{"id":338,"date":"2011-05-20T00:23:21","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T00:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=338"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:25:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:25:58","slug":"covers-21-and-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/covers-21-and-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Covers 21 and 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

Added 2 new covers to the covers gallery today. I’m pacing myself now, having added 2 complete catalogs to get the ball rolling. From here on out I think it’ll come in small bites, so keep coming back. Subscribe to the blog or join the Facebook page<\/a> to get a hit of old BR when it comes in.<\/p>\n

Half of the catalogs are numbered, but each season seems to have had an update catalog which is un-numbered. So there is a Spring and a Summer Update that accompanies these. Many of the pages are straight copies, but more product has been added and new covers drawn and copy written.<\/p>\n

Banana Republic Catalog No. 22, Spring 1985<\/strong><\/h1>\n

“Into the Amazon with Mel and Patricia Ziegler”<\/em>.\u00a0 This is a gorgeous cover, with deep blues and blacks, well rendered foliage and a surprisingly purple river.\u00a0 A toucan to lead the eye to the product, a swimming jaguar for a hint of danger, and several monkeys for humor.\u00a0 I love these scenes they set up with the typewriter and an assortment of products that you and the monkey both desire. I love the color scheme on the logo in this one. Black red yellow and green is a wining combination. The cover artist is uncredited.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Banana Republic Catalog No. 23, Summer 1985.<\/h1>\n

This is a fantastic illustration of the BR Air Corps on bivouac in North Africa. The bi-plane on one side, the company flag with a star on the flagpole such a nice touch. Patricia is painting a refreshing ocean scene (a mirage, perhaps?).\u00a0 Many nods to civilized life, a clarinet on the music stand in the tent and a huge bag of fresh Kenya coffee beans. In the distance the ruins of Wanderlust bekon to a pith-helmeted Mel.\u00a0 Classic and fun. The Summer 1985 No. 23 is hard to make out, it’s on the camel’s hump. \u00a0The credited artist is Chester Arnold<\/a>, a renowned Bay Area artist.
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Added 2 new covers to the covers gallery today. I’m pacing myself now, having added 2 complete catalogs to get the ball rolling. From here on out I think it’ll come in small bites, so keep coming back. Subscribe to the blog or join the Facebook page to get a hit of old BR when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1133,1094],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14920,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/14920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}