In this article, we revisit the best adverts of the 1950s, where innovation met imagination, and commercials became an artform in their own right.

Eli Rezkallah, 31, from Lebanon, re-shot the images from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s but swapped the roles of the male and female characters to highlight their sexist messages.

A collection of the shockingly sexist adverts depicting husbands castigating their downtrodden wives for making dreadful coffee shows a time when political correctness was an alien concept.

These amazing photos show sexist adverts from the 1950s recreated to show the gender roles reversed.

Advertising boomed in the 1950s because of America's culture at the time and TV's massive reach. Consumer consumption peaked at a historically high level. The end of World War II signaled the end ...