Erasmic Peerless Soap advertisement, In the Dressing Room of Fashion – Vintage Wall Art
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This historic image of Erasmic Peerless Soap advertisement, In the Dressing Room of Fashion brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Erasmic Peerless Soap advertisement, In the Dressing Room of Fashion
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The title places this advertisement in a fashionable dressing room, where a woman's toilette was a private ritual and a cake of soap was a mark of refinement. That setting tells you how the maker wanted buyers to see the product: as part of an elegant routine rather than a plain household necessity. Advertisements like this one, with their decorative color and genteel scenes, were common in the late 19th century, when manufacturers of toilet soaps and cosmetics competed for shelf space and the trust of middle-class consumers. Look closely at the costume, furnishings and staging, which reveal as much about period ideals of beauty and domestic life as they do about the soap itself.
| Original scan | 671 × 953 px |
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| Reference | 502 |
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