Fashion
Radio Sunglasses
To hell with iPods! These are so much cooler!
Of course, the online inflation calculator I use says: "What cost $24.95 in 1967 would cost $165.76 in 2011. " Or, in other terms, roughly the cost of a new 8GB iPod Touch.
Maybe modern life is better!
From Playboy for August 1967.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 14, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Music, Technology, Chindogu, 1960s
Toothsome Shoes for Men
Weird Shoes are not just for women! The makers of the apex predator shoes
shown above say they contain 1050 teeth from dentures! At the link you will see on left side that they also make the apex predator suit.
Posted By: Tyrusguy - Fri Oct 12, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Fashion, Shoes
How Not To Model Stockings
This picture ran in the January 1953 issue of Newsweek with the following caption:
Elbeo is still in business, and still selling stockings. Could it seriously never have occurred to anyone there that their fashion show, with "enveloping hoods," was going to look an awful lot like a Klan rally?
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 20, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, 1950s
$290.67 Paper Bag
It's made from coated brown paper. It has stitched seams at each side with two gold-colored metal eyelets at the bottom. But, most importantly, it has the name "Jill Sander" printed at the bottom. This bag could have been yours for only $290.67 -- but you're too late. It's already sold out! [via hypebeast]
Posted By: Alex - Thu Sep 06, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Overpriced Merchandise
Heelless Shoes
Heelless shoes by Antonio Berardi. They'll set you back around £1800, and they look pretty difficult to walk in. Unless, perhaps, you're a habitual toe-walker. via Kingdom of Style.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 27, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Shoes
Shark Teeth Dentures
George Middlebrook was a Caribbean shark fisherman who made a pair of shark dentures for himself by taking a wax impression of his mouth, transferring the impression to wet sand, pouring hot lead into the impression, and then inserting shark teeth into the lead. (Google News link.) I wonder if he could actually chew with them? Because of his teeth, he was given a small role in the 1956 movie The Sharkfighters.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 16, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Fish, Fashion
Scenes from a fashion show
Fashion designers once again demonstrated how relevant they are to everyday life at the recent Colombiamoda fashion show in Medellin. Link: Vancouver Sun.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 30, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion
The Chainsaw Bag
We here at Weird Universe like to make sure our readers remain on the cutting edge of fashion, so we urge you to make sure you're sporting Facetasm's new Chainsaw Bag whenever you go outside. It costs only ¥178,500 JPY, or $2,249. So it's a bargain. Naturally it can't be used to carry an actual chainsaw. Links: hypebeast.com, contemporaryfix-store.com.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 26, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Overpriced Merchandise
Clothing for the Emancipated Man
Back in 1968, fashion designer Michael La Mendola put on a show of clothes for the "emancipated man." Forty-four years later, his styles still seem ahead of their time. See more (poorly scanned) pics of La Mendola's lineup here.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 03, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion
Burbank Beard
Vern Sion took home the prize in a beard contest judged May 21, 1951. I think he earned it.
(Found in the LA Examiner archive at usc.edu.)
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 06, 2012 -
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Category: Fashion, Hair Styling, Facial Hair
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