Oddities - And Now A Word

Get Fat on Lorings Fat-Ten-U and Corpula Foods," color lithograph, ca. 1895. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. No known restrictions on publication.

Oddities

Get Fat: The 1895 Ad That Sold Weight-Gain Pills to Women

Before anyone was selling weight-loss pills, Loring & Co. was selling the opposite. This 1895 ad tells you everything about how beauty standards get sold.