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Betty Boop Seat Covers

Your car’s seating areas will be cuter and comfier if they’re layered with Betty Boop seat covers. Plasticolor has a wide line of seat covers that commemorate Betty Boop.

Plasticolor’s Betty Boop Leg Up Rock Star is actually a matching pair of Betty Boop seat covers, each one a sharp black shade with bright-red lining and a centre picture of Betty Boop reclining, one leg kicking straight up into the air. The five-pointed shape of a star bursts out behind her, illuminating her perch in rock-star fashion. Be glad to know that these seat covers’ materials are specially treated to be low-maintenance: Chemicals in the fibres minimize stains and debris accumulation.

You can also get your whole car interior outfitted with Betty Boop by getting Plasticolor’s 9-Piece Combo Set. This set gives you two seat covers, a steering wheel cover, a CD visor, floor mats for the driver’s seat and rear passenger seats, a key chain, and a license plate frame. All are the same black color and have the same Betty Boop kicking a leg into the air.

But a caveat is in order with the Betty Boop Leg Up Rock Star Cover: It will not fit every seat. If the seat has an integrated seat belt, an arm rest, a side airbag, or is an oversize bucket seat, you’ll have to keep shopping for other Betty Boop seat covers that will be more compatible.

Fortunately for you, there are plenty more to be found. Plasticolor’s Betty Boop Aloha-Style Universal-Fit Bucket Seat Cover will fit most vehicles’ low- and high-backed bucket seats. It will go on a seat with an armrest, too, though you might have to take the armrests off and reinstall them. The seat cover’s hooks and elastic straps wrap around and adjust to many seats’ contours.

The Betty Boop Aloha-Style Universal-Fit Bucket Seat Cover’s splashes its polyester surface with a bright, sunny image of Betty in a grass skirt and lei on a tropical island beach. It’s a great seat cover to have when it’s cold and snowy outside. The roads won’t be any better, but at least your mind will be on more ambient climes.

And like the Betty Boop Leg Up Rock Star seat cover; you can get it as a set of two seat covers. Just don’t use it on a seat with side airbags—they’re one component that this seat cover is not designed to fit around.

Betty Boop Earrings

Betty Boop and Marilyn Monroe—the twentieth century may be long gone, but these two twentieth-century mega-stars live on, at least in the memory of pop culture. A certain pair of earrings pays homage to both. It’s the Betty Boop Dangle Earrings. Matching pieces made of cut glass, they’re shaped like Betty Boop posing in a flowing red dress that flutters up like a gust of air is blowing it. The pose is purposely imitative of Marilyn Monroe in a scene in the movie The Seven Year Itch. Hence, a diva pays tribute to diva.

There are a myriad other beautiful Betty Boop earrings where this pair came from. Put together, they present a wide selection of options for standing out in a crowd. Who could fail to notice her who wears the Betty Boop Crystal Stud Earrings? These exquisitely glittering pieces form Betty’s face out of crystal studs arrayed to shape her hair, eyes, and facial features.

How about three Betty Boop earrings for the price of one? That’s the bargain you get when you buy the Betty Boop Hearts Tin Box. Open the box and you find three pairs of dainty Betty Boop dangle earrings portraying Betty in Marilyn Monroe red dress flair.

Betty puts on the ritz in the Showgirl Betty Earrings. These, too, are dangle earrings painted up and shaped like figures of Betty. Her costume is an arrangement of flamboyant feather crown, strapless red top, red mini-skirt, and flowing red streamers. She strikes a sashay pose, one leg curled up like she’s in a dance on stage.

The Betty Boop Champagne Glass Earrings are another very festive, showgirl-esque pair. Betty in a sexy red dress lounges in a giant champagne glass, while holding a small tray with a small champagne glass in one hand.

The Betty Boop “It’s All About Me!” earrings are attitude jewellery. Each earring is a hot-pink heart pendant, inside which Betty stands, dressed in casual red top and blue slacks, with both hands tossed up in the air and the caption “It’s All About Me!” written above her.

Other Betty Boop earrings are a lot tamer. The Betty Boop Enamel Heart earrings are two cute, unassuming heart-shaped pendants that each are painted with Betty’s face.

Another pair of earrings doesn’t actually show Betty at all. These ones, the Betty Boop Hanging Name earrings, instead are shaped as the name “Betty Boop” in bright red with sequins.

Betty Boop Posters

Betty Boop was a world-famous pinup girl in her prime. And she still is. A menagerie of hundreds of different Betty Boop posters attests to that. Some are black-and-white, vintage pinup style. Others are splashes of all manner of colour. Various Betty Boop posters reflect Betty’s different personas and personalities over time: diva, gangster, rocker, biker girl, beach bunny, seductress, and more.

The Street Angel poster, for example, definitively shows off Betty Boop’s wild side. It’s black a smoky grey hue in the centre, within which stands a bust of Betty with a strapless leopard-skin dress, angel wings, and a biker helmet—smoke-filled rooms, motorcycle gangs, and the skin of a fierce hunter; a poster that’s big on symbolism, for sure. A halo shines above her head, but the caption below her suggests a not-so-angelic vibe: “Good girls are bad girls that don’t get caught.”

Betty Boop was a stage performer whose on-stage sexiness made a stir back in her day. These two facts are commemorated in the Betty Boop Scandal poster. “Betty Boop Scandals” scrolls across the top in big bold-red lettering. Right below it, Betty stands, one foot in the air and the other apparently stuck in an inkwell atop of a stage platform.

Other Betty Boop posters lean more toward the cutesy. Such is the Betty Boop Kiss poster. Betty glances behind her back toward the viewer and blows a kiss. A string of hot-pink smooch marks follow from her palm across a background of light pink and larger, faded smooch marks spanning the poster’s surface in rows.

Betty’s glamour and diva fashion sense get amped up a few notches in a black-and-white Classic Betty Boop poster that has her dressed up in a flowing ballroom-style gown and high heels.

She’s less formal in the Aquarius Betty Boop Dog poster. Here, her garb is a light-blue sleeveless tank top and a plaid summer skirt. Pudgy, big smile on his face, has sunk his teeth into the skirt’s hem and pulls at it behind her. Her quizzical facial expression suggests that she’s just taken note.

Betty of the far future is the theme of the Robo Boop poster. She dons a shiny metallic body suit and silver earrings and head gear while looking upward, her countenance somewhat distant-looking and emotionless—almost robotic. Wide laser-beam rings circle the width of the poster, in addition to a background cityscape flagged by the caption “Boopopolis.”

Betty Boop Doll

Doll makers consider young girls to be their staple customer base, and always have. But grownups are known to collect dolls, too. A grownup that grew up on Betty Boop, for instance, would likely go gaga over a well-designed Betty Boop doll.

Betty Boop dolls might not carry the brand recognition of Barbie. But like Barbie dolls, they’re made with all kinds of outfits and convey a wide variety of themes. For starters, there is Nurse Betty, a 12-inches-high vinyl doll with white nurse’s garb and hat. She’s got her own stand for easy display. Other vocational Betty Boop dolls include a Flight Attendant Betty, a GI Betty (U.S. Army uniform), and Diner Car Hop Betty.

The Santa Christmas Betty Boop doll is made with the holidays in mind. This one, also standing 12 inches high, wears a Santa hat, white puffy wristbands, and a revealing red sleeveless dress with a black sash. She has a stand on which you place her for display, though you can pick her up off the stand and move her arms and legs in just about any direction.

Another doll, the Betty Boop witch, is Halloween-appropriate. She dons a black dress and tall green-and-orange witches’ hat, with a thick green cape enwrapping her shoulders. The dress itself has spiders’-web patterns tracing all across its surface.

Some Betty Boop dolls speak. The Birthday Betty Talking doll sings “Happy Birthday” whenever you pull at her locket. She, too, has a stand for you to prop up her 13-inches-high figure. Plus her arms and legs are movable so you can take her off the stand and position her any way that you like.

Another Betty Boop doll is a doll and a music box, all in one. It’s the Betty Boop Ballerina, an exquisite 12-inches-high sculpture of life-like poly-resin. She’s dressed in a shimmering white ballerina costume with garlands of flowers enwrapping her hips and the top of her head. The base on which she stands is a wind-up music box that plays “Swan Lake.”

All of these Betty Boop dolls described above present Betty as a big girl. But other dolls are baby Bettys. Take the Baby Betty Boop in a Pink Dress as an example. Measuring 7.5 inches tall, she’s got the baby face and chubby limbs of a toddler. Her outfit is a pink baby dress, and she looks outward with enlarged eyes that just shout out childlike wonder.

Betty Boop Christmas

When December rolls in and the Christmas season nears, mugs brimming with chocolaty-brown hot cocoa are a common sight. Mugs of pink hot cocoa, however—not a very common sight. So won’t your holiday guests be surprised if you treat them to a brew of Betty Boop cocoa?

Sold in a 14-ounce tin that’s coloured a conspicuous hot pink and adorned with a picture of Betty Boop, the Betty Boop Pink Hot Chocolate is sweet and chocolaty as any hot chocolate on the market. The only difference—when you brew it and pour it, the beverage is pink, not predictable brown.

This hot chocolate mix is a fabulous Betty Boop Christmas accessory. In fact, it’s one of many Betty Boop amenities that will add Boop Boop A Doop to your holiday party.

Let’s start with Betty Boop Christmas ornaments, of which there are many. The Betty Boop Dice-Style Lighted Ornament is an illustrious piece. Formed from clear resin, it’s got a glass outer bulb and an internal hand-painted figure of Betty in a red dress, standing atop a pile of wrapped Christmas presents. Plug it in and flip a switch and the ornament lights up in a rainbow array of red, purple, green, blue, and other colours. A layer of glitter adds even more shine.

You can also decorate your tree with a string of Betty Boop Christmas lights. One set of 10 lights is made as a row of Bettys in fluttering red dresses. Or you could add the Betty Boop Decoupage, a set of four red spheres. Each one has a hand-painted image: two of Betty, one of Pudgy, and one of Bimbo.

Other Betty Boop decorations are meant for your hallway or a place on your wall. The Stander Sign is one of these. It’s a cardboard fold-out that reads “Merry Christmas” in letters of multiple colours. Betty, Pudgy, Koko, and Bimbo each stand atop a letter.

The Gift Santa Betty flag is another wall-appropriate item. A 28-inches-by-40 inches banner, it pictures Betty emerging out of a just-unwrapped gift box while dressed in full Santa Claus gear. Pudgy jumps up excitedly and paws the box’s edge.

For your mantle, there is the Santa Boop Roof Top stocking. This 18-inches-long felt stocking displays a scene of Betty posing atop a chimney while wearing a holiday-appropriate Santa hat and dress of red, white, and black. Pudgy peeks out of an adjacent bag of toys.

Betty Boop T-Shirts

Spring is coming, and the weather is warming. It’s the time when you’ll be taking more strolls out in the park and spending more afternoons digging and planting in your flower garden. In short, it’s a good time to stock up on some comfortable, eye-catching Betty Boop t shirts.

The lavender Betty Boop Angel Pose T-Shirt casts an angelic Betty Boop with a dreamy facial expression, violet gown, and a pair of matching violet wings against a background of blue clouds. It’s a striking image, as far as cartoon-themed T-shirt images go.

A not-so-angelic Betty adorns the front of the Rebel Star Magenta T-Shirt. This is one of the Betty Boop t shirts on which Betty’s sex appeal gets strongly played up. She poses wearing a prominently displayed pair of bright red fishnet stockings, and she glances at the viewer with a look of sultry, detached hauteur. The word “rebel” is inscribed in big bold letters both above her and below her.

If neither lavender nor magenta, is what you have in mind, then take a look at the wider range of colour choices you have if you get the Betty Boop Just Hangin’ T-Shirt. It’s available in birch grey, white, light pink, or light blue. Each one has the same design on its front: Betty laying back in a black-and-white top and red pants, with a pair of red race cars behind her and a thought bubble leading up from her head with the words “just hangin’.”

The two T-shirts described above feature Betty alone. But many other Betty Boop t shirts afford some space on their front sides for her companion Pudgy, too. The Classic Betty Boop & Pudgy T-Shirt is a white T-shirt with a low-key image of Betty Boop walking into the horizon with Pudgy running along beside her. Betty’s back is to the viewer, but she looks behind her and blows a kiss his or her way.

The Hula Boop T-Shirt is another shirt that pairs up Betty and Pudgy together. This time they are on a tropical beach with a bright yellow sun setting in an orange sky with silhouettes of palm trees dispersed across the beach below. A guitarist plucks a few strings to Betty’s right while she sways her arms to the tune. She’s dressed the part with a grass skirt and floral top. Pudgy sits diminutively, preoccupied with the magnificent view of the sun and surf.

Betty Boop Pajamas

Think cartoon-character themed pajamas are just for kids? Think again. Women’s pajamas that celebrate Betty Boop are to be found in all sizes and for women of all ages. If you’re a true Betty Boop fan, then you’re never too old to show it with the right pair of Betty Boop pajamas.

The Betty Boop “Lip Prints” Long-Sleeve Pajamas have a grey top and matching grey bottom both livened up with embroidered red dashes and smooch lips. The top, in keeping with the smooch motif, displays a picture of Betty Boop blowing a kiss at the viewer. The whole outfit is 60% cotton and 40% polyester, with an elastic waistband and draw cord that lines the pants’ waist.

If black is your colour, then you might prefer the Betty Boop Rhinestone PJ Set. This 100% cotton Betty Boop pajamas outfit with short sleeves runs rows of white, rhinestone-studded Betty faces up and down across fields of black. Red trim lines the sleeves and neck. An elastic waistband fits the pants specifically to your waist.

Maybe you’re not looking for a whole pajamas set. Maybe you already have plenty of tops and you’re just in the market for a pair of pants for sleeping in? Then the Betty Boop Big-Hearted Flapper Sleep Shorts are just for you. This vibrantly coloured pair of shorts features a playful Betty in a pink dress, one hand cupped over her mouth while she runs with a giant pink, green, yellow, and blue heart towering behind her. Stars of blue and gold splash across the surface, which is itself a strong pink-and-white plaid background.

The Betty Boop Coke and a Smile Capri Pants is another pair of pants fit for sleeping. These 100% cotton capris match an intense, hot-pink hue with a black waistband. Pudgy peeks over a Coca-Cola logo placed on the top of the left pants leg, while Betty poses with a Coca-Cola bottle in hand at the bottom of the right leg. The pants secure to your waist with an elastic drawstring and cord.

Want a robe that will complement your Betty Boop pajamas? Feast your eyes on the Betty Boop Leopard-Print Plush Robe. A short plush robe lined with red satin trim, it’s got a lively colour display of red smooch lips and Betty Boop faces interspersed across every corner of its white plush surface. Two front pockets and ties on the inside and outside are included.

Betty Boop Merchandise

Betty Boop and Coca-Cola—these two American icons apparently go together quite well. That’s if you judge by the magnificent Coca-Cola Bottle Betty Panorama. Betty is a 12-inches-tall doll whose shoes lace up and whose dress has a laced skirt that flows down to her knees. The doll rests on a stand whose base is moulded sand.

Behind the stand is an 18-inches-tall cardboard panorama with sun, blue skies, ocean water, and pillars that come out of the water. In the middle of all this grandeur, a big sign above the water bears the Coca-Cola emblem and the words “Delicious and refreshing.”

This panoramic statuary is one of many dozens of items of Betty Boop merchandise that match Betty with Coca-Cola. It includes a ton of kitchen ware. For starters, there is a Betty Boop Coca-Cola Style Glass Set of four 10-ounce drinking glasses, each one adorned with an image of Betty in a different outfit. One common thread runs throughout: All five Bettys carry one or more bottles of Coca-Cola.

There is also a matching pair of salt and pepper shakers, the Betty Boop Coca Cola Racing Salt and Pepper Shakers set. Each one is shaped like a race car with Betty behind the wheel and the Coca-Cola logo on the hood.

Betty sits atop a Coca-Cola factory in one collector’s-item piece of Betty Boop merchandise, the Betty Boop Coca-Cola Factory Jar. Made by Vandor, it’s a big ceramic jar shaped like a factory building. The Coca-Cola logo is on the building’s font entrance, and a comparably tiny figure of Betty waves from up top on the roof. Pudgy lies at her side. Look for it if you’re interested, but you might have to look hard. There are only 1,200 in circulation as of now.

Clothing is another category of pro-Coca-Cola Betty Boop merchandise. There is a pink short-sleeve Coca-Cola Dorm Shirt that has Betty with her arms wrapped around a giant Coca-Cola bottle even bigger than her down on the lower left corner of the front side. A field of multicoloured stars shine around her. On the top right, Pudgy looks down toward her, a blue shimmering star in his paws.

Shirt and pants both are included in the Graphic Shorts set that pairs a black tank top with a pair of red shorts. Both the top and the shorts are illustrated with the inscription “Enjoy Coca-Cola” and Betty’s face.

Betty Boop Cookie Jar

There’s no telling whether you’ll win or lose when you pull the lever on a slot machine in a casino. But you’ll always get something when you open up the Betty Boop Casino Slot Machine Cookie Jar. This ceramic jar, manufactured by Vandor, is a deluxe 17-pound work of art that’s moulded into a casino slot machine with a huge pile of coins pouring out of the front. A smiling Pudgy sits atop the coin pile, and a smiling Betty Boop stands by the side and eyes Pudgy and the coin stash. Remove the top lid and cookies go inside.

This Betty Boop cookie jar is a lucky find. But you’ll have to act fast if you want it—it’s a limited-edition jar now numbering just 2,400 in total stock. It’s not hard to see why, judging by the painstaking detail that went into painting its bright colour panels, slot graphics display, and the figures of Betty and Pudgy.

Don’t feel badly if you can’t find it. Vandor has another stunning Betty Boop cookie jar called the Betty Boop Empire State Cookie Jar. A ceramic piece measuring 12 inches tall, it’s shaped like a looming skyscraper whose top lifts off for storing cookies within. On the building’s front are the initials “BB.”

Lest there be any doubt whom “BB” stands for, Betty herself—measuring about 7 inches high—sits beside the front, too. Pudgy sits at the building’s side. As the name suggests, this cookie jar recalls the New York City Empire State Building. If you’ve got a New Yorker in your life who loves Betty Boop, this is the cookie jar to get him or her.

There are more Betty Boop-themed cookie jars in Vandor’s catalogue. One Betty Boop cookie jar bears another very New York City-appropriate image: taxi cabs. The Betty Boop Yellow Taxi Cab Cookie Jar. The jar is shaped like a big yellow taxi cab whose topside cab sign reads “Betty Boop Cab Company.” Pudgy peeks out the front passenger window, in true puppy-dog form, while a dolled-up Betty in a red party dress steps out of the rear passenger door. The cab’s top is the cookie-jar lid.

The Betty Boop Yellow Taxi Cab Cookie Jar is another limited-edition item numbering only 2,400. You can get one, but you might need some time to track it down. Plan ahead if you’re intending to get it for somebody’s birthday.

Betty Boop Cake

If a Betty Boop fan in your life has a birthday coming up, maybe you’ll want to celebrate her special day right with a Betty Boop cake. Bright red, pink, or multicoloured cakes that are decked either with Boop dolls or icing images of Betty on top are fun, festive, and some of the most memorable cakes in town.

The site CoolestBirthdayCakes.com has a page of photos of Boop-themed birthday cakes that individual chefs baked in their home kitchens. Check out the 8-inches by 8-inches white layer adorned with Betty Boop. A contributor prepared this one to mark the birthday of her co-worker’s daughter. The top layer of butter-cream icing features a peach-icing bust portrait of Betty with black chocolate-butter-cream hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes. A red shell icing along the borders adds a bit of flourish.

Another woman made a bright-red-fondant birthday cake to celebrate her own daughter’s fourteenth birthday party. It’s a heart-shaped cake lined with a strand of silver beads from a confectionary store. A Betty Boop doll stands in the middle with a tinfoil Betty Boop balloon; both items came from a party-supply store.

Many larger and more ornate Betty Boop figurines for Betty Boop cake are to be found on Amazon. The Betty Boop Pop Out Cake Bobble Figurine is one fine example. It’s a big one: 6 inches in height and weighing in at 4 pounds. This is a figurine to roll out if you really want a cake to be remembered. The figurine is Betty with a red sash that reads “Happy Birthday” and Pudgy sitting at her side. Betty’s head bobs up and down.

A Betty Boop cake is fitting for many occasions besides birthdays. There are Betty-themed cakes for weddings, Valentine’s Day, and other romantic occasions, for example. Lacey Classic Décor makes a Betty Boop Bride and Groom Wedding Cake Topper that has a conventional, unassuming groom figurine and a gaudy Betty Boop bridge in a red-sequined dress and fluffy white boa clutching his arm. In typical Betty fashion, she very much steals the spotlight.

Other Betty cake figurines will fit just about any occasion. If you can come up with a party theme, they will fit it: There is a biker Betty in black leather and fishnet stockings atop a motorcycle; a nurse Betty figurine in white medical garb; and a flat disc image of Betty Boop looking over her shoulder and winking at the viewer.