dated ads

[lph]

This may have been posted before. I nearly peed myself laughing :D

"Indoors women are useful - even pleasant."

http://owni.eu/2010/11/08/top-48-ads-that-would-never-be-allowed-today/

[Catrin]

Oh My...we have indeed come a long ways :D

[bmccasland]

OOoh, ooh ooooh, it's almost time for the Christmas Classic ads - like for men's aftershave - you know the one - snowy scene, couple riding one horse....

And men's electric shaver's.

Elizabeth Taylor hawking her perfume.

I swear I've been seeing the same ads for 30 years. :rolleyes:

OK, I admit it, I posted before I looked at the link. Oh, my. And I even remember some of the ads. Vaguely. I was very young....

[TsPoet]

Oh My...we have indeed come a long ways :D

...baby
http://www.uvouch.com/video-Commercial-Classic-Virginia-Slims-You39ve-Come-a-Long-Way-Baby-516808
- an add they thought was complementary to women.

[maillotpois]

"You can't beat the Axis if you get VD..."

[Crankin]

What's scary is that I remember almost all of these. Especially the cigarette ones.

[OakLeaf]

Not so far removed from the present day as to be funny, to me. Domestic violence, dangerous medical interventions for natural female bodily functions, and of course a grossly unequal division of labor, are still the reality in the USA. Advertising is a little more subtle about it now, is all.

[Susan]

I wish they were bigger, I can't read the small texts... would be nice material for teaching or discussion in gender-workshops.

[malkin]

Some of them are horrifying.

I like La Biere est nourrissante except that it looks like the artist had no idea what a nursing mom & baby might look like.

[channlluv]

What do you mean? I looked just like that mom on the left when I was nursing. Minus the beer, of course. Ha!

Do you think the woman in that Van Heusen ad in the middle looks like she's enjoying the spanking? Maybe that's what leads up to the kissing and after glow pictures that follow it. I dunno, some people are into that kind of thing.

The Baby Soft ad is just repulsive. I can't believe that got out even with the 70s standards. You can tell ad writers were mostly men back then, huh? And apparently a lot of dirty old men.

Roxy

[PamNY]

Thanks -- those are hilarious. Tragic too -- like Crankin, I remember a lot of them.

[Susan]

Isn't this "une femme, une pipe, un pull"-ad strange? What were they thinking?

[Catrin]

...baby
http://www.uvouch.com/video-Commercial-Classic-Virginia-Slims-You39ve-Come-a-Long-Way-Baby-516808
- an add they thought was complementary to women.

That is why I didn't finish the line... I was born in 59 and do remember some of these ads...I am still amazed that these saw publication.

[malkin]

What do you mean? I looked just like that mom on the left when I was nursing. Minus the beer, of course. Ha!


For positioning, at first at least, baby's front facing mom's front is easier.

Both the pediatrician and the OB told me the nursing/beer combo was ok in moderation, and might improve everyone's mood a little bit now and then. Who was I to argue with that kind of advice from my doctor?

[PamNY]

I remember that some of my friends believed beer increased supply when nursing. This was in the 1970s and they were counterculture type people.

[OakLeaf]

My mom had heard that and subscribed to it when she was nursing my youngest sister (born in 1965). Not that she'd ever had an issue with milk supply for me or the middle sister. :rolleyes:

Of the three of us, the youngest (nursed on beer) grew up to have the worst problems with alcohol. But I'm not ready to blame the milkohol for that, since in different combinations, two of us have/had issues with alcohol, two with tobacco, and two with opiates. Addiction/CD clearly has affected all three of us.

[colby]

I was surprised to see an ad for prescribing a drug; since we see them so often these days it's interesting to see how far it goes back. Also easy to criticise it in the same method that could be applied to many modern ads - directly reminds me of the excedrin migraine commercial (take our drug, it lets you get back to helping others).

The "you never feel over-smoked with marlboro" ad was pretty creepy. :P

Babies in cellophane... WTF!? I did laugh out loud at the pig slicing itself. Seriously.

What an interesting collection.

[TsPoet]

I wish they were bigger, I can't read the small texts... would be nice material for teaching or discussion in gender-workshops.

On a PC - hold the control and depress the + key, will make the web pager bigger. On a Mac its the command and + buttons.
ah, getting older, the things we learn :o

[OakLeaf]

I was surprised to see an ad for prescribing a drug; since we see them so often these days it's interesting to see how far it goes back.

I think it was a regulatory decision by the FDA. Back in the day, drug ads ran in medical journals. Conflicts of interest? No one had heard of them back then. :rolleyes:

[marni]

Both the pediatrician and the OB told me the nursing/beer combo was ok in moderation, and might improve everyone's mood a little bit now and then. Who was I to argue with that kind of advice from my doctor?

I was firmly informed by a buxom Valkyrie at the Hofbrau Haus in Munich, when 7 months pregnant I visited there with my husband and was trying to refuse the second full liter of beer that she was insisting that I should drink that "beer das is Baviarian mothers milk."

I fully expected her to follow me down the stairs with the untouched liter insisting that I drink drink drink as we left.

[channlluv]

Isn't this "une femme, une pipe, un pull"-ad strange? What were they thinking?

What are pipe and pull in French? The image is odd. Is that guy naked from the waist down? eeuu.

Roxy

[malkin]

Pull is a sweater, pipe is pipe and also has another meaning in slang.

[Susan]

My nursing best friend got the advice (from her doctor) to drink one bottle of dark beer in the evening because she wasn't having enough milk. That was half a year ago! :D

TsPoet -thank you, but some of the pictures don't have a high enough resolution (the small texts just get blurry when enlarging the pic) ;)