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“Y’allternative”: Goth Meets Cowboy in This Trendy Aesthetic With a Rich History
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(Style)
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... Western,” which isn’t all that new. In the 1940s and ‘50s, Western flicks were at their peak popularity, and post-war disillusionment with the American Dream and patriotism created an inevitable meshing ...
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Created on 17 January 2023
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Nicole Rieder Explains How She Achieves Her Perfect, Plus-Size '60's Glam Look, and Shares Her 7 Most-Wanted Lis
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(Style)
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... reflected the societal changes in every way. It started out like an extension of the ’50s, and transformed into experimental and bold attitudes and clothing. I love the mod, pop-art inspired pieces, but ...
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Created on 02 January 2023
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7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
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(Movies)
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... Max.
The United States vs Billie Holiday
“Strange Fruit” singer Billie Holiday, played here by Andra Day, did not have a simple or straightforward path to stardom as a singer in the 1950s. Although ...
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Created on 30 November 2022
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Queer Period Pieces Like Abbi Jacobson's "A League Of Their Own" Are A Reminder That LGBTQ Rights Are Still Under Atta
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(TV)
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... 50s, and 60s government-led attacks on queer and transgender people destroyed lives. Stonewall for instance, was a literal riot with drag and trans legends like Stormé Delarverie and Marsha P. Johnson ...
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Created on 13 October 2022
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From The BUST Archives: Buffy Sainte-Marie Discusses Her 2009 Album "Running For The Drum," Feminism, The 1960's, and Breastfeeding On "Sesame Street?" ...
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(Music)
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... What was it like growing up with your adoptive parents in Massachusetts in the ’40s and ’50s?
Buffy Saint-Marie: It was bad. There were predators in the neighborhood. There were predators in the house. ...
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Created on 10 October 2022
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Hillary Clinton's New Podcast "Gutsy" Profiles Women Who Inspire: Our Top 10 Pop Culture Picks For Fa
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(Living)
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1. Don’t Worry Darling
This psychological thriller directed by and featuring Olivia Wilde and starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Nick Kroll, and Chris Pine, revolves around a 1950s housewife living ...
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Created on 07 September 2022
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7.
We All Stan A Flowy Caftan
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(Style)
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... long, robe-like garments kept people in hot climates looking elegant and feeling cool. Later, starting in the 1950s, high-couture houses like Dior and Halston brought their own wildly patterned, colorful ...
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Created on 05 July 2022
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Diane Coffee's New Album, "With People" Combines Folk-Rock and Dream Pop, and The Results Are Masterful ...
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(Music)
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... is a retro 1950s Pop ballad which tells a tale of a school yard bully from the abused child’s perspective who’s had enough sharing “I just can’t take anymore.” “Forecast” is pure Pop in the same vein of ...
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Created on 25 April 2022
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"The Sex Lives of African Women" Aims to Help African Women Decolonize Their Sexuality By Sharing Their Storie
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(Books)
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... a queer feminist residing in Egypt navigating the sexual politics of her current landscape; and Miss Deviant, a South London Dominatrix in her 50s who makes her wealthy white male patrons “perform acts ...
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Created on 11 March 2022
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“Lucy and Desi," Amy Poehler's New Documentary About TV Pioneers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Is An Intimate Look Into An Early Power Couple's Private Life ...
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(Movies)
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... on a movie set, and against all odds got married and portrayed one of the first mixed race couples on TV at the time, in I Love Lucy. Mind you, this was in the ‘50s. At a time when sexism and racism was ...
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Created on 07 March 2022
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Mackenzi Lee Breaks the Rules When It Comes to Personal Style
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(Style)
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... to be a skirt and a traditional 1950s silhouette. The last couple of years for me have really been about challenging my own preconceptions about what I am allowed to wear.
Who are your biggest fashion ...
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Created on 22 February 2022
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Joan Didion and Me: How the Writer's "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" Showed Me The Power of a Woman's Voice, in the Literary World and Bey
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(Feminism)
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... heavy emotions, and as a teenage girl I didn’t have the words to express any of it.
I grew up in a family of submissive women and dominant, opinionated men. The values of ‘1950s housewife’ had ...
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Created on 11 January 2022
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Sex And The City's Spinoff Raises the Question: "Where Are All The Other Shows About Middle-Aged Women
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(TV)
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... That… will find the ladies navigating love, loss, and, of course, fashion – this time, in their 50s.
Given Hollywood’s tendency to sideline stories of middle-aged or, god forbid, senior women, And Just ...
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Created on 18 November 2021
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Zendaya Honored as Youngest Recipient of CFDA Fashion Icon Award
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(Style)
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... Anya Taylor-Joy (@anyataylorjoy)
The Queen’s Gambit star channeled 1950s vintage in a royal purple Oscar de la Renta blazer mini dress, paired with a leopard print cap and gloves. Taylor-Joy has ...
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Created on 12 November 2021
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High? Low? What's messing with my libido? Dr. Carol Queen explains it al
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(Sex)
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... menstrual periods—usually, around your early 50s. Perimenopause involves hormone shifts and bodily changes, but there isn’t one path or experience that all people traversing perimenopause share. Sometimes, ...
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Created on 04 November 2021
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Social Media Influencer Bretman Rock is the First Openly Gay Male Model to Take it All Off on the Cover of Playboy Magazine
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(Blog)
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... founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, magazine publisher and glorified pimp, Playboy was considered a progressive pornographic publication, at that time, for defyed the 1950s anti-obscenity laws. Playboy’s first ...
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Created on 07 October 2021
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The Last Starlet: An Interview with 1950's Bad Girl of the Silver Screen, Mamie Van Dore
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(Movies)
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Photo: photofest
Discovered by Howard Hughes at 18 and poised to become Universal Studios’ answer to Marilyn Monroe, Mamie Van Doren made a name for herself in the ’50s playing big screen bad girls. ...
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Created on 08 September 2021
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Black Canary Spinoff in the Pipeline with Jurnee Smollett Reprising Role in the DC Films Sequel. Misha Green of Lovecraft Country Set to Write
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(Movies)
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... created critically acclaimed, but short-lived HBO show Lovecraft Country. The sci-fi show set in the segregated,1950s American South, also featured Smollett as Letitia Lewis, who's on a journey in search ...
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Created on 23 August 2021
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New Biography of Warhol Superstar, Nico, Explains It All: BUST Review
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(Books)
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... a teen she grew into a great beauty which proved to be Christa’s ticket out. In the mid 1950s, after being discovered by an agent for a large German department store, Christa began runway modeling at the ...
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Created on 10 August 2021
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What Exactly Is The Return of Saturn?
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(Living)
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... in your mid to late 50s (this is the time one starts to plan for retirement), and the third one is in your 80s (this is a reflective transit). Being that Saturn is a karmic planet, we learn lessons and ...
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Created on 04 June 2021