Nowadays, women who want a trimmer waist in a pinch typically turn to Spanx or some other body-slimming underwear. But when it's less about practicality and more about looking sexy in nothing but your skivvies (like for your Valentine's Day date night, for instance), you may choose to don a corset. While modern women are free to wear these fitted underpinnings whenever we want to spice things up Read more

This Valentine's Day, take a trip back in time with these funny, cute, romantic, and sometimes sexist vintage V-Day ads. According to these ads, it seems the best way to impress a woman (and get some lovin') on Feb. 14 is with a box of chocolates, and for men it's cake. Alluding to sexual favors in exchange for Valentine's Day gifts may seem retro, but the concept hasn't gone away in advertising, Read more

Whether or not you wear or eat meat, PETA's overtly sexualized publicity campaigns might leave a bad taste in your mouth. In addition to billboards featuring stars like Pamela Anderson and Olivia Munn going naked for the cause, the animal rights group often holds live spectacles in public places featuring attractive young women, models, or minor celebrities wearing little. For example, UK reality Read more

It's time to break out the bubbly! Even if you don't have any extravagant plans for New Year's Eve, there's no better way to ring in 2012 than with a Champagne toast. So this NYE, take an uber-glam cue from the ladies who've graced Champagne ads over the years. See the evolution of women in Champagne ads, from the vintage to the modern, and cling some glasses to the New Year! Read more

Vintage ads are often terrible, but these holiday ads take terrible to a new low. Whether it's Santa as a sex object or a cigarette carton for a sleigh, these ads are festive, fun, and totally inappropriate. Read more

Advertising is all around us, and it's particularly ubiquitous in the realm of beauty. Makeup, skin care, and fragrance get shilled to us constantly, and many of us are only passingly aware of the messages we're receiving. Which is why the 10 ads here are such a big deal. For better or for worse, these spots made a big impression — sometimes on consumers, sometimes on regulatory committees, and Read more

If vintage Halloween ads showed us that the key to a good All Hallows' Eve is booze, cigarettes, and pantyhose, then what do vintage Thanksgiving ads have to say about the feasting holiday? Well, mostly it revolves around questionably edible dishes, killin' turkeys, and having a glamorous kitchen! Also, ciggys that taste as good a turkey dinner. See the Thanksgiving vintage ads and their lessons Read more

Curvaceous models are prepping to bare it all at the Victoria's Secret fashion show, as the lingerie company's annual show hits the runway today. And just as the show has evolved a lot since its inauguration in the '90s, lingerie itself has changed by leaps and bounds (thankfully) since it was first introduced in the late 19th century. We have some groundbreaking women to thank for where lingerie Read more