Miss Bathing Beauty

Advertising departments at companies that sold beauty products latched on to the stereotype of a young woman who was desperate to be beautiful.

As the Palmolive soap advertisements at right suggest, beauty would allow the young lady to attract a husband and fulfill her presumed goal of becoming Mrs. Housewife. In these ads, the woman is always the center of a man's attention.

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