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The Heavy Metal Subculture of Botswana, Africa

The heavy metal cowboy get-ups sported by Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider and Mel Gibson in Mad Max are probably best left somewhere in the 1980s. But in Sub-Saharan Africa, the art of dressing like you’ve just stepped out of a Metallica concert is still very much alive. South African photographer Franck Marshall found the unlikely subculture in the…

Take a Step Back in Time into these Flower Power Fashion Comic Books

Today I went in search of mindless distractions from reality. Perhaps you did the same. I went to my happy place and took a deep dive into the archives and photo pools of Flickr. There, I found these 1960s hippie-mod fashion pages from various romance comic books of the 60s and 70s. Some of them have empowering…

Winter is Coming, so please enjoy this Insane 1980s Book of Knitted Sweaters

There are treasures to be found at second hand book sales, you never know what out-of-print gems you might unearth. Take for example, this 1986 book of knitting patterns called “Wit Knits”… The contents of the book has been scanned and given its own Tumblr site by George Hostler who “found this knitting pattern book in…

These Cosmic Painted Gloves are the Only Way to Make it through Winter

Gloves are probably the least desirable piece of the winter wardrobe and most of the time I just feel like I a penguin when I have to wear them. I mean, have you ever seen a really cool pair of gloves? Well me neither, until I came across these weathered vintage leather gloves, hand-painted by LA-based…

The Fashion Institute of Technology is Cleaning out its Closet

The permanent museum collection at the Fashion Institute of Technology currently includes something like 50,000 garments and accessories, dating from the 18th century to the present– and they’re still acquiring new pieces all the time. So just like the rest of us ladies, every now and again, they need to do a little downsizing to refine the…

Forgotten Vintage Style Icon du Jour: Nina Rindt

Ask a boyfriend or husband about Nina Rindt and chances are, they’re more likely to have heard of her than us girls. A face better recognised trackside at Formula One races than in the fashion world, the Finnish model and wife of the late racing driver Jochen Rindt is an unsung style heroine who more than…

Let’s Raid the Met Museum’s Swimsuit Closet

We’ve already discovered the Met Museum has a serious shoe fetish and that they’re hoarding some seriously good party dresses in their archives, so in the height of bathing suit season, I thought we might have a snoop around their swimwear closet. Let’s dive in… Left: Designer unknown (American / wool) ca. 1940 / Right: Carolyn Schnurer, 1955…

Who Knew Bill Cunningham Made Haute Couture Hats?

“Who the hell is that tourist in the blue jacket with the fancy camera?” I wondered. It was my first Fashion Week experience: I was shadowing photographer Eddie Newton, holding up a reflector as he shot passing fashionistas outside of the Chloé show. While the hoards were running left to capture Anna Wintour, then right to catch Kanye West,…

Beautiful Tomboys of the 1930s

I was tumbling through Tumblr, one of my favourite places on the internet to discover history’s lesser-known muses and there, on page thirty-something of my browsing, I stopped at a photograph of an androgynous woman taken by Marianne Breslauer, a name unfamiliar to me. As I began googling her work, my screen was soon taken over by black…
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