by Anastasia on June 15, 2010
Jamie sports Style Council's recommended cutoff sweatshirt look.
LATELY I’VE BEEN LOVING The Seventeen Magazine Project, a social experiment and blog from 18 year-old high school senior, Jamie Kelles. The project guidelines require that Jamie live strictly according to the gospel of Seventeen Magazine for 30 days (from May 21 to the day of her high school graduation, June 21), in order to investigate further “the role of beauty/fashion magazines in society.” Her findings? Well, nearly to the end of this mad sociologist experiment, Jamie has blogged witty insight on all kinds of teen fem issues. Here are some of the highlights: [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on May 20, 2010
THIS IS ALSO kind of old news. (Sorry friends.) But surely it’s not too late for me to express my deep sadness over the closing of St. Vincent’s Hospital in downtown Manhattan after serving the public for 160 years. St. Vincent’s was the only hospital in NYC that supported home births, and since closing, it is now be illegal for more than half of New York City’s licensed midwives to deliver babies at home. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on May 5, 2010
EW, WHY DOES Sex and the City keep betraying their awesome roots by making horrible movies that involve living happily ever after whilst traveling to foreign lands? (Did you see the first movie? Will you see this one?) [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on May 3, 2010
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WOULDN’T YOU RATHER die a bingo-playing spinster than be subjected to this kind of stupid ridicule? This detergent ad from 1936 starts, “Isn’t it natural for every girl to want popularity, romance, a devoted husband? What a pity, then to see lovely girls like those above losing out because they are careless about perspiration odor in underthings.” Poor Hildegarde over there on the right. At 27, she’s practically a cadaver.
(image via Jezebel)
by Anastasia on May 3, 2010
QUESTION: IS THE COMMERCIAL for HPV prevention that keeps repeating “what if?” (like some nightmare anaphora poem) ruining anyone else’s life? No? Well it makes me have a near panic attack every time it comes on Hulu. What commercials are driving you nuts these days? Dish it. And speaking of scary ads, here are some vintage gems.
by Anastasia on April 30, 2010
ALMOST 1,000 MILES AWAY from Marina Abramović’s current performance piece at MoMA, I have been deeply moved by the photos of visitors to her exhibition, The Artist Is Present. In this piece, Abramović waits at a table all day and people are invited to sit across from her and stare into her eyes. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on January 27, 2010
IS THERE ANYTHING more tragically hilarious than dated dating advice for women? This little photo series from 1938 had me in stitches. From passing out before the date is over (like the poor gal above) to smearing too much lipstick on a man’s handkerchief, all the dating “donts” you’ll ever need are right here. [click to continue…]
by Anastasia on January 8, 2010
THIS PHOTO SHOOT of real-sized women in next month’s issue of V Magazine! Such beautiful styling. What do you think?
(photo via jezebel)
by Anastasia on November 11, 2009
SEEING HOW HALLOWEEN IS now over, I thought some of you may be having residual cravings for a scare. Well, look no further. This old (not so) favorite is from the feministing archives. (Shudder.) P.S. More vintage sexism in our gallery of horrors.
by Anastasia on September 29, 2009
ONE OF MY FAVORITE comediennes of all time, Sarah Haskins, sheds some light on the advertising industry’s obsession with your lady friends, in this rerun episode of “Target Women.” Classic.
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