No, no, no! Man from 1989, you’ve made a mistake. Your girlfriend said she’d like to see you in sexy nightwear, NOT sexist nightwear! Now you can turn her off AND piss her off at the same time…
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~ Friendly Talks About Marriage, G. W. Shinn, 1897
Reblogging this because “supremely fascinating in appearance” might be my new favourite way of saying PHWOAR.
This vintage snippet from LIFE magazine (20 June 1938) is a delightful relic of the days when it was customary to write a polite covering letter for an amusing animal picture, rather than simply scrawling “LOLZ!!!” all over it.
A fabulous Christian Dior outfit from 1968. I like to imagine that this is an alternative-universe female version of the Doctor, and she’s proving that she CAN run in those shoes…
When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go down to Petula’s luridly wallpapered Alpine chalet. Hope she’s got plenty of fondue forks.
Hector the French astro-rat was sent up in a space capsule in 1961. A real-life precursor to Futurama’s guinea pig astronaut!
George Arliss.
“The first British actor to win an Academy Award! Doubtless his examplary monocle-handling techniques won the day!”
An ad from 1949 with slightly unfortunate implications. If you’re about to have a four-way with a bunch of marines in a House of Horrors, I can see why you might need a lot of protection, but is motor oil really going to help?
“Supergraphic 3”, a room designed by Thomas Geismar, New York magazine, April 1972
Synchronized swimmers by Philippe Halsman, 1953.
An ad for Van Raalte nylon underwear from LIFE magazine, April 1951. These ladies have a rather Sapphic glow that makes me wonder whether if a butterfly rug is some kind of symbolic euphemism…
