Let me just slip out of this old vintage denim while I tell you about these two neat books in my lap.
Before I left the corporate world to be my own boss, sling vintage, and take my clothes off for a living (spare me clutching your strings of pearls (heh) - I have an MBA, I run this platform like a well-oiled machine and, gasp, I like doing it 😈), I dressed like the Meghan Markel of Suits but for corporate healthcare with a sprinkling of pinup. Under each pencil skirt and silk blouse was a garter belt holding up my nylons.
I really had no idea what hit me when discovering the world of vintage (and antique) denim and once I got a taste of true vintage, void of rockabilly or pinup or whatever, it's hard to go back to your old fashion sense.
I still like garter belts and nylons and now I have a collection of legit 1940s pinup dresses instead of fast fashion ones, for those keeping track.
However, as I've learned, there is an entire industry (community?) of people who go denim hunting in old mines simply to find antique workwear. Dungarees. Denim. What have you.
They head to old gold and silver mines, and dig for Levi's jeans from the late 1800s, which, if intact, go for about $100,000. Pretty wild to think that two generations ago, denim wasn't a regularly worn fashion unless you wore it as workwear.
There's a great series of books on the history of fashion intended for casual audiences entitled Avant. They published a series that covers vintage/antique workwear, American militaria, French workwear (which is where American workwear originated from) and so on. Definitely a neat read and a cool coffee table book if you need one!
A 1930s silk bed jacket and 1920s chenille sheer dancer pants. Believe it or not, those pants were considered the height of sexuality to wear in the bedroom back then! 💕
Here's the other robe from The Last Samurai (go check out my post from a few days ago if you're lost). I forgot to mention that these were designed from the same team who designed the costumes for The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings!
Have any of y'all ever tried to read LOTR? I love the movies, but man those books are hard to get into!
When you’re the knight who won the jousting tournament 💋
Please enjoy me wearing (and not wearing) this vintage medieval-style costume. Yeah yah I know the medieval period is different from the Renaissance and the dresses were different but you get it. Shut up and enjoy the view.
(Ok I’m kidding if any of you happen to be an AskHistorians mod who wants to school me on the correct dressing styles of women from that time period have at it)
I live and breathe in the vintage world, and a few months ago got to pick a well-known costume company that was closing down. I got a lot of neat stuff, including a set of two coin-studded kimonos that were used in the movie The Last Samurai.
Trying this thing on was a workout in itself - I went to take it off the hanger and it almost fell to the floor because it's so heavy!
The Last Samurai movie is loosely based on the shift from traditional Japanese life, including the warrior class of Japan, fading into modernization and Westernization.
As I came to learn, samurai were around for centuries (1100s) until their titles and power stripped in the 1870s in favor of traditional military conscription. A caption on OF doesn't afford nearly enough space for their neat history throughout different periods of Japan but it's an interesting read if you're looking for an internet distraction from the Sunday scares.
This post is apropos of nothing which is a phrase often used by the host Sean in Hot Ones and now all I can think about is how I could totally get to the end in that show. ❤️🔥
A fun fact about Scoville heat units: a pharmacist created the Scoville scale way back in the early 1900s as a way to determine how much heat should be added to a ointment intended to warm the area it was applied on.
Scoville units work by determining how many times the capsaicin (what makes things taste hot) must be diluted (usually by sugar water) unless a burn is no longer detectable by the human tongue.
For example: if a pepper rates at 2,000 Scoville Heat Units, then it must be diluted 2,000 times before the heat is barely detectable. A regular jalapeño pepper is around 5,000 Scoville units. A Carolina reaper is about 1 million.
Alright y'all, we're in October now and I LOVE Halloween. I love spooky season, I love costumes, I love lore of all things. I had the opportunity to pick an old costume shop and one of things I got was this bad boy:
It's a vintage Mardi Gras Krewe Costume - it would've been worn by someone who was in the desirable position of holding a court position. I can't figure out which Krewe it belonged to, but it's heavy velvet with a long train and with the clovers reminded me of something one might wear to the Renaissance Faire (hate all you want, I LOVE the Renaissance Faire!).
So, in lieu of the ACTUAL history of this cool cape, I'll tell you a little about Irish Queen Maeve.
If you've seen the show The Boys, Queen Maeve is depicted as a warrior-queen-superhero, but she's based on the real Celtic mythology of Queen Medb (anglicized as Maeve) who was known as a "strong-willed, cunning, promiscuous queen" and if that doesn't best describe these photos I made for you then I don't know what ☘️💋
I couldn't decide if I should braid my hair into an Ancient Greek mythology style, or find a skirt to look like Princess Leia so I'm presenting you with a choose-your-own-adventure 🌟
Just a casual look for fall and I can finally break out my Doc Martens again! 🖤
This post doesn't do them justice, but I love Doc Martens. I grew up wearing them, and a few years ago got a new pair that still wears like new. Doc Martens are actually named after a doc who, in the 1940s, invented a new kind of boot to protect a broken foot (hence the brand name it still carries today). It wasn't until the 1960s/1970s skinhead counter-culture fashion that drove Doc Martens to the level of popularity it maintains today.
I mean, I get it. A pair of black, platform lace-up boots look good with sheer black dresses, and with my thrashed, cuffed Levis. 💋
Okay, here’s the rest of the set. While you’re gooning away your brain cells, I’ll help you keep your cock and your IQ up 🤓
Yesterday an asteroid cruising through the solar system is going to got sucked into Earth’s gravitational field and is orbiting us a little bit before it follows its path back out after Thanksgiving.
The downside is that this asteroid, named 2024 PT5, is small at only 10 meters wide so it won’t be visible to the naked eye or most amateur telescopes so don’t wait up for me to post pics.
But hey, don’t let the limitations of human vision deter you: a rock the size of a school bus is hurtling towards Earth at 2,200 miles per hour which is still fairly rare and, if its path were more nefarious, would be a catastrophic earth event.
Asteroids are organized into their characteristics and named after heroes of folktale and lore: this asteroid is in the Arjuna family, named after the hero of a Hindu epic.
The Jet Propulsion Lab out in California does a lot of cool shit, and monitoring space rocks is one of them. I can’t decide if it’s a job I’d love, or if it would cause me crippling anxiety to discover a near-Earth object like in the opening scene of Don’t Look Up. 🤓💋
Behind me is a hand-made poster made by The Loujon Press, in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
The Loujon Press was a 1960s avant-garde small printing press, owned by couple Gypsy Lou and Jon Webb (hence Loujon) and printed the works of then-unknown poetry greats such as Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski.
I wouldn't dare to upset the House of Mouse, but I like rare vintage tees and this one is a rare vintage tee. It's a 1970s paper-thin tee from the era when one of the best Disney movies was released: my favorite, Robin Hood! 🦊
A little throwback Thursday to sexy lewds and nudes - which is how I got started on here!
I'd pose in 1940s-1960s vintage lingerie from teasing to tasteful nude, with a sometimes-history-lesson in the caption if there was something on-topic to tell :)
I uploaded the photos, got interrupted before I could write my caption, so as a placeholder to remind myself, simply typed "insert here."
(I meant insert the caption, duh.)
But given that these bad girl photos are inviting play in either hole I'm simply leaving the rest of this caption as this and assuming you'll get a chuckle out of this like I did. So...
Happy Monday! No matter what your day brings, you can be mentally here 💋
I’m crocheting a Pendleton-style blanket using merino wool. Pendleton, if you’re not familiar, is a private textile manufacturing company that’s remained in the same family for generations. Their origins were in Oregon, making wool blankets with striped patterns used for trade with indigenous people. Over time, the blankets become famous for their patterns and durability - often associated with gifting them for important life events. They’re typically in muted stripes, although you’ll also see them in traditional Native American designs.
The company also makes great plaid wool button-downs! If you ever come across one in a thrift shop, grab it! They’re worth a lot!
I know it looks better off, but how cool is this thing? It’s a late 180”s/early 1900s OddFellows “Scene Bearer” ceremonial robe. The OddFellows (more formally known as the International Order of OddFellows or IOOF) is a fraternity free of politics and religion, solely focused on a goal of Friendship, Love and Truth.
Welp, I meant to take some clothed photos in this set but I was so excited to get right down to business that I forgot. Please forgive me for gracing your morning with my pussy on display, front and center, before the sun has even come up 😈
My Jazz cat tee is hard to see from these pics, but the term Jazz Cat meant the coolest of cool jazz musicians, a phrase borne from around the 1920s as jazz clubs rose in popularity.
There's two differing opinions on where the phrase comes from:
In the 1920s, calling someone a "cat" was the slang equivalent of the bees knees - just the coolest person you'd ever met.
But also, Cat Houses, or brothels, were where jazz would be played and as such, as a jazz musician playing at one you'd be referred to as a Jazz Cat.
The temperature dropped below 75 degrees so OF COURSE I started putting up Halloween decorations. I also happened to pull on a long sleeve shirt because the AC was still cranking and I got cold 😅
The Rougarou (also called the loup-garou) is a centuries-old monster from Cajun folklore most often depicted as human-like with a werewolf head. It’s a common tale through French Louisiana, especially in areas that primarily speak Cajun French.
It is said to “prowl the swamps and sugarcane fields” which, if you haven’t seen them at night, are definitely spooky.
Don't get distracted, I have a fun, quick history lesson for you!
One of you gifted me this incredible Bad Dragon dildo and it's the CyberUnicorn which is a fun play on both history and sci-fi - two things literally up my alley.
I can't go into a super detailed description because of the wordplay terms on here but, like most of what we talk about on here, has its origin story beginning in antiquity. There's a lot of versions around unicorn lore but (maybe unsurprisingly?) a lot of them have erotica around it.
For instance, unicorns are evasive and difficult to capture but in both the Greek and medieval versions, it can be persuaded should a virgin be placed in front of it. There's depictions of engagement with unicorns in Victorian erotic art that I can't describe here but you get the point.
I'll do a fuller post on more history around unicorns but I thought this might whet your appetite for more. This toy certainly whet mine.
Come back tonight for a wall clip and the video in your inboxes! 🦄
On this day, way back in 1787, the US Constitution was signed by the 39 delegates that showed up to the Constitutional Convention.
For those of you who skipped history class, or didn’t enjoy the very catchy musical Hamilton, the American War for Independence ended in 1783 after 8 years of fighting the British.
I’m paraphrasing in the interest of your attention span but England steps back, and leaves the colonies to govern using their proposed Articles of Confederation. The problem with this is that it basically only outlined how a central government would work, and assigned all duties that King George had.
For example, passing laws, managing debts of each colony, trade regulations and foreign treaties (to name a few) weren’t centrally managed effectively. One of the more notable points of friction was that the Spanish still owned New Orleans at this time, and thereby owned entry (and declined American access) to the Mississippi River. It was pretty clear that a new system of government was needed, not one remodeled after a monarchy, if they had any hope of functioning.
So, a Constitutional Convention formed, meeting in Philadelphia all summer, signing the Constitution on this day in 1787.
