Betty Boop Tin Lunch Box (Cool Breeze)

This Betty Boop tin lunch box features her in the glamorous, iconic image known as "Cool Breeze", itself modeled almost exactly after Marilyn Monroe's also iconic promotional image for the film The Seven Year Itch from 1955. With "Cool Breeze" Betty is paying homage to Monroe, but interestingly enough, more than twenty years earlier, a scene from the 1932 cartoon Betty Boop's Ups and Downs has been noted for having Betty's skirt behaving in a similar fashion.

Note the perverted, dapper bird anthromorph seizing the opportunity to peek when Betty's skirt flies up. This is a part of a running gag from the early days of Betty's cartoon career, which would eventually be toned down when the Hays Morality Code was strictly enforced in 1934.