This is a fab vintage Tide ad from Ladies’ Home Journal, January 1951. I love how it portrays neighboring housewives comparing laundry over a white picket fence. Of course they are drying their laundry on clotheslines, as most households at that time didn’t have automatic dryers. Hearing tales from my mother and grandmother, it was… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Vintage
The Romantic 60s ~ Heaven Sent Fragrance and Yardley of London Slickers
What people tend to forget is that not all of the 1960s was Mod or Hippie style. The late 60s had a real Romantic element to it, inspired in part by blockbuster movies such as Romeo and Juliet. Of course, the advertisers got caught up in this by creating particularly beautiful ad campaigns. I really… Read more »
Olivia Hussey ~Juliet~ for 60s Yardley of London
Olivia Hussey remains one of the most iconic beauties of the 60s for me, along with Twiggy and Jean Shrimpton. God, she was sheer perfection. I was a very awkward 13 year old in 1968 when The Franco Zeffirelli production of Romeo and Juliet came out. Of course, I trundled off to the movies and… Read more »
Mod 1963 Fluffy Mohair Sweaters
I normally post the knitting instructions to vintage sweaters I blog about, but these groovy sweaters from the October, 1963 issue of Ladies’ Home Journal didn’t have the instructions in the magazine. Instructions were available by sending 25 cents to LHJ, but since 49 years have passed, I’m quite certain that the instructions are no… Read more »
Diane von Furstenberg and the Iconic ’70s Wrap Dress
The iconic Diane von Furstenberg wrap dress remains a classic to this day, and is just as fresh and bold as it when it debuted in the 1970s. I ran across this September/October 1976 issue of Vogue Patterns magazine at Goodwill yesterday, with a striking pose of the fabulous Diane von Furstenberg on the cover. … Read more »
Vintage Perfume Season
The change of seasons means a change of scents for me; I like to switch it up with the weather. So as we head more deeply into fall, I am doing a bit of experimentation with my array of vintage perfumes that I seem to collect with amazing speed (I can’t help it, I’m utterly… Read more »
I'm Marilyn, and I'm obsessed with vintage clothing, thrift stores, clotheslines, and Chanel. Welcome to my down-to-earth world!