#her swimsuit is Victorian swimsuit inspired

[the-patchwork-girl-of-oz]

I’ve already spoken a little about my trans Harry Potter headcannons/au that I created purely for the purpose of pissing off JK Rowling (and also my mother’s contribution of the cross dressing hagrid headcannon thank you mom) so I also feel like showing my goth version of fleur (casual outfit, school uniform and swimwear)

[jedivoodoochile]

Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi was known professionally as Maila Nurmi, and known even more professionally as Vampira. During her career, Nurmi claimed to have been born in Petsamo, Finland. However, those who have claimed to had seen her birth certificate said that her birthplace was listed as Gloucester, Massachusetts.

The idea for the Vampira character was born in 1953 when Nurmi attended choreographer Lester Horton's annual Bal Caribe Masquerade in a costume inspired by Morticia Addams in The New Yorker cartoons of Charles Addams. Her appearance with pale white skin and tight black dress caught the attention of television producer Hunt Stromberg, Jr., who wanted to hire her to host horror movies on the Los Angeles television station KABC-TV, but Stromberg had no idea how to contact her. He finally got her phone number from Rudi Gernreich, later the designer of the topless swimsuit. The name Vampira was the invention of Nurmi's husband, Dean Riesner. Nurmi's characterization was influenced by the Dragon Lady from the comic strip Terry and the Pirates and the evil queen from Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937).

On April 30, 1954, KABC-TV aired a preview, "Dig Me Later, Vampira," at 11:00 p.m. "The Vampira Show" premiered on the following night, May 1, 1954. Each show opened with Vampira gliding down a dark corridor flooded with dry-ice fog. At the end of her trance-like walk, the camera zoomed in on her face as she let out a piercing scream. She would then introduce (and mock) that evening's film while reclining barefoot on a skull-encrusted Victorian couch. Her horror-related comedy antics included ghoulish puns such as encouraging viewers to write for epitaphs instead of autographs and talking to her pet spider Rollo. Despite its popularity, the series was canceled in 1955 when Nurmi refused to sell her rights to the character to ABC. Nurmi revived the series for a short time in 1956 on KHJ-TV.

After the series' demise, Nurmi appeared in the cult film "Plan 9 from Outer Space" (1959), dressed as Vampira and credited under that name but out of character. Nurmi told Boxoffice that Wood's dialogue was so awful she sought and received permission to perform her entire role in a mute. "At the time I thought it was horrible. I knew immediately I'd be committing professional suicide, but I thought 'What choice do I have?' Somehow, I seemed to be dead already. I love glamour and physical beauty. I've always been fascinated by beautiful men on the screen: Tyrone Power, Robert Walker, with soft-focus filters and velvet voices. That's what [Edward D. Wood Jr.] was like. Beautiful dreamy eyes and long, sweeping lashes, just beautiful. He didn't make a very pretty lady [in 'Glen or Glenda' (1953)], but he made an awfully pretty man."

"I just thought he was a low-born idiot. With no talent at all. Just a brazen, foolish idiot... You know, I thought he was just a goon. Ah, I wasn't looking squarely . . . I just cast a glance, and just dismissed him with a thought. Kind of snobbish and foolish of me. But then over the years as I've mellowed and grown a little more sensible, and I began to look at this man after, after the fact. And I thought, 'Incredible what he managed to achieve!' Without any help! And the obstacles that he managed to overcome! Somehow, it's . . . miraculous. It's more than just persistence. Yes, he had a lot of persistence--that's for sure. But he also had a gilded karma that this was all intended to be.

[bakugou-tm]

Bakugou-tm Masterlist (Updated)

Reader

Headcannons

Lazy (s/o)

Butt pinching (s/o)  

Alpha Baku & Omega s/o that steals his clothes for her nest  

Bakugou seeing s/o in swimsuit (NSFW)

Angelic s/o that is crazy strong in battle  

S/o that messes with Bakugou in public (slight NSFW)  

Short s/o

Dragon King Bakugou traveling to island of amazons  

Bakugou making friends with his strong rival  

*Updated*

Bakugou getting paired up with crush who can manipulate quirks

GIF Headcannons pt. 1

GIF Headcannons pt. 2

Bakugou-tm Headcannons

Headcannon #1

Headcannon #2

Headcannon #3

Headcannon #4

Headcannon #5

Scenarios

Exploring haunted mansion  

Mineta sneaking into girl’s dorms (inspired by @sup-poki post)  

Bakugou meeting (s/o) & child he left from high school (slight domestic)

Easter scavenger hunt (slight nsfw)

(S/o) and kids cleaning Bakugou’s cuts (domestic)  

Building collapses on (s/o) that saves people

Bakugou doing something nice for Izuku’s sister

Bakugou seeing s/o in swimsuit (NSFW)

Bakugou’s European (s/o) being made fun of for forgetting Japanese words  

Villains attack Ground Zero’s wife and kids at his house (domestic)

(S/o) crying and hugging family after fight (domestic)

Fantasy AU Bakugou and Dragon Trainer (NSFW)

Bakugou hurts (s/o)’s feelings so he makes it up to her  

Boys try to hit on (s/o) and Bakusquad protects her  

Bakugou saving you and colleagues from villain

Jealous Bakugou at beach  

Bakugou taking (s/o) to water spring

Comforting angry/sad Bakugou  

Bakugou and colleague having to go as undercover couple  

Bakugou and (s/o) watching fireworks  

Bakugou’s crush having same birthday but not telling him  

Bakugou’s birthday with family (domestic)  

Artsy (s/o) makes Bakugou birthday gift but is nervous to give to him

Bakugou has party but leaves with s/o (slight nsfw)  

Bakugou showing up to class with surprise cake from s/o  

Bakugou finds out wife is pregnant (domestic)  

Bakugou and s/o finding baby on mission (slight domestic)

S/o falling on Bakugou with quirk that puts thoughts on skin  

Bakugou’s kids hang out with his parents (domestic)  

Bakugou family meets up with Bakusquad (domestic)  

S/o praising Bakugou when he feels down  

Super soft s/o that’s a medic  

Reader kissing stranger to learn language  

S/o is former delinquent and child of mafia

Bakugou’s s/o meets parents for first time  

Bakugou with super sweet yet clumsy s/o

Bakugou has nightmare and accidentally hurts s/o  

Bakugou having a hot moment until realizing s/o is on period (NSFW)  

Bakugou finding tired and stressed s/o on floor crying  

Bakugou and s/o painting new baby’s nursery

Dying kiss  

Jealous kiss

Goofy kiss  

Angry kiss  

Bakugou wanting alone time with s/o but kids interrupted (part 1) (domestic & slight nsfw)  

I thought I lost you kiss  

In the dark kiss  

S/o snapping on Mineta after making inappropriate comment

Crush getting hit by quirk that makes heroes seem like villains  

Pirate Bakugou and s/o AU

Father’s Day surprise (domestic)  

S/o getting trapped under rubble during fight

S/o getting a dog that ends up liking Bakugou

S/o breaking up with Bakugou since he only focused on being a hero  

S/o being proud of Bakugou after sports festival  

S/o being put into coma from being kidnapped then waking up  

Bakugou wanting alone time with s/o but kids interrupted (part 2) (domestic & nsfw)  

Shy s/o sneaking to Bakugou’s dorm  

Pizza delivery boy Bakugou  

Bakugou gets called from police on anniversary finding out s/o is dead

Why (song fic)  

S/o showing up to Bakugou’s dorm angrily after being forced into quirk marriage

S/o reuniting with Bakugou after being captured

Esta Noche (song fic)  

Bakugou and s/o switching hero costumes  

S/o that can deliver illnesses to others finding villain that killed their parents

Bakugou takes family on vacation (domestic)  

S/o constantly being tired from school & training  

*Updated*

Bakugou meeting (s/o) & child he left from high school pt. 2

(S/o) comes home w/ wound & exhausted (domestic)

Bakugou embarasses chill (s/o) and she gets rageful

Anti-Hero Bakugou #1 

Anti-Hero Bakugou #2

Anti-Hero Bakugou #3

Bakugou catching (s/o) dancing to KPOP

(S/o) is busy at college so Bakugou surprises them

(S/o) teasing Bakugou while he plays video games (NSFW)

(S/o) tags along with Bakugou to photoshoot

Class reacting to Bakugou & (S/o) photoshoot

Bakugou finds (S/o) tied up after being MIA

Pumpkin carving

Bakugou and (S/o) doing black face mask

Bakugou finding out shy crush is kinky (barely NSFW)

Jealous Bakugou with (S/o)’s secret admirer 

Bakugou seeing (S/o) without a shirt (slight NSFW)

Bakugou vs Monoma x Reader

Bakugou proposing to cheerful (S/o)

Bakugou jealous of (S/o) that’s “one of the guys”

Fiesty Omega (S/o) that’s from America (Omegaverse)

Pro-Hero Bakugou reuniting with ex-crush who’s fashion designer

Bakugou wanting alone time with (S/o) but kids interrupt pt. 3 (NSFW)

Bakugou crushing on Izuku’s protective cousin

Bakugou x Quirkless Reader

(S/o)’s dog that initially hates Bakugou, but then teams up with him to hate Deku

Bakugou’s crush gets hit with memory loss quirk and Kaminari says he’s her boyfriend

Perfect (song fic)

Bakugou and crush versing one another in sports festival and crush teases him in front of everyone 

Victorian Era Villain Bakugou x Reader

Bakugou and (S/o) meeting up on rooftop in between hectic schedules

Ruin My Life (song fic)

Stuck in detention with Bakugou (slight NSFW)

Anti Hero Bakugou #4

Anti Hero Bakugou #4 pt. 2 (slight NSFW)

Suit and Tie (song fic)

Spring Break Hormones

Crack Pineapple Pizza Oneshot

Reader modeling for Bakugou’s parents then finding how who their son was

Bakugou’s shy (S/o) wear tight jeans for first time (slight NSFW)

Bakusquad goes to pumpkin patch until it starts pouring

Jealous Bakugou because Shindou flirts with (S/o) at costume party (NSFW)

Fics

Twisted Fates Prologue  

Twisted Fates Chapter 1  

Twisted Fates Chapter 2  

Twisted Fates Chapter 3

Scarlet Night Chapter 1  

Scarlet Night Chapter 2  

Scarlet Night Chapter 3  

Updated

The Chosen Prologue Chapter 1

The Chosen Chapter 2

The Chosen Chapter 3

NSFW Alphabet

Aftercare

Quickie & No

Oral, Risk, Unfair

Jack Off

Cum, Dirty Secret, Favorite Position, Kink

Body Part, Unfair

Original Characters

Headcannons

Scenarios

Bakugou x @technicallyflamey OC  

*Updated*

Bakugou x @artistvicky​ OC

Fics

My Other Half Chapter 1  

My Other Half Chapter 2  

My Other Half Chapter 3  

My Other Half Chapter 4  

Rare Limited Edition Karma Akabane Content *gasp*

Karma with Artist (S/o)

Karma x Reader Purge AU (NSFW)

[marzipanandminutiae]

Not sure if it’s just me, but I’ve noticed, that when it comes to clothing (historical costumes, modern clothes etc) that ‘sexy’ is a term I keep hearing. Like “make it sexy” or “is it sexy?” And I don’t get it? Why does everything have to be sexy?

It’s not just you. “Sexy” and “relatable” are the big watchwords that lead to terrible historical costuming these days.

I remember when The Tudors came out and a big part of the hype was the idea of “sexy history.” There's been an idea for a long time in some circles that history is dry, dull, and uninteresting because of the way it’s taught in schools. For me, when that’s true, it’s because those teachers reduce it to a list of names and dates without getting into how our ancestors actually lived and thought and felt. That’s why I love social history.

For some people, it’s because there’s Not Enough Sex(TM).

Far be it from me to claim the sexy side of history hasn’t been censored and watered down over the years. It absolutely has. And sex is a key part of life for many, many people. But somehow this drive to restore the whole (sexual) truth has turned into what I call “Tits Out For The [number] Century.”

It applies to men sometimes, too- see also: leather pants EVERYWHERE -but it’s mostly historical women who have to wear sexy clothing at all times. Not sexy clothing for the time period, usually. Sexy by modern standards.

(As just one example, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn dance a “volta.” Note sleeveless dress, flowing hair, and Tits Out For The 16th Century. Also the volta was considered a slightly racy dance and did have lifts, but that’s...not it at all.)

As for modern clothing- yeah, it’s weird. There’s this idea that if you’re not being sexy, especially for women, you’re not living your life to the fullest. On makeover shows, you often see women with more casual or unusual styles derided for not looking “sexy enough.” On the flip side of “don’t show too much skin/body definition” is the idea that if you don’t show it off ENOUGH you’re a prude or not a Liberated Woman.

(Taken to extremes in Islamophobic reactions to Muslim women who voluntarily wear concealing religious garments. There are laws in some parts of Europe prohibiting women from covering up too much when swimming, inspired by the creation of “burkini” swimwear- though I doubt they’d be enforced on, say, a non-Muslim historical costumer trying out her new Victorian swimsuit. It’s ridiculous, a clear intersection of racism, religious prejuice, and misogyny.)

I made a post once about how I loved hoops and other skirt supports IN PART because they controlled how much of my lower body is on display. Some of the comments chided me for “giving in to the patriarchy” or said my thoughts were sad because I clearly hated my body since I didn’t like showing that part of it off.

I remember being 11 and uncomfortable because it was 2004 and even in the girls’ department, I couldn’t find non-low-rise jeans. I remember being 14 and uncomfortable because we weren’t allowed to have our school uniform skirts “too long” and had to wear them every Wednesday. I remember being 18 and uncomfortable because my mom was pressuring me to buy a bodycon dress that I’d never have picked for myself.

I don’t know why everything has to be sexy, Anon. But I’m definitely with you on how it makes me feel.

[timeless-hollywood-classics]

Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi (December 11, 1922 – January 10, 2008), known professionally as Maila Nurmi, was a Finnish-American actress and television personality who created the campy 1950s character Vampira.

The daughter of a Finnish immigrant, Nurmi was raised in Oregon and relocated to Los Angeles in 1940 with hopes of being an actress. After several minor film roles, she found success in the Vampira character, television's first horror host. Nurmi hosted her own series, The Vampira Show, from 1954–55 on KABC-TV.

After the show's cancellation, she appeared in the 1959 cult film Plan 9 from Outer Space, directed by Ed Wood. She is also billed as Vampira in the 1959 film The Beat Generation, where she appears out of character and instead plays a beatnik poet. Nurmi also appeared in the 1959 crime film The Big Operator. She was portrayed by Lisa Marie in Tim Burton's 1994 biopic Ed Wood.

Maila Nurmi was born Maila Elizabeth Syrjäniemi in 1922 to Onni Syrjäniemi, a Finnish immigrant, and Sophia Peterson, an American of Finnish descent. Her place of birth is disputed: according to biographer W. Scott Poole in Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror (2014), Nurmi was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, during her career, Nurmi claimed to have been born in Petsamo, Finland, claiming she was the niece of Finnish athlete Paavo Nurmi, who began setting long-distance running world records in 1921, the year before her birth. Public U.S. immigration records show her father's immigration at Ellis Island in 1910. Additionally, Dana Gould claimed in a 2014 public interview that he had seen Nurmi's birth certificate, which listed her birthplace as Gloucester, Massachusetts.

During her childhood, Nurmi relocated with her family from Massachusetts to Ashtabula, Ohio, before settling in Astoria, Oregon, a city on the Oregon Coast with a large Finnish community. Her father worked as a lecturer and editor, and her mother also worked as a part-time journalist and translator to support the family. She graduated from Astoria High School in 1940.

In 1940, Nurmi relocated to Los Angeles, California to pursue an acting career, and later in New York City. She modeled for Alberto Vargas, Bernard of Hollywood, and Man Ray, gaining a foothold in the film industry with an uncredited role in Victor Saville's 1947 film, If Winter Comes.

She was reportedly fired in 1944 by Mae West from the cast of West's Broadway play, Catherine Was Great, because West feared she was being upstaged.

On Broadway, she gained much attention after appearing in the horror-themed midnight show Spook Scandals, in which she screamed, fainted, lay in a coffin, and seductively lurked about a mock cemetery. She also worked as a showgirl for the Earl Carroll Theatre and as a high-kicking chorus line dancer at the Florentine Gardens along with stripper Lili St. Cyr. In the 1950s, she supported herself mainly by posing for pin-up photos in men's magazines such as Famous Models, Gala and Glamorous Models. Before landing her role as 'Vampira', she was working as a hat-check girl in a cloakroom on Hollywood's Sunset Strip.

The idea for the Vampira character was born in 1953 when Nurmi attended choreographer Lester Horton's annual Bal Caribe Masquerade in a costume inspired by Morticia Addams in The New Yorker cartoons of Charles Addams. Her appearance with pale white skin and tight black dress caught the attention of television producer Hunt Stromberg, Jr., who wanted to hire her to host horror movies on the Los Angeles television station KABC-TV, but Stromberg had no idea how to contact her. He finally got her phone number from Rudi Gernreich, later the designer of the topless swimsuit. The name Vampira was the invention of Nurmi's husband, Dean Riesner. Nurmi's characterization was influenced by the Dragon Lady from the comic strip Terry and the Pirates and the evil queen from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

On April 30, 1954, KABC-TV aired a preview, Dig Me Later, Vampira, at 11:00 p.m. The Vampira Show premiered on the following night, May 1, 1954. For the first four weeks, the show aired at midnight, moving to 11:00 p.m. on May 29. Ten months later, the series aired at 10:30 p.m., beginning March 5, 1955. Each show opened with Vampira gliding down a dark corridor flooded with dry-ice fog. At the end of her trance-like walk, the camera zoomed in on her face as she let out a piercing scream. She would then introduce (and mock) that evening's film while reclining barefoot on a skull-encrusted Victorian couch. Her horror-related comedy antics included ghoulish puns such as encouraging viewers to write for epitaphs instead of autographs and talking to her pet spider Rollo.

She also ran as a candidate for Night Mayor of Hollywood with a platform of "dead issues". In another publicity stunt, KABC had her cruise around Hollywood in the back of a chauffeur-driven 1932 Packard touring car with the top down, where she sat, as Vampira, holding a black parasol. The show was an immediate hit, and in June 1954 she appeared as Vampira in a horror-themed comedy skit on The Red Skelton Show along with Béla Lugosi, and Lon Chaney, Jr.. That same week Life magazine ran an article on her, including a photo-spread of her show-opening entrance and scream. A kinescope of her The Red Skelton Show appearance was discovered in 2014. It is available as part of the Shout Factory DVD box set Red Skelton: The Early Years.

When her KABC series was cancelled in 1955, Nurmi retained rights to the character of Vampira and took the show to a competing Los Angeles television station, KHJ-TV. Several episode scripts and a single promotional kinescope of Nurmi re-creating some of her macabre comedy segments are held by private collectors. Several clips from the rare kinescope are included in the documentaries American Scary and Vampira: The Movie. The entire KABC kinescope, plus selections of the KABC pitchman who introduced the clips, is available in the 2012 documentary Vampira and Me.

Vampira and Me also features extensive clips from two previously unknown 16mm kinescopes of Nurmi as Vampira on national TV shows, including her starring guest spot on the April 2, 1955 episode of The George Gobel Show, a top 10 hit. The Vampira and Me restoration of the Gobel kinescope was documented in a 2013 short film entitled Restoring Vampira.

Examination of Nurmi's diaries in 2014 by filmmaker and journalist R. H. Greene verify longtime rumors that in 1956 she was the model for Maleficent, the evil witch in the Disney conception of the classic fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty." The Disney archivist subsequently confirmed these findings.

In 2007, the kinescope film of Nurmi in character was restored by Rerunmedia, whose restorations include The Ed Sullivan Show and Dark Shadows. The restoration utilized the groundbreaking LiveFeed Video Imaging process developed exclusively for the restoration of kinescopes. The restoration was funded by Spectropia Wunderhaus and Coffin Case.

A reconstructed episode of The Vampira Show was released on DVD by the Vampira's Attic web site in October 2007. The release imitated a complete episode by using existing footage of the show combined with vintage commercials believed to have been directed by Ed Wood[citation needed] and the full-length 1932 feature film The Thirteenth Guest.

Nurmi made television history as the first horror movie hostess. In 1957, Screen Gems released a syndicated package of 52 horror movies, mostly from Universal Pictures, under the program title Shock Theater. Independent stations in major cities all over the U.S. began showing these films, adding their own ghoulish host or hostess (including Vampira II and other lookalikes) to attract more viewers.

Nominated for a Los Angeles area Emmy Award as 'Most Outstanding Female Personality' in 1954, she returned to films with Too Much, Too Soon in 1958, followed by The Big Operator and The Beat Generation. Her best known film appearance was in Ed Wood's camp classic, Plan 9 from Outer Space, as a Vampira-like zombie (filmed in 1956, but released in 1959). In 1960 she appeared in I Passed for White and Sex Kittens Go to College, followed by 1962's The Magic Sword. The classic clip from Plan 9 from Outer Space featuring Vampira walking out of the woods with her hands pointing straight out was used to start the original opening sequence of WPIX Channel 11 New York's Chiller Theatre in the 1960s.

By 1962, Nurmi was making a living installing linoleum flooring. "And if things are slow in linoleum, I can also do carpentry, make drapes or refinish furniture", she told the Los Angeles Times.

In the early 1960s, Nurmi opened Vampira's Attic, an antiques boutique on Melrose Avenue. She also sold handmade jewelry and clothing. She made items for several celebrities, including Grace Slick of the music group Jefferson Airplane and the Zappa family.

In 1981, Nurmi was asked by KHJ-TV to revive her Vampira character for television. She worked closely with the producers of the new show and was to get an executive producer credit, but Nurmi eventually left the project over creative differences. According to Nurmi, this was because the station cast comedic actress Cassandra Peterson in the part without consulting her. "They eventually called me in to sign a contract and she was there", Nurmi told Bizarre magazine in 2005. "They had hired her without asking me."

Nurmi worked on the project for a short time, but quit when the producers would not hire Lola Falana to play Vampira. The station sent out a casting call, and Peterson auditioned and won the role.

Unable to continue using the name Vampira, the show was abruptly renamed Elvira's Movie Macabre with Peterson playing the titular host. Nurmi soon filed a lawsuit against Peterson. The court eventually ruled in favor of Peterson, holding that "likeness means actual representation of another person's appearance, and not simply close resemblance." Peterson claimed that Elvira was nothing like Vampira aside from the basic design of the black dress and black hair. Nurmi claimed that the entire Elvira persona, which included comedic dialogue and intentionally bad graveyard puns, infringed on her creation's "distinctive dark dress, horror movie props, and...special personality." Nurmi herself claimed that Vampira's image was in part based on the Charles Addams The New Yorker cartoon character Morticia Addams, though she told Boxoffice magazine in 1994 that she had intentionally deviated from Addams' mute and flat-chested creation, making her own TV character "campier and sexier" to avoid plagiarizing Addams' idea.

In 1986, she appeared alongside Tomata du Plenty of The Screamers in Rene Daalder's punk rock musical Population: 1, which was released on DVD in October 2008. According to a Daalder interview on the 2 disc special edition of Population: 1, "There was a wild lady living out in back in a shed. Tomata befriended her and found out she had played Vampira".

In 1987, she recorded two seven-inch singles on Living Eye records with the band Satan's Cheerleaders. The singles, entitled "I Am Damned" and "Genocide Utopia," were both released on colored vinyl, the second one with a swastika on the label, and are extremely rare collector's items.

In 2001, Nurmi opened an official website and began selling autographed memorabilia and original pieces of art on eBay. Until her death, Nurmi lived in a small North Hollywood apartment.

Unlike Elvira, Nurmi authorized very few merchandising contracts for her Vampira character, though the name and likeness have been used unofficially by various companies since the 1950s. In 1994, Nurmi authorized a Vampira model kit for Artomic Creations, and a pre-painted figurine from Bowen Designs in 2001, both sculpted by Thomas Kuntz. In 2004, she authorized merchandising of the Vampira character by Coffin Case, for the limited purpose of selling skate boards and guitar cases.

In the early 1950s, Nurmi was close friends with James Dean, and they spent time together at Googie's coffee shop on the corner of Crescent Heights and Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. She explained their friendship by saying, "We have the same neuroses."

As Hedda Hopper related in a 1962 memoir that included a chapter on Dean: "We discussed the thin-cheeked actress who calls herself Vampira on television (and cashed in, after Jimmy died, on the publicity she got from knowing him and claimed she could talk to him 'through the veil'). He said: 'I had studied The Golden Bough and the Marquis de Sade, and I was interested in finding out if this girl was obsessed by a satanic force. She knew absolutely nothing. I found her void of any true interest except her Vampira make-up. She has no absolute.'"

The 2010 public radio documentary Vampira and Me by author/director R. H. Greene took issue with Hopper's depiction of the Nurmi/Dean relationship, pointing to an extant photo of Dean and Vampira sidekick Jack Simmons in full Boris Karloff Frankenstein make-up as evidence of Nurmi and Dean's friendship. The documentary also described a production memo in the Warner Bros. archive citing a set visit from "Vampira" while Dean was making Rebel Without a Cause.

The Warner Bros memo was first mentioned in the 2006 book Live Fast, Die Young: The Making of Rebel Without a Cause by Lawrence Frascella and Al Weisel, who were given access to the Rebel production files. An interview Frascella and Weisel conducted with actress Shelley Winters also uncovered an instance where Dean interrupted an argument with director Nicholas Ray and Winters so he could watch The Vampira Show on TV.

In Vampira and Me, Nurmi can be heard telling Greene that Dean once appeared in a live bit on The Vampira Show in which Vampira, dressed as a librarian, rapped his knuckles with a ruler because "he was a very naughty boy."

The English Punk rock band The Damned wrote a song about their relationship entitled ‘Plan 9, Channel 7’ and can be found on the 1979 album ‘Machine Gun Etiquette ‘ ( Chiswick Records )

On June 20, 1955, Nurmi was the target of an attempted murder when a man forced his way into her apartment and proceeded to terrorize her for close to four hours. Nurmi eventually escaped and managed to call the police, with assistance from a local shop owner.

She married her first husband, Dean Riesner, in 1949, a former child actor in silent films and later the screenwriter of Dirty Harry, Charley Varrick, Play Misty for Me, and numerous other movies and TV episodes.

She married her second husband, younger actor John Brinkley, on March 10, 1958.

She married actor Fabrizio Mioni on June 20, 1961 in Orange County, California.

On January 10, 2008, Nurmi died of natural causes at her home in Hollywood, aged 85. She was buried in the Griffith Lawn section of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.



[sing-to-me-muse]

Tagging Game: About the Writer

Rules of the Game: Answer these questions and tag 10 blogs you’d like to know better.

I was tagged by @maybeillwriteit thank you so much!! 

1. Nickname: for my real name it's El, Ele, Lele and Lefie, I have a cousin who calls me Blue Girl (bc I had dyed my hair blue the summer she met me and I completed the Aesthetic™️ with blue swimsuits). My friends also call me Raccoon cause I have very noticeable black circles under my eyes and my boyfriend calls me Gemheart 

2. Zodiac: Sagittarius

3. Height: Smol™️

4. Time: 00:20

5. Favorite Band/Artist: aaaa I hate favorite questions, um. Panic! At the Disco, BTS, grandson, Unlike Pluto, Fall Out Boy, Daughtry, The Score, Illenium, Thomas Bergersen and generally Two Steps From Hell, audiomachine, Monsta X, OneRepublic, Royal Deluxe, Lady Gaga, probably more

6. Song Stuck in My Head: Legends Never Die from LoL, thank you random guy in the train for having it as your ringtone and for that contribution to my head

7. Last Movie I Saw: I think it was called 4th Man Out? Idk it was one on Netflix that I put on as background noise to go through all the goodies I got at a con I went to

8. Last Thing I Googled: dwarven forge

9. Other Blogs: my main is @adastreia-12 and I have a bookblr under construction that I don't really use yet ( @a-library-of-wonders for the curious ones)

10. Do I Get Asks?:  Nah not here cause I'm not active myself yet, I just reblog stuff and not really on my main either but when I do get them I also get anime heart eyes

11. Why This Username?: Sing in me muse is the first line of the Odyssey in the translations I found and I'm a mythology geek so I'm all about the lore of the writer asking the Muses for their divine inspiration that Homer had going at the beginning of his epics and this entire blog was originally meant to be an archive for stuff that inspire me or resources so I'm also invoking the Muses. Sadly, sing in me muse was not an available username. So yeah. Sing to me muse.

12. Following: 233 but most of them are inactive tbh

13. Average Amount of Sleep: Around 6 hours? Wish it was 8 but noo

14. Lucky Number: Don't have one, my luck is pretty rotten too lol

15. What Am I Wearing: Baby pink chocker shirt, black jeans and a white denim jacket with black Vans

16. Dream Job: Professional author but realistically, editor in publishing

17. Dream Trip: I want to save up a lot of money and do what a cousin of mine's doing and go on a year+ long trip around the world and visit every continent, visit my relatives abroad too in the process. Alternatively, I want to get a boat with my boyfriend and travel around Greek islands.

18. Favorite Food: Greek, Mexican, Italian and Asian food in general. Really like tortellini carbonara.

19. Instruments I Play: None tbh but I did guitar for 2 years and piano for a semester

20. Eye Colour: Hazel

21. Hair Colour: Dark brown and various hues of magenta at the moment (need to redye it)

22. Aesthetic: the night sky, bookshelves and old libraries, neoclassic buildings, renaissance and baroque paintings, golden and blue hour, city lights, fairylights, fireworks, the ocean, bridges, mist, different colored hair, pastel colors, color coding, printed manuscripts and printed manuscripts with red corrections all over them, crystals, seashells, lightning and storms, the clacks of the keyboard keys, Victorian houses and clothing, and the sound of a piano playing in a minor key

23. Languages I Speak: Greek, English, basic Italian and I'm slowly going through learning some Korean

24. Most Iconic Song: Either Back In Black or Highway to Hell by AC/DC

25. Random Fact: I've got 5 pets: 2 dogs and 3 cats. 2 of the cats and 1 of the dogs are actually in the house bc parents and also the second dog is huge so he gets miserable inside the house. Their names are Malu, Ti, Loki, Hector and Nero. We had two more cats but one of them, named Ginger unfortunately died, and her son, Simba, ran away (ironically given his namesake, now that I think about it)

I don’t know a lot of people on here actually so I’ll just tag @smudged-glasses-writing and @darkside-cookies-913

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The impact of the unattainable beauty standards set by social media influencers on followers

(Dorfman et al, 2018) conducted a study which they searched and found 21 Instagram plastic surgery related hashtags the reason why they conducted the study based on three questions firstly what plastic surgery related content is being posted to Instagram, who is posting this content end what specific hashtags are they using these questions critical to their study since they found Instagram hashtags related to plastic surgery at total of 1, 789, 270 posts were found which contained 21 hashtags which way related to plastic surgery examples of the hashtags include Brazilian butt lift, breast augmentation, Boob jobs and a few others in summary the majority of the posts which contain the plastic surgery hashtags were self-promoted and not posted by non-plastic surgeons, compared to 32.9% being posted by board certified plastic surgeons intended for educational purposes.

“��� recent data conveys patients are considering aesthetic surgery turn improve the appearance on Instagram and other social media…” according to (Dorfman et al, 2018) this quote conveys The major impact of social media on beauty standards and the extent individuals will go in order to fit that beauty standard, for example undergoing surgery or other cosmetic body modification procedures inspired by social media influencers for example the Kardashians a family who have been famous on social media for years they are considered as having the ideal hourglass figure and they promote the unattainable standards of beauty and make money off of doing this however with the help of cosmetic procedures and plastic surgery which is a topic where celebrities are not very public about due to criticism by the public or judgement the issue is celebrities are wealthy and get their procedures done by top surgeons however not everyone is that wealthy and so some go to non-certified surgeons who are cheap and have no medical experience, this is extremely dangerous to the individual undergoing this “treatment” and the result will not be the same as the inspiration once the side effects start showing.

Specifically, Instagram is a great example for the topic of body modification promotion since it is a platform based on the pictures the user posts and it can be a very criticizing and judgmental space compared to Tumblr the user has the power of privacy and it is a space where they can personalize their account In order to match their personalities whereas Instagram you can just change your profile picture, Tumblr pictures can be a focus however there are more options such as blogs and hashtags are more convenient on Tumblr since they effect the users feed unlike Instagram where users are required to search for hashtags themselves and decide to follow them, Tumblr is a space to communicate however Instagram influencers use pictures to communicate and essentially the filters used by them or their hidden surgeries or cosmetic procedures are unattainable to a lot of their users including many young users and so this has detrimental effects on users including the influencers since they have set their standard where it has no ending since no one is perfect effects include, low self-esteem, constant desire for tweaks and change since there will never be a final satisfaction and jealousy or even hate one example of this is Khloe Kardashians “leaked” un edited image of her in a swimsuit she looked completely different to her highly edited usual posts her PR team had the photo taken down they even went to the extent allegedly threatened legal action in order to get the image removed.

Dorfman R, Mahmood E, Schierle C, Vaca E, Fine N, ‘Plastic Surgery-Related Hashtag Utilization on Instagram: Implications for Education and Marketing’, Aesthetic Surgery Journal, Volume 38, Issue 3, March 2018, pp 332–338cited 17.04.2021

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Verrastro, Valeria & Fontanesi, Lilybeth & Liga, Francesca & Cuzzocrea, Francesca & Gugliandolo, Maria. (2020). Fear the Instagram: beauty stereotypes, body image and Instagram use in a sample of male and female adolescents. Qwerty. Open and Interdisciplinary Journal of Technology, Culture and Education. Online first. 10.30557/QW000021.

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In China Mieville’s Kraken, a Giant Squid has been stolen by unimaginable means from the Natural History Museum’s collection of pickled, jarred, and gross things (aka the Spirit Collection). The search for the disappeared cephalopod leads an unprepared museum curator, Billy Harrow, into the demimonde of demigods, cults, magic and spirits. It’s an entertaining jaunt, but since I first read it, I have been desperate to see the secret underbelly of the Natural History Museum for myself.

The book opens with the museum’s actual Spirit Collection tour from Billy’s perspective, but since the book came out in 2008 and I finally visited in 2017, the experiences were a bit different. Instead of meeting in the grand Victorian cathedral to Science, the tour now begins in a hall lined with highlights of the collection just inside the new-since-2009 Darwin Centre, a large Cocoon where you can see scientists at work. Glass walls let you peer into labs and get a sneak peek into what appeared to be the lizard portion of the collection. I recognized myself in the eager know-it-all geeks in Billy’s “standard” cast of museum tour group characters, but I was attached to a group of Google employees enjoying a team building exercise.

I felt more like I was slipping into the story when I saw the same video feed of a large fish being cleaned by flesh eating beetles. I also got to flaunt my knowledge of collections management by correctly describing the ideal environment (18-19 degrees celsius and a relative humidity under 40%) which sounds clinical and boring compared to the eerie experience of descending into a dark, cool basement guarded by double security doors with flickering automatic lights.

I expected long rows of creepy specimens, rather like the pathology collection where I once spent an uncomfortable hour researching Victorian surgical specimens. Kraken promised:

The visitors […] were in a specimen maze. Ranked intricacies. Kilometres of shelves and jars. In each was a motionless floating animal.

Sadly, nowadays practical conservation concerns trump romantic aesthetics. On my tour, the majority of the collection was hidden away in metal lockers, and only a few were open to show some gruesome highlights. It wasn’t until we reached the tank room – containing all of the over-sized specimens – that the mad scientist aesthetic won through.

It wasn’t until we reached the tank room that the mad scientist aesthetic won through. Here be monsters, indeed. The cold steel shelves around the room were lined with large fish in jars, “grotesque mouthfuls like pickled onions,” a shark jaw in a box, snakes floating around each other like Medusa’s hair in the bath, and the piece de resistance – the long, long squid down the center.

It was a Linnaean décor; species clined into each other. There were steel bins, pulleys that hung like vines. […] This was what they came for, that pinkly enormous thing. For all its immobility; the wounds of its slow-motion decay, the scabbing that clouded its solution; despite its eyes being shrivelled and lost; its sick colour; despite the twist in its skein of limbs, as if it were being wrung out. For all that, it was what they were there for.

It would hang, an absurdly massive tentacled sepia event. Architeuthis dux. The giant squid.

    Archie the squid is 8.62 meters long (about 28 feet for Americans), although this species can grow up to 15 meters. Seeing the size of the tank itself, I could see why it’s disappearance would be such an impossibility. The monstrous beak was kept in a separate jar so the guide could take it out and demonstrate the avian way it moves. It looked incongruous for something so squishy, exactly like the beak of a parrot. Floating above Archie’s tentacles is a piece of a colossal squid’s arm. While the giant has the calamari-esque suckers you’d expect, the colossal has vicious hooks. Long before this beastie was ever found, scars from their tentacles have been found on sperm whales.

The squid might have been the initial draw to the tank room, but the other specimens were just as if not more fascinating. I saw a celocamph – a fish we thought was extinct until it was found recently off the coast of South Africa. It’s fins have the same bones found in our hands and feet. The echidna mentioned in Kraken is part of a collection of Australian marsupials (including platypuses) that Richard Owen dissected himself in an attempt to prove them hoaxes. They challenged his view of science and possibly supported evolution – so of course he had to discredit them.

The last case pointed out in the tour was not flashy like Archie or gruesome like the jars filled with the same species packed on top of each other – just a few shelves with smaller, singular specimens. All but one have had updated labels with garish yellow stickers, but the tour guide (like Billy the curator) pointed out a flat fish with an aging brown label. These specimens are a portion of Darwin’s collection from his journey with the Beagle, the journey where he formed his thoughts on evolution and changed science forever. The yellow markers show them as “type specimens,” and as soon as this is pointed out I noticed that most of the other jars around the room have yellow labels, too, and I found this even more impressive than the giant squid.

Type specimens – the “bottled Platonic essences that define everything like them” as Mieville described – are literally the first samples of that species to be studied and preserved. They are the specimen by which others are compared and measured. The only species without a type specimen is Homo sapiens (although for a laugh some scientists did decide that Carl Linnaeus must be the type since he only used himself as a study when describing our species).

My experience touring the spirit collection was remarkably similar in feel to when I viewed reliquaries in Munich or Paris. The darkness, the hush, preserved saints in glass coffins, finger bones in elaborate cages, bejeweled skulls. Yes it lacked the clinical steel and class, but the feel was the same. The niggling horror that something died and it’s (his/her) body was manipulated for a purpose that served only the living.

For 10 quid, you can see all the ooey gooey pickled animals you want, and it’s a behind the scenes tour well worth it that lets the museum show off the current work they’re doing. Transparency is a recent theme in museum collections. The Natural History Museum has the Darwin Centre with it’s glass walled labs, but other museum focus on opening up their collections stores. Hundreds, thousands, millions of objects that are in storage in perpetuum, that wouldn’t be seen if not for the tours or open storage displays their museums instigate.

The Spirit Collections is one great example of how the public can use museum collections. Mieville was inspired to write Kraken, Speedo used their shark skin collections to inspire swimsuits for Olympians, and Damien Hirst’s’ animals in tanks were prepared by the same people who made the squid’s tank. Museum collections and store rooms are stagnant, but are being used for research and inspiration behind the scenes. Not just a place to visit, they are an active resource.

It’s worth checking to see if your favorite museum has any form of open storage or tours of their collection, because it’s a chance to see objects not usually on display and to see the work the museum is doing behind the scenes. And maybe, a trip into the museum’s underbelly will inspire you, too.

Explore Further

Kraken by China Mieville

China Mieville’s Website

Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums by Stephen T. Asma

The Spirit Collection: Behind the Scenes at the Natural History Museum

The Darwin Centre Spirit Collection

Archie the Giant Squid

The Ethics of Open Storage in Museum Collections

  Read about the collection and #giantsquid 🦑 @NHM_London that inspired #Kraken #ChinaMieville In China Mieville's Kraken, a Giant Squid has been stolen by unimaginable means from the Natural History Museum’s collection of pickled, jarred, and gross things (aka the Spirit Collection).

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History of Patterns in Fashion

The given definition for a pattern is  a regularity in the world, man-made design, or abstract ideas. As such, the elements of a pattern repeat in a predictable manner. 

Dogtooth aka Houndstooth

Houndstooth originated in Scotland in the 1800s and was first referred to as Shepherd’s Check or Dogtooth. This pattern was originally worn as an outer garment of woven wool cloth by shepherds. The houndstooth pattern is characterized by an almost checked appearance.This pattern’s name was inspired by the uneven shape of a hound dog’s teeth. However, rather than just squares, the houndstooth pattern is made up of repeating geometric blocks which allow the print to be so versatile.

Many designers adjust the details such as the scale, size and color of the pattern. Despite the pattern’s complexity, houndstooth isn’t just printed onto fabric, at least not originally. Instead, it is the result of a very technical weaving pattern.

Polka Dots

Women’s lifestyle magazine Godey’s Lady’s Book was the first to use the term polka dot (in reference to a scarf) in its 1857 issue, with the following description: “Scarf of muslin, for light summer wear, surrounded by a scalloped edge, embroidered in rows of round polka dots.” America was more prominently introduced to the polka dot in 1926, when Miss America, Norma Smallwood, was photographed in a polka dot swimsuit. Just two years later in  1928, Disney introduced its cartoon leading lady Minnie Mouse wearing a red polka dot dress and matching bow.

Throughout the 1930s it was obvious that the polka dot had become a revolution in women’s fashion. Then in 1940, Frank Sinatra gave a refreshed wind to the pattern with his ballad “Polka Dots and Moonbeams”. This song captured the height of America’s polka dot mania . Later that year  the Los Angeles Times wrote to its readers, “You can sign your fashion life away on the polka-dotted line, and you’ll never regret it.”

Nearly twenty years later in 1963 Japanese artist Yayoi Kusaam shared her obsession with polka dots with the world through her art. She believed they contained messages for us about life and the universe. Kusaam started out by covering all the surfaces in her home with polka dots, then her naked assistants, calling these dotted landscapes her “infinity nets.”

Tartan

Tartan belongs to the Scottish culture and is not only one of Scotland’s greatest icons but also one of the world’s leading national marks of identification. One of the first recorded mentions of Tartan was in 1538 when King James V purchased “three ells of Heland Tartans” for his wife to wear. The next important milestone in the history of tartan was the 1745 rebellion ending with the Battle of Culloden in 1746. The Jacobite army was organized into Clan regiments that wore tartan uniforms. The popularity of tartan continued to grow with Queen Victoria adding to the romantic adoration of all things Scottish.

The complexity of the tartan pattern further transformed as the use of chemical dyes began introducing vivid colors to the print. These are known today as ‘modern’ tartan colours. Tartan colors formerly produced using vegetable dyes became known as ‘Ancient’ tartan colors.

Fleur De Lis

The English translation of “fleur-de-lis” is “flower of the lily.” In the twelfth century, either King Louis VI or King Louis VII, sources disagree, became the first French monarch to use the fleur-de-lis on his shield. Perhaps one of the most prominent use of this pattern was by Joan of Arc. She carried a white banner that showed God blessing the French royal emblem, the fleur-de-lis, as she led French troops to victory over the English in support of the Dauphin, Charles VII, in his quest for the French throne.

The flour de lis also carries a bit of a darker history. The pattern was once a sign of reinforcement and power. It was used to mark “hardened criminals, slaves, and anyone controlled by the French state.” That included slaves in French colonies overseas, who were branded with the pattern if they tried to flee.

Camouflage

Camouflage’s association with war is strong and well-known. Rooted in the military, and used to conceal army equipment before it covered soldiers’ uniforms, camouflage has typically been used for hiding. It was during World War Two that history witnessed the rise of mechanical printed patterns onto fabric. The distinctive variations of the camouflage pattern were brought into sharper focus.

Each nation had not one, but several unique camouflage patterns, with different versions matched to the battle landscape. These battle landscapes included snow, desert, jungle and forest. Soon after, the camouflage pattern emerged into popular fashion.  Women began sporting the print in dresses and even inspired makeup.

Camouflage made it’s artistic debut in Andy Warhol’s Camouflage Self-Portrait (1986). This piece hit was exposed at the height of the Cold War.

Stripes

Although the pattern of stripes began as a condemned pattern curing Medieval times, reserved only for prisoners, clowns, prostitutes, hangmen-the pattern has come a long way since. One of the earliest positive impacts stripes had on the public was in 1846 when Queen Victoria dressed her four-year-old son, Albert Edward, in a striped sailor suit to board the Royal Yacht. Ever since then the public became entranced and adored any kid wearing stripes.

The pattern soon after acquired sporting or leisure connotations due to Victorian paintings of women strolling in long summer dresses made of striped fabric. These paintings were also mostly of seaside scenes. This is where the relation between stripes and the sea/beach and anything nautical began. For the men, sweaters made of wool and knitted with horizontal stripes of blue and white. These sweaters quickly became the fashion norm for sailors.

A century later Coco Chanel initially put nautical stripes at the forefront of fashion. Soon after, emerging designers followed by adding their own spin to the historical pattern. One of the most known fashion houses today for adapting the stripe pattern is Missoni. This brand has evolved stripes into chevron patterns as its signature look.

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Have You Seen Jennifer Lopez's Feathered Dress? No Wonder She Was Glowing

Whether she's wearing a lingerie-inspired dress or a modest blouse, Jennifer Lopez somehow always manages to exude sexiness. Of course, there's something to be said about plunging necklines and slinky dresses, but the superstar just made a case for a feathery minidress with a modest neckline - and needless to say, we're in love.

For an evening out with her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez, J Lo wore a stunning pink silk dress by Valentino. While the delicate feathers definitely made an impact, it was the romantic, Victorian-inspired high collar (which cleverly contrasted with the miniskirt length) that truly made an impact.

To finish her outfit, Jennifer opted for silver hoops, a gorgeous Fendi Peekaboo top handle bag, and pink heeled sandals. Ahead, get a closer look at her gorgeous ensemble, and then shop her exact dress, as well as similar options, for yourself.

Related: Jennifer Lopez Just Put Every White Swimsuit We've Ever Packed to Shame

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History of the T-Shirt

Today the modern T-shirt has spawned a vast textile and fashion industry, worth over two-billion dollars to the world's retail trade. The unlikely birth of the t-shirt was a rather unspectacular event, however this humble piece of attire was set to change the styles and fashions of cultures for generations to come. Eventually the T-Shirt would be used as a political tool for protest and in certain times and places in history, a symbol of revolution and change.

At the very beginning the t-shirt was little more than a piece of underwear, an extremely utilitarian one at that. In the late 19th century the union suit, (also colloquially known as long johns), was in its hey day, worn across America and northern parts of Europe. Popular throughout class and generation, this modest knitted one-piece covered the whole body, from the neck to the wrists and ankles. The designs pièce de résistance featured a drop flap in the back for ease of use in the old outhouse. As cotton became more and more widely available, underwear manufacturers seized the moment to create an alternative to this mainstay and rather cumbersome design. Knitted material is difficult to cut and sew seams and thus with cotton a radical shift towards mass-made fashion could begin.

In Europe times were changing, as the Americans continued to sweat and itch, a simple "T-shaped" template was cut twice from a piece of cotton cloth and the two pieces faced and stitched together in a lowly European workhouse. It was half a pair of long johns, but it soon took on a life of its own. As the Industrial Revolution reached its inevitable conclusion, Henry T. Ford created the world's first production line, the ideas of functionalism, efficiency, and utilitarian style entered the mainstream consciousness of societies across the world, and Europe in particular. Many began to question the Puritanism of the past, Victorian buttoned-down ideas of modesty were starting to give way to scantier and scantier swimsuits, ankle-bearing skirts, and short-sleeved shirts. As World War One loomed upon the horizon, the t-shirt was about to be conscripted to the army.

Historical researchers define the first recorded incident of the introduction of the T-shirt to the United States occurred during World War One when US soldiers remarked upon the light cotton undershirts European soldiers were issued as standard uniform. American soldiers were fuming, their government were still issuing woolen uniforms, this wasn't fashion, it was practically a tactical military disadvantage. How could a sniper keep still and aim his rifle with beads of sweat pouring in his eyes, and an itch that just wouldn't go away? The US army may not have reacted as quickly as their troops would have liked, but the highly practical and light t-shirt would soon make its way back to the mainstream American consumer.

Due to their highly recognizable shape, and want for a better name, the word "T-shirt" was coined, and as the word found its place in the cultural lexicon, people across the world began to adopt the new and more comfortable alternative to the union shirt. A handful of American experts claim that the name was coined in 1932 when Howard Jones commissioned "Jockey" to design a new sweat absorbing shirt for the USC Trojans football team. However the US army contests the origins of the word come from army training shirts, being the military it was not long before practicality ensured the abbreviation. There is one alternative theory, little known and rather graphic in its interpretation. Essentially the idea that shortened-length arms were described as akin to the shape of an amputees torso, a common sight in the bloodier battles of the past, though this speculation cannot be verified, the idea has a gory ring of truth about it. During World War II the T-shirt was finally issued as standard underwear for all ranks in both the U.S. Army and the Navy. Although the T-shirt was intended as underwear, soldiers performing strenuous battle games or construction work, and especially those based in warmer climes would often wear an uncovered T-shirt. On July the 13th, 1942, the cover story for Life magazine features a photo of a soldier wearing a T-shirt with the text "Air Corps Gunnery School".

In the first few years after World War Two, the European fashion for wearing T-shirts as an outer garment, inspired mainly by new US army uniforms, spread to the civilian population of America. In 1948 the New York Times reported a new and unique marketing tool for that year's campaign for New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey. It was the first recorded "slogan T-Shirt", the message read "Dew It for Dewey", closely repeated by the more famous "I Like Ike" T-shirts in Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential campaign.

In the early 1950s enterprising companies based in Miami, Florida, began to decorate tee shirts with Floridian resort names and even cartoon characters. The first recorded graphic t-shirt catalogue was created by Tropix Togs, by its creator and founder, Miami entrepreneur Sam Kantor. They were the original licensee for Walt Disney characters that included Mickey Mouse and Davy Crockett. Later other companies expanded into the tee shirt printing business that included Sherry Manufacturing Company also based in Miami.

Sherry began business in 1948, the owner and founder, Quinton Sandler, was quick to catch onto the new T-shirt trend, and quickly expanded the screen print scarf company into the largest screen print licensed apparel producer in the United States. Soon more and more celebrities were seen on national TV sporting this new risqué apparel including John Wayne, and Marlon Brando. In 1955 James Dean gave the T-Shirt street credibility in the classic movie "Rebel Without A Cause". The T-Shirt was fast evolving into a contemporary symbol of rebellious youth. The initial furore and public outcry soon died down and within time even the American Bible Belt could see its practicality of design.

In the 60's people began to tie dye and screenprint the basic cotton T-Shirt making it an even bigger commercial success. Advances in printing and dying allowed more variety and the Tank Top, Muscle Shirt, Scoop Neck, V-Neck, and many other variations of the T-Shirt came in to fashion. During this period of cultural experimentation and upheaval, many independent T-shirt printers made copies of "Guerrillero Heroico, or Heroic Guerilla", the famous portrait of Ernesto "Che" Guevara taken by Alberto "Korda" Diaz. Since which it is said to be the most reproduced image in the history of photography, mainly thanks to the rise of the T-shirt.

The 1960's also saw the creation of the "Ringer T-shirt" which became a staple fashion for youth and rock-n-rollers. The decade also saw the emergence of tie-dyeing and screen-printing on the basic T-shirt. In 1959, "Plastisol", a more durable and stretchable ink, was invented, allowing much more variety in t-shirt designs. As textile technologies improved, new T-shirt styles were soon introduced, including the the tank top, the A-shirt (infamously known as the "wife beater"), the muscle shirt, scoop necks, and of course V-necks.

More and more iconic T-shirts were designed and created throughout the Psychedelic era, including more and more home-made experiments. A tidal wave of tie-died t-shirts began to appear at the burgeoning music festival scenes in Western Europe and America. By the late 60's it was practically a required dress code amongst the West Coast hippie culture. Band T-shirts became another extremely popular form of T shirt, cheaply printed and sold at live gigs and concerts of the day, the tradition continues to the present, band T shirts are as popular as ever, however the price of them has risen dramatically.

In 1975 Vivienne Westwood makes her mark at 430 King's Road, London at the "Sex" boutique with her new Punk-style t-shirts, including her infamous "God Save The Queen" design. Punk introduced an explosion of independent fashion designers and in particular t-shirt designers. To this day many modern designs pay tribute to the "grunge-look" of this rebellious and anarchic period of Western culture.

The influx of corporate funding of the 1980's changed the whole face of the T-shirt market. Slogan T-shirts were gaining popularity again, "Choose Life" was produced to promote the debut album of George Micheal's band "Wham", whilst "Frankie Says" helped push a string of highly controversial singles to the top of the UK charts for Liverpool based band "Frankie Goes to Hollywood". Bands, football teams, political parties, advertising agencies, business convention organizers, in fact anyone after a piece of cheap promotion began to commission and sell vast numbers of T-shirts. One noble exception of the time was the now iconic "Feed the World" T-shirt, created to raise funds and awareness of the original and groundbreaking Band Aid charity event.

During the 80's and 90's T-Shirt production and printing technologies vastly improved, including early forms of D.T.G (Direct to Garment Transfer) printing, increased the volume and availability. Whilst in financial circles, the world's stock markets took notice as the American T-Shirt was classed as a commodity item in the apparel industry.

Branded corporate labels soon made their massive mark on the industry. A whole new generation of T-shirt designs swamped the market, promoting conformity and allegiance to a brand name, such as Nike, rather than an expression of individuality. This rather uninspiring tradition still continues to this day, the now iconic "Vintage 82" T-shirt from "Next" for example. Within a few years of its first printing, this design was allowed to flood the market, until cheap copies and black market knock-offs have saturated the world. There are many similar designs which have a similar limited cultural shelf-life.

More recently an inspiring movement towards re-politicizing the T-shirt has enabled pressure groups and charities to push their message to a wider audience. Over one million people marched into London wearing a vast array of anti war, anti Bush and anti Blair T shirts at the anti Iraq rally. Another example, reminiscent of the earlier Band Aid event, saw The Make Poverty History campaign of 2005 receive global media coverage. Soon after Vivienne Westwood re-emerges in the T-shirt world with her new slogan T-shirt "I am not a terrorist, please don't arrest me". Catherine Hamnett, another famous British fashion designer is well known for her protest T-shirts, including her work to highlight Third World debt and the Aids epidemic in Africa. Then again, Catherine has recently been quoted as saying political slogan shirts allow the consumer to "feel they have participated in democratic action", when in fact all they have done is a little clothes shopping. This maybe true, however they still bring enormous media attention to any just cause.

Over the years the styles, images, and contribution to free society that T-shirts have provided are taken as granted, the T-shirt is now an essential accompaniment for any fashionable wardrobe, no matter what part of the world. Still yet more technical advances in the industry have allowed for more choices in style and cut. Oversize T-shirts that extend down to the knees, are popular with hip hop and skater fashions. Seasons change, however from time to time the female market embraces more tight-fitting "cropped" T-shirt styles, cut short enough to reveal the midriff. The rise of the "hoodie" or hooded long sleeved T-shirt cannot be ignored, it is also fast becoming an essential addition to any street wise fashionista's collection.

Recently there has been a massive consumer backlash against the branded conformity of the corporate and licensed t-shirt market. The consumer is at last regaining some sense of individuality, people today are not satisfied with the notion of "brand loyalty". People want to reflect their own personality, political beliefs, sense of style or humor. T shirt supplier China  Some are designing their own with the help of a wide selection of D.I.Y online t-shirt printing services, including "Cafe Press" and "Threadless" to mention just two. But many people neither have the time nor the inclination to design their own artwork, and so marks the rise of the independent T-shirt designer. Reminiscent of the 1960's but with a worldwide appeal, artists, graphic designers, renegades of the fashion world are beginning to get noticed. The greatest asset a modern T-shirt can have is its originality, a quality that will always be in demand, both now and hopefully far into the future.

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The Strange Secret History Of Hair Removal Will Blow Your Mind

From Rome to Peaky Blinders, the 21st century has blessed our Netflix accounts as well as an array of period dramas praised for their attention to historical detail. But somewhere in the midst of Elizabeth I's apparently approaching-fleek eyebrows and complex 18th-century sex workers as soon as full-on Brazilians, the details profit a tiny uncertain While it's real that people have been shaving, waxing, sugaring, and tweezing concerning and off past the start of time, practices  and preferences  have varied wildly from generation to generation and across the globe. Ahead, discover some of the weird and fabulous things our ancestors got taking place to behind it came to their hair... Cropped Cavewomen Though its fair to publicize that body fuzz is a feminist issue in 2017, hair removal began after that equality in the midst of the sexes. Archaeological evidence suggests that both female and male yet to be humans shaved their heads and facial hair to avoid frostbite from water becoming trapped and deadened adjoining the skin. This was pre-archives and ably back the invention of the wax strip, even even if, so the main hair-removal method was a razor made from clam bombs, animal teeth, and aching flints. And we thought teetotal shaving was bad. Pharaohs' Facial Hair Ancient Egyptians were invincible fans of full-body hair removal, as they believed it was a signifier of hygiene and cleanliness  and we still use some of the methods they pioneered today, including waxing and sugaring. Archaeologists even discovered a razor to the side of extra toiletries in the tomb of Queen Hetepheres. (Fortunately, we've ditched the less tempting methods, also the in the future depilatory concoctions of arsenic and quicklime described in Victoria Sherrow's Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History.) But for the female "kings" of the period, sporting a tie-as regards false beard was common for woman pharaohs subsequently than Khentkawes I and her successor, Hatshepsut. Ancient Greek Unibrows The trend of hair removal continued into Europe, where Ancient Greek women were traditional to cut off their pubic hair. A full bush was considered "uncivilized," Sherrow writes, and the artists of the era did not show-court lawsuit signs of pubic hair going a propos the subject of for the subject of statues portraying women. Above the waist, even though, hair was altogether in  especially the prized unibrow  and women used powdered minerals or soot to darken and intensify their brows. Meanwhile, in Rome, some women were actually fashioning court warfare brows made of fur, as Michael Sims describes in Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form  when both Ovid and Petronius referring to the practice in their writings. For the female "kings" of , sporting a tie-concerning disloyal beard was common for woman pharaohs. Medieval Foreheads By the Middle Ages, the attitude toward all body hair had taken a resolved U-position. The edicts of the Catholic Church intended women were supposed to grow out their hair as a display of femininity but save it totally concealed past in public. As Paul B. Newman writes in Daily Life in the Middle Ages, plentiful and well-liked women of the 14th century started plucking the hair from their foreheads in order to lift the front of their hairlines, creating the magic of a well along forehead and an elongated perspective. When the blaze-haired Elizabeth I came to faculty in 1533, she revolutionized the brow game in England. Many of her subjects chose to dye their hair and brows same shades of strawberry blonde, as soon as some using a corrosive mixture of rhubarb juice and oil of vitriol (now called sulfuric acid) to lighten theirs. Ouch. 17th-Century Sex Workers Trends of all sorts come and go, and by the 17th century, women were loving a bit of put it on hair the length of there. In 1714, Alexander Smith wrote in A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen nearly "the hairy circle of prostitutes Merkin." For those who are uncharacteristic, a merkin is a wig placed regarding the vagina to replace natural pubic hair that's been removed, which was common practice together in the company of sex workers who didn't nonattendance to catch pubic lice  and plus those who had something to hide sedated there, in the days past penicillin. Victorian Virgins During the 18th and 19th centuries, women were anew customary to display as tiny retrieve sexuality as attainable, and that included showing no body hair under long sleeves and even longer skirts. One Victorian doctor, William Acton, was even quoted as maxim, "The majority of women (happily for them) are not enormously much scared as soon as sexual feeling of any nice." Clearly, he had never watched The L Word. There's a the complete ably-known, very long-standing rumor that John Ruskin, England's leading art critic of the epoch, left his five-year marriage unconsummated as he fainted in report to his wedding night in 1848, allegedly at the sight of his auxiliary wife's pubic hair. While much-disputed, the fable can't be ruled out  and the silence vis--vis female body hair probably did leave some Victorian virgins utterly horrified. The shortage of nylon during , accumulate behind the shorter skirts in fashion, even led ladies to shave their legs and paint almost a sham seam to recreate the see of stockings. 20th-Century Baldness Begins The position of the 20th century brought in a auxiliary age of hair removal. The first women's branded razor, the Milady Dcollet, hit the suspend sky, and an plan ad for depilatory powder, published in a 1915 issue of Harper's Bazaar, advised "the removal of awful hair," rebuke would-be flappers that "Summer Dress and Modern Dancing" could after that them to flash too much underarm hair. By the time World War II began, women were shaving regularly, as accurately as plucking their eyebrows to profit those unconditional '30s pencil-skinny arches. The shortage of nylon during the stroke, quantity along between the shorter skirts in fashion, even led ladies to shave their legs and paint in report to a play in seam to recreate the look of stockings. Mid-Century Mixed Messages Things started to acquire a small more complicated in the 1960s, as soon as the first advanced wax strips hit the push, and Raquel Welch's iconic portrayal of a olden cavewoman wearing nothing but a bikini made from the skin and hide of a deer sent many women admin to cut off hair from roughly everywhere. The fuzz-forgive swimsuit trend continued until the 1970s as the first "attach" electrolysis was qualified, and some women jumped at the inadvertent to be hairless from head-to-toe. But at the related time, the '60s and '70s were plus the decades of comprehensible worship and a full bush  in 1972, The Joy of Sex brought illustrations of a distinctly unshaven girl's genitalia into approaching all residence. A Bald Brave New World? The near of the 20th century was a frosty become olden for body hair: Fashion trends then than '80s Daisy Dukes and '90s micro-minis intended there was just no room for body hair. In the 21st century, Brazilian waxes hit the truthful world and the small screen: Who can forget the infamous Carrie-gets-a-wax scene from Sex and the City, or the times that Jennifer Love Hewitt devoted a chapter in her wedding album to all matters of vajazzling? It wasn't just our hair beside there that we started to invest in; the brow industry once more tripled in value from 2011 to 2016. But the well along of body hair might not be every one roughly how to profit rid of it: Amber Rose's call to #bringbackthebush, for example, has inspired a entire quantity Instagram doings, even though even Emma Watson has unmovable the thumbs-happening to luxury pubic-hair grooming products. Big brows are pro and bolder than ever, and challenging icons later dissenter Harnaam Kaur are breaking the length of gender stereotypes each and every one hours of hours of day. Perhaps the most game-changing body hair trend of 2018 won't be how much fuzz women have, but the forgive to further anything the hell we lack, wherever we deficiency. Read the full article

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  Hola Sugarcups!!

I just cannot get enough of all the fashion fables happening all over the world. With Paris Fashion Week 2017 streaked off with over the top global styles, I finally sneaked out time to do a round-up of one of my most favorite fashion show – India Beach Fashion Week 2017 . Goa gasps the most exotic vibes of fourth season of IBFW. In today’s post, I’m sharing the most romantic tropical tales of fashion & beauty from IBFW chapter.

Palm trees, coconuts, tanned skin, sunsets, hot nights and fashion parade that’s how I can describe my experience of Asia’s biggest tropical fashion show India Beach Fashion Week 2017 powered by Jeep, India, Jhoomer Jewels, Crocs, Goa Marriott Resort & Spa and Novotel Mumbai, Juhu. The fashion festival that was held on 6th March and glossed off on 8th March was an absolute ode to beach fashion, resort & lounge fashion, cruise style, men’s fashion and destination bridal fashion.

The industry icon and the ace fashion designer Anupama Dayal brings the fresh breeze to the festival. Anupama Dayal’s #SummerSurprise was warm and welcoming the summer days. With blowy cover-ups in bubblegum pink and peaches, the festive was set in the tropical mood.

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Sonia Gohil flourished her eternal love for off-whites. The floor-length tops, sheer cover-ups, high-slit and off-shoulder maxi dress took the ramp by storm!

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Loungewear is making the major moves in Men’s fashion as well! Sanjay Hingu’s relaxed collection presents blazers and suits that are holiday-hit!

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Digvijay Singh showed his line in a very spectacular style. The theme he picked was quite pitchy and his collection is the indication of those tie-dye styles.

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Ken Ferns kept it simply feminine and pretty! Fresh as morning dew on early summer morning, the line was floral and breathable.

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The man of matter Asif Merchant took up the ramp with his fine glamourous collection. His line was inspired truly from the British holiday-style wardrobe and I’m particularly crushing on his line of suits.

Asif Merchant at IBFW 2017

My favorite of Day 1 of IBFW 2017, Arjun Khanna swiped Men’s fashion with matte black and white semi-formals. With linen fabric, blazer over shorts, he managed to take our curiosity a level higher!

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Day 2 of IBFW 2017, was stellar! Sakshi Relan showcased her ‘Blured Lines’ collection. The inspiration was driven by LGBT community; the color palate used in the collection is taken from the LGBT flag to highpoint the freedom of every person.

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Amin Farista pooled his homespun label Gandhian Fab and prospered his latest Resort wear collection in the Indigenous fabric under the name of ‘Young Khadi’. How I totally love the fringes in khadi…

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Lalit Dalmia bathed the ramp his ‘La Moda’ collection that was inspired and conceptualized to resurge the dramatic style. He took it right there on the beach and trust me, the backdrop and the view simply worked like wonder! He drew the clue from 70s Victorian era and I totally hoard this style!

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Fashion designers Sukriti and Aakruti put in an impressive collection on the ramp under the name of ‘Unicorn Tribe’. The duo enchanted the onlookers with exquisite frill-sari, off-the-shoulder blowy tops, peach pink bridal couture, infrequent flared traditional pant suits and 80s ruffles.

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Shyamal & Bhumika whipped the cream in the most elegant way. They awesome twosome expressed their love for traditional style. With pretty embroidered floral designs, sheer and shimmery fabric, the collection was completely lust-worthy!

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Geetika Kanumilli’s ‘A Dreamy Affair’ an absolute sovereign collection. With royal peach and pastel shades and effortless silhouettes, her collection adds fun and freshness for the modern bride.

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Issa’s ‘The Story Of A Summer Bride’ speaks a lot about colors and moods. The amazing tie-dye and pastel theme remains in rage this season.

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Annesdeen brings the quintessential sophistication in his couture line. The collection summarizes the cosmopolitan crowd. The pleats, flare and bare-shoulder were hit!

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Karleo Fashion exhibited the one-off concept – ‘Noir Love’ collection in which the dark hues congregate to the bright light in eventual instances. The melodramatic silhouette adds the oomph factor to the line.

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Aakriti Grover haggard the heat with her ‘Read Between The Lines’ collection of bodysuit and swimsuits. Motivated from the major stripes trend, the designer bewildered the fashion enthusiast with vibrant colors.

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Payal Jeswani steals the festival with her charismatic collection. The earthy hues and embellishments are a show-stellar for sure!

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MapxencaRS blended the life-cycle theme by representing Cherry Blossom flower. The collection is a bright maroon-red melody and has an outline inspired from 80s; bell-sleeves, ankle-length pants, ruffle-tiered skirt and asymmetric cuts.

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Swapnil Shinde put up his best and the most sensual line of Resort Wear 2017. With oodles of glamour and gut, the collection defines women perfectly as in both sexy and strong.

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PS (appreciation)

Somana – Model

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Until next post,

Jasmin

          Round-up: The Best Of Beach & Resort Fashion Trends At India Beach Fashion Week 2017 Hola Sugarcups!! I just cannot get enough of all the fashion fables happening all over the world.

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Have You Seen Jennifer Lopez's Feathered Dress? No Wonder She Was Glowing

Whether she's wearing a lingerie-inspired dress or a modest blouse, Jennifer Lopez somehow always manages to exude sexiness. Of course, there's something to be said about plunging necklines and slinky dresses, but the superstar just made a case for a feathery minidress with a modest neckline - and needless to say, we're in love.

For an evening out with her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez, J Lo wore a stunning pink silk dress by Valentino. While the delicate feathers definitely made an impact, it was the romantic, Victorian-inspired high collar (which cleverly contrasted with the miniskirt length) that truly made an impact.

To finish her outfit, Jennifer opted for silver hoops, a gorgeous Fendi Peekaboo top handle bag, and pink heeled sandals. Ahead, get a closer look at her gorgeous ensemble, and then shop her exact dress, as well as similar options, for yourself.

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