dated ads

[lph]

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

"Indoors women are useful - even pleasant."

http://owni.eu/2010/11/08/top-48-ads...allowed-today/

[Catrin]

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

[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.

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

...baby
http://www.uvouch.com/video-Commerci...ay-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-Commerci...ay-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.