October 22, 2009 | In: Vintage pinups
Being in vogue in the 1910s Doesn’t everyone want to be in vogue? Women in the 1910s certainly did, and one of the face powders they counted on to enhance their beauty was Vogue. What’s playing at the Bijou? The earliest ad I found for Vogue...
October 22, 2009 | In: Vintage pinups
Beth Short Beth Short (aka “The Black Dahlia”) would have been 85 years old today. It’s difficult for me to imagine her as anything other than a lonely, melancholy, enigma of a girl trying to navigate...
October 22, 2009 | In: Vintage pinups
Before I began to collect face powder boxes and other beauty ephemera, I collected compacts and vanity cases. I was recently poking around in the historic Los Angeles Times (from September 20, 1926) and I found a story about a young woman who used her...