From as far back as we can remember clothing ads have always featured beautiful models and most recently celebrities and over the past few months we’ve covered a range of ad campaigns featuring these.

However, it got us wondering what people used to do to promote their clothing and brands way back when the words “celebrity” and “models”, along with cameras hadn’t even been invented.

We therefore decided to do a bit of research into the world of clothing adverts dating right back to the 1700s (yes fashion has been going all the way from then, and perhaps beyond) to now and have put together a time-lined gallery of some of them.

We’re sure you’ll be as surprised as we were by some of these vintage ads.

Click on the picture below to begin the gallery