Old-fashioned Advertisements

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[Forest Cat]

This is an old Norwegian ad for a bicycle company called DBS. The text says "The sensitive and elastic bicycle pants is available in our store".

It sure looks elastic. They probably should have used pants with a different color than the bicycle seat. But they both look happy with their new pants so that's good.

 

[Mr. Stevens]

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Most of these have me shaking my head

 

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Most of these have me shaking my head

I agree. But that was the world we grew up in. At least I got the joke about the Lambo.

 

[Rodafina]

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Still good, after all these years.

 

[Rodafina]

Most of these have me shaking my head

More like squinting my eyes in horror. Glad some things have changed. Let’s all remember this thread when people are missing the “good old days.”

 

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Still good, after all these years.

I still use it.

 

[Sasha22]

This thread is unbelievable

 

[Rodafina]

This thread is unbelievable

I feel like I might need to edit the original post with some sort of disclaimer to beware: you WILL encounter absolute cringe.

But it’s history

 

[Mr. Stevens]

I feel like I might need to edit the original post with some sort of disclaimer to beware: you WILL encounter absolute cringe.

But it’s history

It's kind of a haunted house experience: thrilling, scary, and I find myself laughing. That's how it is at the amusement parks, anyway.

 

[Sasha22]

I feel like I might need to edit the original post with some sort of disclaimer to beware: you WILL encounter absolute cringe.

But it’s history

Indeed absolute cringe but the comments put that into perspective. It's actually a really interesting look back.

 

[Sasha22]

It's kind of a haunted house experience: thrilling, scary, and I find myself laughing. That's how it is at the amusement parks, anyway.

Yeah with a funny-not-so funny clown
I gotta say I couldn't stop laughing at the comments

 

[Princess Viola]

For some reason, I've always found the depictions of housewives and domestic life in 1940s and 1950s advertising incredibly appealing to me. I really don't know why, it's not like I look at them and wish I could be a housewife like the women in the advertisements, but still there's something I just find appealing about them.

 

[Au Naturel]

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I had one of those as a kid.

 

[Au Naturel]

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For some reason, I've always found the depictions of housewives and domestic life in 1940s and 1950s advertising incredibly appealing to me. I really don't know why, it's not like I look at them and wish I could be a housewife like the women in the advertisements, but still there's something I just find appealing about them.

LOL! They are supposed to be ideal, perfect women. Why wouldn't they be appealing? Of course, we know it is fiction. And fiction is just another word for fantasy.

Cis-het males will want those beautiful girls serving them Coca Cola and cis-het women of the day will want to be those girls. Probably most cis-het girls of this day too. There's no conflict between looking like that at a party and being a professional during the week.

 

[Princess Viola]

LOL! They are supposed to be ideal, perfect women. Why wouldn't they be appealing? Of course, we know it is fiction. And fiction is just another word for fantasy.

Cis-het males will want those beautiful girls serving them Coca Cola and cis-het women of the day will want to be those girls. Probably most cis-het girls of this day too. There's no conflict between looking like that at a party and being a professional during the week.

Hilariously I'm neither of those things.

Spoiler

I'm trans and lesbian lol

 

[Luca]

These are some of the most questionable ones I could find...

This is disgusting lol

 

[Luca]

As a side note, at first I didn't really think the Ikea one was "vintage," but I have more recent furniture from Ikea and it looks nothing like that. There were stools like that in houses I lived in in the 1990s.

I find it hilarious that Gen Z people are calling things from when I was a kid "vintage" and acting like they're some newly discovered lost relics. I'm close to 30, I'm not from the 1800s. They are turning the generational gap into more of an abyss lol

I obviously make jokes about Gen Z a lot, but I find the "cultural" gap so fascinating and bizarre