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JC Penney
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JC Penney
Let’s face it: most department store fashion ads aren’t particularly memorable. They’re usually simple, clean, showing the clothes to their...
’80s Preppiness
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’80s Preppiness
Here’s the thing: even at the height of my all-black-wearing, semi-goth teenage ’80s youth I still had a soft spot...
Say Cheese!
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Say Cheese!
In the 1980s, models didn’t just pose for cameras, on occasion they also posed with them. A popular prop, cameras...
Pop Culture Trivia Book Good, But Not Great
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Pop Culture Trivia Book Good, But Not Great
Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the ’70s & 80s By Gael Fashingbauer Cooper...
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
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Hit Me With Your Best Shot
There was a fountain in a pedestrian square close enough to our hotel that I was “allowed” to go by...
Charles Jourdan
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Charles Jourdan
Surreal and sexy, the Charles Jourdan shoe ads of the 1980s were a sight to behold. The images were unexpected...
’80s Country Girl Chic
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’80s Country Girl Chic
I come from a city in the Canadian west traditionally known for its international rodeo, country music and down-home western...
Bikini Beach
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Bikini Beach
Some things never change. As summer winds down everyone scrambles to suck every last bit of fun from the season....
Almost 30 Years On, Less Than Zero Still Stands Up
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Almost 30 Years On, Less Than Zero Still Stands Up
Less Than Zero By Bret Easton Ellis Simon & Schuster, 208 pages, 1985. Clay. Blair. Trent. Rip. Julian. These, to...