Modern Products with Vintage Style Packaging

[Bruce Wayne]

That is awesome! Man, does that ever stick out!

LD

When I was taking the pic I was thinking to myself "I wonder what LD will think?"

 

[fluteplayer07]

Cafe Du Monde's Chicory and Coffee blend

And any of the James & Fralinger's confections

Paper Mache barrel which doubles as a miniature bank

Their Peanut Butter chews are out of this world, for anyone who's interested.

Cheers,

 

[Absinthe_1900]

1940s Still sealed Legendre Herbsaint.

In late 2009 The Sazerac Co. brought back Legendre Herbsaint Original, The return of the old formula, and labeling.
Yes, it tastes like the old stuff.

 

[Tifa]

Above: Toothpaste

I just loove Charbonnel et Walker, every time I'm in London I look at their pretty boxes. I bought the pink one, just to be able to have it in my boudoir ^^

http://www.charbonnel.co.uk/

 

[Lady Day]

Saw this at Target the other week.
Seems like a lot of companies are 'vintaging' their products. I wonder what the surge in retro is about.

LD

 

[Facepiehole]

I keep buying these candy cigarettes at Urban Outfitters and thrift shops. Tried to light them one time in a friends car, haha, they smell like doughnuts and they taste really good toasty. Appearently there's an old brand of cigs called Victory, but the packaging is all different. Still's cool tho:

Candy cigarette package:

Victory cigarettes:

 

[Akubra Man]

Mrs Stewart's blueing has been a family laundry staple for a couple of generations

I wore white white dress shirts for 25 years and my father before me for 30 plus years and Mrs Stewart's blueing gave all those white shirts a clean renewed white color when needed. What a great product. It works as advertised and has been unchanged for years. (At least as far as I know.)

 

[David Conwill]

Paper Mache barrel which doubles as a miniature bank

Their Peanut Butter chews are out of this world, for anyone who's interested.

I'd be interested if their packaging didn't include that terrifying clown!

Yikes,

Dave

 

[Lady Day]

Victory cigarettes:

THAT is the sexiest cigarette packaging I've ever seen. That's just hot.

LD

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Schlitz is back, retro, and you'd better believe I'm drinking it. They've got a retro campaign and advertise using the '60's formula'

Pabst Blue Ribbon went to the 'ribbon' label we're all familiar with in 1954 and added the red stripe in 1958 to commemorate their 100 millionth barrel brewed.
1954 vs. 1958

Today's can.

I think with the tough times, people are looking back on the old days a bit more fondly.

Saw this at Target the other week.
Seems like a lot of companies are 'vintaging' their products. I wonder what the surge in retro is about.

LD

 

[lord_k]

THAT is the sexiest cigarette packaging I've ever seen. That's just hot.

LD

Not only hot. These cigs are strictly from Orwell's 1984. Recommended with Victory Gin!

 

[zombi]

The Boots "traditional skin care" stuff -- skin tonic, cold cream, vanishing cream, etc -- have retro packaging. I love the cold cream. It's quite expensive here in the States though!

We use and like the Mrs Meyer's stuff in my house, too. Have used that JR Watkins soap before as well.

 

[W-D Forties]

The Boots "traditional skin care" stuff -- skin tonic, cold cream, vanishing cream, etc -- have retro packaging. I love the cold cream. It's quite expensive here in the States though!

That just shows you - the Boots traditional range is as cheap-as-chips over here, although I haven't seen much of it around lately.

 

[appy]

This thread has me thinking

I had to go to a 1st birthday party for a friend's little boy, and not being sure what baby's like, I did find something I figured he'd like and I knew his vintage loving parents would appreciate.

Of course, back 50 years ago you got WAY more pieces

The Fisher-Price folks are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Little People line by re-issuing some sets of toys. We picked up the Farm set and it's adorable (and affordable!)

Just as an aside, he also got a pair of tiny little black and white Converse hi-tops to wear. Those were ADORABLE!

Aw, I had the older version! *has flashback* I think I might've inherited it from my mother...

 

[grundie]

IREL Coffee

And most of Geo. F Trumpers products have a fairly vintage look to them...

 

[hubbit]

The other side of the coin, which is a bit saddening, are the vintage brand names of yesteryear - perhaps still sold in nostalgic packaging - whose actual formulas and ingredients are nothing like what they were when they were advertised and sold decades ago.

Off the top of my head I can think of Ovaltine, as sold in the USA, which despite its retro-cool logo is nothing that Radio Orphan Annie would ever recognize. For that, you have to get the English version made in Switzerland, which while not identical is extremely close - right down to being unsweetened.

Various English brands of tea are sold, with slogans recalling how one grandparent or another always had a kettle of it going. Well, perhaps they did, but they were drinking the larger, fuller orthodox leaf tea - not todays crushed, torn, and curled pellets.

I actually called Procter & Gamble in the early 90s when they changed Ivory Snow from a powdered form of Ivory soap to a modern detergent. My complaints were no good against their market research, consumer acceptance, and Progress.

 

[Stray Cat]

YAY!!
I never saw any of these, so I'm loving it!!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Off the top of my head I can think of Ovaltine, as sold in the USA, which despite its retro-cool logo is nothing that Radio Orphan Annie would ever recognize. For that, you have to get the English version made in Switzerland, which while not identical is extremely close - right down to being unsweetened.

Maybe this is just me but I never liked Ovaltine. I thought it was simply awful.

 

[John in Covina]

Maybe this is just me but I never liked Ovaltine. I thought it was simply awful.

We had it now and then as kids, I did not think it was as good as Nestles Quick or Hershey's Chocolate milk but it was OK as a change of pace. I never really like marshmallows in hot chocolate.

 

[John in Covina]

I had heard earlier this week that General Mills will be producing a series of different cereals with retro packaging. There are a few articles on the web but none worth linking here that I SAW.