No, no, no! Man from 1989, you’ve made a mistake. Your girlfriend said she’d like to see you in sexy nightwear, NOT sexist nightwear! Now you can turn her off AND piss her off at the same time…
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A not-very-cheerful thought for Valentine’s Day from LIFE magazine (12 February 1940).
But don’t worry, hopeful spinsters. It could be worse. You could be living in the mid-19th century and feeling really miserable!
Yeah, but at 41, Contestant No. 1 can write a lurid bestselling autobiography, rake in the cash and do it all over again!
And frankly, we all know who’d be more fun at a party.
(Source: grottu)
This ad from 1968 offers ladies a welcome 15-minute whisky binge before they get back in the kitchen. How enlightened.
This ad from 1959 doesn’t mention when National “Hit Your Demanding Chauvinist Husband Over The Head With A Tray And Go Out On A Bender” Week is, but I imagine it’s not far away.
A rather startling cigarette ad from 1971. Of course, it’s not mentioned that smoking pretty cigarettes from a pretty packet vastly increases your chances of catching a pretty horrible disease.
An ad from 1972. They may be oppressed by the corporate patriarchy, but at least they’ve got killer knitwear on their side.
