Prudery in Advertising Used to Confuse Me

Costume researchers of the future, given only this image, might deduce that girdles were worn on the outside of our clothes. And that the stocking suspenders/garters were purely decorative. There was a time when manufacturers who wanted to use the same ad in "family newspapers" and in women's magazines had to be careful how they…

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