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

When it comes to advertising a product, most people would agree that having the specific product in the advertising campaign will increase the chances of people buying the product. However, there is also another camp of people that will live and die on the hill of sex sells… They aren’t concerned with the advertisement being related to the product at all.

And something tells us that the people responsible for this shoe polish campaign back when this advertisement was created felt similarly… Sure, the women in this advertisement are wearing shoes, but the product they are selling is directed toward men’s shoes. They couldn’t have been more blatant if they tried that this campaign has little to do with shoes.