These 20 Retro Ads Would Never Exist Today

Published on 09/16/2019
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Palmolive Beauty

As if the pressure on women to always be beautiful isn’t bad enough. Palmolive consists of a range of personal care products. And this advertisement from the 1920s is promoting a soap that claims to give women that young and a refreshing look.

 

Palmolive Beauty

Palmolive Beauty

 

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Simple driving?

For many decades, women have lived with the stereotype that they are considered to be unintelligent and not able to drive a vehicle. Here, is a Mini Cooper advertisement that maintains exactly what society perceived.

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Simple Driving?

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