Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Placement Of Butts

Once upon a time, it was common place to park your butts on a pinup’s bottom — as in the case of this vintage ashtray.

Corsets Are Too Sexy?

While I do not suggest that women should whittle away our waists as we while away our days in the constriction of too-tightly-laced corsets, I do believe there is good reason to at least examine the claims and assertions made about corsets by the 19th century medical community and the suffrage movement.
But if the medial [...]

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 heard about the scarcity of nylon during WWII — just months after the new invention hit store shelves on May 15, 1940. Even silk stockings, [...]

Udderly Amusing Vintage Matchbook Cover

A vintage advertising matchbook for Surge Dairy Farm Equipment, Fargo, ND, with language too vulgar for use today (not to mention, less than bovine vernacular):
If I had only ONE cow and she had only ONE tit, I’d still use my SURGE milker.

When You Accept Being A Woman…

Saturday was odd. It started out a funny sort of awkward, had some slight awkwardness in the pursuit of kitschiness, and then by dinner time, went full-throttle into just plain awkward. But the real kicker of it all is that at about 10 PM, I went to the bathroom and made the discovery that [...]

Desperately Seeking 80’s Madonna Fashions?

Speaking of 1980’s-Desperately-Seeking-Susan Madonna & boots…

Fans of the film Desperately Seeking Susan will remember that the whole hullabaloo started when Susan (Madonna), trades in her fabulous jacket for a pair of boots spotted in the window at Love Saves The Day (the old, original location, not the new one in New Hope, PA) — and [...]

She Would Like To RIM You Once Or Twice Before Bed

Apparently in 1927 that involved the use of tweezers.

Whaaat? It’s an old Italian bon bon ad. Sheesh you guys.

Please… May I Sniff Your Klompen Kloggen?

Ad from the December 1965 issue of Esquire.

Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Prohibition That’s Wry, Not Dry

At Encore Ephemera, a 1960’s ad for Canada Dry beverages (Ginger Ale, Club Soda & Quinine Water) which “makes pun” of prohibition even while it suggests adding vodka — I guess that’s why Canada Dry was “behind the best bars.”

Did Margaret Sanger Sell Dainty Maid Outfits?

First my disclaimer: I sadly do not own this old advertisement & instructions for the “Dainty Maid Outfit” (douche bag, antiseptic powder, and syringe); I found it while searching at the Library of Congress for photos of Margaret Sanger for the eugenics post.

The reason I didn’t include it then & want to discuss it now [...]

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