I'm celebrating spring today with an explosion of vintage florals. Truth be told, I'm pretty tired and can't think of anything coherent to say about these ads…I picked out my favorites from the hundreds I came across, and I'm hoping you'll just scroll through and enjoy. 🙂
We'll start with bouquets of multiple types of flowers.
Maybelline, 1938:
(image from atticpaper.com)
Elizabeth Arden, 1943:
(image from hprints.com)
Cutex, 1966:
(image from hprints.com)
The comparison between flowers, beauty and women in general gets quite literal in some of these.
Tangee, 1961:
(image from flickr.com)
Poem, circa 1950s:
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Orlane, 1959:
(image from hprints.com)
Dorothy Gray, 1946:
(image from library.duke.edu)
Finally, a round-up of individual flowers, including carnations, daisies, poppies, posies, violets, lilac and of course, roses.
Harriet Hubbard Ayer, 1951:
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Lancome, 1957:
(image from hprints.com)
Goya, 1950s:
(image from amazon.com)
Dorothy Gray, 1941:
(image from library.duke.edu)
Revlon, 1946:
(image from vintage-ads.livejournal.com)
Chen Yu, 1957:
(image from hprints.com)
Charles of the Ritz, 1940 (I love how even back then some makeup could be seen as collectible!):
(image from hprints.com)
Yardley, 1946:
(image from library.duke.edu)
My favorite of the whole bunch, Cutex Robins and Roses (1959):
(image from flickr.com)
Which ones do you like? And did your favorite flower make an appearance in any of these? Sadly sunflowers were nowhere to be found, but I got a kick out of these anyway.