You Outta Be In Pictures Archive

8March 17, 2010
Breaking Free Is A Drag (Or, Drag Queens Part 1)

Glowing Doll Danielle says she was “totally gob smacked” watching Freddie Mercury’s “sexy mustachioed housewife” in Queen’s I Want To Break Free. In her post, Danielle also wrote: I love…
1January 28, 2010
You Could Have Hundreds Of These Cards & Still Not Be Playing With A Full Deck

I’m completely smitten with these 1916 M.J. Moriarty Playing Cards featuring the leading ladies and gents of the silent silver screen. I found them when I found my buddy Cliff…
2November 17, 2009
After Stocking Panic, Women Made-Up

I’ve researched and written a lot about vintage nylon stockings over the years because the history of nylon stockings is quite fascinating to me. I’m sure most of you have…
4November 8, 2009
When Beauty Is A Crime

I have a modest collection of vintage vanity items. (My collection and I have even been featured in Collectors News magazine.) And indeed, I’ve often wondered about the vast popularity…
0September 30, 2009
Whatjamacallit Wednesday, For Fans Of Blowdryers

A vintage (circa 1920′s-1930′s) photo of a model “using a then state of the art modernist hair dryer”; photo taken by illustrator Charles Gates Sheldon. Somehow, it sort of makes…
1September 3, 2009
Cheap Thrills Thursday: Throwing Out Body Issues

They say you can tell a lot about a culture by their garbage — “they” being anthropologists, social scientists, & historians (their amateur varieties too), folks who monitor consumerism, as…
2August 24, 2009
Sign Of The Times: 1943

You’ve heard of safety shoes, right? Well, here’s a safety bra straight out of the history books of home front WWII. Via The U.S. National Archives at Flickr, the original…
0August 24, 2009
An Ugly American Watches A Beauty Pageant

After an incredibly busy & exhausting weekend (this was just part of it), I spent a few hours just loafing on the couch Sunday night. Channel surfing, I happened upon…
0August 6, 2009
Exercise Care When You Light-Up Near Trains

From Gillian Atkinson’s “Dealing with Wedding Day Nerves” photo set at The Ephemera Network.
9July 27, 2009
Fishy French Tampax

I found this French ad for Tampax via Tom Murphy at The Ephemera Network. Tom doubts this ad campaign could be run here in America — for quite obvious reasons….
0June 22, 2009
Can’t Be A Sleeping Beauty On Real Issues

Via Teacups & Couture I found the works of photographer Dina Goldstein which follows up with fairy tale princess and their “happily ever afters.” Goldstein shares her exploration of Disney…
0June 9, 2009
Now It’s Really The Last Laugh

As usual, a tiny snippet in a vintage magazine drives me to obsessive research… This time it’s a few lines on page 47 of Quick (November 21, 1949 — which…
1June 9, 2009
“Milwaukee Blue”

In the 80′s, I worked in the cosmetics area of a department store — but not just for any cosmetics brand, it was Estée Lauder; and not just any department…
0February 25, 2009
Beauty Tips From The Fishbowl

Forget mascara, eye liner, etc. For big wide eyes just stand behind your fishbowl or brandy snifter and peer into it at all times. As Pishi shows us, your eyes…
3February 13, 2009
You Can’t Cover Your Fingernails In Velvet, Even When You Want To

I thought I was going to have this fab-u-lous Valentine’s Day beauty project for you, but I ran into a few problems along the way… I had the concept: Wrapping…
0February 5, 2009
It’s 1936: How Badly Do You Want To Be In Moving Pictures?

So you want to be a glamorous Hollywood star, hmm? Well, it’s time to get beautiful, baby! Have a few extra pounds, but exercise is leaving you without your pep?…