Advertisers face a tough challenge today. They have to market their product in a way that will entice consumers and keep their attention, but also be careful not to offend anyone in the process. Take, for example, Kendall Jenner's Pepsi ad and how much backlash that faced. Back in the
At the time, these were the norm.
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So the question really is, when did we start going the route of being lame with advertising?
"Show him it's a woman's world."
Co-Le Sales Company asks: “Do you still beat your wife?” Their answer: “Maybe you never should have stopped.”
We wish that these ads are fake, but they are 100% real and 100% offensive.
Old fashioned advertisements that are hard to believe even existed.
There are a lot of vintage advertisements floating around the Internet that will make you cringe. The unearthed offenders tend to scream with the rampant sexism and racism of bygone eras — some are enough to make AXE commercials seem downright…
Have you been given any ridiculous health & beauty tips?
Scanned from the book "Portugal Século XX, Crónica em Imagens, 1950-1960" by Joaquim Vieira.
Even today, advertising is far away from being in conformity with high moral standards, but after looking back to some offensive, racist and sexist vintage ads - today's ads are as good as gold.
Warning: these advertisements use racial caricatures and xenophobia to sell otherwise innocuous items like Jell-O and Corn Flakes. In short, this is advertising at its very worst.
This is of course a classic ad with a catchy phrase in the 60s and 70s. Though the slogan is enduring, the dark circles under the people's eyes still is pretty creepy. (FACT: A then 25 year old Martha Stewart appeared in one of Tareyton's television commericals in 1966 with Lyle Waggoner, a 70s TV actor.)
The ads show how weight gain was aspired to then as earnestly as we today aspire to weight loss.
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These vintage ads need to stay in the past
