I was 14 when I bought my first party dress — it was black and white, sleeveless, with a drop-waist...
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Fringe Festival
Fringe, it seems, is everywhere these days. From boots to jackets, from swimsuits to pretty much everything Amanda made on...
’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
Some things never change. As summer winds down everyone scrambles to suck every last bit of fun from the season....
Seventeen, August 1984
It’s pretty clear that I loved the August 1984 issue of Seventeen. The cover as you can see is worn,...
Mademoiselle, July 1984
I was in my late teens in the late 1980s when I really took a shine to Mademoiselle. It skewed...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of June 2014
168 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged....
The ’80s Denim Jacket
I still have the 1970s Lee jean jacket I swiped from my Dad’s wardrobe as a teenager in the 1980s....
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of May 2014
176 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged....
Georges Marciano/Guess?
Ah, the days of Guess — I remember them well. By the mid-1980s when Guess had become the denim label,...