“Cigarettes are like women. The best ones are thin and rich.” The advertisers for Silva Thins filter cigarettes have plastered this caption at the top of their ads. These ads dep… Read More

Take a step back to the Mad Men era of American advertising. It’s a time when a Pottsville classic, the Van Heusen shirt, adopted some aggressive and, some would say, offensive market… Read More

Read More

Sexist Trump Quotes Paired With Sexist Vintage Ads These sexist Trump quotes paired with sexist vintage ads make all the sense in the world. It really makes us realize that Donald Trump has… Read More

The image of a perfect woman in the 1950s is familiar to all of us – a diligent wife, slaving around the house all day, preparing delicious meals for her hardworking husband, taking ca… Read More

The seventies was a decade of cool motorcycles, but wacky, corny and overtly sexist advertisements, as they were, like in the sixties, made to target the male consumers. On the cover there w… Read More

Your Homepage For Everything Nostalgia Vintage advertisements are part of what makes certain companies what they are today and they’re a lot of fun to look back on and remember. Howev… Read More

With great power comes great responsibility, but try telling that to someone working in the advertising field in the early 20th century. Even today, advertising doesn’t try very hard t… Read More

You’ve definitely heard the deal about the ‘Karen’ meme. To be called a ‘Karen’ basically means you’re overbearing, entitled, and sometimes downright cra… Read More

Like most other aspects of our daily lives, advertising too has come a long way since the last century. The progress however, isn’t limited to just visual effects, graphics and camera… Read More

This year, in honor of International Women’s Day, Budweiser revisited three of their adverts from the ’50s and ’60s that they are not exactly proud of. The outdated ads por… Read More

We are where nostalgia lives Classic cars still make many of us smile today when we see one. You might remember driving some of these cars or your family or friends had a really cool version… Read More

The lingerie industry has evolved tremendously over the last few years. We’ve seen a shift in the diversity of lingerie media, and a constant conversation about how the ideals surround… Read More

While people still complain about advertising sometimes being a little (or a lot) too sexist in nature, there is no denying that advertising has gotten a lot better. Still we know that… Read More

Unsplash Beer has a troubled history when it comes to accepting and representing women. Sexist labels and ads made by men to sell beer to men were so pervasive for so long that the situation… Read More

Originally published 20/4/13Being someone who, during my advertising career, I happened to work extensively on cars (Toyota, Lexus and Mercedes), it is always fascinating for me to find vint… Read More