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One vintage ad warns women, "Don't let them call you SKINNY!" while another promises that smoking cigarettes will keep one slender. If the task of morphing their bodies into the current desirable shape isn't enough of a burden, women are also reminded that they stink.
Don't let them call you SKINNY!, a warning for women from a vintage ad. Another promises to keep you slim with smoking cigarettes.
Co-Le Sales Company asks: “Do you still beat your wife?” Their answer: “Maybe you never should have stopped.”
Look at this pamphlet opposing womens' suffrage and #TellAFeministThankYou
Advertisements have been around for longer than you think — the ancient Romans splashed them on the side of buildings (you can still see some at Pompeii). Ads are like archeological artifacts that give us a pretty good idea of a culture's…
Co-Le Sales Company asks: “Do you still beat your wife?” Their answer: “Maybe you never should have stopped.”
Co-Le Sales Company asks: “Do you still beat your wife?” Their answer: “Maybe you never should have stopped.”
We wish that these ads are fake, but they are 100% real and 100% offensive.
Because it's Friday; Brazilian ad agency Moma has created the above '60s style ads for web services Facebook, YouTube and Skype. Part of the “Everything Ages Fast” campaign for Maximidia Seminars, the ads are visually stunning and the copy is eerily evocative ("Skype, The fabulous voice system able to put your family together"). Or maybe that's just the quirky Portuguese to English translation? In any case, I can't wait to see what they cobble together for Twitter ("Twitter, sing like a bird with magical updating!") . More Internet meets vintage below.
Old fashioned advertisements that are hard to believe even existed.
Once upon a time, and not all that long ago, the medicine you took had more to do with advertising and wishful thinking than with scientific testing of its effectiveness. The latest miracle cure would be discovered, sweep the country, and then die out when it turned out to not work. But worse, many of the cures could kill you. “The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off” has to be one of the best Wall Street Journal headlines of all time. The “radium water” in quest...
BENDIX So I don't think that there is a place for this, so here's one. Post a pic of a favorite advertisement of something audio-related. Do it for...
(Via This isn't Happiness)
10 Ελληνίδες μας εξηγούν γιατί δεν θέλουν να κάνουν παιδιά
These never get old, except for everything about them. I know that having messy hair also makes me want to kill myself, but I usually don't use a noose, some poison and a gun to do it. Points to this messy haired gal for making sure she does it right the first time. "Be the you he likes", not that terrible gorilla beast you become when you have cramps. Midol helps you "soothe accompanying irritability" that is inherent to every woman on all the periods she has in her life forever. Housewives get tired of "having to do the same dull work every day" so much that it's a "mild form of torture"! Being a housewife makes any lady experience "boredom and emotional fatigue", whatever that is. It's definitely not a rewarding and life-altering experience for any gal, and surely a man isn't going to "make beds and get meals", no sir! This ad isn't so bad to me because it looks like it was made a long time ago, before the invention of photography. Nevertheless, back then there were 5 million women who wanted to get married. Listerine spent millions of dollars and many years asking every female on the planet if it was true. They all agreed that their main purpose in life was to find a man, marry him, and never be irritable or bored. Aww, the Volkswagon is dented! Look how sad it looks. Someone must have let a woman drive it! Everyone knows that ladies get flustered and overwhelmed when they have to do two things at once, like press a gas pedal and turn a steering wheel. She was probably applying lipstick at the time or lighting a menthol cigarette. The first line of the copy says "Women are soft and gentle, but they hit things." Truer words were never spoken. Women of the future will make the Moon a cleaner place to live. Thankfully, future technologies are in place so that women can keep the Moon sparkling clean. They also must adhere to strict safety measures like wearing a space helmet that stops at the neck, and wearing lots of mascara to deflect glare. Hands do not need to be covered on the Moon to allow for better scrubbing. [via] New ideas are scary.
An alternative to the vibrator (designed to produce a similar effect...) An early 1900s vibrator unit The 1902 retail vibrator set
“Wouldn’t I be silly to make it myself?” Thanks Campbell’s for that message! Wow! No wonder most people have been raised with faulty ideas of what nutrition and healthy food really is. Playing up on convenience and longer shelf life – no thanks! I must say, I do applaud my mom for always...Read More »
Just received Restoration Hardware's Fall source book. Other than weighing a ton, what do you think? Would love to hear your thoughts......
These weird and wacky creations might be ridiculous, but they’re fun to look and laugh at. 1. Portable TV, 1967 2. The Dimple Maker, 1936 by Isabella Gilbert of Rochester, N.…
When Cellophane was invented at the beginning of the 20th Century, it must have seemed like a miracle. Foods and products once wrapped in ratty old paper and sack could be kept fresh, clean and attractive under wrap. After all, this was an era in which the discovery of germs had created intense hygienic anxiety (My paternal grandmother used to Lysol-bomb the bathroom several times a day; my maternal one was a bleach fanatic in the kitchen.) The new synthetic packaging was the perfect way to keep contagion out of your cheese: Bacon: Smokes: And... underpants? But perhaps those plastic-age consumers were a little too enthusiastic... These baby ads have been lampooned by Copyranter, among others. I can see what those naive old admen were up to, just using the old standard of using a cute baby to sell anything. But couldn't they at least have punched a few air holes? Collection via Retronaut
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We’ve come a long way baby, to borrow the Virginia Slims tagline. Have we really, though? Going through historical ads is a painfully funny exercise in how women were perceived.
You see back in the old days businesses did not have a problem with casual racism and sexism when it came down to promoting their products. More
