A vintage photograph of Alice White, taken by Elmer Fryer in 1929. Here White wears the stunning boots and costume of a pirate girl as she wore in the opening musical sequence of the pre-code musical Playing Around.
January 10th, 2012
Pirate Boot-y
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December 14th, 2011
Look At Me, I’m Midget Frankie Dee
Vera Francis and Jimmy Edwards with “midget liquor salesman Frankie Dee.” (I’m pretty sure that means Frankie Dee was a midget; not that he was a salesman of midget booze bottles, like those you find in hotel room bars and on airplanes.)
Photo found in Jet magazine, February 19, 1953. More than that, Vera had midgets dueling for her affections. Check it out in my Vera Francis Timeline.
Yup, that’s Kitschy Kitschy Coo; showing you everything, from midgets to giants.
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October 30th, 2011
Back When Halloween Was S’posed To Scare You
Via Tiki Ranch.
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October 21st, 2011
Frankenstein Fingernails
How to is here.
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October 19th, 2011
Great (White) Unicorn Hope For Halloween
Whatever you’re dressing up as this Halloween, eBay wants you to share your costume on Facebook and enter for a chance to win one of fifteen $100 eBay Gift Cards! Winners will be selected at random every day from now until October 31. Of course, they want you to check out their Halloween page too. But I say check out what I’m selling on eBay — certainly part of your $100 shopping spree can be spent with me.
Photo is Stacey Graf’s entry; herself as a white unicorn.
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October 16th, 2011
There Might Just Be A Reason For The Masks
We don’t always wish to be remembered for our costumes… Would you be proud to discover your ancestor in this vintage Halloween photo, circa 1920s? Wouldn’t you prefer to remain ignorant to grandpa in blackface? I’d prefer he was the gas-mask wearing guy. But never ever the horn-playing clown. I’m fine, however, with cross-dressing grandma. I have plenty of those in my family tree. (I’m pretty sure I posted pics of that somewhere… But I couldn’t find them, even with Google’s help. Bummer.)
Photo via Lynnstudios.
Look for the other Kitschy Kitschy Coo Halloween posts here and here.
August 16th, 2011
The Illuminants
So many bright ideas; so many hats. The Illuminants, Ziegfeld Follies Midnight Frolic; Via.
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