These Vintage Ads Would Instantly Be Banned Today

Women Are Objects

Women! They're things. Or stuff. Wait, no, they're people... but not until the '90s. Before then, your girlfriend was a mop, or a beer, or a pack of cigarettes.

Fashion Week

Does anyone have a clue what this naked woman holding a heavy stack of books has to do with stockings? Do stockings... make you smarter? Is it because they squeeze the blood from your legs back up to your brain?

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.