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.
Ah, I love vintage advertising. We have old books of newspapers from Toledo that I steal from for art projects. I love using vintage stuff. Your post really makes it all stand out how far away we are from those times!
Oh my goodness! That Lane Bryant ad is horrible! Horrible! (Yet, hilarious.)
Holy cow those are incredible. I love vintage ads too, especially when they offer a snapshot of a time so completely gone by.
I guess we’re never satisfied, are we?
Oh my gosh I can’t believe ads have changed so much in what seems like such a short time ago.
Cute post…
Dorothy from grammology
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“Chubby” used to be a very different type of noun than it is today, heh. I got a good chuckle out of these though.