Sometimes, after weeks of paging through vintage fashion magazines and seeing countless pouty/haughty-faced models, I’ll find myself just hoping for...
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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...
’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....
Supermoon
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Supermoon
On Sunday night the biggest supermoon (known as an extra-supermoon) of 2014 will be visible. It’s the closet and brightest...
Seventeen, August 1984
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Seventeen, August 1984
It’s pretty clear that I loved the August 1984 issue of Seventeen. The cover as you can see is worn,...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of July 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of July 2014
184 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged:...
Vacation — All I Ever Wanted
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Vacation — All I Ever Wanted
As I sit at my desk today, on the cusp of the annual long weekend known usually as The August...