{"id":12219,"date":"2009-08-14T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T15:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=12219"},"modified":"2009-11-29T15:33:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T20:33:28","slug":"vintage-brylcreem-ad-nice-hair-gets-you-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/14\/vintage-brylcreem-ad-nice-hair-gets-you-chicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Brylcreem Ad: Nice Hair Gets You Chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay L. sent in this Brylcreem commercial from the 1950s, in which men are warned that if they don&#8217;t have well-styled, healthy hair, they won&#8217;t get the girl next door:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jRcRIbExrfg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Notice the creepy cartoon characters at about 0:48. Jay says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He is obviously turned on by the girl, so he elbows the tube, which ejaculates a white blob that falls onto his head. The girl returns to run her hands through it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another commercial that tells men if they don&#8217;t use Brylcreem, they&#8217;ll actually disgust women and make them run away:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o6F4GtyRfto&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Also see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/07\/just-for-men-ad-plays-on-mens-fear-about-dating\/\">this Just for Men commercial<\/a> that tells men grey hair will hurt them on the dating scene, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/03\/just-for-men-hair-dye-ad-plays-on-career-insecurity\/\">this one<\/a> about career insecurity, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/07\/another-just-for-men-hair-dye-ad-former-athlete-gets-his-masculine-vitality-back-by-covering-grey-hair\/\">this one<\/a> that equates grey hair with a loss of masculine virility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay L. sent in this Brylcreem commercial from the 1950s, in which men are warned that if they don&#8217;t have well-styled, healthy hair, they won&#8217;t get the girl next door: Notice the creepy cartoon characters at about 0:48. Jay says, He is obviously turned on by the girl, so he elbows the tube, which ejaculates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[251,55,2089,2087,23705],"class_list":["post-12219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hair","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12219"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17188,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12219\/revisions\/17188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}