Peep these Panoramic Prints: Bathing Girls of the 1920s

I found these incredible panoramic photographs from the roaring twenties which are just fascinating to observe close up, girl by girl, one bizarre bathing costume after another. Even better, these prints are available to buy in formats as large as 44″ x 227″. How amazing would these be in an entrance hallway?! CLICK ON IMAGES…

30 Years Ago, You Could Buy a Lifetime, Unlimited First-class Travel Pass with American Airlines. Now They’re Regretting It.

The Golden Ticket worth every penny… Imagine without hesitating, you could fly to Paris, just to catch the latest exhibition at the Grand Palais, pick up a friend who needed a lift from Milan, maybe swing by the Greek Islands for dinner and be back home the next morning in time for breakfast. In 1981,…

Bedtime Story: The Legend of Lego

I didn’t expect a great story when I saw this video, all I knew was that my brother and I played a lot of LEGO when we were kids and that was reason enough to click on it. Whether or not you played with LEGO as a child, this is a heartwarming (bedtime) story of…

And Suddenly I’m interested in Wallpaper…

Okay so it’s not technically wallpaper. I posted this image of mural art on my Facebook page last night and it caused a mini sensation, so I thought I might show you a few more photographs from this beautiful space… Images by Alan Carroll We are looking/ gawking at the Goess Apartment, a jewel of…

The Armored Armani: How to look Stylish while you’re being Shot At

You may insist on the finest tailoring from Italy, the latest designs from Paris, but there’s no reason why your most elegant evening attire shouldn’t be bulletproofed from Columbia. He calls himself ‘the Armored Armani’, which sounds like a spoof film title, but we’ll go with it. Miguel Caballero is a fashion-conscious bulletproof tailor with…

17 Eyebrow-Raising Headlines on Vintage Cosmopolitan Magazines

Cosmopolitan is and always has been provocative women’s magazine. I remember reading it as a curious teenager, trying to fold over half the page I was looking at so the person next to me wouldn’t see. But browsing through the Old Magazine Shop‘s vintage copies of the mag, I found myself quite surprised, sometimes even…

Some Rambling Notes of a French Road trip

We left Paris without a plan. Daylight took us as far as Bourges, a medieval town several hours south of Paris where we stayed in a two-star chateau on the outskirts that hadn’t saved any of its old interior charm and I believed couldn’t technically call itself a chateau because it didn’t have any towers.…

Ruins of Detroit: Before & After

I keep coming back to Detroit. It’s bizarre how photogenic the downfall of America’s industrial powerhouse can be. However there’s an eerie and unwanted sense of responsibility to be felt when looking through these before & after photographs of Detroit taken in 1973 and 2010 by the same photographer, Dave Jordano. I could browse through endless…

Barbie’s Body on a Real Woman

This image of Barbie’s proportions on an actual human being has been floating around Twitter recently attracting renewed criticism of Barbie’s unrealistic body. The thing is, I was kind of obsessed with Barbie myself. I played for hours with those six-inch pieces of plastic, creating unnecessary drama with Ken and cruising around my bathroom in…

The Cursed Italian Dreamtown

Here at MessyNessyChic, we can’t get enough of abandoned places, can we? It’s what brings us all together, a mysterious passion we share that none of us can really quite explain… Today’s story takes us to the incredible setting of an abandoned medieval village located in the region of Basilicata, about 25 miles inland…