Costumes and Masks
The Bay City Rollers Show
What happens when some one-hit wonders team up with the creators of H. R. Pufnstuf and The Banana Splits.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 27, 2022 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Fey, Twee, Whimsical, Naive and Sadsack, Music, Television, 1970s
Mystery Illustration 106
I hope this one is not too hard or deceptive. What larger structure is this grinning mask a part of?The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Thu May 26, 2022 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Twentieth Century
Mystery Illustration 103
What job necessitates this woman's outfit?The answer is here. (Scroll up a tad.)
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Tue Oct 05, 2021 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, 1900s, 1910s
The Mersey Monsters
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 27, 2021 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Horror, Music, Pop Art, 1960s, Fictional Monsters
Clair de Lune Espagno
A trip to the moon teaches a lovesick suitor a lesson.
Creator's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 16, 2021 -
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Category: Aliens, Costumes and Masks, Dreams and Nightmares, Movies, Special Effects, Spaceflight, Astronautics, and Astronomy, Foreign Customs, 1900s, Love & Romance
Artwork Khrushchev Probably Would Not Have Liked 32
"Actress Germaine Dulac (1882-1942) as a worm at the Folies Bergere in Paris, France, photograph by Walery from The Tatler, No 1408, June 20, 1928, London."
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 04, 2021 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Costumes and Masks, 1920s
Hamlet, the Rock Musical
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 03, 2020 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Costumes and Masks, Death, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Pranks and Revenge, Theater and Stage, Homages, Pastiches, Tributes and Borrowings, Pop Art, Foreign Customs, Seventeenth Century, Sixteenth Century, Brain Damage, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Chattanooga Choo Choo, Brazilian Style
Posted By: Paul - Sat Feb 08, 2020 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Cult Figures and Artifacts, Music, Foreign Customs, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, 1940s, South America
Alfred Latell, Animal Impersonator
Learn more about him from Pam Deitch at her blog.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 18, 2019 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Costumes and Masks, Entertainment, Movies, Twentieth Century
Prize-winning robot costume from 1927
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 31, 2018 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Robots, 1920s
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