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WOMEN’S LIFE IN THE DAYS BEFORE GLORIA STEINEM

Video via: The Daily What Being married couldn’t have been easy for women in the 50’s and 60’s. These coffee commercials show husbands mercilessly berating their perky and well groomed wives about their coffee making skills. Imagine if they tried to get away with this today…

MICHELE OBAMA IN HER VINTAGE NORMAN NORELL

Courageous Michelle Obama has done something no first lady has ever done before – she actually wore a second hand dress to a major event in Washington! She wore a 1950’s cocktail dress designed by American designer Norman Norell to a Christmas in Washington concert. It’s believed to have come from the shop New York Continue reading “MICHELE OBAMA IN HER VINTAGE NORMAN NORELL”

VINTAGE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AS A CONCERNED MOTHER

Our astute friend Stephen Saban at The Wow Report discovered a treasure trove of old celebrity photographs from sometime around the 50’s and 60’s, and we have never seen this one of Elizabeth Taylor looking concerned about her daughter Liza Todd on the set of some movie. Poor Liza inherited more of her father’s looks Continue reading “VINTAGE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AS A CONCERNED MOTHER”

DITA VON TEESE: EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE IN ORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES

We were shopping at the Mayfair Market in Hollywood this weekend when we saw a beautifully dressed woman perusing the magazines. It was Dita Von Teese and she looked amazing. No supermarket sweats for her – she was dressed in a gorgeous vintage fitted within-an-inch-of-her-life grey tweed belted dress with ¾ sleeves, a full skirt Continue reading “DITA VON TEESE: EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE IN ORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES”