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Some more beauties of the 1930s-1950s with long hair (at least below armpit after curling) were: Sherry Britton Rita Atlanta Betty Brosmer Glynis Johns Sandra Dorne

There are places in the U.S where men greet unknown women by kissing them on the cheek? Where I am in the Texas Gulf Coast, this is definitely not so. I've been introduced in social settings to ladies from Mexico, and they do the hug-and-air-kiss thing, but I don't think that they do that with...

There was an article about this in one of my mom's magazines a few years ago. The author's husband did not want anything to do with it, but the author was adamant that as soon as it was legal she would have it injected into her daughter. The author had been abducted and raped as a child, and...

Waist training doesn't look pretty to me. If you take off a few inches, you're left withan idealized figure, the sort of thing that a few lucky women were born with. Girdles & corsets also smooth out the lumpy bumps. More than that, it stops looking human...

I hope no one has posted this before. It's 1942 instructions on how to draft your own underwear pattern from a pants sloper. http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/42-mpd/mpd-10.html And here's the how-to for the pants sloper. http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/42-mpd/mpd-09.html This site...

I have to concur on "unique." Unique is an absolute. It means that there is no other thing like it. No two fingerprints are alike, so fingerprints are unique. They are not very unique. And if there were 2 fingerprints just alike, they would be not unique. They would not be sort of unique...

My grandfather was an antiques dealer, so my Dad hates when people claim that something with plastic components is "antique." To him, furniture is not truly old if it was machine-made. And he hates that new-fangled stuff that started appearing in the 1920s (he was born in '57). Come to think...

I swear by warm water. I have my dad's oily t-zone with ginormous pores and I've had constant mild-to-moderate outbreaks since I was about 13. I would never, ever believe that over-cleaning was a problem, but I was convinced to try cleaning my face with nothing but warm water. It works. I...

These are from The Ultimate Book of Cocktails by Stuart Walton (very fun book). There are lots of websites with drink recipes. If you have trouble finding the recipe, let me know. 1930s Zombie Tequila Sunrise 1940s Moscow Mule Mulata Margarita B2 C2 1950s My Fair Lady...