The Miss America protest was a demonstration held at the Miss America 1969 contest on September 7, 1968, attended by about 200 feminists and civil rights advocates. The feminist protest was organized by New York Radical Women and included putting symbolic feminine products into a “Freedom Trash Can” on the Atlantic City boardwalk, including bras,Continue reading “The “Bra Burning” Miss America Protest, 1968”
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Lovely Vintage Photos of 1930s Couples Posing With Their Cars
At home or in public, 1930s women most commonly wore dresses with wide shoulders; puffy sleeves; modest necklines; higher, belted waistlines; and mid-calf flared hemlines. Frilly bows, ruffles, buttons, and other details often decorated dresses. Formal dresses most dramatically displayed the decade’s willowy, elegant silhouette. Evening gowns in fluid fabrics were cut on the biasContinue reading “Lovely Vintage Photos of 1930s Couples Posing With Their Cars”
30 Beautiful Photos Show Styles of a Young Mary Tyler Moore
Born 1936 in New York City, American actress, producer, and social advocate Mary Tyler Moore began with a job as “Happy Hotpoint”, a tiny elf dancing on Hotpoint appliances in TV commercials during the 1950s series Ozzie and Harriet. Her first regular television role was as a mysterious and glamorous telephone receptionist in Richard Diamond,Continue reading “30 Beautiful Photos Show Styles of a Young Mary Tyler Moore”
35 Amazing Vintage Photographs Record Life in Wyoming From Between the 1900s and 1910s
Laura Webb Nichols (1883–1962) got her first camera on her 16th birthday, October 28, 1899, as a gift from Bert Oldman, a miner who would become her first husband the following year and the subject of many of her early photographs. The earliest photographs are of her immediate family, self-portraits, and landscape images of theContinue reading “35 Amazing Vintage Photographs Record Life in Wyoming From Between the 1900s and 1910s”
Amazing Women’s Hat Fashions From Between the 1920s and 1940s
Hats are head coverings with a crown and usually a brim. They are distinguished from caps that are brimless but may have a visor. Hats are important because they adorn the head, which is the seat of human rational powers, and they also frame the face. Women’s hats have often been differentiated from men’s headwear,Continue reading “Amazing Women’s Hat Fashions From Between the 1920s and 1940s”
Photograph of a Woman Seen From the Back, ca. 1862
Woman Seen From the Back is an 1860s photograph by 19th-century French photographer, Vicomte Onesipe Aguado de las Marismas (1830–1893). It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and was purchased by the Museum in 2005 as part of the Gilman Photographs Collection. Onesipe Aguado was the youngest of three brothers bornContinue reading “Photograph of a Woman Seen From the Back, ca. 1862”
Vintage Found Photos Capture Youthful Drinking and Partying in the 1970s
45 Glamorous Photos of Young Betty Grable in the 1930s
Wonderful Vintage Photos of Woodstock, Vermont in the Early 1940.
Woodstock is the shire town (county seat) of Windsor County, Vermont, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 3,005. It includes the villages of Woodstock, South Woodstock, Taftsville, and West Woodstock. Chartered by New Hampshire Governor Benning Wentworth on July 10, 1761, the town was a New Hampshire grant to DavidContinue reading “Wonderful Vintage Photos of Woodstock, Vermont in the Early 1940.”
30 Elegant Photos Show the 1860s Women’s Dress Styles
Victorian era saw many changes in fashion, including changes in styles, fashion technology and the methods of distribution. Various movement in architecture, literature, and the decorative and visual arts as well as a changing perception of the traditional gender roles also influenced fashion. During the early and middle 1860s, crinolines began decreasing in size atContinue reading “30 Elegant Photos Show the 1860s Women’s Dress Styles”
