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Dial P For Plaid

This is probably the mother of one of the young ladies in the Mary Maxim advertisement. This is where the strange and terrifying need to dress alike has its dark origins. It is 1952 and this is the c… more →

Kitchen Retro

Dior, revisited

stylemaven wrote 3 weeks ago: Photo Source: nytimes.com Check out New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham’s audio slides … more →

Tags: dior, Fall Fashion, New York Times, Bill Cunningham, paris fashion

Fashion Trends: Everything Old is New Again

byb02 wrote 1 month ago: By Michelle Studer It’s no big secret that fashion recycles its old trends. Ask any fashion sl … more →

Tags: Fashion, boomer fashion, 1940s Fashion

Dresses — 1 comment

Gilly wrote 2 months ago: So, I splashed out big time on two of those 50’s dresses from Daddy-O’s. I decided on th … more →

Tags: Daddy O's, rockabilly girl, rackabilly, 1940s Fashion, french navy dress, 50's dresses

Sisterhood of the Bolero Pants — 5 comments

Lidian wrote 3 months ago: Oh, yes, this looks like a clever idea! And the heading “Found Money! Found Money! Found Mone … more →

Tags: retro fashion, Retro Glamour, Vintage Craftiness, 1940s Retro, weird retro, Boleros, 1950s sewing

Dial P For Plaid — 7 comments

Lidian wrote 3 months ago: This is probably the mother of one of the young ladies in the Mary Maxim advertisement. This is whe … more →

Tags: The Weird Retro Household, retro fashion, 1950s retro, weird retro, Homemaker's Encyclopedia, 1950s sewing, 1950s homemakers, Grace Kelly

The Red Shoes — 10 comments

Lidian wrote 3 months ago: After a childhood of scaring myself with Hans Christian Andersen stories (and let’s not even … more →

Tags: 1950s retro, old advertisements, retro fashion, Retro Glamour, Retro Magazine Ads, 1950s ads, 1950s shoes, Bruno Bettelheim, Hans Christian Andersen

Delightful Beautifying Oil — 5 comments

Lidian wrote 5 months ago: A confusing ad this, what with the sunset-on-the-prairies background - and the glam model in the fo … more →

Tags: old advertisements, Postwar Panache, retro fashion, Retro Glamour, Retro Magazine Ads, The Social Whirl, 1950s ads, 1950s magazines, Vogue

Let's Make-Up For Beauty — 2 comments

Lidian wrote 6 months ago: Oh, let’s. And when we do, let’s use Rawleigh’s. The W. T. Rawleigh Co. of Montre … more →

Tags: old advertisements, Postwar Panache, retro fashion, Retro Glamour, Retro Canadian, 1950s ads, Canadian retro, 1950s almanacs, 1950s makeup

Vintage Thingies Thursday: Miss Clairol, 1957 — 5 comments

Lidian wrote 6 months ago: It is Vintage Thingies Thursday once again, and this is what I’ve got! It’s from my moth … more →

Tags: old advertisements, retro fashion, Retro Magazine Ads, Retro Glamour, 1950s ads, Vintage Thingies Thursday, Vogue, 1950s hair color, miss clairol

To Hat or not to Hat? — 2 comments

glassoffashion wrote 7 months ago: That is the question that has been causing a certain amount of debate in wedding circles as the date … more →

Tags: Hats, Weddings

A date with Bogart — 1 comment

glassoffashion wrote 9 months ago: Spot the film icon McCalls are referencing in this dress pattern from 1956? Ok, Ok, so that was an … more →

Tags: vintage patterns, McCalls, audrey hepburn

Pack Evening Dresses

glassoffashion wrote 9 months ago: The exhortation in the post title comes from the Vogue Patterns catalogue for August-September 1951. … more →

Tags: Magazines, vintage patterns, Vogue


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