Halloween Costumes from the Sears Catalog — 1957
So many choices for mail-order costumes for kids in 1957! From Lassie to Rickey Rivet the Robot.
Fashion
Myrna Loy: “I’m a Helpless Prisoner!” — 1930
Experience the sheer giddiness of an exclamation-mark-filled 1930 ad for cosmetics, “a whole ensemble of gay toiletries!”
Perkins Windmill Couture — 1890s
Miss Corinne Baker in her eye-popping windmill dress — perfect from the tip of her kooky hat to the bottom of her windmill-blade skirt. And everything else in between. See the full-length photo inside.
The Bootlegger With the Tin Bustle — 1886
Read about the woman who smuggled Cuban rum through U.S. Customs in a hollowed-out undergarment.
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