Prudery in Advertising Used to Confuse Me

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Costume researchers of the future, given only this image, might deduce that girdles were worn on the outside of our clothes. And that the stocking suspenders/garters were purely decorative. There was a time when manufacturers who wanted to use the same ad in "family newspapers" and in women's magazines had to be careful how they…

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