From LIFE Magazine.
In 1956, 16 was like old made age. Needed to get married ASAP…
Being a teenage girl in the 50s must have been awful. I’ve also seen a lot of ads from that era for girls that are too skinny and need to gain weight. The acceptable “pretty” range must’ve been really small.
“Is your daughter a fat, disgusting slug? We can help hide her gross body to help her find a suitable mate!”
Wow. Just… wow. I love seeing old marketing material to better inform me of how wretched our society has been over time.
Why they trying so hard to make kids yummy? 🤨
It costs less to raise her if she is married off at 15, and then you get grandbabies! Win-win for the boomers
You realize the kids would have been the boomers, right?
People under 30 have decided that “boomer” means “person over 50 at any point in history.”
“chubettes”? Are you kidding me? Oof
Most body positive and least misogynistic 50s ad
Is your daughter on the plump side? She can and should look as pretty as her slim friends.
Not so much. It’s saying she can have a tummy that’s hidden by her clothes and therefore look “yummy.”
The point being that ads from the '50s were so bad and misogynistic that this is actually quite good by comparison.
“Honey, you aren’t chubby. Your friends are just really too thin. You are perfectly fine the way you are… Oh! I forgot, I bought you some new clothes, have some Chubbettes…”
The girl in that add isn’t even chubby, she looks like a normal weight to me. I guess that’s part of the point of the ad, but…
Different standards. Chubby was a very different thing back then.
Don’t forget… “you’ll look yummy in these new Chubettes!” 🤮
People 👏 are 👏 not 👏 food 👏
What about billionaires?
They’re not people
“Chubby” meant a very different thing back then. That’s the fattest girl you’d see out in public. That girl isn’t even fat by today’s standards.
They’d get out the harpoons if they saw the fat people today.
Women were prescribed speed more regularly, back then. Easy to be thin when you don’t get hungry.
You think that’s stopped today? They hand out Adderall like candy. Reduced access to amphetamines is not the reason people got fat.
For the best
This is an example of some of the shit you say that I don’t agree with, Rosanne. It’s like the pot calling the kettle black.
Why do girls from 6-16 need to look yummy? Disturbing.
In 1950s when there was no food on the fridge you would eat the kids
Body shaming a girl, then said she need a product
This is when western civilization began its irreversible decline into decadence and avarice.
