These Controversial Vintage Ads Show How Women Were Viewed Before the Millennium

In the world of advertising, there are so many different techniques and styles people adopt. And whilst they might make sense for them at the time, they can often be conceived as unrelated to the product being sold. If you ever see an advertisement trying to degrade another person, it clearly isn’t very good advertising…

This advertisement is so confusing, grotesque, and sexist that we don’t even know where to begin. First of all, this campaign is about a pair of pants created by the fabric company Dacron. So don’t feel bad if it also took you a few turns to understand what was actually going on here… The fact that they felt the need to portray a woman like this in the ad tells you everything you need to know about this company.