The Vintage Double Decker Bus Shop & Friends

Vintage-lover Erin Sutherland found an old-beat up British double decker bus on Craigslist. When she went to look at the 1965 Bristol Lodekka on a used car lot in Springfield, Oregon, it was love at first sight and she bought it then and there. She followed her purchase up with a margarita and several months of…

Introducing, 1960s Slimming Beds

So it’s not yet 11am here in Paris and I’m pretty much wasted on some brandy tea that I made myself earlier to soothe a sore throat. I may have over-poured with the brandy (and may have made do with whisky instead of actual brandy). Soothing has now worn off, alcohol has not. So anyhoo,…

15 of those Awkward Moments in History

1. When the Centro Universitario of Mexico abbreviated all over their sports uniforms: Top row, second from left: “Not me!” 2. Tobacco Companies getting away with it: 3. ‘Alfonso’, not trying to look like anyone in particular at all: 4. When women thought they had options: 5. When this book did…

The Terrifying Beauty Spas of the 1950s

Filmed in 1959, The Way to Beauty shows the lengths women went to 50 years ago in trying to shed the pounds and turn back the clock. Therapies included sticking your face into a blender, covering yourself in candle wax and strapping electrical wires to your head. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmYknRtZUmc&feature=plcp] Via British Pathé ::: YOU MIGHT…

Weekend Guide: Pay money to get kidnapped in France

You can find anything in stock imagery. For today’s weekend guide, I was originally going to suggest some wine tasting but then I thought, nah, let’s go for the kidnapping instead. A French company called Ultime Réalité is offering customers a ‘basic abduction package’, which involves your own kidnapping, ‘Taken’ style (à la Liam Neeson), for…

Declassified! US Airforce’s 1950s Flying Saucers

So remember that time a bunch of aliens crash landed into the desert somewhere in Nevada, a.k.a Studio 54 Area 51 (always get those two mixed up) … well it turns out the U.S. government actually went and plagiarized the aliens’ quirky style of air travel in the 1950s (not very successfully). Recently declassified records…

Dinner with Dali

Surely you didn’t expect a dinner with surrealist artist Salvador Dali to be about actually eating anything. In this old footage, the mad hatter himself Dali hosts a fundraising dinner in 1941 California to help European artists displaced by the war. Unicorns and live frogs included.

The Great and Ghostly American Road Trip

It’s all about taking that detour and finding the beautifully haunting moments of traveling through the unknown. Walker Pickering is a young photographer and photography teacher based not in his Texan hometown, but on the road. And you won’t find him on Route 66. He’ll be taking the back roads of America, where the kudzu* grows…

DIY Designer “It” Bags for the Crafty Rich Kid in You

Hey, do you like DIY? Good, because you can now DIY your own Fendi iconic Baguette purse! All you’ll need is your very own Fendi craft kit, maybe some extras from the craft store to really go all out and oh, $1,500! Haha! And there you were thinking a designer label was going to be…

And now, Abandoned Paintings

Leonardo da Vinci‘s ‘The Last Supper’ Here at MessyNessyChic, we’ve looked at abandoned homes, castles, villages, towns, seaside resorts, even an abandoned human zoo! So how about some abandoned art?! This very clever idea comes from a Hungarian media student, Bence Hadju, attending the University of Fine Arts in Hungary. Hadju has taken a handful…