Inside Gloria's Mind

Slip into viscose

1920s thinking: Cigarettes and Romance Go Together

 

I beg to differ.

Grand art, though.

1920s thinking: Cigarettes and Fitness Go Together

Advertising trade card for a tobacco company that believed smoking was a natural part of good health.

 

Sometimes a change in thinking is a GOOD THING.

 

This is a GREAT place

Tonight the Sparks Will Fly!

I too would like to offer a belt to suffering men.

 

Just ask for it (vtg ad)

Tonight is Brought to You By Handcuffs and Dog-Collars (1920s-50s ads)

A fascinating assortment of vintage police equipment catalogue pages for handcuffs and dog-collars.

 

 

 

 

Bring back these prices! Wow.

 

Tonight's Show Brought to You by

J. Dourif, Depositaire (Paris, ca. 1920s)

 

and Seafoam, to keep Englishmen from losing sleep over a crumbling Empire

This Afternoon is Brought to You by Some of Our Lovely Things

via www.youtube.com

I'd like to tell the groom where to put it too #vintage ad

Back to College in Corselettes (ca. 1950)

Yep, just another day in the girls' dorms...  with breakfast in bed...

 

 

Kotex on hygienic hazards and handicaps

Hard to imagine the kind of terror such ads instilled in women, and how it further shored up inhibitions and fears about their vaginas.   On tonight's show, I'll talk a little about how the instilled social anxiety about vaginas --and some of the products sold to them -- has actually raised women's risk of infections and diseases.

 

 

 

 

Dial-a-Kotex for the exceptionally inhibited

 

Because we're too ashamed to say it's for periods

Do they still sell Modess?  Anyway, ca. late 1950s-1960s, someone came up with the bright idea of boldly advertising Modess sanitary napkins without actually saying what they are.  Because.  You know.  Because!

 

 

 

 

 

Even when they put an obviously symbolic V in the ad, with a fetishistic model of menstruation wearing an obviously symbolic V-neck dress that melts into the crotch of the V, which is just so weird I don't know what it means, they still won't admit it's a napkin. 

 

 

Maidenform Dreams: A Living Doll

Maidenform Dreams: A Designing Woman

Maidenform Dreams: A Work of Art

What do you dream?

A blast of a blog show leading up tomorrow night's radio show -- featuring fabulous vintage ads for brassieres and hilariously strange ads for feminine hygiene products, from douches to sanitary napkins, 1920s - 1970s.

 

Topless Advertising: the best way to travel

ca. 70s ad for the Dusseldorf-based airline, Lufttransport-Unternehmen, now a subsidiary of Air Berlin.

 

 

 

Toplessness Sells Soap in 1895

 

A delightful example of Victorian capitolism:   five boxes of Velvet Skin in exchange for 12 pix of topless ladies, disguised as works of "art."   Who could resist?

play with it tonight!

via www.wipwapweb.com

Treat it roughly!

Cures, Quacks, and other fun ads

Has there ever been a time when women did NOT go to ridiulous lengths to look beautiful?

Nah!  People have done silly things to look sexier since time began!

 

Coming up, some more choice vintage ads...

 

 

too sexy for the U.S. (Durex ad)

foreign ad -- love how Durex pushes the porn envelope in its ad campaigns.

 

 

How to be an Americanist, according to Kuppenheimer

ca. late 1920s-1930s

 

How to sell stereos in the 70s (ads too sexy for today)

40 years ago, it looked like the whole world was going stereo.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Smoke Like a Pasha! (ad for Omar Cigarettes)

Worth clicking on this one --  it's minty!

You better like butternut bread! (bizarre ad)

Interesting advertising ploy, to bully people with a cartoon character into buying product.

Of course, isn't that pretty much how advertorials still work?

I note that Vince Offer, "Mr. ShamWow,"  can use his tongue again to pitch Schticky, and incorporates his mugshot to make his Schticky schtick even schtickier.

There is no bottom to shamelessness in the U.S.  LOL  Perhaps there never was.  I remember reading a very fine essay in college about how America was built by bullshit artists - no, not our holy choir of Declaration signers, but rather the boatloads of con artists who flooded our shores in the 18th centry, bent on making their fortunes off every sucker they could find.   WISH I could remember the essayist's name *gnawing knuckle*, but his point was that as it was so may it ever be on our shores -- America has a long rich legacy of charlatans and quacks, and an equally rich legacy of credible fools who swear by them.

 

 

 

Inflatable Air Shorts: vintage ad

omg, the only sure guarantee you can offer with these is that you'll look ridiculous in them.

 

Adolo: vintage bra ad

A few great old ads coming up....