Maybe I Want to Look Cheap
Image from Anne TaintorIn the spirit of the Second Fashion Commandment Thou Shalt Stay Classy – or rather, in defiance of it, I had a little giggle when I remembered the Anne Taintor address book my sister Star gave me a few years ago. It’s full of vintage fashion and advertising photographs that have been subverted with modern witticisms. Sometimes you really do want to look cheap, and then all fashion faux pas are forgiven.
Here is some more amusing mid-century fashion advice – for bachelor gals as well as married ladies, so no one need feel like she’s missing out.
Housekeeping Monthly in May 1955 exhorts wives to:
Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you’ll be refreshed when he arrives [home from work]. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people.
And Retronaut brings us these delightful 1938 newspaper clippings.
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Image from Retronaut
Image from Retronaut