63-Year-Old Hairstyle Still Holds Up

Wow, you look like Wilson’s Airedale when he had the mange. – Wally Cleaver

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Wally wouldn’t say that about this stylish gang in 1951. Although you won’t see many females rocking such short hairstyles nowadays, these fellows appear to have been plucked straight out of 2014.

 

Santa, Bring Me A Sweater As Keen As Joanne’s

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There is a lot going on here, other than Wendy’s front row coveting. Joanne has the swellest “S” sweater in town, but she is distracted by a handful of seeds for her beanstalk. Slingblade in the rear right needs to work on his posture, and far left is making a teensy tiny touchdown. Closest he’ll get to playing football. One thing’s for sure: yay, scarves!

Because That’s How Sexy People Pose

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If Pink suddenly developed a Madonna-esque Material Girl fixation with Marilyn Monroe, rushed out to the closest Supercuts for a bad bleach job and an even worse perm, lamented her decision and (in lieu of shaving it all off a la Britney Spears) drank the regret away with Fireball Whisky, jumped aboard a casino boat and (while at the buffet) stole several of their fiesta-themed napkins and fashioned them into a bikini, then (like Natalie Wood) “fell” off the boat and wound up ashore at dawn with a beast of a hangover, briefly considered an alternate career as a driftwood artist, and decided that her first good decision of the day would be to seductively climb aboard a plywood crate, sucking in that tummy–it would look like this.

Giant Bi-Racial Maraca Hovers Over Darning Housewife

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Nope. Not familiar with a darning egg. But I am familiar with eyestrain, and if she thinks she knows eyestrain, oh, honey–just wait until they invent portable phones!

As if post-war needlework wasn’t complicated enough, this next “novel idea” suggests hooking a window shade to a sewing machine to serve as an extension table. 

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Screw eyes and hooks? My sentiments exactly. Forget that. And this last one? Oh, dear. I have no words.

1949 Popular Mechanics: Shortcuts to Better Housekeeping
1949 Popular Mechanics: Shortcuts to Better Housekeeping

 

One Direction Changes Direction

Ventana52-011“There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there’s so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.”
― Zayn Malik