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There is no use saying that trains are dangerous. After all, we still hear of accidental and intentional deaths involving trains. However, train accidents were…

Why were they called catsuits? Because they were “suits” for women. Both the top and bottom of the suit would match and it was often…

Back in the eighties, anyone caught wearing a pair of old bell bottoms was written off as a fashion dork. But then those millennial kids…

While the sixties and protests often brings to mind the world famous photos of U.S. and British flower children, Australia also had some wonderful protests…

What would the sixties have been without the hippies? Rather boring, I suspect. Below are newspaper photos and brief glimpses at the hippy way of…

Here are a collection of headdresses commonly worn by the flappers in the roaring twenties. Many of these can be easily recreated, beaded, or sewn…

Hairstyles in the Twenties were predominantly above the shoulders. It was the age of the hair bob and women were expressing their new found freedoms…

This Ride-a-Cock-Horse paper puzzle cutout was originally published in 1909. A once popular nursery rhyme, the paper puzzle reinforces the imagery of the rhyme and…

Some people seem to think that tattoos were for the ruffians and undesirables in the past, but that simply was not the case. Tattoos were…

Some people are just fine with dolls, but when it comes to puppets resembling people they cannot get out of the room fast enough. Below…