Electric Beauty, 1939, by Horst P. Horst .
September 12th, 2011
Modern Woman Monday: Beauty Is As Beauty Does
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August 15th, 2011
Modern Woman Monday: You Want Fries With That Shake?
A vintage negative of a 1950s drive-in waitress.
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July 18th, 2011
Modern Woman Monday: Talk About Easy
There’s nothing like it, Ann…
Vintage ad for Niagra instant laundry startch, “perfect starch instantly in COLD water.” 1952
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July 11th, 2011
Modern Woman Monday: Beauty Is My Business
That must be why “charming cover girl” Pat Curran is hunching to appear shorter than her (insecure & hatted) male companion in this vintage ad for SweetHeart Soap (which also promotes a “SweetHeart Cover-Girl Facial”).
Ad from 1952.
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June 20th, 2011
Modern Woman Monday: Vintage Fifth Avenue Toilet Brushware
OK, so it’s not what you expected… But if you pronounce “toilet” in a frou-frou French way, you’ll be reminded that it’s intended meaning was not a bathroom fixture but rather the fixtures on a lady’s vanity.
Vintage women’s hair brush, comb and mirror sets from 1954 via Viva Vintage.
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May 30th, 2011
U-Catch-Em
And we bet mom gets to clean ‘em. Vintage ad for the Smoky Mountain Trout Farms from the 1963 issue of This Week In The Land of the Smokies and The Southern Highlands.
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May 23rd, 2011
Modern Woman Mondays: Hooray For Summer!
My dad totally would have married this woman. Vintage ad for Lowe’s, 1965 Life Magazine; via.
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May 16th, 2011
Modern Woman Monday: Time To Make The Donuts
An early doughnut stall with Ms Mathilda; The Netherlands, September, 1953.
April 11th, 2011
Modern Woman Mondays: Oil Is Cleaner Than Coal
A page from a vintage advertising booklet for Timken Silent Automatic Wall-Flame Oil Burners — oil heated furnaces. (Timken Silent Automatic Division, Rockwell Spring & Axel Company, Jackson, Michigan and Toronto, Canada; copyright 1953. Form/publication number A-D 688R 50M-9-53; ink stamp for Jensen’s Heating Service, Moorhead, Minnesota, on back. Available from us at eBay.)
