“Smoking cigarettes gives me that wonderful liberating feeling that can only be compared with voting and breathing after I let out the corset strings. Am I right, suffragettes? Where are my uber-feminine purse fit Virginnie Slims, anyway?”
All snideness aside, this is a pretty amazing commercial from the days before tobacco was banned from television. Sterling Cooper, I salute you.
Also, I must add: “Tailored for the feminine hand.” Nice.
[Via Bobster855 on Flickr (my new favorite)]
After the 1930s print ads saying doctors recommended a certain brand of cigarette, I guess it was just a matter of time before this commercial made it to the airwaves.
In college, many moons ago, I had a teacher who smoked Virginia Slims… a MALE teacher. This was back in the days when smoking was still allowed in public buildings in NY.
ugh – that dress! give me a cigarette!