#1 Youngest Customers In Business
It's safe to say that if this advertisement was produced in today's society, there would be absolute outrage at the sight of a small baby drinking soda! One cannot help but cringe at the fact that a popular soda brand, 7Up, once used babies as a marketing tool in order to boost their sales. Boasting that you have the youngest customers in the business when your product is something detrimental to peoples' health is seriously not cool...
#2 Didn't Burn The Beer!
Oh look, it's a wife who burnt her husband's dinner...But don't worry, he says, "you didn't burn the beer!" This vintage advertisement comes from an era when a woman's 'job' was to simply cook and clean. A wife who couldn't cook up to the standards of her husband was frowned upon, and this advertisement is a clear emphasis of this. Perhaps the husband ought to cook his own dinner next time...
#3 Cocaine Toothache Drops?
Nope, it's not a misprint! It seems as though back in the 1800s, cocaine was used for its medicinal properties. According to this vintage advertisement, even children were encouraged to use the then-legal substance. Freaky! Can you just imagine giving a small child some cocaine toothache drops to ease their teething problems? We bet it caused a lot more problems than it cured...
#4 Smoking Camels
It's a thought that would seem almost nonsense in this day and age - someone as respected in the health community as a doctor, smoking? But worst than that, this vintage advertisement encourages smoking, boasting that because more doctors smoke Camel cigarettes, then they must be good for your health! This cigarette company could not have got it more wrong...Our favourite part would have to be the explanation of the T-zone as "throat" and "taste". Oh, these kooky advertisements.
#5 What Wives Are For
It's enough to get a lot of people's blood boiling, but remember, this advertisement is from an era when things were quite 'backward'. The word 'wife' was synonymous with 'cooking' and 'cleaning', and women who had joined the workforce to pursue a career outside of the home were frowned upon. All we can say is thank goodness the times have changed! It is advertisements such as this one that really makes you realize just how far we've come.
#6 Should Have Store-Tested
Wow, this vintage advertisement is wrong on so many levels, most notably, the fact that it uses domestic violence against women as a marketing tool. You read it correctly though, if women weren't 'store-testing' for fresher coffee then their husband would have to 'teach them a lesson'...This advertisement would send absolute shock waves through our society if it was produced in today's day and age. It's safe to say that we don't think there will be advertisements like this one ever again.
#7 Girl Around The House
There are so many things wrong with this advertisement, but where do we begin?! Firstly, women are compared to animals that must be hunted. Secondly, that guy has his foot on the woman's head! Thirdly, the woman was "floored" because she saw this man wearing a certain brand of trousers? This advertisement is enough to make your head spin. Someone should have grabbed a red marker and wrote the words "banned" across this advertisement as soon as it was released!
#8 Illegal To Kill A Woman?
Just to answer this advertisement's question: Yes, it is illegal to kill anyone, duh! This is another one of those vintage ads that places men on a much higher plane than women. Even reading the text on this ad is enough to make someone puke! "'Kinda cute, ain't it?' says Miss Morissey. 'Now the mail is out early enough so I get to the girl's room in time to hear all of the dirt'". Even portrayals of working women were tarnished with stereotypes and sexism!
#9 Innocence
Yikes! Someone had better file this one under 'sexualization of children', because the girl in this vintage advertisement looks like a small child! It's refreshing to realize how strict both the public and the media are about sensitive topics such as the representation of children. We always knew that woman and other ethnicities often got the bad end of the deal when it came to advertisements, but we never expected children to also be exploited so much for a company's gain!
#10 Men Are Better
Looks like there might be quite a few women who would like to punch this company in the face for their offensive text. "Indoors, women are useful...On a mountain, they are something of a drag". Most of the time, it was probably the wives buying their husband's clothes for him, so we're not exactly sure that this brand considered that when trying to advertise how great their climbing sweaters are. We weren't even aware of the fact that one requires a special 'climbing sweater' as opposed to a normal sweater...
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