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Isn’t it About Time We Rediscovered The MiniDisc?

This one goes out to Generation Y. Part of being a collector means taking a bit of risk and making a prediction that something might appreciate in value. The key is often to find something that’s cheap and rare, and buying it before everyone else discovers they want it too. I was in the car…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCCXLIV)

1. A Bedouin woman from Muscat, Oman, ca. 1905 She is wearing a ‘batula’, a traditional face covering. If you go out into the rural regions of Oman today you will still see elderly women wearing something similar, but generally with a veil in addition. However, they usually call it a “Birqa” and it’s less…

The Gender Fluid Secret Soldiers of the American Civil War

Today’s subject choice originated by stumbling across a photograph of Albert D.J. Cashier, born Jennie Hodgers in 1843. He served for a full 3 year term after enlisting in the Union army at the age of 19 and fought in over 40 battles against the Confederate Army. When the war was over, Albert continued to live as a man in…

Clubhouse Goals with the Red Rose Girls

“The chief obstacle to a woman’s success is that she can never have a wife.” Anna Lea Merritt (19th Century Artist), Lipincott’s Magazine. Virginia Woolf may have nailed the formula to becoming an independent, creative woman in her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own, but groups of artistic women had been testing this formula…

The Not-So-Straightforward Story of Women and Trousers

Not-so-fun fact: Until January 31st of 2013, it was illegal for women in France to wear trousers. It made headlines at the time when a 200 year-old law requiring women to ask police for special permission to “dress as men” or else risk being taken into custody, was finally revoked. The law had been kept in place…

13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. DCXXXIX)

1. The Yuppie Handbook, 1984 View the full book in the Internet Archive (with an account – free to sign up), found on Present & Correct. 2. Art Deco Disco: Did you ever notice the 1970s Design Revival of the Jazz Age? A forgotten mash-up or two eras, compiled by Evan Collins on Are.na 3.…

London’s Lost Department Store of the Swinging Sixties

If you thought that Harvey Nichols or Harrods were the epitome of a London fashion department store, it’s time to re-introduce you to Big Biba, a fallen icon of the Swinging Sixties that redefined the High Street shopping experience… It all started in 1964, when a small-time mail order business called Biba’s Postal Boutique advertised…

Why Hollywood Should Revisit a Disastrous 1970s Transgender Film Ahead of its Time

At first glance, the surreal plot of what has been called “one of the worst films ever made” seems like a reiteration of harmful tropes: an ambitious transgender woman cons her way into a position of power and ultimately uses it in an attempt to destroy gender norms (in a nutshell). But believe it or…

He Found an Entire House in his Attic

I’m not scared, you’re scared! We were casually scrolling through Reddit the other day when we stumbled upon the most interesting if not creepiest thing we’ve ever seen posted on the platform… A Redditor who goes by the username “Mr Griff” shared photographs over the weekend of a recent excursion up to his attic where…

Here’s What We Know About the Mysterious Knights Templar Rabbit Holes

For the amount we talk about going down the rabbit holes here on Messy Nessy Chic, there was no way I wasn’t going to obsess over this one. Have you heard about the Caynton Caves? In Shropshire, England, on the estate of an historic English estate, a series of rabbit holes leading into what’s being speculated as…

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