I'm known in my sisters circle of friends in Oz for postcards because I send a lot of correspondence to her so when one of them was at a yard sale he bought me a bundle of random postcards for AU$1 - thank you Sean!
It was a real mixed bag with the usual scenic postcards of Australia & Sydney, London's Windsor Castle & Piccadilly Circus in the 1900's mixed in with some art & promotional postcards.
And amongst them all were these two beauties. Talk about setting back woman's rights a century or ten.
This is a promotional poster by the Suffragette Atelier for their Votes for Women campaign highlighting that while that women held roles in society such as doctors, they were not entitled to vote.
And this is an advert for Kenwood which has a woman crawling all over her husband in the hopes that he will buy her a food processor.
It looks like it's from the 50's and if the tag line "The Chef does everything but cook - that's what wives are for" isn't bad enough, the rest of the text in the advert is SO unbelieve that I just have to include some it for you.
"Cooking is fun" says my wife "...food preparation is a bore!. Think of
the meals I'd cook for you if I had a Kenwood Chef!" I can take a hint -
I'm giving my wife a Kenwood Chef right away!"
I had to read it again, I was sure I had just halucinated the whole thing. Can you just imagine that as a marketing campaign today?!?!
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