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There is likely to be the occasional commercial that causes you to roll your eyes at the television – but they have nothing on these vintage marketing tactics.
People from around the world took to Reddit to share the astonishingly outdated ads they’ve come across and Bored Panda collated the best into an online gallery.
They included a sugar advertisement from 1964 which claimed the sweet stuff ‘quenches fatigue’, while in the 1970s, a clothing store used a child model to promote ‘chubby girl’ sizes.
In the 1960s, a poster promoting the children’s carton Flintstones was sponsored by Winston cigarettes, while similarly a 1950s Marlboro Cigarettes ad shockingly used a baby model to promote the product.
A 1950s Marlboro Cigarettes ad (pictured) shockingly used a baby model to promote the product
Meanwhile, in the 1950s, antidepressants were marketed primarily towards housewives and their husbands to ensure household tasks weren’t neglected.
Elsewhere, a vintage Fiat advert claimed if one of the brand’s cars was a woman ‘it would get it’s bottom pinched’.
Here FEMAIL takes a look at some of the most cringeworthy ads that wouldn’t go down well today…
In 1991 a mental health help service used an X-men comic cartoon to speak about what they called ‘the monster within’
Elsewhere, a vintage Fiat advert claimed if one of the brand’s cars was a woman ‘it would get it’s bottom pinched’
In the 1970s, a clothing store used a child model to promote ‘chubby girl’ sizes in its advertisement (pictured)
The ads also included a sugar advertisement from 1964 which claimed the sweet stuff ‘quenches fatigue’, while in the 1970s, a clothing store used a child model to promote ‘chubby girl’ sizes
While in the 1950s, antidepressants were marketed primarily towards housewives and their husbands to ensure household tasks weren’t neglected
In the 1960s, a poster promoting the children’s carton Flintstones was sponsored by Winston cigarettes
A cereal brand used a very creepy image of a clown which would likely give children nightmares at breakfast
Meanwhile, a 1958 advertisement for ironized yeast claimed that men might ‘hate the sight’ of skinny girls
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