
A lovely vacuum cleaner!
A cooker!


And a styling bust. What? Didn’t these used to be called Girls’ World?
When I was a young mother this sort of advertising enraged me. Tsk! Girls doing housework while the boys get fun experiment kits! I’ve mellowed, and accept that girls (and quite a lot of boys) love playing with these toys. Wonderful Posy Simmonds said it all back in 1982.
