VOODOO CEREMONY

October 3, 2011
1970s, Color, Dance, Fashions, Interiors, Women | Leave a Comment

Voodoo ceremony in Haiti, circa 1970. Voodoo alters, voodoo flags, voodoo priest, voodoo priest eating, priestesses dancing, priest almost unconscious, vévé symbol written on floor.

via Digital Library of the Caribbean

 

FREE CHURCH ?

September 30, 2011
1970s, Color, Cults, Graphics, The West | 1 Comment

Do you know the Free Church? Praise to these pink pamphlets passed out by the elusive Free Church in Berkeley, CA in 1970. I need to make a trifold typed letter sized mailer for my message. Stamp and all.

via Calisphere

GREEN BADGE

September 28, 2011
1970s, 1980s, Fashions, Graphics, Nature | 1 Comment

Let’s keep Utah Wild and find me a bike! I’m in the market for a new ride.

environmental buttons via Smithsonian

 

FUTURE PLASTIC

September 27, 2011
1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Designers, Europe, UK | 1 Comment


Shop til you drop in plastics.

1. Bamboo sunglasses, Oliver Goldsmith Eyewear, 1962
2. Table mat, Maryse Boxer, 1985
3. Carrier bag, Eric Schemilt Designs Ltd, 1978
4. Pair of ankle boots, Mary Quant, 1967
5. Pink Jelly XK200, Swatch, 1990

via V&A

 

Seminole Styles

September 26, 2011
1960s, 1990s, Color, Native American, Textiles, The South | Leave a Comment

Bright, booming, sunshine colors of Florida’s Seminole Indians. Work made from 1960s-1990s. Totally dig the sun billed bonnet. I’m into bonnets.

via Peabody Museum

RANCHER WEAR

September 22, 2011
1960s, 1970s, Fashions, The West | Leave a Comment

Get the look: worn out rancher. Worn in, dirty, and beat up. This is real tuff stuff tomboy style. Inspired by this story of a wrangler babe and her horse who saved a boy from a grizzly bear.

via LOC: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982

 

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