Images: Found in Mom’s Basement (left) and Duke University Libraries
Let’s face it: women are human beings. Humans have glands. Glands secrete sweat. Therefore, women sweat. It comes as little surprise, then, that so much of the advertising for deodorant …
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Images: Advertising is Good for You (left), Vintage Life Network
In past Vintage Sexism posts, we’ve examined ways ads and commercials target women to sell everything from coffee to kitchen appliances to laundry detergent. Lately, though, I can’t help …
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Images, clockwise from top: Oddee.com, Epiclectic’s Flickr
Recently, I’ve been catching up on my Mad Men, and as I observe Sterling and Cooper’s office dynamics, I cannot help but get fired up when I see the way Peggy …
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My mom, a wife and a mother of four, has her college diploma framed and mounted above the washing machine as a joke. Its place of honor is, in a way, apt: the time she has spent doing laundry, added …
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Everyone knows that women are terrible drivers. Sure, statistical data may show that women get into into fewer accidents than men, are less likely to drive under the influence of alcohol, less likely to speed excessively, and less likely …
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Geraldine Finster has a “secret weapon to fight the dull mediocrity in her life,” and that weapon is Mr. Clean. He has come to “put some excitement” in her cleaning regimen. As this commercial strives to show us, cleaning the …
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I don’t know about you, ModReaders, but as I watched this old school Folgers commercial, I felt like telling Harvey to go take a hike!
If you are anything like me, one of the reasons you love vintage clothing is …
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