Ding-dong, Avon calling! And you know what the Avon Lady has for you today?
Only the most delicious toothpaste you have ever had in your entire life. Avon Dental Cream!
Please – come back and sit down. Really, Dental Cream is exactly what you wanted. You just didn’t know you did. Look how happy the model in the ad looks. Well – all right, she looks moderately pleased.
Oh all right, that is one glazed smile she is putting on for the camera. But you can say this: she doesn’t hate the Avon Dental Cream.
What’s that? You say you don’t tend to think about toothpaste as a delectable taste treat? Well, yes, I realize that this is the 1950s, and we’re not going to be seeing too many flavors in toothpaste for awhile. But this is a step towards that exciting future when we will be brushing our teeth with bursts of cinnamon, or blue raspberry gel. Or chocolate! Or whiskey. Tee hee, that could be interesting!
Or – what? Goodness gracious, I can’t imagine what makes you think anyone would make toothpaste that tastes like bacon.
[From Retro Ads and Graphics - looks 1950s-era to me.]
Mmmmm….bacon toothpaste….
The chick in the ad looks like a grown-up Trixie Belden to me.
I'm sure she's gritting those dentures and thinking, "What….you mean I have to swallow this stuff too?"
Meanwhile, ('50s) the "You'll wonder where the yellow went–" so impinged itself upon my mind that I use Pepsodent to this day.
Our girl looks like she's posing for this ad under duress. I wonder if they surprised her during her morning ablutions.I prefer the old-fashioned flavor of Pepsodent, myself. I'm doubtful of brushing a cold, bacony taste into my gums before I head off to work.
She looks as if she is trying to say something but her teeth are stuck together
Chocolate? Mmmmmm. Brown toothpaste.
I think I was an Avon Lady in a previous life. I still remember my mother's Avon tooth powder that came in a pink plastic tub.
I think somebody must have dropped an ice cube down the back of her nightgown/robe.
Yes, I was going to say that she doesn't look "moderately pleased" so much as looks like she's gritting her teeth and putting on a fake "smile," all the while thinking to herself, "Just remember how much you're getting paid for this. It won't be much longer."