How to Cut, Curl, and Care for Your Hair Booth 1985 Submitter: One of our student workers [in a university library] found this gem while shelf reading and brought it to us to enjoy. It’s horribly out of date and it
Category: Looking Good
This category includes all fashion and beauty
Bums! NSFW!
A Woman Looks at Men’s Bums Jenkins 1983 Submitter: Found this gem in our university library and had to share. It’s a book of photographs of, well, the title is fairly self-explanatory really! It’s from 1983 (which surprised me, from
Beauty Tips
Diane von Furstenberg’s Book of Beauty: How to Become a More Attractive, Confident, and Sensual Woman von Furstenberg 1976 Submitter: Former Princess Diane von Furstenberg is still very popular today. I found this 1976 book at my local public library. Not so
Stylish Clothes for Stylish Kids
Sewing Children’s Clothes: a Golden Hands Pattern Book 1973 Submitter: There were three copies of this book on my local public library shelf. My friend and I had quite a chuckle looking back at children’s fashions from 1973. We thought the clothing
How to Be Attractive
How to be attractive Bennett 1951, 2d ed., rev. and enl. Submitter: The original edition was from 1948. Our copy does not have the cover shown – the library assistant who discovered this brilliant work (and read it cover to cover)
Embrace Some Fashion From the 1970s
Fashions of a Decade: The 1970s Herald 1992 Submitter: Unfortunately, there are no fashion history aficionados at our school. This is a lone volume from a series, which is probably why it hasn’t been touched in years. It’s a pretty
Cheap Chic
Cheap Chic Milinaire and Troy 1975 As of this writing this book was still in circulation at a public library. I am sure all the folks my age and older will appreciate the fashion tips. Woolworth’s just won’t do! If you
The 80s Style in a Nutshell
Cristina Ferrare Style How Have It In Every Part of Your Life DeLorean and Cohen 1984 If you were alive and paying attention in the 1980s, you might recognize Cristina as the 3rd wife of John DeLorean, designer of the Back