Please weigh in on ads for background!

[misstia]

okay, behind the cut are sample ads i found to send to the designers for our background....PLEASE if you think of a better one, post it in the comments are describe it well enough that i can find it then i'll add it to this post!! please give feed back and/or suggestions on these...i think i got all the ones and kinds suggested....there are 15...they said there was no limit, but we can remove some of these, add some, etc....PLEASE WEIGH IN!!!!



there isn't a celeb ad included---i couldn't pick 'one', ideas? suggestions? is one needed?

i went searching for toys....water weinnie...it's a toy and it says 'weinnie'...heh heh....



beautiful bathroom ad



if another cannon ad is preferable please let me know, i had a problem finding a decent sized one....



needed a car ad



CATS!!



yeah, i dunno about this one....but a weird looking devil with spicy catsup?



creepy kid!!



floating heads



well this was a given....



NOT THE jello souffle cuz i couldn't find a big size of that, but this is pretty bad, right?



maidenform



this covers makeup, quackery AND is a beautiful ad



an okay male underwear ad?



MEAT!



appetizing!!

Comments

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

I love them!

Here are two more I would recommend.

(https://www.flickr.com/photos/25152449@N06/2464155060)

(https://www.flickr.com/photos/x-ray_delta_one/5819638211)

[shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com]

jesus, that pig ad is really quite disturbing. how have i missed that? or maybe i didn't and i blocked it from my mind?

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

YES on the Listerine Shaving Cream…NO on anything Meat—although that suicidal pig is pretty funny/grim.

[misstia]

the suicidal pig bothers me more than the MEAT ad....it just bugs me....but i of course wouldn't let my personal views interfere with what the community wants (except in rare instances :) ---this isn't one of 'em!

i like the listerine shaving cream too...that made me think of a lysol douche ad, but do we wanna see that all the time? (well i mean i think most of us view via our friend's page...but still...)....

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

my mind went WAY down the gutter for the lysol douche mention...

but honestly, i think we could pass on anything meat, since it *can* be really bothersome/hurtful to some people. and i'm ok with sticking to ads that don't trigger people (although that jello salad... *shudders*)

yay for objectifying men in underwears too!

[misstia]

meat ads are posted in the community....we have BBQ weekend---and to be fair we have vegan/vegetarian weekend too!!! i think the meat ad is a good example of 'what were they thinking?!'

ACK!!!! flashback to the trigger warning dramz we had here!!! ACK!! that _______ trying to post a horrible ad---i mean i dunno what country or kind of back alley magazine would publish an ad like that, wait i do ::shudder:: and they threw a hissy fit when i rejected it claiming they had put a 'trigger warning' for 'rape, sexual exploitation, violence' so it should be FINE...then they ARGUED with me that every other site has trigger warnings, i needed to have them and they could post that....nope, no way no how...since that was via email, my mod hat slipped and they got some unfiltered language --oh dear, me swearing! but yeah....i know i announced to the community we would never have trigger warnings because we weren't going there....

then we did discuss putting racist ads behind a cut but decided that they should not be, as that was a form of censoring and no matter how abhorrent they are, it is part of advertising history and 99.999% there are discussions on those ads about how far things how come (though i think we're taking a few steps back in some parts of society, that's another rant).....

ACK! how in the hell did i ramble on like this?!?! i gotta go to bed!! rewording more songs and i have a research project to work on tomorrow (that i was not planning on, but it came up today)....i will email you about that in the next day or two, i cannot currently discuss it publicly....

i was trying to 'represent' hump day hunks....i didn't want to include a sexist ad against women because there's a plethora of them on the internet...i tried to find ones that aren't particular ad nauseum all over, ya know??

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

any of the cannon wartime ads would cover humpday hunks, honestly.

and of COURSE i welcome your emails, dear!

now get to bed, and sweet rest to you. :)

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

2 more that might be good.
I found a larger Cannon
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/39527581@N07/5419072408)

And this classic.

(https://www.flickr.com/photos/sa_steve/4195169069)

[misstia]

thanks! i wanted that cannon ad bigger and i ALMOST included the jester ad!!! we gotta include that one don't we?

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

The Tho-Radia one is awesome. I have a suggestion for one from the "patron saint" of early 20th century illustrations, J.C. Leyendecker. His artwork is elegant. While this one isn't obviously an Arrow Shirts & Collars ad or Saturday Evening Post cover, it could have easily been either. His illustrations were all over the Saturday Evening Post for many years.

[misstia]

That is gorgeous but you're right, it doesn't look like an ad at all! isn't there a copy of this as an ad for shirts? or something very similar? this is familiar to me, but with some advertising writing on it!

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

It turns out an illustration nearly identical to this was used as an Arrow ad. I only see a slight variation in the colors, and the added Arrow name. The ad is very subtle. It doesn't mention shirts or collars specifically. This is from 1929.

[barengeist.livejournal.com]

OK one more Leyendecker piece. This is a 1922 ad for Ivory soap. I'm not sure if he used a monk to make a play on soap floating and Jesus walking on water or not :D

A further description of this ad that I found did read "Cleanliness is next to godliness: This atypical Ivory Soap advertisement from 1922 features a priest."

[misstia]

i never knew ivory soap typically used priests in ads!!

[samtyr.livejournal.com]

I'd also suggest an ad featuring telephone operators and one for an early 1900's era electric car.

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Like these?
(https://www.flickr.com/photos/retrorenovation/2886614451)

(https://www.flickr.com/photos/91591049@N00/8389021289)

(https://www.flickr.com/photos/91591049@N00/8390106394)

[bradygirl_12]

Heh heh! Still need a big bottle of Coke and maybe a hamburger for fast food. Sorry I can't offer any examples (I don't have the ability to scan ads) but these ads you're showing already are pretty iconic, at least here at vintage_ads! :)

P.S. What can I say? I'm a food-and-drink gal! ;)

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

This is also a classic.

(https://www.flickr.com/photos/sa_steve/2715556075)

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

These are all good choices!

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Several of my favourites are represented here, but I'd go for the Tho-Radia or one of the Leyendecker ones, even in case of doubt. Cut-up Piggy gives me nightmares but so do some of the men's (not all men's but some males') underwear ads and it would be both sexist and unjust of me to prefer the Wanted Maidenform Bra just because it is so Modesty Blaise vs. Calamity Jane...though I'd love to put it onto my bedroom wall as a guest-warning poster.

Also, thanks for not going down the trigger warning/censorship road for it leads straight into Hell and no fun to be found there (though South Park presents it as being placed in Detroit with a gay couple whose relationship can only be called complicated but all they ever do is fight, whine and sob so it lacks sex-appeal).

This is still such a wonderfully free-spirited community, please keep it that way. I'll probably never post any ads but this is one of my fav. communities on LJ to which I keep linking from theboringclub btw, always hoping, noone minds my mind;)