Kiss My Knits!

Sept 1942 Better Homes and Gardens.

This ad talks about Westinghouse’s scholarship which was offered equally to boys and girls who showed oustanding promise in engineering. Not bad for 1942. It reminds me of my eighth grade math teacher, Jean Wean, who did engineering work on submarines for the government during WWII.

A couple of weeks ago, someone on vintage_ads despairingly asked whether ALL old ads were oppressive to women, since that’s what we tend to post since it gets the biggest rise. I guess there’s always a bright spot somewhere.