- 1. Leading Member of BuzzFeed's "Cocoa Butter" Chantal Rochelle Talks Pushing The Culture Forward: Exclusive BUST Intervi
- (Entertainment)
- ... my body [and] building a relationship with it has influenced my style because it's allowed me to wear things I wouldn't have worn before. Wearing leather pants and giving the girls shoulder. I think fo ...
- Created on 16 April 2021
- 2. These Easter Bonnets Were Must-Haves In The Late 19th Century
- (Style)
- ... Though worn on a Christian holiday, Easter bonnets had no particular affiliation with religion. As an 1886 edition of the Globe explains: “An Easter bonnet, notwithstanding its religious savour, ...
- Created on 16 April 2019
- 3. Mother Jones Was A Hell-Raising Trailblazer In The Fight For Workers' Rights
- (Feminism)
- ... never mellowed. “Hell, I never have worn those and I don’t want to now,” she told a well-meaning friend who tried to pin a corsage on her at a celebration of her “100th” birthday a few months prior to ...
- Created on 30 January 2019
- 4. Arrested For Wearing Pants: The Story Of Emma Snodgrass
- (Feminism)
- ... 19, 5-foot-3-inches tall, with neatly combed short black hair. Her coat and pants were new, neat, and well-fitting. Her tie was fashionable, and "usually worn ajaunt, as becomes a gay young man about town." ...
- Created on 10 January 2019
- 5. This Cap Was A Modest Necessity For 19th Century Women
- (Style)
- The 19th century cap was a modest necessity. Worn by "spinsters" and "matrons" both young and old, it neatly covered a lady’s hair while she was at home and abroad. At face value, such a basic article ...
- Created on 28 November 2018
- 6. What Did Jane Austen's and Charlotte Brontë's Obituaries Look Lik
- (Books)
- Today, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Charlotte Brontë, and Charles Dickens are generally recognized as four of the greatest authors in English literature. But how did their contemporaries view them? Were ...
- Created on 08 May 2018
- 7. Here's What Fashionable Men Dressed Like In The 1800
- (Style)
- ... Dighton, 1805. Short-fronted tailcoats and fitted waistcoats were worn over plain, white linen shirts. Tight-fitting pantaloons replaced eighteenth century knee breeches, Hessian boots replaced buckled ...
- Created on 06 September 2017
- 8. In The 1860s, Wealthy Women Wore Truly ENORMOUS Skirts
- (Style)
- ... flounced skirts worn over a wire crinoline of “truly magnificent proportions.” How magnificent? During 1860, ladies’ skirts reached their maximum size of the century. Skirts stood out from the body over ...
- Created on 30 August 2017
- 9. Kathy Griffin Before The Whole Bloody Mess: Flashback Friday
- (Entertainment)
- ... and an eyelift—was done more than five years ago, and since then, Griffin has sworn it off. “This is going to sound assholey, but I’ve gotten more compliments since I’ve stopped,” she says, and indeed, ...
- Created on 08 June 2017
- 10. Here's How Women Wore Their Hair in the 1860
- (Style)
- ... Magazine, hair nets were an absolute necessity for ladies venturing out of doors as they kept the hair "neat and tidy." Plain, everyday nets were worn either on their own or accented with "knots or bow ...
- Created on 09 March 2017
- 11. 5 Lessons On Plagiarism From Team Trump
- (Feminism)
- ... said we should allow guns in schools due to bears, and because hundreds of thousands of people have signed petitions, worn red, and made calls against her. Lesson 2: If you’re going to plagiarize, ...
- Created on 01 February 2017
- 12. There’s A Real Reason Feminist Websites Are Shutting Down
- (Feminism)
- ... don’t pay to promote them. Donald Trump will be sworn in as president in 18 days. We need writers who are willing to speak out against Trump and his sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic ...
- Created on 02 January 2017
- 13. Why Cats Are Responsible For All Of English Literature (Really!)
- (Books)
- “I knewe these things wil seem mervelous to many men, that Cats should understand and speak, have a governour among themselves, and be obedient to their Lawes...” (Beware the Cat by William Baldwin, ...
- Created on 06 December 2016
- 14. How To Get Rid Of Donald Trump: An Action Plan In 3 Steps
- (Living)
- ... leases from the federal government, another ethical problem — before January 20, he could be impeached the minute he’s sworn in. (Read more about this on Judd Legum’s helpful tweet-thread). The opinion ...
- Created on 05 December 2016
- 15. When Fortune Telling Could Land You In Jail
- (Living)
- Question to the Cards by Édouard Bisson, 1889 “...every person pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose ...
- Created on 29 November 2016
- 16. Suffragette City: Meet the Young Women Behind the Suffrage Movement in the U.S.
- (Feminism)
- ... the extreme,” reported The Suffragist. “Some of them could hardly walk and were supported by the younger and stronger women. All were worn and pale, and it was some moments before they ceased to watch ...
- Created on 17 August 2016
- 17. This Female Director Made Movies About Abortion And Birth Control - In The 1920s
- (Movies)
- ... worn shoes, cheaper than the ones the baby is using as toys. By 1917, Weber was experiencing serious success; she was earning $50,000 (nearly $575,000 in today’s dollars) per film, and became the first ...
- Created on 07 April 2016
- 18. BUST Review: THINX Underwear For Women With Periods
- (Style)
- ... the bottom bit of the panty in place that was a little noticeable. If you’ve worn pads, it is very reminiscent to that. The THINX hip hugger valiantly kept its word of being leakless as I slingshot ...
- Created on 03 March 2016
- 19. Sarah Palin Counters Tina Fey’s Impression Of Her With A Terrible '30 Rock' Impression
- (TV)
- ... the costumes are on point, because Liz Lemon has worn almost this exact striped shirt and blazer outfit before. They do nail Liz’s obsession with unhealthy food (“Where’s my Big Gulp?”). The parody ...
- Created on 22 December 2015
- 20. The Price of Pizza: A Social Experiment Turned Tinder-mare
- (Sex)
- On the second floor of a house near Journal Square in Jersey City, Claire Caster sinks into a worn leather ottoman inside her living room. Still in her gym clothes, she drags her fingers lazily across ...
- Created on 13 November 2015
