Forever a Bridesmaid

Besides taking every chance to remind women that their rightful place was in the kitchen, vintage ads constantly shamed the unmarried woman. Worse still, such promotional leaflets featured female figures wearing forlorn looks on their faces, much like what is seen in this past newspaper clipping.

We can thank our lucky stars that times have changed, and present-day mouthwash ad campaigns would never take jabs at single ladies. You also have to wonder just how bad the oral hygiene situation was back then, more so when it came to women. Just about every sanitary product promotion from that era seemed to target the female folk.