Around 1878-1892 or the Early Golden-Age, was a new time in the portrayal of women in advertising premium cigars. In this decade, advertising began featuring ladies of all social classes from the President’s bride to public laundresses and ladies of all levels of accomplishment, from growing gigantic boobs to achieving great inventive accomplishments. There aren’t a lot of of the second, though, as the correct role of women stayed highly limited, in advertising and real life, till the social revolution of the 1960’s. This decade featured more naked, more semi-nude, more provacative and suggestive ladies on premium cigars boxes than at any other time in advertising history. Before the 1880’s, nudes were often allegorical, sex was hardly hinted at, and girls inclined to be demure, reserved, confined to highly outlined roles, either family or the humanities. Cigar box girls were usually formal, static, and revealed in black and white. Against this, ladies of the 1880’s were colourful in color and design, showing sexiness, fortitude, and formerly unseen range of pose, dress, locale, and perspective. They were never absolutely liberated, but they were on their way.