Thursday’s ad is from 1892 and is for Budweiser. I assume what she’s wearing was fashionable in the day, but I’d say that dress is a little too busy, especially against that garish background. There’s a small title at the bottom that reads “The Hostess,” perhaps suggesting this was part of a series? It’s hard to see in this size, but if you click through to see it full-sized, you can see she’s wearing a necklace of the Anheuser-Busch “A” and eagle logo. And take a look at the odd-looking crown and the red stripe below it. I’m no breweriana expert, but that looks very different to me, too.
Jess Kidden says
The “crown and red stripe below it” are probably a cork and a neck label that pictured the cork and noted that one should always look for the Budweiser “branded” on the cork to be sure one is getting the real thing. There’s a Ladies Home Journal ad reproduced in the book “Making Friends is Our Business” with a very similar looking bottle from a decade later. (Can send a jpeg if you’d like).