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Friday, October 22, 2010

You've come a long way, baby


Published four months before I was born, this is what a teenaged girl might have been reading back in 1968. From Teen Love Stories #3.

And yes, the title of this post is meant to be ironic, although only those who remember Virginia Slims ads from women's magazines back i the seventies will know why. They even popped up in my mother's favorite magazine Family Circle.
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