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sweaterbones: Behold this glorious Patty Bouvier pin I just...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:44:10 -0400

sweaterbones:

Behold this glorious Patty Bouvier pin I just ordered from PKPaperKitty on etsy. Marvelous.

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Sat, 18 May 2013 13:40:19 -0400

throughaface: The Third Man (1949) directed by Carol...

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:40:10 -0400

throughaface:

The Third Man (1949) directed by Carol Reed

Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.

bohemea: Carey Mulligan - Bazaar UK by Tom Allen, June 2013 I...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:00:14 -0400

bohemea:

Carey Mulligan - Bazaar UK by Tom Allen, June 2013

I want to be this fabulous :/

nprfreshair: Patricia Volk tells Terry Gross about how Elsa...

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:15:42 -0400

nprfreshair:

Patricia Volk tells Terry Gross about how Elsa Schiaparelli changed women’s underwear:

Women’s underwear before World War II was kind of elaborate. It was usually made of silk and it had pleats and it had to be ironed. This was in France. There was no such thing as ‘drip dry’ and when the war started, most of the men went to the front and the women had to take jobs. There was gas rationing and so everybody had bicycles and you had to be licensed to ride a bike in Paris and in one year bike licenses tripled: it went up to 11 million. The way women dressed with these long skirts and this very elaborate underwear didn’t lend itself to riding a bike so Schiap changed panties completely. First of all, there was famine, so she got rid of the buttons and put elastic in the waist so that as you were losing weight, your panties would stay on. Then, she made them out of drip-dry material, so you didn’t need a maid to iron them … and she added a double-slung crotch and suddenly women could ride their bikes with a lot more freedom.

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