This 1950s Magazine List Of ‘129 Ways To Get A Husband’ Is Hilarious And Yet Disturbing

While browsing a local thrift store, a Facebook user by the name of Kim recently came across a copy of McCall’s magazine from the 1950s, which had a feature called ‘129 Ways to Get a Husband’ – yep, it turns out clickbait existed even before the internet did!

Curiosity got the better of Kim, and she decided to take the copy home and see what pearls of wisdom it held. Sure enough, it did not disappoint. Some of the items on this list are hilarious, while some are pretty disturbing. One thing’s for sure – hardly any of them would be publishable today without getting the author into a whole lot of trouble!

Okay, let’s get started – where do we find our hubby? I have to say, I think point#1 is good advice for anyone, whether they’re looking for a spouse or not.

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Airline stewardesses have very high marriage rates – who knew!

Let’s continue…

#14 cracks me up – it’s worded as if that’s the only reason to be nice to people.

Let’s turn the crazy up a little…

This next part includes #40, which has had Kim in fits of laughter ever since reading it…

I guess you’d have to make sure the handkerchief was clean in order for #38 to work – otherwise it would just be very awkward…

More pearls of wisdom from McCall’s:

Here we go – we’re now into the really meaty stuff, “How to look good to him”. What advice did the 1950s have for single young women looking to make a good impression? Well, let’s find out:

That last point is pretty funny, but also pretty dark if you think about it. Your health is the most important thing you have, and you should look after it because you respect yourself, not because some guy might be put off by your sniffly nose!

There have been some corkers so far, but we’re not even halfway through this list…

What makes this list even funnier is that they don’t bother to explain why following their advice would be advantageous. Take number 58, for example – what’s giving yourself sunburn going to do, apart from increase your risk of a nasty skin condition?

Can you imagine the trouble someone would get into these days if they came out with “those who whine stay on the vine”? There would be absolute carnage!

I like the idea of trying to hoodwink him into marriage by taking him on a double date with a ‘gay, married couple’. Obviously that has a much different meaning in modern parlance.

To be fair, I think #86 is pretty good advice. I was very guilty of that when me and Walt were courting – I always stopped in the vain hope that he’d buy me something pretty. I guess it didn’t put him off though, as we’re happily-married all these years later.

Onto more nuggets of 1950s wisdom…

#93 cracks me up – surely, ‘girls he hasn’t married’ would apply to every woman on earth? That’s a lot of people to get dirt on.

I’m confused by #98 – what exactly do they mean by ‘wolves’?

If you learn to play poker well enough, you might not even need a husband!

You can tell that the writer of this piece has the editor breathing down their neck towards the end of this piece. Some of these are just insane:

Yep, that’s right – if you’re looking for a sure-fire way to get hitched, just stow away on a battleship. After all, what could possibly go wrong?!

Let’s descend further into this insanity. The next point is not at all desperate:

If you haven’t got a husband by now, there’s nothing down for you. But still, let’s go for the last-ditch effort…

I think whoever wrote this list had a fair few loose buttons to be honest.

What do you make of this, folks? Pretty crazy, right? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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