VOL.01
The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting photos on the internet, as well as submissions from readers who rifled through their attics to help me compile more preserved moments of historical sass! Found in Good Housekeeping, June 1952 Found here Reader submission from Peggy [...]
Oscar night is here and over the next few days we’re going to be inundated with photographs of the most recognizable faces. So how about a few that perhaps we don’t recognize… 1. Charlie Chaplin Honorary award for Circus in 1928, Honorary lifetime achievement award in 1972 and Best original Score for Limelight in 1973. [...]
I found some rare autochrome photographs of Paris at the turn of the 20th century and thought you might like them. I was curious to compare each photograph with how it looks today so I’ve provided a link to most of them on Google Street view. Although much of Paris is still “old Paris”, not [...]
Last night I logged onto my Facebook and saw my newsfeed overwhelmed with status updates of London-based or British friends about how proud they were to be Londoners. The opening ceremony for the Olympics had just aired on television and the Queen had apparently made her entrance by parachuting out of a helicopter with James [...]
We should all be taking a hike in our smallest shorts today … Photography by Edward Clark via LIFE archives and Retronaut.co YOU MIGHT ALSO FANCY: Girls in Very Little Clothing
VOGUE’s third annual Fashion’s Night Out came to Paris on Thursday night to kick off what felt less like a new fashion season and more like a contest of who spends more time in front of the mirror. I used to like doing street style at fashion events like this but now, I just can’t [...]
So the summer holidays are being booked and now there’s nothing left to do but countdown until that wonderful moment when your alarm clock wakes you up at 5am to catch the flight that was mortgages cheaper than the flight leaving after the sun itself actually rises, because that’s just how evil travel companies get in [...]
Nope, sorry, I refuse to stop imagining that I live in the sixties. Let me introduce my style icons du jour who will be getting us in the mood for summer vacation today… That’s right. Be one with nature. Until the soles of your feet could light a match. ::: If you can’t find a [...]
Easy reading today folks. Call me creepy– actually, don’t call me that please, but I spent a strange amount of time on the internet yesterday looking at old photographs of famous people from the 60s and 70s. That era is just so darn cool I just couldn’t help but find another excuse to blog about [...]
sassy: adjective \ˈsa-sē\ impudent, lively, spirited, vigorous, distinctively smart and
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Sometimes I wonder about things like, who’s going to know how to make a piano in twenty
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The first post seems to have tickled your fancy, so over the past month I’ve been collecting
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I‘m just discovering I have a bit of a thing for vintage envelopes– I think it’s the
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No, this isn’t the rescue mission of a shipwrecked Porsche 911, this is a picture of a 911
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What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing
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The weekend is fast approaching, we’re looking forward to letting our hair down, maybe go
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Just look at her. “You know you want me”, is what she’s saying. And it could be
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I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments
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You might have noticed that sneakers are back in style this year and designers are scrambling to do
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Image via Jane Sanders Up in that impressive glass dome is where the projectionist would have
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Anna Karina arrived in Paris at the age of seventeen from Denmark. She spoke no French and
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Oscar night is here and over the next few days we’re going to be inundated with photographs
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“Switcheroo” is an ongoing series by Canadian photographer Hana Pesut, as she travels
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A few months back, I came across a website called Paris 1914, a collection of color photography
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