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The Ever-Optimistic World of Vintage Comics for Newlyweds

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On my internet travels today, I came across an old American comic genre for young newlyweds. Young Brides and the Secrets of Young Brides, provide an eye-opening peak into popular culture before the sexual revolution. What strikes me the most about these cover pages is how laughably pessimistic the story lines are for a publication [...]

17 Eyebrow-Raising Headlines on Vintage Cosmopolitan Magazines

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Cosmopolitan is and always has been provocative women’s magazine. I remember reading it as a curious teenager, trying to fold over half the page I was looking at so the person next to me wouldn’t see. But browsing through the Old Magazine Shop‘s vintage copies of the mag, I found myself quite surprised, sometimes even [...]

Bikini Uniforms in Olympic Volleyball no longer a Requirement. Someone realized this might be sexist.

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So this is what your uniform looks like if you are a female beach volleyball player on the Olympic team. Bikinis (with bottoms that do not exceed six centimetres in width at the hip) have always been a requirement. Yeah, as in the athletes have no choice. So it’s kind of like that time when women didn’t [...]



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