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Category: Looking Good

This category includes all fashion and beauty

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The Fashionable Mature Man

October 1, 2018 Mary Kelly Guy Stuff, Looking Good 11 comments

The Mature Man’s Guide to Style Diet, Exercise, Fashion, and Grooming for a Man’s Best Years Gale 1980 Finally! A comprehensive book on diet, fashion, and grooming for the more mature man. It’s time to embrace your golden years! There

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Hot Tips for that 80’s Professional

August 3, 2018 Mary Kelly Looking Good 21 comments

Hot Tips 1000 Fashion & Beauty Tricks Stein 1981 Aside from the fact the fashion is way out of date, and the illustrations are not great, this kind of book is a great idea. Dressing professionally was a big deal

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Forever Cool

April 26, 2018 Holly Looking Good 8 comments

Forever Cool Mathieson 2006 Submitter: We found this book in our university library and consider it to be ‘awful’ for a few different reasons. The book’s title suggests timeless fashion and style advice but we found the fashions in the

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Are you ready for your close-up?

April 23, 2018 Mary Kelly Health and Safety, Looking Good 4 comments

How To Win in the Youth Game: The Magic of Plastic Surgery Wagner and Gould 1972 Ah, the fountain of youth! Now available at your local surgeon’s office. Plastic surgery of course is a worthy topic for any health collection,

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Ultimate Man

March 27, 2018 Mary Kelly Guy Stuff, Looking Good 16 comments

The Man’s Complete Guide to Looking Great The Ultimate Man Post 1978 Guys, you can perfect that oh-so-cool look with help from this book. This book has everything from fashion advice, skin care, diet, exercise, and even plastic surgery. (It

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Some 70s Man Candy

March 7, 2018 Mary Kelly Guy Stuff, Looking Good 15 comments

Dressing Right Hix 1978 Lots of male eye candy in this lovely book from the fashionable 1970s. Even without looking at the pub date, I can tell from the picture it is late 1970s, because of the “Annie Hall” type

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Pregnant and Groovy

December 5, 2017 Mary Kelly Craptastic Crafts and Hobbies, Ladies only!, Looking Good 12 comments

Great Expectations How to make 30 easy, fast, sexy, cheerful maternity outfits that let you feel like a woman as well as a mother-to-be Adams and Madaras 1980 I have always thought that “cute” or “fashionable” maternity clothes was an

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Umbrellas: The More You Know

November 16, 2017 Mary Kelly But it's Historical!, Looking Good 6 comments

A History of the Umbrella Crawford 1970 Back in 2009 when we started this little dog and pony show, a few of the titles got lost in the shuffle between migrations and our own incompetence. This title has been on

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