Wednesday, October 6, 2010

13 Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Ads Aimed at Kids: #11. Du Pont Sun Lamp


At what age should you be ashamed about your lack of a deep, sexy tan? About two weeks, if you're living in 1960 and believe this ad for a Du Pont Health Tan Sun Lamp. This was decades before infant spray-tans were available, so concerned mothers had no choice but to hold their babies under its "long tanning rays" for hour after hour.
Fortunately, you can mount it on your bed and "Sleep Under It." Though the baby wouldn't know when to turn over to keep his South Beach tan even, so you'd presumably have to strap him to some kind of rotisserie device that'd slowly twirl him around.

10 comments:

  1. LOL @ holding a baby under a hot lamp. Geez.

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  2. Oh here little one, let me turn you into beef jerky before the age of 5

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  3. WOW, it's like the Jersey Shore in the 1960's.

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  4. Hahaha, nothing better than having your baby tanned.

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  5. I would think sleeping with it on would do harm to your REM sleep cycle.
    Good post!

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  6. wow its amazing at how stupid we were.

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  7. these are making me laugh. keep them coming.

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  8. Man, my cousins baby is looking pretty white, might have to get one of these for her for Christmas for sho!

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