#march 1957

[vintagegoddesses3]

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue March 1, 1957

Joan Friedman wears a melon-colored fleece coat, a long chiffon scarf in the same appetizing shade, over a tweed skirt and oatmeal-colored accessories. Originala coat, in Stroock wool. Jewelry, S. G. Barnett. Hairdresser, Mr. Kenneth of Lilly Daché; its varnish, result of the Alberto VO5 hair cream.

Joan Friedman porte un manteau, polaire couleur melon, une écharpe d'un long métrage de mousseline de la même teinte appétissante, sur une jupe en tweed et des accessoires de couleur avoine. Manteau Originala, en laine Stroock. Bijoux, S. G. Barnett. Coiffure, Mr. Kenneth de Lilly Daché; son vernis, résultat de la crème capillaire Alberto VO5.

Photo Clifford Coffin vogue archive

[theamericanpin-up]

Mike Ludlow - March 1957 Esquire Inc. Calendar Illustration - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[i-am-totally-not-a-lizard]

I THOUGHT THIS WAS A MEME I THOUGHT THEY WERE TALKING TO EACH OTHER SAYING OMINOUS DATES AND PLACES LIKE THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT LOCATIONS OF DEAD BODIES OR SOMETHING WHY IS THIS SO FUCKING FUNNY

[donutsandbagels]

Happy Birthday, SD! ❤️

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Amanda Foster: March 18, 1957

Britain's First Black Stunt Woman

[rabbitcruiser]

On March 21, 1957, the name was officially changed from White Horse to Whitehorse.

[spookyfoxdreamer]

[roseunspindle]

What I watched in March 2023

He’s always gonna be...Cooler

Coppélia - Full Length Ballet by Bolshoi Theatre ft. Natalia Osipova

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE2fjFMag7E 

the one where krillin gets peed on and Gohan is high (ugg) ^_^’

Finally watched an entire ballet through, I quite liked it. ^_^

poor Master Roshi... (well, he kinda deserves getting beaten up i guess, also oolong stop bringing minors on your trips)

Not much to this one, to be honest

Finally got my own copy! Love it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1F4YhBOA14

I like all of it, but the weird way the prince kept putting his hands on her head, like he was giving her a skull exam....

I enjoyed it, but Grahame 😢...and the italian dude. Alexa was very badass, and I’ve totally been reading some Alexa/Scar fic. ^_^

[vintagegoddesses3]

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue March 1, 1957

Joanna McCormick in a surah, black and brown damask printed silk covered day dress. By Ben Barrack. Linen helmet, Sally Victor, jewelry and satchel bag, too.

Joanna McCormick dans une robe de jour couverte en soie imprimée damassée surah, noire et marron. Par Ben Barrack. Casque en lin, Sally Victor, bijoux et sac cartable, également.

Photo Karen Radkai vogue archive

[theamericanpin-up]

Vaughan Bass - "How to be a Welder" - March 1957 Slick Chicks Calendar Illustration - Louis F. Dow Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[donutsandbagels]

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Vanessa Bell Calloway: March 20, 1957

[thevampsvault]

Saundra Edwards photo graphed by Peter Gowland March 1957

[petermorwood]

This is one of, if not THE, best April Fools jokes ever, and may even be the very first to air on "serious TV". The prank was aired April 1 1957 at the end of the BBC current-affairs programme “Panorama”.

It was helped by spaghetti being a rare exotic food in 1950s Britain, and narration by the hugely respected journalist and presenter Richard Dimbleby made it utterly convincing.

Afterwards people either got the joke - or didn’t, and wanted to grow their own spaghetti trees. These optimists were told to “place a length of dry spaghetti in a jar of tomato sauce and hope for the best”.

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The entire spoof got it wrong, of course, since free-range organic spaghetti doesn’t grow on trees at all. 

In actual fact it’s a kind of marshland reed, and very seasonal, only available from March 15 (when by tradition the first harvest is made by use of many small sharp knives) through until April 2nd, when it’s officially declared to be stale.

Extruded lengths of flour-water-egg paste - originally called spaghetti finti or spaghetti di casa - replicate these reeds while being available all year round.

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Some humourless pundits indulged in sputtering outrage that such nonsense was part of a serious programme, but "Panorama” producer David Wheeler stuck to his guns, suggesting that viewers needed a more critical attitude to what was shown on TV, and shouldn’t believe everything they saw. 

What would he have said now?

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@dduane​ says that for US readers to understand just how effective it was, imagine the same thing on “60 Minutes”, voiced with equal sincerity by Dan Rather.

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And oddly enough, what we’re having for supper tonight will be...

Probably not spaghetti.

;->