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This weekend, my boyfriend pulled out not one, not two but three grays he noticed glistening in the Spring evening light against my dark black hair. I’m still in my late twenties and so I spent the next twenty minutes feeling slightly betrayed, glass of rosé in hand, proclaiming that when I’m older, I’ve got [...]
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 [...]
I had always thought Sophia’s disapproving look in this iconic photograph taken by Delmar Watson was a perfectly captured moment of jealousy. Mansfield to me was the happy, carefree blonde and Loren, the feisty, competitive brunette. But of course, most of us have only seen this moment from one angle. There were other photographs taken that [...]
I came across the fantastic photograph below and knew there had to be more preserved sassy moments out there, so I went looking, which resulted in this little post dedicated to preserved moments of historical sass! Submitted by Lisa Warninger to The Sartorialist: ‘The sassy woman in the saddle shoes is my grandma Lois. This [...]
I had often seen the above image floating around on the internet on various Tumblrs and always mistaken it for a photograph. But I’ve finally discovered the artist behind these oil paintings; American realist painter, Lee Price. I suppose you could look at these works and say they’re a little sad, but I prefer to think [...]
I stumbled upon a great little website dedicated to collecting old pin-ups and found they had a wonderful archive of La Vie Parisienne, a French erotic magazine that was founded in 1863. And of course with Parisian pin-ups, you know the fashion is going to be pretty fabulous… Also found these sketches by Jacques Le [...]
Today I learned there’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are female. In a part of the world where little girls are getting shot at for promoting women’s education, that’s a pretty impressive statistic. In a part of the world where little girls aren’t even allowed to ride a bicycle, that’s [...]
These women are the last of their kind. In their floral wetsuits, they fill their lungs with air and dive for long periods of time deep into the Pacific ocean, with nothing more than a mask and flippers. They are known as Ama and make a living hunting for abalone, a sea snail that produces pearls. [...]
In the name of all things stupid, Sony France thought it would be a great idea to market the PlayStation Vita by comparing the product to a four-breasted woman in a new advert. Accompanied by an actual photo of a woman with four rather large breasts is the copy, “Touch both sides. Twice the sensation.” [...]
Skipper was launched by Mattel in 1964 as Barbie’s kid sister. Ten years later, Mattel decided that it was about time Skipper hit puberty like the rest of us. That is, if anyone else experienced puberty by rotating their left arm and voila: boobs! In 1975, ‘Growing up Skipper’ led to controversy in the media [...]
This weekend, my boyfriend pulled out not one, not two but three grays he noticed glistening in the
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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 had always thought Sophia’s disapproving look in this iconic photograph taken by Delmar
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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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I had often seen the above image floating around on the internet on various Tumblrs and always
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Now let’s just get something straight. If you want a train in your basement, you’ll
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I stumbled upon a great little website dedicated to collecting old pin-ups and found they had a
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Today I learned there’s a skateboarding school in Afghanistan where 40% of its students are
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These women are the last of their kind. In their floral wetsuits, they fill their lungs with air
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In the name of all things stupid, Sony France thought it would be a great idea to market the
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On my internet travels today, I came across an old American comic genre for young newlyweds. Young
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Before Spanx, there was the girdle (not to be confused with the corset). The buttock, stomach,
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Cosmopolitan is and always has been provocative women’s magazine. I remember reading it as a
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This image of Barbie’s proportions on an actual human being has been floating around Twitter
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