There are times when I feel pretty good about living in today’s society, and this is one of them. While doing research on racist ads last week, I found just as many vintage advertisements that were shockingly sexist, in a way it would be a lot harder to get away with today. (Just ask Belvedere Vodka.) From beating (#14, #28, #34) and murdering (#6) your wife to sexual assault overtones (#37), all’s fair in the ad game.
Here are 45 vintage ads that may make you want to rage quit the internet today. Prepare your brain.
1. Leggs
2. U.S. Navy
3. Subaru
4. F.S.C.
5. Parker
6. Pitney Bowes
7. Captain Morgan
8. Kellogg’s
9. Kenwood
10. Dorothy Gray Salon
11. Tipalet
12. Panasonic
13. Lux
14. Chase and Sanborn
15. Hardee’s
16. Warner’s
17. Palmolive
18. Chemstrand Nylon
19. Brown
20. Datacomp
21. VanHeusen
22. Volkswagen
23. Gold Dust
24. Schlitz
25. Warner
26. Love’s Baby Soft
27. Weyenberg
28. Co-Le Sales Company
29. New Ivory Soap
30. Total
31. Drummond
32. Dormeyer
33. Norwich
34. VanHeusen
35. Mickey’s
36. Cigar Institute of America
37. Jade East
38. Listerine
39. Demure Douche
40. Lux
41. Mornidine
42. Exquisite Form
43. Zonite
44. Palmolive
45. Fake, But Basically Perfect
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