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Clearly we've got a way to go when it comes to social justice and women's rights, but in years past women were held to nearly impossible standards of beauty and etiquette that seems outlandish in today's world. You won't believe how utterly messed up these old-school ads are! 

We usually use Twitter to waste time on funny tweets, but every now and then it provides some serious knowledge to our weak brains. This particular thread explains the bizarre nature of old Christmas cards - and shares some seriously freaky examples. This is some serious pre-Hallmark shit. We just wish we could find these at our local stationery store.

Comics are often already weird to begin with, but they're even weirder when taken out of context. We're not really sure what the artists here were thinking, and we'll probably never know! We've got even more weird vintage comics here for whoever wants 'em!

We're ashamed to admit it, but we were pretty convinced by these skillfully composed parodies of vintage ads. Some of them are just realistic enough that they emulate the zany promotional material of the fifties and sixties. Take comfort in the fact that "Potato Fudge" doesn't really exist - and enjoy the humor while you're at it.

Advertising is absolutely unavoidable these days. We're inundated by promotions on television, our email inboxes, and everywhere on the internet. Sometimes we wish that these attempts at snagging our money were a little bit more creative. Perhaps a little more like the advertising of yesteryear. These bizarre ads are a sort of trippy advertising time capsule. Some of their weirdness comes from the actual products (sauna pants?) and then there are the absolutely inappropriate ads that would never receive an "okay" in this day and age. But they're all pretty damn entertaining.

Some things in the past were definitely not better than in modern times, and apparently Christmas cards are one of those things. 

We all can think back to these classic games fondly. We played them when we visited our grandparents' house as a way to pass the time in a wholesome manner. Never mind that they may have caused a whole bunch of arguments between family members after dinner - they were still fun, right?

These dark and demeaning anti-suffrage postcards pack a little extra punch as we work towards a society that treats women with dignity and respect. The struggle is, and was, very real. 

We've all seen this meme, entitled "Waiting For Dad," floating around the internet quite a bit by now, but you probably didn't know that it stems from an advertisement for Arrow Casual Wear in LIFE Magazine from 1954 that has since been edited to include the family menacingly brandishing knives. A lot of stuff from the 1950s was pretty WTF anyway, so it seems fitting that people started editing this meme to be a little more dark!

Pretty much every person over the age of 50 loves to complain about how terrible the current generation is, from smart phones to our being "entitled" about everything (because God forbid we just want to eat, amirite?). So the next time an old person tries to pull that crap on you, just whip out this gallery of highly disturbing foods that the public actually used to consume throughout the 20th century, and we're betting that it'll shut down any and every argument they could possibly have about who the "best generation" is.

The advertising world was a whole different universe in the 50's and 60's. This stuff would definitely trigger people today!

That's right: cosplay has been around for longer than you may have thought. These photos depict a side of the hobby we had never seen before. All in the warm and attractive lens of the past!

You know the saying "they don't make em like they used to"? Well, it DEFINITELY applies to old school Halloween costumes. Consider us spooked.