Vintage Ads: Translation, Sex Appeal, and Innuendo - Neatorama

You ought to wonder what a wind-blown skirt and cleavage have to do with shoeshine, but you know what was on the minds of the men who came up with this advertisement! See more hilarious and suggestive magazine ads from the 40's-60's at Divine Caroline.

http://www.divinecaroline.com/33669/84173-vintage-ads--translation--sex-appeal-

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by StigNordas.

Wait... did she just fart out a shoe?

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The angle and direction of the shoe is suggestive.

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nice photo :)

Million Thanks

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The angle and direction of the shoe suggest it was launched from somewhere around the middle of her back. Also, it's moving in the same direction as the wind. I would agree there's something sexually suggestive about the way she's posing, but the shoe has nothing to do with it.

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Craig get a grip, it's called a joke.

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Perhaps in that era of long skirts some men used highly polished shoes for upskirt views, and this ad was designed to appeal to them.

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Many people are ignoring the fact that the uplift of wind which is affecting her skirt originating from the nearby grassy knoll. This concludes that the only other reason for this... is that there was a second shoe-ter.

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heheheheh Gaulder, my point exactly. +2 for understanding.

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Assuming that those shiny shoes also had a flashlight or something to help illuminate up that long skirt, otherwise, no dice.

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If you read the ad, it mentions how neither rain, sleet, nor windy days can dull the shine of a shoe shined with their product. Love the "fart out a shoe" comment, though.

It's a stretch, but whoever said there had to be sense in advertising?

This looks like they came up with the idea for the ad before they actually knew what product they were advertising.

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You won't even believe this ad...

SO obvious. It is just STUNNING. And those BOOBS! Like weapons...'watch it there honey, you could poke an eye out with those!"

http://marcywrites.com/2009/01/adtalk-sabrina-and-the-art-of-projection/

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