Get that chipped-nail look! This vintage Cutex ad, from 1937, may promote polish shades, but I find the manicure design more interesting… Go to a salon, or give yourself a manicure that looks like you’ve been too busy to get your nails done. Via.
Month: June 2012
Does The Loser Go Blind?
Or only the person playing the Mary Ingalls‘ piece in this Little House On The Prairie board game?
Dames & Dogs #59
The bearded lady edition! Bearded Lady Clementine Delait with canine pal. Via.
Old Bologna You Wouldn’t Have Eaten Even When It Was Just Made
What a line of bologna! From EMSA, West Germany, a line of kitsch plastic kitchenalia or picnic ware.
All images, and sales, via RaggleTaggleHawker.
Princess Leia Wants You!
“Can’t Stand Still Pants”
That’s Pan’s People movin’ and groovin’, selling pants in the 1969 issue of Petticoat magazine.
Dames & Dogs #58
Brenda Joyce was the hoop she made her dog jump through.
For Closeted Crafters?
Macrame Hangers For Small Spaces, circa 1975.
Pull Up A Rhino & We’ll Talk
Eames People Play
Eames toys shown in Life magazine.
There’s also a video of the recently brought-to-life elephant toys designed in 1954 by Charles and Ray Eames. The Eameses designed the toy elephant in plywood, but they are now mass produced in colorful plastic by Vitra.
