I didn’t buy Glamour magazine every month in the 1980s — not like I did with Vogue and, when I...
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of October 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of October 2014
184 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged:...
’80s Advertising Art Direction & Design
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’80s Advertising Art Direction & Design
I see a lot of ads, as I scan and post images every weekday for the Periodicult Tumblr blog. I...
Hanging on the Telephone
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Hanging on the Telephone
Using a phone booth (a what?), being restricted to a particular radius by a long, curly cord or chatting with...
’80s Interiors
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’80s Interiors
There is nothing better than a teenage girl’s bedroom. It’s their exclusive domain — their cave (as my 13-year-old daughter...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of August 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of August 2014
168 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged:...
Just Smile
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Just Smile
Sometimes, after weeks of paging through vintage fashion magazines and seeing countless pouty/haughty-faced models, I’ll find myself just hoping for...
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...