F'd Ad Fridays: Original Awkwardness by Munsingwear

Original Penguin is one of my favourite shirt brands. And the brand has made lots of adblogs this week and last with this cool retro video of a car jumping rope:



But the company behind the Penguin brand, Munsingwear, doesn't have quite as awesome a history as they let on.

For one thing, it made its name as an underwear company. For another, it made hilariously unitentional homoerotic ads like this:

Via Flikr

It also perpetrated fashion crimes against humanity, like this:

And more homoeroticism...

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And... ummm...

Via eBay

Happy weekend, everyone.