In 1968 , model Vicki Dunlap was featured in newspapers around the country as the face of the future tense . But that fashionable makeup of tomorrow was n’t just for show . It was to protect from L.A. ’s smog - meet air .
From the Associated Press about this “ char of the year 2000 ” :
A Los Angeles engineer thinks women know in an urban environment in 2000 will look like Vicki Dunlap . Dunlap , shown here February 21 , 1968 wears body rouge for insulation against the weather condition and air pollutant , include radioactivity .
A computer necklace program her day , govern the temperature of her oven , warning when her children will be home , and monitor the counselling machine of her elevator car . biased jewel are warning signals . Her hat is a sense organ and sender for a two - way radio worn around arms , with the earring render vim for radiocommunication and computer .
As dicey as the strain in Los Angeles can be today , pollution was peculiarly tough in the urban center during the 1960s and ’ 70s . A noxious mixing of geography , overpopulation , and an copiousness of machine set the scene for L.A. ’s repelling air after World War II .
In 1969 a coroner was reportedly even capable to assure that a late unidentified execution dupe had only recently come in the urban center . How ? Her lungs purportedly did n’t have any trace of smog . Or maybe this unfortunate woman was wearing the protective blush of the new millennium .
picture : Associated Press
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