Underwear Advertisements. Some of these are gut-bustingly hilarious.

[MADem]

The serious looks! The bold poses! The wild colors! The.....fur!!!!!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/vintage-underwear-ads-that-will-give-you-nightmares

[pipi_k]

1. Bwahahaha. What's so

Hilariously scary is that some of those ads looked perfectly normal back in the day...

[MADem]

3. Everyone looks so....furry! But you're right--that WAS the norm! As were the stupid moustaches,

and the insane colors.

I guess that 'waxing habit' has changed people's sense of what is normal.

The kid holstering his gun just made me think...

Ralphie....you'll shoot your .........!!!!!!!

[pipi_k]

8. Yeah, the kid

with the gun in his underpants...

At first (and second and maybe a third) glance, it looked to me like he's purposely trying to shoot his nuts off.

I asked myself...WHY?

Then I thought, well maybe he's into Zero Population Growth.

Granted, cap guns probably can't do such a great job, but it's a start...

[siligut]

2. This guy kind of looks like the statue of David

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This ad must have been during the free love 60s, the kid with the gun may have been . . . did we even have an idiot era before now?

[MADem]

4. He does--I'm trying to figure out what Lady Madonna is up to, there!!!!

Are they arm wrestling?

[siligut]

5. His chest hair is a Rorschach test

At least that is what I think the ad said.

But you are right, it looks like some biblical scene, so weird I am not going to say anything else.

[2theleft]

6. I was born in the 70's...I'm suddenly very happy I was too young

to witness ANY OF THIS IN REAL LIFE.

[pipi_k]

9. yeah, because...

some of it even leaked over into real life.


I was flipping through my high school yearbook the other day (Class of 1970) and thinking, Holy Mother of Pearl, did we really look that way?

And think we were cool?

Yes...yes we did.

[MADem]

12. The clothing in the discos was just horrific!

Everyone looked equally ridiculous, though, so it was OK.

Years from now, the kids are going to laugh at the Beiber hairstyles, and that latest one that looks like an elongated flat - top shaped to a point... the "Bless His Pointed Little Head" look!

It's a fate of each generation to have at least one or two incredibly stupid looks. The 70s did have more of their share, made worse because OLD people who had no business wearing those fashions jumped on the bus....old ladies in mini-skirts, old men in Nehru jackets and bell bottoms and long hair and those stupid fu-manchu moustaches...it was a sight to create sore eyes!!!!

[pipi_k]

16. Hah, I remember

how my mom totally ruined the Nehru jacket for me.

God help me, but I liked 'em

Until, that is, my mom...who was over 30!!!!... decided to buy one

[MADem]

20. Ha ha ha! The nerve of those adults...!!! nt

[2theleft]

15. Well, my generation had the young Madonna influence...

neons, plastic bracelets, big ass lace bows in your hair. I should probably pull out my yearbook pics for a good laugh. Oh, and let's not forget ginormous shoulder pads that made you look like you didn't have a neck.

[pipi_k]

17. Oh yeah, and

the "jelly" shoes

and legwarmers

very short skirts with ankle socks and sneakers

skinny leg jeans

jeans you bought with the rips and tears already in them...


My kids hit their teens in the mid 80s. I feel like I lived the fashions with them.

[MADem]

21. Weren't the early Madonna-ites wearing their underwear outside their clothes? nt

[JoeyT]

24. The clothes weren't even the worst of it.

Batman t-shirts are timeless. That hair is not.

I didn't have hair like that, but I did have a 77 Rally Sport Camaro when I was a kid, so I still have to hang my head in shame.

[DebJ]

7. That's hysterically funny and very repulsive at the same time. n/t

[mockmonkey]

10. The kid makes me think...

of a young Ted Cruz.

[MADem]

11. Well, Ted seems to be going off half cocked even today, so your point is entirely valid! nt

[Tom_Foolery]

13. What will people be saying about us in 2054?

[MADem]

22. Every generation gets excoriated for their fashion, for awhile anyway.

Then it gets recycled.

Right now, many of the young ladies are wearing pre-Love In Sixties dresses--no doubt a MAD MEN influence. The facial hair and haircuts of a segment of the gents is similar to the hairstyles of the late sixties and early seventies--the only difference is that they brush the whole mess forward.

[mockmonkey]

14. I must have been too young at the time...

or I didn't read the kind of magazines that would have ads like that in them.

In many ways the CK ads were an improvement.
I remember in Spy magazine they had this pic or something similar and it was captioned...



"Marky Mark grabbing his Funky Bunch"

http://markyadvertising.tripod.com/

[pipi_k]

18. The one with the kid

putting the gun in his pants...

You would have to be of a "certain age" to know what that white thing in the background is...

[Kingofalldems]

19. Isn't that a 'wringer' washing machine?

[MADem]

23. That's what it looks like to me, too! The agitator bit was all electric!!! nt

[mockmonkey]

25. Wow

I didn't even notice that weird aspect of that ad. I remember we had one of those in the basement (the wringer I mean, not the kid in his underpants) it was kind of scary to me.