Thursday, July 23, 2009

Retro Pink and Red {Ads}

Pink Fire lipstick.
Cutex.
From Mademoiselle, Yardley - June 1961.
From Mademoiselle, Yardley - March 1959.
From Mademoiselle, Elizabeth Arden - October 1966.
From Seventeen, Advertising cross-promotion between Cutex cosmetics and Ship 'n Shore clothing - June 1958.
From Mademoiselle, Chantilly - November 1965.
From Seventeen, model Jean Shrimpton - September 1967.
Lustre Creme lotion shampoo.

From Mademoiselle, French Lilac - September 1961.
Another Lustre Creme ad.
I love these retro ads and I especially love that they are PINK and RED! The advertisements from the 1950's and 1960's, for cosmetics and perfumes, were so girly and beautiful. These are some of my favorites that I found on Flickr.

3 comments:

Alicia said...

Makes me laugh at how squeaky clean even the risque really is.
Hope all is well in Pittsburgh. I hate this back to work thing. Never enough hours in the day!!!

Kristina said...

I love your blog! Its like eye candy for females! Hope you dont mind, but I loaded the Verse a Day to my blog as well! Keep posting your beautiful pictures.

Kristina

GirlWhimsy said...

Hi Kristina -
Thank you for visiting GirlWhimsy, and thank you for your comment on my blog. And no, I don't mind you loading the Verse A Day. I'm glad it spoke to your heart. I'm getting ready to go visit your blog, too. Come back soon.

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