Since we're doing perfume and cosmetic ads tonight

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

Perfume advertising -- like almost all other print advertising -- used to be much more print-heavy than it is today:



(Good Housekeeping, June 1933)

Comments

[cajoje.livejournal.com]

Seriously? It's not the giant ass hat, almost ankle-length dress and gloves? That would have been my guess.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with it. Neither has living in a country where it's drizzly 11 out of every 7 days.

[cajoje.livejournal.com]

Nope. Must be the powder that is so light 'it will cling for hours' that keeps the sun at bay.

[hazeltea.livejournal.com]

I want to chuck all of this academia bullshit and go live in a Wodehouse novel so bad :/

[ms-hissyfit.livejournal.com]

Let me know when you find out how to do that!

[ocean-star.livejournal.com]

I love Yardley products. Their lavender soap is one of the only things I can wash my face with.

[azulejos.livejournal.com]

Me too! I prefer the Lily of the Valley series though.

[misstia]

lily of the valley FTW!

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

I love their Violet line, which is getting harder and harder to find! :(

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

Yep, all smart women know that it's important to be a white as possible!

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

I love those soaps! I used to get them for Christmas sometimes. :D

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

You can tell by her figure that the woman probably hasn't had kids get, which is good because as soon as she pops out a daughter, she'll have to compete with her little girl looks.

The older lady second to the left in the dark hat and the portly gentleman in the top hat on the right seem to be exchanging knowing glances! Oh, yeah, they're getting it on, and they use the park as their hook-up site. But unfortunately, Esmeralda (on the left in the white hat) had to tag along today. She knows all about it. She acts like she disapproves, but really she's just jealous.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

"yet" not "get"! Dang it!!!

[murakozi.livejournal.com]

Heck, if she does get pregnant, she'll probably not be able to stand up. Not with those legs that are as narrow as the legs of that chair she's standing next to. She almost makes Olive Oyl look hefty.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

No hips, either, so I'm assuming a very narrow birth canal. Even if she could manage to get preggers at all with so little meat on her bones, I think a c-section scar would be in her future (did they have those by the 1930s?)

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

It's cool the way you can still buy a bottle of the Lavender cologne with that pic on it.

I've got a bottle in the bathroom...

[misstia]

aha! i love the scent of lavender too! :)

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

We'll need to start a list...

[misstia]

we should! there's been a lot thus far....

[leoprincess.livejournal.com]

My Grandma was still using their lavender powder up to when she passed (R.I.P, Grandma). She didn't have a 'pink-and-ivory petaled flower' complexion, but she smelled great. :)

[3cthelion.livejournal.com]

i'm trying to decide what the subtext is to him being the only one in the whole ad not wearing a hat. i assume he's a cad.

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

He's taken his hat off and is holding it. Either he's speaking to Churchill back there on the right, or every time he takes his hat off he gets an under-the-table bonus from Brilliantine.