/r/OldSchoolRidiculous
Laughing at the past.
Laughing at the past
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What is ridiculous? "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it."
-Justice Potter Stewart, Jacobellis v. Ohio, 1964
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Our sister sub: /r/Tacky
More subs like us:
- /r/vintageads
- /r/otr
- /r/AskOldPeople
- /r/RedditForGrownups
- /r/oldschoolcreepy
- /r/VintageSciFi
- /r/TheWayWeWere
- /r/vintagepalooza
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Full-face swimming mask helped protect women's skin from the sun, 1920s
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In 1793, there was a brief fad for wearing “belly pads”!
In 1793 England, there was a brief fad for women to wear “belly pads” to create a more full figure. The trend is generally attributed to Lady Charlotte Campbell and the desire to have a classical inspired silhouette. Here is a poem about the craze from the 1790s:
“You pride yourself much my dear BETTY PAD, And thus say to me, now forsaken and sad: ‘That you’re all the fashion, and I in the dumps, Cause ladies no longer put on their FALSE RUMPS.’ The fact I allow—but pray Betty, mind, You’re only BEFORE, that which I was BEHIND; A horse-hair protuberance made up by folly, Now wore from my Lady, to mopsqueezing Molly; A projection much better, behind than before Because it make virgins now look like a —–. Epistle from Mrs Bustle to Mrs. Pad.”
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Miss Lube Rack
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The Dutch Boy's Lead Party
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[NSFW] 'Totally real WW2 operation! I swear!'. MALE magazine, 1974.
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Seen on vintage ads subreddit
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if WORLDS of SCIENCE FICTION (October, 1954)
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Two ladies in bathing suits walk past the members of a beauty contest jury, masked and therefore incorruptible. France, 1937
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Latest home decor trend - Biohazard Crochet Pizzas
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A schooner having trouble crossing the equator. A newspaper joke from 1930. [605x515]
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Ruby Keeler - "Sitting on a Backyard Fence" from FOOTLIGHT PARADE (1933)
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Clonidine Promotional Playing Card Pack
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Mac and Me | 1988
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White Family Mistaken for Black in 1955 Florida.
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Babe Ruth pretending to roll over Lou Archer in 1927.
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Spiked Toothpaste
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1966 Should a bride to be worn as a Hertz girl before marriage?
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1971 Plymouth cricket
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Arnold likes'em Hot 'n' Juicy
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Xenophobic Personals Ad from 1896… French need not apply!
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I never knew that pickles are a gateway drug?
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The big college fad of the 1930s was swallowing live goldfish, so popular that there was an intercollegiate derby to determine a champion
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Phone Booth Packing was a 1950's fad whereby a bunch of people crammed themselves into a telephone booth
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UFO Rap Session (1974)
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Inflatable Air Jeans (1972)
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Joe E. Brown attends an adult baby party in the opening scene of Broad-Minded (1931)
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Maidenform ad, 1982
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Liberace takes a bubble bath, 1978
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NY Times Dec 21 1924 - Hitler Tamed By Prison
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