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The “Women Fashion Power” exhibition in London looks at how the higher up you go, the more limited your fashion options are. 
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So fab it hurts
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Because you know I obsess over things... Like Gimbels department stores... I was working on another set of doll articles for Diane’s Doll Hospital (this time on vintage walker dolls from the 1950s;...
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August 28, 2014 4:00 PM
About the first American fashion designer to be on the cover of Time magazine.
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Also, spoiler alert about that debauchee Don Draper.
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"Men are better than women! Indoors, women are useful -- even pleasant"
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December 19, 2013 5:40 AM
"Men are better than women! Indoors, women are useful -- even pleasant"
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To modern eyes, this is surprising. “Pink is a girls’ color,” we think. This association has become so firmly entrenched in our cultural imagination that people are flabbergasted to learn that until the 1950s, pink was often considered a strong color and, therefore, was associated with boys.
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See also, When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? at the Smithsonian: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-Start-Wearing-Pink.html
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December 16, 2013 10:36 PM
See also, When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? at the Smithsonian: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/When-Did-Girls-Start-Wearing-Pink.html
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You (and I) can talk about the difficulty of finding fashions that fit women 'til we're blue in the face. But if a picture is worth a thousand words, then these vintage Berlei lingerie "Figure Type...
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The birth of the babydoll nightie was ushered in with the controversial 1956 film Baby Doll. Via Gracie Passette
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At my vintage living blog, Things Your Grandmother Knew, I’ve written about the tendency to romanticize the past, but I recently read two blog posts discussing vintage fashion in terms of “the vintage girl being the new feminist” and thought it was time to discuss the subject from a more feminist angle…
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weirdvintage: “ Vectra hosiery advertisement—Seventeen Magazine, December 1964 (scanned by weirdvintage) ”
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So much hosiery technology history in one ad
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"Ghanaian photographer James Barnor bucked the trend with his fashion shoots for Drum magazine, an influential anti-apartheid magazine based in Johannesburg, and Africa’s first black lifestyle magazine."
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February 21, 2013 1:18 AM
More photos, links, and info - worthy of the click.
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I remember tearing out this advert of Stephanie Seymour in her pastel suit and sticking it on my bedroom wall. That was the 90s, when Versace and its supermodels ruled pop culture. Via Barbara Ostashev, Deanna Dahlsad
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"When standing on two legs was like so last season." lol
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February 21, 2013 1:00 AM
"When standing on two legs was like so last season." lol
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February 21, 2013 1:07 AM
"When standing on two legs was like so last season." lol 
Laura Brown's comment,
February 22, 2013 12:26 AM
This is what happens when they don't let the models take a potty break!!!
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stfumadison: “ Women in Chicago being arrested for wearing one piece bathing suits, without the required leg coverings - 1922. ”
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A very detailed "how to" including examples and history to help you identify vintage fashions and lingerie.
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In The Washington Post, November 1, 1909, an unidentified “London fashion designer” gets bitchy and judgmental about how suffragettes dress.
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How to avoid visible panty lines (VPL), including fashion construction, fashion history, and information on foundation garments. Via Gracie Passette
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The First Lady of fashion, Jackie Kennedy, proved that achieving genuine style involves mixing not only fake and fine, but any and every metal and medium.
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At Here’s Looking Like You, Kid, Jaynie shares a feature on Christian Dior’s New Look fashions published in the February 2012 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Here’s the most lovely conflicting...
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File this under "Fashion History" or "Woman Problems" -- this settles, historically, the matter of whether the garters go over or under the panties.
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Colorful Prism Of Racism
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From lone gunmen on hills to mass movements. Depressing as hell, really.
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