The showgirl from the Midnight Frolic of 1917 featured in a photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston.
January 3rd, 2012
Ruby Lewis In Some Sort Of A Hat
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December 31st, 2011
Happy New Year!
Vogue, 1930; Baba Beaton, Wanda Baille-Hamilton and Lady Bridget Poullett photographed by Cecil Beaton. (Via.)
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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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November 30th, 2011
Spoon Mohawk
Lavazza Calendar, 2003
Photographer: Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Model: Hanna Huber
November 15th, 2011
Dames & Dogs #52
Two Girl Scouts put a hat on a Dalmatian; via a 1955 Girl Scout Calendar.
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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.
October 13th, 2011
A 1962 Bouffant Optical Illusion
When I first looked at this cover of the 1962 Christmas Recipes booklet, “To you, best ever, from” Wisconsin Power and Light Company, I thought the image was of one woman with a huge bouffant — or some furry hat. But apparently it’s a woman and her child.
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October 6th, 2011
Gernsback’s ADD & ADHD Treatment
The Isolator by Hugo Gernsback, as it appeared on the cover of, and the pages in between, the July 1925 issue of Science and Invention.
While Attention Deficit Order, with or without hyperactivity, isn’t mentioned (it didn’t exist as a diagnosis back then), The Isolator was designed to help focus the mind, particularly when reading and writing (literacy is hard work!). The helmet not only eliminated all outside noise, limited sight to just one line of text at a time, but it also pumped in oxygen. From the looks of it, the contraption would also assist in limiting hyperactivity by limiting movement, or, between weight and limited visibility, it would at least slow you down.
Via A Great Disorder and 50 Watts. At Boing Boing, Mark captions the mag cover “Portrait of a Blogger in the 1920s.”
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September 30th, 2011
Don’t “Muff” It This Craft Scan Friday– Make Some Sort Of Napkin Hat
A photo for a vintage pattern, circa 1940s, available from Vintage-Visage-kpriday.
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September 23rd, 2011
Dames & Dogs #46
Vintage pencil & ink sketch by Charles Gates Sheldon, up for auction on September 30, 2011.
CHARLES GATES SHELDON (American, 1889-1960)
Lady Posing with her Dog, magazine story illustration
Pencil and ink on board
21 x 15.5 in.
Signed lower rightFrom the Estate of Charles Martignette.
