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VIDEO: Talk to Your Daughters Before the Beauty Industry Does

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0W60I&feature=player_embedded] 78% of 18 year old women are unhappy with their bodies and this is probably a large part of the reason why…   YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE: Starved of a Realistic Female Body Image? Flesh & Curves this way…

8 of the Best Things in a French Supermarket

Today is my weekly shop and I thought I might take you guys along with me to make it less monotonous. Fellow shoppers couldn’t quite figure out why I was taking pictures of items in the frozen food section and my francophone readers will surely be baffled by this post. But anyhoo, all the items…

RETRO WORKOUT VINYL COVERS

Just a little peak into the absurdities of the fitness industry’s past! “How the Waist was Won” 1982     “More Jazzercise” 1982       “Miss Piggy’s Aerobic Workout” 1982       “Go for it!” 1982   “Aerobics for the Family” 1982       “Fitness in Motion and Relaxation” 1982    …

Celebrity Smiles: Before & After

Catherine Zeta Jones Just a bit of tabloid fodder to numb your brain at the end of the work day! And for the love of God, brush your teeth before you go to bed tonight! Victoria Beckham     Tom Cruise   Nicholas Cage     David Beckham       Cheryl Cole    …

The Cheese and Wine Party is back in Style

The French have always been doing it but in the 1970s it became especially trendy to throw a ‘cheese & wine’ party… And then, like most things that were cool during the seventies, it became very uncool and pretty cheesy (pun semi-intended), just like the smiles on these people’s faces in the retro food advertisement…

MEN’S JUMPSUITS: Why, oh why are they a thing of the Past?

“The ultimate fashion climax”. Wait, what? I’m not sure which I find more amazing; the jumpsuits themselves, the absolute seriousness of the bearded models or the advertising copy… Take a closer look at the small print in these priceless advertisements from the 1970s, describing the fashion ‘climax’ a certain generation would probably rather forget. “Fits…

THE JAW DROPPING PHOTOSTORY: Oh, don’t mind our pet Lion

You’ve been looking at the home of actress Tippi Hedren in California, photographed by LIFE magazine during the early 1970s. Best-known for her role in Hitchcock’s The Birds, Tippi is also the mother of actress Melanie Griffith (Working Girl), who is the little girl you just saw lying in bed with a lion, and also above with her head…

The Lost Style Subculture of Elvis Presley Rebels

What are the Swiss known for? Beautiful skiing and great chocolate? Handy pocket knives and offshore accounts? Founding the Red Cross and being the only country in the heart of Europe to resist fascism? All good points. But did you know that Switzerland was also the birthplace of an extreme rebel youth subculture, based on an…

The Wonderful World of Celebrity Lookalikes

Now you may think I’m compromising the integrity of my blog by doing a mindless celebrity post like this but you’d be wrong. This is just the kind of post that makes the internet great. So sit back and enjoy, minimal brain-power required… Cary Grant – George Clooney … Helena Christensen – Cameron Diaz ……
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