Browsing through some vintage ads today, I happened to find this one:


Sometimes I wish I lived in the past. Skinny girls were out of fashion! Curves were in! Instead of starvation diets, they offered a formula to increase your appetite so you could "add pounds and pounds of firm, attractive flesh" to obtain those "Glamorous Curves!"

But of course there has to be a dark side. And if your appetite increased too much, or those pounds and pounds of flesh weren't so firm or attractive, you had to endure this:

(Lane Bryant, thank goodness your marketing has improved)

Maybe I'll just stay in the present.