &#8220;I Want Candy,&#8221; which reached #11 on the Billboard charts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beachpartymoviemusic.com\/Page7.html\" target=\"_blank\">More on Candy Johnson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GgkEFtBJ-wE\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04 October 1964 Couldn&#8217;t resist posting this &#8230; Forbes &amp; Wallace advertising the &#8220;watusi dress.&#8221;\u00a0 Okay ladies &#8230; tell us if you owned a fringed dress! Few wore fringed dresses, at least in my own experience, but a lot of people danced the watusi, including Lucy Baines Johnson who did the dance with actor Steve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[288,131],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11150"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11162,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11150\/revisions\/11162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}