It’s summertime. Are you trying to gain weight? Oh right, that’s so last century. The Daily Mail has unearthed some vintage advertisements pitching products to help men and women alike put on pounds — ...

Picture finding a forgotten magazine tucked in your grandmother's attic, only to discover a vibrant 1950s advertisement ...

Over the past couple of decades, the media has warped women’s perception of their own bodies, vehemently convincing them that a slender physique is the ideal. What some might not realize is that it ...

Without dispute, the '70s were an iconic fashion decade. Tie-dye, floral, bell-bottoms, mini (and maxi) dresses. It's not hard to pick out a seminal trend whose influence can be seen even in ...

Advertising in the 1960s was bold, colorful, text-heavy, and often completely unfiltered by today’s standards. From convincing housewives that a new kitchen appliance would solve all their problems to ...

An archive of vintage advertisements which reveal how Black Magic became one of the first affordable boxes of chocolate has been released. Today, boxes of chocolate can be bought for just a few pounds ...

Ahh, remember back when? When rumor sites didn’t exist? Where second-guessing the next Stevenote meant walking in the rain to your nearest User Group meeting, and having a heated discussion with your ...

If vintage Halloween ads showed us that the key to a good All Hallows' Eve is booze, cigarettes, and pantyhose, then what do vintage Thanksgiving ads have to say about the feasting holiday? Well, ...

"The New All-Metal Plymouth Suburban, the Car with 101 Uses" 1949:To show that the '49 Plymouth Suburban was well suited for work and play, the wagon is shown in this ad (above) against a golf course ...

In 50 years or so, people are going to look at advertising of our time period with horror. “My god,” they’ll say, “did they really drink diet soda? Did they really put cell phones near their HEADS?

The first two ads harken back to the days when Volkswagen was passing its compact van off as a station wagon. "This is the first station wagon that really makes sense," the first ad proclaims. It'll ...