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Advertising has always been an interesting way to look at history. But when you see these vintage advertisements, the past seems a lot weirder than you thought. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Frederick’s of Hollywood was established in 1946 by Frederick Mellinger and his first store was opened on Hollywood Boulevard in 1947. His association with Hollywood boosted the image of the company, which in the 1940s was responsible for such lingerie innovations as the padded, push-up and blow-up bras. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Advertising in magazines such as Harper’s Weekly, in the 1880s, the manufacturer claimed that 'The Health Jolting Chair' could solve the problems of the ‘cripples, paralytics … the corpulent, the insane, the blind etc’, as well as being ‘indispensable to the health and happiness of millions of human beings who may be living sedentary lives through choice or necessity.’ Some writers have commented on the erotic potential of the...
