Minnim
Woman's Weekly / 4th April 1969
Yes, I clearly have a thing about sweetener ads, but I was amused by this one, because I came to the conclusion that it must have been named after the noise you made when tasting the product.
The fun of being thin…
Woman's Realm / 18th March 1967
Oh, piss off.
Tags: adverts totally made of wrong, blatant sexism, diets, dodgy advice, retail
Cambridge Formula Dietary Loaf
Woman's Own / 14th July 1967
Ladies! Lose weight by eating our over-priced bread! To help you put the incredible price of 1/9 into context, Rimmel nail polish was advertised at 1/10 a bottle in the same magazine. Zowzers. I don’t know if you lost lbs on this diet, but you certainly lost £s…
Tags: blatant sexism, Cambridge Diet, diets, dodgy advice, food, retail
Skinny?
Woman's Own / 14th July 1967
Hm. If you really do have this problem, it wouldn’t be Super Wate-On that I’d recommend: it would be getting a nicer set of friends.
Tags: blatant sexism, diets, dodgy advice, retail, teenagers
Ayds
Woman's Own / 9th August 1968
Yeah, you all know why this is here. I believe the modern version is called ‘Adios’. And here’s the old British TV ad, courtesy of TV Offal (clip ‘may not be suitable for minors’).
Tags: adverts totally made of wrong, beauty, blatant sexism, diets, dodgy advice, retail
Pick Up a Midday Pinta
Woman's Own / 20th June 1969
Milk is only really advertised at children nowadays, so it’s odd to think that women in 1969 needed the health benefits of milk explained to them. This ad appealed to me because of the a) the rather nice picture of a contemporary telephone exchange and b) the novel idea that a glass of milk and an apple makes an acceptable lunch. Not for me, it doesn’t…
Tags: blatant sexism, diets, dodgy advice, food, health, Milk Marketing Board, retail, social history