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A Poignant Pause
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Thoughts On Gypsy Rose Lee
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A Different Kind Of Convertible
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Going To Hell In A Handbag?
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Winning The Book On Fashion
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A Poignant Pause
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Thoughts On Gypsy Rose Lee
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A Different Kind Of Convertible
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Going To Hell In A Handbag?
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Winning The Book On Fashion
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retro Archive
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Beauty Kills
As the seller of this vintage 357 Magnum Hair Dryer correctly states, this gun and holster blow dryer might just be the “most misogynistic appliance” ever. Or at least the…
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Forget Jogging, Streaking Is Good For Your Health
Ah, how we loved streaking in the 70′s, and this retro mug boasts Streaking Is Good For Your Health — complete with line-drawings of a nude man and woman.
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Sign Of The Times: 1976 (Labor Day Edition)
Which serves as a good reminder for this Labor Day… Playboy Bunnies, models, phone sex operators, and sex workers work hard too. That’s not a joke; we have to treat…
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The Spiked Heel Gets Served The Snark
Miss Fussypants cracks me up. This is what she wrote (at her typically NWS blog) about The Spiked Heel, by Richard Marsten (1957): “The hardest-hitting, best-written novel on big business…
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Can’t Dance – Please Do Ask Me!
Retro rumpus room decor, from Old Toys Games and Cool Stuff,celebrating the non-dancing male.
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Play With Billie Jean
Love Billie Jean King? (Well, you should!) How about a deck of playing cards with the famous tennis player and feminist icon on them? From the Sports Deck Div., Cubic…
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Soul Train Lessons
Hubby and I enjoy the hell out of reruns of Soul Train. Rediscovering lost musical loves and finding new-to-us artists to hunt for, like Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, is too awesome….
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Shopping For Awesome Toys In Retro Sexploitation Flick
Over at French blog Au carrefour étrange, a review of Joseph W. Sarno’s Flesh and Lace (1965). Since the site is in French, you may be confused — but it’s…
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Let’s Play, “Sick Or Sweet?”
I have very mixed reactions to this vintage figurine… At this point, can we really view a figurine depicting a little girl with her skirt blown-up exposing her panties ala…
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Of Goldie Hawn & Babydoll Dresses
When I saw this 1960’s mod-meets-Edwardian little black velvet mini dress, which looks like a jumper over cream ruffled blouse and trimmed in gold braiding, I instantly thought of Goldie…
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In Case It’s Raining Men…
Hallelujah, Weather Girls, here’s a red retro bolero with umbrellas!
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#MusicMonday Zazzle Gifts Edition
Retro audio themed gifts to kitsch-slap your vintage vinyl and retro cassette tape (and 8-track) lovin’ friends — even your disco dancin’ pals. Vinyl Junkie by koncepts Create customized tee…
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There Are Flowers In The Attic
When V.C. Andrews’ Flowers In The Attic was published in 1979, it became all the rage for a teenage girl to read it — and by ‘the rage’ you can…
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Waste (Can) Not, Want (Can) Not?
In response to my Gadabout post (about a vintage composition dog), Laura (of Doodle Week) said, “I really like how you know all this stuff about old things and how…
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Soap Opera Challenge, Y&R Edition
Hubby grabbed this 1987 Soap Opera Challenge game for me at a rummage sale this summer for a buck or two and I’ve just now gotten around to attempting to…
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The Very Best From Hallmark: Greeting Cards Through The Years
The Very Best from Hallmark: Greeting Cards Through the Years, by Ellen Stern, is not a collector’s guide, really; there are no prices or discussion of the secondary market at…
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History Is Ephemeral, Issue #7
Welcome to edition number seven of the History Is Ephemeral Carnival, where ephemera lovers share the history behind their obsessions. If you’ve got posts about old paper and other ephemera,…
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Sewing Hat For A Rainy Day
I’m a dork. I know it, and now you’ll know it too. When I spotted the cover of this 1975 Simplicity sewing book — “updated!” — I had to have…
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New Vintage Reviews Carnival, 7th Edition
Welcome to the seventh edition of the New Vintage Reviews Carnival, where we review “old stuff” — from the classics to the forgotten — that is likely new to someone……
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Sign Of The Times: A Fishy Ephemera Hunt
I confess, I kill a lot of time just looking at the old snapshots and vintage photos at eBay. Sometimes I buy them, sometimes they inspire odd comments and random…
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Cheap Thrills Thursday, Retro Halloween Edition: Barnabas Collins Game
A character in the Gothic soap opera television series, Dark Shadows (1966 – 1971), Barnabas Collins was a long-suffering vampire — tormented both by his status as a blood drinker…
