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IT’S BEEN FAR TOO LONG since I dug up any vintage advertisement gems here on the blog. So on the heels of the big wedding (you know, the one where we all allowed ourselves to become nostalgic saps about fairy tale endings for a day), I thought this Ivory commercial would do just fine. Of note: is the princess receiving a large taxidermed giraffe along with her silks and diamonds? Also, I love her hairdo at 0:35.
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LOVING THIS ROUND-UP of 22 shamelessly sexist ads from the past. Some of them I’ve posted here before, and others (like the one above) are new to me. I thought the ol’ wifey-don’t-cry-because-you-can’t-cook number might be good for this week as some of us prepare to cook Thanksgiving dinner. Lets hope this putz husband stays in the olden days and doesn’t show up at our holidays!
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WOULDN’T YOU RATHER die a bingo-playing spinster than be subjected to this kind of stupid ridicule? This detergent ad from 1936 starts, “Isn’t it natural for every girl to want popularity, romance, a devoted husband? What a pity, then to see lovely girls like those above losing out because they are careless about perspiration odor in underthings.” Poor Hildegarde over there on the right. At 27, she’s practically a cadaver.
(image via Jezebel)
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IS THERE ANYTHING more tragically hilarious than dated dating advice for women? This little photo series from 1938 had me in stitches. From passing out before the date is over (like the poor gal above) to smearing too much lipstick on a man’s handkerchief, all the dating “donts” you’ll ever need are right here. [click to continue…]
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SEEING HOW HALLOWEEN IS now over, I thought some of you may be having residual cravings for a scare. Well, look no further. This old (not so) favorite is from the feministing archives. (Shudder.) P.S. More vintage sexism in our gallery of horrors.
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A LOYAL FRIEND AND TSP READER, Josh Cohen, alerted me to these outrageous illustrations, which are part of a children’s book published in the early 1970s called I’m Glad I’m a Boy! I’m Glad I’m a Girl! I think Josh introduced this content the best when he wrote to me, “More blog fodder in the vein of that spanking ad you found.” [click to continue…]
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BEHOLD WOMEN’S PORTRAYAL IN the media circa 1952. As it turns out, this one of many vintage “ad-nauseum” sexist prints in a book called You Mean a Woman Can Open It?: The Woman’s Place in the Classic Age of Advertising (currently out of print, but order it used, here)–a book I’d like to nominate for The Sister Project’s nonfiction reading list.
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FAMILY RESEMBLANCE: T and Anastasia at Tanglewood, 2007
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