General Discussion

Smoking was a standard in movies. Not only did the leads smoke but people in the background (extras) smoked too.

I’m not sure if Edward Bernays was part of this but the point of Hollywood stars wearing massive shiny jewelry on the “red carpet” was for the female to look at their male with a “well Elizabeth Taylor can have THAT would it hurt YOU to buy ME something?”
In the post war 50’s where high school couples often married and there were tons of good paying manufacturing jobs available there were even in school presentations about jewelry to plant the seed. When I was in high school in the 80’s we had full school assemblies to sell us class rings. I never bought one because I actually have a fear of jewelry. I just don’t like it.



Edward Bernays was incredibly influential in what I’m calling commercial propaganda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

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