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Cabinet of Chic Curiosities
Category / Nostalgia
February 15, 2019

Movie Pitches for Women the World Forgot

This might not be my profession– pitching movies, that is– but if it were, I’d file the result of today’s internet finds under “women to make movies about”. Their stories have been buried in the past, eclipsed by others who perhaps achieved more or possessed qualities the world deemed more important. But today, we’re meeting…
February 13, 2019

Seeing Double: The Titanic’s Ghostly Twin Sister

What if we told you that history’s most infamous ocean liner had a twin sister? What’s more, one that lived (almost) happily ever after? Today we’re hopping aboard the “Olympic,” the identical ship that was made in tandem with its ill-fated sister. From those four iconic funnels and a noticeable lack of lifeboats on deck, to…
February 13, 2019

Forbidden and Filthy Love Letters of Yore

We don’t mean to put a damper on Valentine’s Day, but the chances of most of us receiving an actual love letter this year are slim to none. These days, text messaging and multiple social media platforms have seen to it that emojis come before real emotions, but today we’d like to pay tribute to…
February 8, 2019

Saving a Slice of America’s Mansions

Your eyes do not deceive you. These homes have indeed been cut down the middle like a knife through a buttercream cake, but in lieu of confetti sprinkles, the insides spill out water damage, rot, and everything that’s wrong with our throw-away society. It’s the greatest triumph, and tragedy of America’s 100-yr-old homes: when they…
February 8, 2019

A Feast with the Gypsies of 1960s Paris

One of the most common misconceptions about Roma Gypsies today is that they come from Romania in Eastern Europe, but the Roma people and the nation of Romania are not at all related. Historically, the Roma people originate from the Punjab region of Northern India. When they were displaced from their homeland a thousand years…
January 30, 2019

A Bewitching Compendium of Victorians Letting their Hair Down

There was one fairytale character in particular that seemed to leave an impression on the ladies of the Victorian era. Rapunzel was originally written in 1790 by Friedrich Schulz and retold by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. The story was told during the Georgian era where long, loose straggling locks were unheard of and ringlets in…
January 25, 2019

New York’s Secret Caribbean Kingdom (and its Queen)

Peer inside and your senses inevitably tumble inside a place that’s more time capsule than bar. In the warm glow of a colour we’ll just call, “Yellow, 1979”, exists a world apart from the modern and fast-paced New York City we know. You’ll hear the salsa rhythm of a lively San Juan watering hole and…
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