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Kitsch Slapped
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Slapping You With Kitsch — As Often As Possible. Pop Culture Right In Your Kisser.
- Added on: Mar 8th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Deanna Dahlsad
- Listed in: Pop Culture Humor
- Tags: funny retro pop culture vintage kitsch collecting
Recent Posts
Corsets Are Too Sexy?
While I do not suggest that women should whittle away our waists as we while away our days in the constriction of too-tightly-laced corsets, I do believe there is good reason to at least examine the claims and assertions made about corsets by the 19t...
What If Everything You Knew About The Corset Was Wrong?
It’s fashionable these days for folks to denounce the historical use of corsets as akin to Chinese footbinding. Corsets and tight lacing are said to have controlled women to their physical detriment; corsets have been blamed for breathing probl...
There Are Flowers In The Attic
When V.C. Andrews’ Flowers In The Attic was published in 1979, it became all the rage for a teenage girl to read it — and by ‘the rage’ you can presume not only the inclusion of the outrage of those who prefer to censor for al...
Cheap Thrills Thursday: Of Man’s Instrument & The Horror Of Eating Unsalted Cashews
In the June 26, 1950 issue of Newsweek, a report on Smithsonian ethnologist Dr. Kalervo Oberg’s trip to Matto Grosso. Among the horrible delights, calling members of the native Nhambicuara “the most miserable and impolite even to rudenes...
Whatjamacallit Wednesday: Waste (Can) Not, Want (Can) Not?
In response to my Gadabout post (about a vintage composition dog), Laura (of Creative Fat Grrl) said, “I really like how you know all this stuff about old things and how they were made. But how do you manage to keep all these collections withou...
After Stocking Panic, Women Made-Up
I’ve researched and written a lot about vintage nylon stockings over the years because the history of nylon stockings is quite fascinating to me. I’m sure most of you have heard about the scarcity of nylon during WWII — just months ...
