Even though they think that information should be free, the good people at Boing Boing dot net are willing to occasionally celebrate the glories of things that are not - like cool gifts from the annual Sears Christmas catalog. This week they linked to scans of the 1962 catalog by Flickr user Telstar Logistics, which are full on neat-o.

This is what passed for “muted” in 1962: red and gold paisley on silk.

When pricing out your favorites, remember that according to the Inflation Calculator, $1 in 1962 was equivalent to $6.51 in 2006 dollars. Conversely, $1 in 2006 was equivalent to $0.15 in 1962.

* P.S. - Don’t forget to check out some groovy pages from the 1977 J.C. Penny catalog as well.

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