I couldn’t have been more than 10 years old when I first laid eyes on a Candie’s ad in a...
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Invasion of the Pantyhose People
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Invasion of the Pantyhose People
Say “pantyhose” to a young woman today and chances are she’ll screw up her face and let out a big...
’80s Acid Wash
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’80s Acid Wash
As a teenager, it’s easy to think that your parents are out to get you, or that their sole purpose...
’80s California Cool
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’80s California Cool
Growing up on the western Canadian prairie, California was often the family destination of choice, just like our eastern counterparts...
Seventeen, April 1984
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Seventeen, April 1984
I was 13 in April of 1984. I had become fast friends that school year with a group of girls...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of March 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of March 2014
168 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged....
Mad Plaids
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Mad Plaids
I’m trying, really trying to think spring, but it just keeps snowing and I’ve become one of those boring people...
Converse All-Stars
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Converse All-Stars
There was a store when I was growing up in the 1980s called Funky Punkers. It was downtown, on the...
Dreams of Sun & Sand
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Dreams of Sun & Sand
The seemingly never-ending winter here in the land of snow is getting a little tiring. Oh, what I’d do to...
Knees & Toes
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Knees & Toes
It was all tights and patterned socks and coloured hose before everything was stripped down to a toned bare leg...