Four years ago or thereabouts, we considered in this space the postcards featuring round people, a race of jolly cartoon characters whose figures paid homage to the globe. A goodly number of postcards with suchlike folk on them have come into my inventory and, looking them over, I noticed something I don’t believe IContinue reading “The Big Round Dude”
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Shifting Shirts
We were so busy in history class in my schooldays that we hardly ever got past about 1928. The older and more cynical I get, the more I wonder if this was intentional. In my day, kids were exposed to an ongoing debate on the relative merits of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt amongContinue reading “Shifting Shirts”
On Your Feet
Once upon a time, there was a commercial which emphasized the importance of shoes. The young man in overalls who has never worn shoes because his feet can’t breathe finds that Hush Puppies are different, and cries out that now he can go to school “I can BE somebody!” (I do not have aContinue reading “On Your Feet”
Seeing Spots?
They tell me freckles are now high fashion. People who once tried to bleach their skin or laser away their sunkisses are now drawing extra freckles on their cheeks, or pressing broccoli hard against the skin, and even having freckles tattooed into place. The change started in the 1960s, apparently. Model/actress Twiggy isContinue reading “Seeing Spots?”
Missed Inconveniences
The fact that fashions change is one of the surest rules of nature. Coming in a close second to THAT rule is the rule that we will laugh at the fashions which have passed. (And I think third place is that we all deny that we will ever laugh about what we’re wearing NOW. Continue reading “Missed Inconveniences”
Shins of Our Ancestors
There are those who yearn for the good old days. They give assorted reasons: prices were lower, people were more civil, there were not electronic devices beeping at us to tell us that a friend has uploaded another video of her performing bunny to TikTok. But there is a frequent refrain to all ofContinue reading “Shins of Our Ancestors”
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