In the mid-1950s, the makers of Sarong girdles came out with a memorable ad campaign featuring "accidental" girdle flashes, showing elegant women suddenly exposing their underwear in distinctive settings. Not surprisingly, these ads loom largely in a lot of male memories.

Exiting the horse-drawn carriage

At the Coney Island fun house

Disembarking from an ocean liner

At the race track

When air travel seemed glamorous

It almost seems churlish to ask why none of these well-dressed ladies were wearing stockings!

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