These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Women Aren't Decorations

Apparently, people at ad agencies back then couldn't get more creative than perceiving women as literal objects. Fortunately, the times have changed.

This Would NEVER Fly Today

There's no way that anything even remotely similar to an ad like this would ever be printed today. Who has time to read all that copy? Get out of here, Charles Antell.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.