A piece of dieselpunk history
A topic for facts from the Jazz age 'till the end of the cold war that don't fit anywhere else 
"In Britain they had vanished from shops completely by 1940. Pants hid their absence, but women also resorted to Cyclax Stocking-less Cream, or other forms of leg makeup, completing the illusion by drawing seams down the backs of legs with an eyebrow pencil."
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"In Britain they had vanished from shops completely by 1940. Pants hid their absence, but women also resorted to Cyclax Stocking-less Cream, or other forms of leg makeup, completing the illusion by drawing seams down the backs of legs with an eyebrow pencil."
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Blitz wedding
Here, this 'll make it better
(I was really saving this up for V-day 2012 but there you go)
*kiss*
http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?rid=243406
seriously, read it.
photo tutorial for tying a 1940ties turban
Eartha Kitt, by Ernst Haas NYC, 1952
doing the laundry back in the day
http://www.airzoo.org/page.php?page_id=111
Ernest Hemingway with his cat
In 1956, Henry Behrens was the world’s smallest man. Here he is dancing with his cat.
Black cats audition for a part in a movie in 1961.
From LIFE’s photo archive.
I'm digging those "giant pants" off to the side, as well.
carnies in 1955
Amy Johnson, 1903-41
Photo by John Capstack, c. 1933-5
Toned bromide print, 200 x 146 mm
Copyright Capstack Portrait Archive, National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG x17127)
http://www.npg.org.uk
Monowheel, 1933. Walter Nilsson inside the wheel
DO WANT! I'd so drive around town in one of those!
Kinuyo Tanaka, a Japanese actress and director.
Tanaka was the second Japanese woman who worked as a film director, after Sakane Tazuko (1904?1975).
A woman donning new stockings at a stocking vending machine.
Even during the Blitz, Londoners still needed their milk, and this guy delivered.
Unidentified photographer, “Beauties of Today”, Cigarette card, Britain, ca. 1937