article_snippet.sent: Tastes change, of course, but looking at some of the adverts that graced newspapers and magazines in the latter half of the 20th century, it's hard to believe that the advertising brains behind them thought them might actually work.
article_snippet.sent: If the ad world's top gunslingers now rely on more modern methods of reaching their audience including hopping across multiple media platforms to reach their, once it was all about a single, thoughtfully-composed image.
article_snippet.sent: We've unearthed some of the more comical adverts that were regularly placed in the nation's national newspapers or glossy magazines, all of which hoped to persuade shoppers to part with shoppers hard-earned cash.
article_snippet.sent: In a 1969 advert for Marks and Spencer, these three dapper chaps are all set for the golf course .
article_snippet.sent: This 1979 ad in Now magazine showed a lean basketball player and a beautiful white horse .
article_snippet.sent: Another ad for DAKS trousers, which featured in a magazine in 1975, shows a couple wearing more clothes -
article_snippet.sent: Ding dong: These adverts for cosmetics company Avon appeared in the 1960s and show the more elegant female fashions of the era .
article_snippet.sent: if you didn't know how to achieve that, this earlier advert from Lux in 1962 would show you how .
article_snippet.sent: What would the Avon ladies, who appeared in ads throughout the 1960s wearing more demure twin-sets and pearls, make of it all?
highlights_snippet.sent: Magazine ads from the Seventies haven't stood the test of time .
  