DRINK!
Woman and Home / 1st January 1962
MORE housewives and booze? It’s truly remarkable how many ads there were in the 1960s suggesting some form of alcohol to presumably blot out the frustration and boredom of being a kept woman. Does anyone else have the mental image of housewives across Britain floating on a cloud of inebriation whilst unloading the twin tub, or necking it from the bottle before sitting down with their boring husband for dinner?
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