You’re not kidding. We always had a copy, hanging from a nail in he outhouse. I learned a lot about women from the girdle section of the catalog.
Seersucker is a kind of fabric:
Yes, but only as an accessory to the $6,000.000 lot to assemble it on…
The favorite item on every kid’s back-to-school reading list was the Wish Book.
Shoulda asked for a goat…
BTW, can someone explain the “poncho” joke to me? I’m not picking up on it.
Presumably, a real poncho would be from Mexico or the US Southwest, hand-woven from wool by some genuine senorita, and a real piece of folk art.
A Sears poncho, on the other hand, would be a cheap knockoff, nowadays probably made of polyester and imported from China.*
At least, that’s how I understand it.
*“Imported” was always the last thing mentioned in describing a catalog item.
… And back when I was growing up, “Imported” meant “From Japan,” and the quality usually sucked.
It’s a line from the Frank Zappa song Camarillo Brillo
As terentii says, a poncho bought at Sears would certainly not be a real Mexican poncho but some kind of imitation.
You weren’t looking at the plus size bras, were you?
Dennis
The Silvertone-badged Danelectro Amp-in-case
There were at least 2 versions of the guitar: the black body single pickup and orange burst body dual pickup.
I bought a mid-60s single pickup Amp-in-case in 2015. It still works! The amp has 2 pre-amp tubes and a rectifier tube driving 5 watts into an 8 inch speaker. The guitar is good for slide technique but not much else. The neck is not conducive to bending strings. My other guitars sound better through the amp but none of them fit inside the case much to my disappointment.
Thank you. I was able to discern that there was a sly crack about authenticity; I just couldn’t figure out why people were responding to it as though it was from an obscure Monty Python sketch.
When I was a kid we would go over the Sears Wish Books for days, trying to decide what we wanted Santa to bring us. Many of those catalogs have been archived on Wishbook Web.
Am I too big a nerd because I used to do the same thing with the Radio Shack catalog?
When I lived in Texas, the Sears catalog was a vital part of my cockroach murders:
Step one: soak the cockroach in anything that sprayed out of a can or bottle. Bug spray, hair spray, Windex, cooking spray - anything to slow it down.
Step two: drop the Sears catalog on it.
Step three: jump up and down on the catalog. Those big wood roaches that came in from the outdoors were hard to kill.
A day or two later I would steel myself, lift the catalog and gingerly peel off the last page that contained the dried up squashed cockroach and dispose of it. Then I put the catalogue back on the shelf for the next battle.
My friends were used to seeing the Sears catalog lying on the floor in odd places every so often, and knew not to touch it. 
^ Fiend!
^^ It also works on those disgusting Palmetto bugs you have in your state.
Not at all, especially because back in the Allied-Radio Shack days, you could get just about anything there that you could get at Sears, except for clothes.
I used to know people who lived in some of those houses. Once you’ve seen a few, you begin recognizing some of the design features.
The show “Home Improvement” used to make Sears jokes a lot. But that was because the main character liked tools and Sears was (at the time) a good place to get power tools.
I used to drool over the Science Fair “N-in-1” electronic project kits in the catalog. My dad got me started with the wimpy little 20-in-1 kit, so I lusted over the 65-in-1 and 100-in-1 for the first year. Then they got rid of those two, and replaced them with the 75-in-1 and 150-in-1 – both of which I eventually got.
The 100-in-1 had an integrated circuit in it! Sure, it was just a capacitor and a resistor (in its color-coded sleeve, no less!) that someone had soldered to a little white circuit board, but darn it, it was “I.C. technology”, man!