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Category / Time travel

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…

Time Travel Movie of the Week: That Thing You Do!

One of my favorite things in life is finding someone who hasn’t seen one of my favorite movies of all time. So I’m hoping there are a few of you out there who missed this little-known Tom Hanks film called That Thing You Do. In 1996, when I was about eleven years-old, (yikes, the mid-nighties…

The Best Things About Summer Vacation According to Brigitte Bardot

Nope, sorry, I refuse to stop imagining that I live in the sixties. Let me introduce my style icons du jour who will be getting us in the mood for summer vacation today… That’s right. Be one with nature. Until the soles of your feet could light a match. ::: If you can’t find a…

Before Photoshop: Vogue Cover Illustrations

Does anyone else find fashion more special when it’s illustrated? I think it brings out that childish innocence of interest in fashion before we ever worried about what it might do for our figures. Lovingly scanned one by one from The Art of Vogue Covers by South African blogger MissMoss, these art deco Vogue illustrations…

London Olympic Games Opening Ceremony in 1948: Modest but still Proud

Last night I logged onto my Facebook and saw my newsfeed overwhelmed with status updates of London-based or British friends about how proud they were to be Londoners. The opening ceremony for the Olympics had just aired on television and the Queen had apparently made her entrance by parachuting out of a helicopter with James…

Suave 1960s Men’s Cologne Ad is too suave and French for you to handle

I was watching the newly released documentary Mansome last night (definitely rent it on iTunes) and on the subject of the history of men’s grooming products, they showed a few quick clips of old cologne commercials. One stood out in particular, with the narrator’s thick French accent and a scenario straight out of a James…

Arab and Frenchman have much to talk about. Daschund and Shark do Not.

In turban and loincloth, Lieutenant Dupas can pass among Red Sea fishermen as one of their own. An army officer attached for years to a Moroccan unit, Dupas learned to live, talk and think like an Arab. A recent assignment: to teach French paratroopers how to jump into the sea and swim by Aqualung……

MEN’S JUMPSUITS: Why, oh why are they a thing of the Past?

“The ultimate fashion climax”. Wait, what? I’m not sure which I find more amazing; the jumpsuits themselves, the absolute seriousness of the bearded models or the advertising copy… Take a closer look at the small print in these priceless advertisements from the 1970s, describing the fashion ‘climax’ a certain generation would probably rather forget. “Fits…

The Flintstones House is up for Sale!

The Flinstones Save Christmas is definitely in my top ten favorite childhood movies of all time, so you can imagine how excited I was to come across these pictures of a Flinstone’s-inspired home in Malibu. The house up for sale belongs to legendary TV host Dick Clark– the Ryan Seacrest of his day, and has an…

RETRO WORKOUT VINYL COVERS

Just a little peak into the absurdities of the fitness industry’s past! “How the Waist was Won” 1982 “More Jazzercise” 1982 “Miss Piggy’s Aerobic Workout” 1982 “Go for it!” 1982 “Aerobics for the Family” 1982 “Fitness in Motion and Relaxation” 1982 …

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