youth | vintage

That's a word we didn't need.

write_light wrote in vintage_ads Aug 04, 2016 09:31

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cars, death, autos, youth, kids, 1950s, psa, 1980s, alcohol, drugs

Calvin Klein's 1995 Fiasco

write_light wrote in vintage_ads Dec 31, 2014 20:56

This being vintage_ads, let me sully your brand new, innocent New Year with some highly questionable After Dark ads courtesy of Calvin Klein:

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sexual innuendo, vintage ads after dark, fashion, clothing, youth, 1990s, celebrities, 1995

You need an "X" \\//\\// But I want a "Y"

write_light wrote in vintage_ads May 11, 2014 13:00

GET BOTH! Get that stripey toothpaste!

Notice that it has only two colors ("double protection"), not the usual three (+red) from 1983 on.

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mother's day, youth, kids, 1970s, moms, 1973, toothpaste

You are so young, Mama

write_light wrote in vintage_ads Mar 13, 2013 18:37

From the wonderful German-language vintage site, vongestern.com (fromyesterday) comes this Swiss ad:

Crème Malacéïne, 1936

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1936, women, youth, german, 1930s, cosmetics

1970s comic book ads: Guns, counterfeiting machines, and Cayman Island accounts...for kids!

brendala wrote in vintage_ads May 27, 2012 19:32

These ads are taken from a post I made called "The Scooby Doo Drinking Game" (basically, you take a drink whenever you see something that would NEVER fly in a Scooby comic today). I took out the advertisement sections and posted them here because I thought you'd get a kick out of them. If you want to see scans of the whole comics (and/or play the ( Read more... )

television shows, smoking, budweiser, comic books, youth, 1970s, wtf, hippies, toys, wth