OK, so it’s not what you expected… But if you pronounce “toilet” in a frou-frou French way, you’ll be reminded that it’s intended meaning was not a bathroom fixture but rather the fixtures on a lady’s vanity.
Vintage women’s hair brush, comb and mirror sets from 1954 via Viva Vintage.
Japan Airlines, 1967.
And we bet mom gets to clean ’em. Vintage ad for the Smoky Mountain Trout Farms from the 1963 issue of This Week In The Land of the Smokies and The Southern Highlands.
My dad totally would have married this woman. Vintage ad for Lowe’s, 1965 Life Magazine; via.
An early doughnut stall with Ms Mathilda; The Netherlands, September, 1953.
A page from a vintage advertising booklet for Timken Silent Automatic Wall-Flame Oil Burners — oil heated furnaces. (Timken Silent Automatic Division, Rockwell Spring & Axel Company, Jackson, Michigan and Toronto, Canada; copyright 1953. Form/publication number A-D 688R 50M-9-53; ink stamp for Jensen’s Heating Service, Moorhead, Minnesota, on back. Available from us at eBay.)
Jim sent a comment clarifying The Unknown Comic – Artist:
It’s a play on the single panel comic series “Right Around Home” by Dudley Fisher. More than likely, he did the ad himself.
Thanks, Jim!
Hey, ladies, “buy by the kit and save” when you make your own hats! From Fox Millinery Supply Spring-Summer Catalog 1966.
And, “Fruit & Berry Hats To Copy” — because, unlike Carmen Miranda, you need “new ideas,” and “helpful hints” to make “‘THOSE’ Clever Small Hats.” (Also included, “Make An Easter & Summer Veil Hat.”) From the 1961 Louie Miller catalog.
The dangers of absentminded maids, wives and husbands illustrated in this vintage Insurance Company Of North America Companies ad, scanned from the May 1, 1944 issue of Pathfinder magazine — where we also learn where lime J-ELLO with shredded carrots came from…
According to a 1940s issue of Modern Woman magazine, how the domestic duties were divided up between men & woman in Bali:
