Outrageous Ads - Hardcover

Kate Parker

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933176202 ISBN 13: 9781933176208

Publisher: Red Rock Press, 2008

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This hilarious treasury of old ads, accompanied by Parker's bright quips,celebrates an age of innocence (or idiocy) when advertisers could show us any old thing. How about a baby with a razor or tobacco chew? Or a gal combing her sleeping guy's trousers in search of war-bond dollars, a wife in love with cutlery. Unhealthy claims include soda pop promoted as a baby drink and bone-crushing corsets urged for little girls. Among other dubious propositions are the chin-reducing head cage and bile beans as the key to physical fitness. Outrageous Ads reminds us not to believe everything we're sold.

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Outrageous Ads celebrates an age of innocence (or idiocy) when advertisers could tell us any old thing, and many of us would believe it.

These ads include the possibly true but strangely presented: canned soup as the way to a man's heart, a pretty woman in love with cutlery. Some of the more stunning revolve around really unhealthy claims: doctors fighting over which brand of cigarettes are best for us, or bone-crushing corsets urged for little girls. Other dubious propositions advanced by ad men included the chin-reducing head cage and "bile beans" as the key to physical fitness.

Hilarious and sometimes shocking, Outrageous Ads reminds us not to believe everything we're sold.

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