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Summer in the Seventies with Andy Warhol

This is your chance to relive the summer vacations of an icon– and hey, it’ll only cost you $85,000,000. Andy Warhol’s Montauk estate ↑, a 30-acre oceanfront compound with a historic equestrian farm, where the most famous faces of the 1970s went to escape, is now up for sale. But before you go checking your bank balance…

1970s Fashion: London Reacts to the Platform Shoe

More evidence of the fashion apocalypse that was the 1970s! “I don’t know what they do to your feet but the manufacturers and the fashion editors say, ‘Not to worry, they look great‘”. (This must be how the brainwashing started). A vintage documentary from the archives of British Pathé, rounded up some Londoners for a…

The Holiday Party at Studio 54 Got a Little Out of Hand

Tod Papageorge was not your average lingering Studio 54 paparazzi, in fact, he spent three decades as a Masters professor and director of photography at Yale. Time magazine calls his photographs of bleary-eyed disco queens as “something akin to poetry“.  I can’t decide if his poetry makes me feel uncomfortable and guilty for looking, or naïve and prude for thinking…

Cancel Your Plans, Start a Fashion Comeback with Crocheted Can Apparel

“Nice enough for an evening out but still casual enough for that weekend get away,” promises a 1975 pamphlet featuring a variety of special crochet patterns using aluminum cans. Just when you thought your personal style was getting a little tiresome– Messy Nessy swoops in with the perfect seventies style comeback to save the day… But you…

Staying Classy with this Kinky 70s Underwear Brand

Disclaimer: These images cannot be unseen. But also, am I the only one that kinda wants to be at this roller disco party? In the name of good journalism, I decided to track down this “British Bulldog Ltd”, the company that produced these magical undergarments, and to not a huge amount of surprise, I found that the…

Date Night at the Moonlight Rollerway

So here’s pretty much how my morning went on the internet. First, it gave me this 1970s photograph of a rapunzel-esque babe on roller skates ↓ After some googling of “long-haired roller skating girl”, I eventually find out the girl was Debra Jo Fondren, playmate of the year 1978, which later led me to this video ↓ of Playboy’s Roller Disco…

Find your Inner Hippie at the Trippy AirBnB Pad in the Hollywood Hills

The seventies are back. Come on, be excited! You might recall they had another style comeback some time in the 90s (I was in the 8th grade trying to pull off flared jeans), but this time around, I’m really ready for it, having spent the last several years on this blog educating myself about such eras and absorbing the mood, the colours…
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