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Category: Looking Good

This category includes all fashion and beauty

Ten Pounds Thinner, Ten Years Younger

Look Thin and Young!

March 17, 2016 Mary Kelly Looking Good 11 comments

Look 10 Pounds Thinner, 10 Years Younger-Instantly A No-Diet, No-Exercise Plan Coffey 1988 (excerpt published 1995) Well sign me up! This is about fashion and fit. All good advice, but I doubt anyone will pick this up wanting to look

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Fine and Fanciful Hats to Knit

Hat Tricks

March 1, 2016 Holly Looking Good 16 comments

45 Fine and Fanciful Hats to Knit: Berets, Toques, Cones, Stars, Pentagons, and More Zilboorg 1997 Submitter: These hats are genius. But the kind of genius that comes all rolled up in crazy. I work at a public library and

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dress for success cover

Dress Like a Pro

November 6, 2015 Holly Looking Good, Working 9-5 18 comments

The Woman’s Dress for Success Book Molloy 1977 Submitter #1: I am submitting a fun little book from the late 1970’s that advises women on how to dress for success in the workplace and the bedroom. By fun I actually

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Fascinating Womanhood cover

Bewitching Languor

September 16, 2015 Mary Kelly Feelings and Self Help, Looking Good 23 comments

Fascinating Womanhood Andelin 1974 Are you unhappy in your marriage? Perhaps it is because you haven’t seen it through the eyes of your man. Become a fascinating woman by putting your man’s needs first.  By paying attention and reacting properly

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How to cut curl and care for your hair

Bad Hair Day

August 31, 2015 Holly Looking Good 13 comments

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 It’s horribly out of date and it

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Bums cover

Bums! NSFW!

May 22, 2015 Holly Looking Good 12 comments

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

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Book of Beauty - cover

Beauty Tips

April 22, 2015 Holly Be Pretty, Looking Good 4 comments

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

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Sewing Children's Clothes cover

Stylish Clothes for Stylish Kids

March 10, 2015 Holly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies, Looking Good 11 comments

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

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