From LIFE Magazine.
“Honey, you aren’t chubby. Your friends are just really too thin. You are perfectly fine the way you are… Oh! I forgot, I bought you some new clothes, have some Chubbettes…”
The girl in that add isn’t even chubby, she looks like a normal weight to me. I guess that’s part of the point of the ad, but…
Different standards. Chubby was a very different thing back then.
“Chubby” meant a very different thing back then. That’s the fattest girl you’d see out in public. That girl isn’t even fat by today’s standards.
They’d get out the harpoons if they saw the fat people today.
This is an example of some of the shit you say that I don’t agree with, Rosanne. It’s like the pot calling the kettle black.
Why do girls from 6-16 need to look yummy? Disturbing.
In 1950s when there was no food on the fridge you would eat the kids
This is when western civilization began its irreversible decline into decadence and avarice.
