Time Warp: Cosmo’s 1956 Lane Bryant Ad

by Rika Nurrahmah | 4:26 pm, August 19th, 2010

Back in the day, and by “day” we mean a good 50 years ago, it was popular for women to shop from the comfort of their own homes. When it was de riguer to have a Sears catalog waiting close at hand on the coffee table, magazines jumped to fill their blank spaces with ads, like the ones we discovered while flipping through a January 1956 issue of Cosmopolitan.