Charlie Perfume, Dummy Bottle - Revlon
date: label: date made
content: after 1973
name: label: maker
content: Revlon
notes: label: Description
content: Brothers Charles and Joseph Revson and chemist Charles Lachman (whose surname provided the “L” in the Revlon name) founded Revlon in 1932 as a company to sell nail enamel. In the following years, the company broadened its product line to include cosmetics and fragrances. Revlon added “Charlie” brand perfume in 1973. The perfume was launched behind an ad campaign that featured model Shelley Hack wearing pantsuits—a change from the dresses and romance in previous perfumery advertising—that was meant to target a more liberated and independent woman.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Beauty and Hygiene Products: Fragrance
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Beauty and Health
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth Kline
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2009.3030.17
label: catalog number
content: 2009.3030.17
label: nonaccession number
content: 2009.3030
objectType: label: Object Name
content: fragrance, display bottle
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (container material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (container material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 7/8 in x 2 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 6.6675 cm x 4.1275 cm