Category: Culture

Veil fashions, what to do and not do, were all the talk in the early 1900s. From Paris to the United States, women wore veils…

The following article on Christmas trees was originally published on December 23, 1904 in The Bowbells Tribune. The First Christmas Trees Long a Central Figure…

The early 1900s had a large range of different types of veils for women of all backgrounds and for the latest fads in the fashion…

The Santa Claus Fortune Teller below was originally published in a Louisiana newspaper back in 1888. Instructions read: In the system of the astrologers, the…

Before we had the internet to share hair care recipes, there were newspapers that published articles specifically for women. The article below was originally published…

Women used to wear veils as a form of decoration and sometimes the trend grew a bit weird, such as with the domine veil. From…

Hands and nails, clean and soft, were a sign of beauty a hundred years ago. The article below was published in 1898 and gives hand…

What were women told about being beautiful over a hundred years ago? The answer might surprise you – and sound very familiar. How To Be…

How did the women of the early 1900s deal with wearing corsets all day long, every day? Here are some corset wearing tips I dug…

Making homemade Christmas candies was a family tradition in the not so distant past, and even today there are some families that still make their…