How times have changed! These vintage adverts really haven’t aged well – including the use of a BABY to sell cigarettes
There will probably be the occasional commercial that makes you roll your eyes at the television, but they have nothing on these vintage marketing tactics.
People from all over the world names Unpleasant Reddit to share the astonishingly outdated ads they’ve come across Bored Panda collected the best in an online gallery.
They include a 1964 sugar advert claiming the sweet stuff ‘fights fatigue’, while in the 1970s a clothing store used a child model to promote ‘chubby girl’ sizes.
In the 1960s, a poster promoting the Flintstones children’s box was sponsored by Winston cigarettes, while a 1950s Marlboro Cigarettes advert shockingly used a baby model to promote the product.
A 1950s Marlboro Cigarettes advert (pictured) shockingly used a baby model to promote the product
Meanwhile, in the 1950s, antidepressants were marketed mainly to housewives and their husbands to ensure that household chores were not neglected.
Elsewhere, a vintage Fiat advert claimed that if one of the brand’s cars were a woman, it would ‘get its butt pinched’.
Here, FEMAIL takes a look at some of the most ridiculous ads that wouldn’t be well received today…
In 1991, a mental health service used an X-men comic to talk about what they called “the monster within.”
Elsewhere, a vintage Fiat advert claimed that if one of the brand’s cars were a woman it would ‘get its butt pinched’
In the 1970s, a clothing store used a child model to promote “chubby girl” sizes in its ad (pictured)
The ads also included a 1964 sugar advert claiming the sweet stuff ‘fights fatigue’, while in the 1970s a clothing store used a child model to promote ‘chubby girl’ sizes.
While in the 1950s antidepressants were mainly marketed to housewives and their husbands to ensure that household chores were not neglected
In the 1960s, a poster promoting the Flintstones children’s box was sponsored by Winston cigarettes
A cereal brand used a very creepy image of a clown, likely to give children nightmares at breakfast
Meanwhile, a 1958 ad for ironic yeast claimed that men might ‘hate’ the sight of skinny girls