Hunt For Eggs in Your Sunday Best With These Vintage Ladies

By Tara Block

This weekend people around the world are celebrating Passover and Easter with traditions from church services to matzo to egg hunts. According to these vintage ads, the way to a woman's heart on Easter is a combination of flower-topped hats, chocolates, pastel frocks, and Coke-fueled celebrations. So see what the Easter bunny brought women and girls back in the day with a collection of vintage Easter ads!

Don't forget the chocolates!

From these ads you'd think Easter is just another way for florists and chocolate companies to make a buck after Valentine's Day!

Cool off in your Easter hat with a Coke!

The living beauty is the flowers, not you, sweetheart!

Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate! Ack!

Party it up this Easter Sunday with a nonalcoholic beverage.

A hope chest — how did you know what I wanted, Easter bunny?

Get gossipy this weekend in wool bouclé.

Get your bunny and bonnet ready; it's all about the photo ops.

Who knew Easter was such a party day?

Look your best this Sunday.

These sexy Easter fashions look a little risqué for church!

Look, mommy! It's a nightmarish Easter bunny!

Nothing's as tasty as dyed eggs that've been hidden in the grass all day!

Hold on to your bonnet — it's Easter.

Two dapper Easter dates are better than one!

Hit up the parade in style.

How to dress like a birdcage this Easter . . . don't ask.

Nothing as glam as the Chrysler Easter parade.

So many shoes to choose from! Which pair says "grandma" best?

Chocolates? You shouldn't have.

This dish sounds . . . interesting.