Found in Mom's Basement

1947 ad for Anderson's Liver Salts

Found at Vintage Scans.

She owes her "cheerful well-being" to a laxative.

1983 ad featuring the ugliest dress I've ever seen

Found at jbcurio.

The sister women wouldn't be caught dead wearing this dress.

1966 ad shows that Harley Davidson riders weren't always so tough

Find another goofy vintage Harley Davidson ad here.

Vintage ad for Chubbettes plus size girls' clothing asks, "How happy can a chubby girl be?"

The answer is:

As happy as a hit with a rollicking beat, or a serenade in a dreamy mood... as happy as one whose extra young pounds have been delightfully transformed by the designing magic of Chubbettes.

Found at Community Livejournal.

Vintage ad targeting "homely women"

The book being advertised includes "practical devices for ugly ears, mouths, fingertips, crooked teeth."

Found at Community Livejournal.

1968 ad for Fancies men's coats

Hysterical vintage ad for men's and women's jumpsuits

Found at Community Livejournal.

Another strange vintage ad for Van Heusen

"Wouldn't you rather look at these instead?"

"No, ma'am. I'm too saddened by this obviously stuffed and mounted horse head."

1962 ad for Van Heusen men's shirts.

Wood paneling: possibly the worst thing you could do to your bathroom walls

Found at Viewliner Ltd.

From the 1960s.

Vintage ad for the "massively male" Oldsmobile Toronado

"It's all man -- right down to its man-sized trunk."

Found at Community Livejournal.