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Category / Nostalgia

Vintage Brides

Wedding season is upon us. I know this because there are currently at least five brides-t0-be sharing every single disastrous moment that occurs in the build up to their weddings on my Facebook newsfeed. The closer they get to their big day, the more volatile the status updates become. And so to commemorate this joyous…

SACRE BLEU! Le Croissant is dying out in France

Is there any French gastronomic icon bigger than the croissant? When the rest of the world thinks of the French, do they not picture us sitting in le café on a cobblestone street with our breton striped t-shirts smoking cigarettes, drinking wine and eating le croissant? And rest assured dear citizens of the world, that…

PARIS: Shops from another Century

The summer sales have started in Paris so I thought this might be a good time to take a look at how shopping used to be in the French captial. And thanks to Eugène Atget, a French photographer of the early twentieth century who made it his business to photograph the architecture and street scenes…

Paris Fashion Week circa 1951

You don’t have to be a fashion die-hard to appreciate the magic of these photographs captured in 1951 at Paris fashion week by my favorite go-to archive, LIFE magazine. The late 1940s and 1950s was a time of intense interest in Paris fashion and haute couture. But even though some of the names of the fashion houses might…

That Time Jimi Hendrix Got Kicked out of the Army for Masturbating on Duty

In 1961, Hendrix was given a choice between two years in jail or or joining the Army after a run in with the law for riding in stolen cars. He took the option to join the army, and was assigned to the 101st Airborne Division in May of 1961. But just one year later, Hendrix…

PARIS: Then & Now

I love looking at before & after shots so I was quite excited to find these photographs from the Parisian archives of streets as they were in the 19th century and how they are today. It’s comforting to see how little this city has changed over time… (1850 / 2010) – Rue Saint Séverin was…

Arrested for Their Bathing Suits

This rather dramatic photograph of two women being arrested was taken in Chicago, 1922. Dressed in what would look to us like very conservative swimwear today, the women were being arrested for defying a ban on wearing their ‘brief swimsuits’ in public. In the early 1900s, modesty laws were very strict and required most women to…

Every outfit Cher from Clueless ever wore in 60 Seconds

I was a nineties kid (born in the 80s, raised in the 90s) and I’m okay with admitting that Clueless just about taught me everything I needed to know at that time in life (along with Pretty Woman and Dirty Dancing). This video is for all the girls who tried out the knee-high sock trend,…

Want to see what a House Party looked like in the 1960s?

Overall, I’m going to say it was debaucherous. But there was still time to braid hair with daisies. But then it was back to debauchery… Crotch contact was seemingly normal practice. ….definitely more cross-dressing than I expected. And a healthy dose of three-way interaction… Don’t forget lingerie modeling. Seem like your kind of party?

Abandoned French Countryside Village Sold for the Price of a small Parisian Flat

It boasts 19 buildings with traditional French features, including a swimming pool, tennis court, stables, a chapel, village hall and acres of land, but only had an asking price of 330,000 Euros. At such an outlandish price, the abandoned hamlet of Courbefy soon caught the attention of the international media, interest sky-rocketed and gave the…

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