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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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vintage advertising Archive
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Trophies For Misogynists
Vintage ad for wall-mounted female human heads reads: “Stuffed” Girl’s Heads! Only $2.98 Blondes, redheads and brunettes for every man to boast of his conquests…the first realistic likeness of the…
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Retro Zolar Fortune Telling Materials
An ad for Zolar fortune telling cards and Ouji Genii Board found in Rance Romance & Adventures, May 1971.
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Jester Wools, For Gayer Garments
Via the fabulous Chateau Thombeau, we find out just who robbed the rainbow to make us look gay — hey, why isn’t this guy in the Skittles ads? I bet…
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Wax On, Wax Off
I’m not the only one who sees breasts here, am I?
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“Give Your Wife An Extra Head For Chirstmas”
An ad from 1969 that likely couldn’t be published today: OK, so it reads “an extra head,” not just “extra head” or just plain old “head,” but still, ad execs…
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It’s Like A Pucci In The Face
If you have difficulty being a woman and knowing what you want, you can blame it on Emilio Pucci‘s death. In this vintage lingerie ad for Pucci‘s Fiore Festa line…
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The Original Garter Girl’s Estate Shows Something More Shocking Than Lingerie
When I spotted this post at Slip of a Girl’s lingerie blog, I thought I had remembered something about the former burlesque star, “The Original Garter Girl,” Lynne O’Neill… Sadly,…
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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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Back When Women Were Women, And A Slab Of Meat Was $4.25
Though I have no idea what the women may have cost, I suspect both slabs of meat were mouth-watering and choice cut. Vintage menu and mailing souvenir from the Colony…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Please… May I Sniff Your Klompen Kloggen?
Ad from the December 1965 issue of Esquire.
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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…
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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…
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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….
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Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Vintage Asian Themed Planter Ad
I often spot these vintage Asian themed pottery pieces in antique malls, flea markets, garage sales, etc.– I mean literally this same TV planter. (Of course, when I go to…
