Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger: 37 Vintage Pictures of the Grooviest Couple of the 1960s

Love, sex and the best of rock & roll. Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull were the most cool, stylish and creative couple of the sex revolution era. Their groovy style and famous careers made them one of the most popular couples of the late 1960s.

Besides being beautiful and the inspiration for a number of the Rolling Stones songs, Faithfull was herself the author of one of their best, "Sister Morphine."

Enjoy a collection of 37 vintage pictures of the 1960s music power couple.

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Adhesive Bras: A Ridiculous Fashion Innovation of 1949

In May 1949, Charles L Langs featured a pair of bra cups a woman could affix to her breasts with an adhesive that caused neither pain nor sticky residue when removed. The purpose of the invention of his new brassieres, called Posĕs (pronounced “pose-ease”), was to allow a sunbather to achieve an even suntan. The idea struck inventor Charles L. Langs when he witnessed his wife Mary fidgeting discontendtedly with the straps of her regular old swimsuit.

This stick-on bra swimsuit from 1949 was kind of brilliant...

Langs, a Detroit industrialist who worked in the auto industry, spent four years perfecting Posĕs (pronounced “pose-ease”). He enlisted the help of chemist Charles Watson to develop an adhesive that could be removed easily while still sticking tight, “even though the wearer dives from a 10-foot board.” Any woman who has jumped into a pool wearing a strapless bathing suit top will surely dismiss this claim as bombastic. Had it been true, it would have been a feat too miraculous to vanish into obscurity, as Posĕs unfortunately did.

The innovation Langs boasted was not the straplessness of Posĕs, but their adhesiveness. As evidenced by the “bikini girls”—a fourth century Sicilian mosaic depicting bandeau-wearing athletes—women have employed strapless chest support for millennia.

To Langs’ credit—or discredit, depending on whether you see brassiere technology as functional or oppressive—adhesive undergarments are still around today. Most take the form of foam or silicon cups worn with backless tops and dresses with plunging necklines. They are generally, however, meant to be worn beneath other garments, whereas Posĕs were the main event. They gave any woman who donned them, LIFE wrote, “a startling look, especially when she is seen from the rear.”

A model jumps to demonstrate the support offered by her adhesive bathing top.

Women on Jones Beach, wearing Poses.

Models wearing the new Poses, strapless, backless, wireless bras adhesively gummed to hold the cup on at Jones Beach.

Models wearing the new Poses, strapless, backless, wireless bras adhesively gummed to hold the cup on at Jones Beach.

Models wearing the new Poses, strapless, backless, wireless bras adhesively gummed to hold the cup on at Jones Beach.

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50 Rare Photographs of Adolf Hitler You Might Have Never Seen Before

Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) was leader of the Nazi Party and became Chancellor of Germany in 1933. As leader of the Third Reich, he invaded Poland, which started World War II. He orchestrated the Holocaust, which resulted in the death of 6 million Jews.

Everybody who spent a little time in history class, knows this evil man. But you might not know his personal life. Here’s a collection of 50 rare photographs of Adolf Hitler from his birth to his suicade at the end of World War II.

Hitler and Goering were passionate collectors of art.

Hitler with Emmy and Edda Goering, 1940. Emmy Göring was a German actress, the second wife of Hermann Göring.

Hitler during imprisonment at Landsberg Prison. He was visited by fellow party members, 1924.

There are a number of conspiracy theories claiming that Hitler didn’t commit suicide and fled. This photo allegedly captured 75-year-old Hitler on his deathbed.

FBI montage made in 1945 in the event that Hitler tries to hide by changing the appearance.

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Starlet Posing for Photographers at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival

Fascinating Vintage Photographs That Show What Spring Break Looked Like in Southern California in the 1940s

Back in 1947, when LIFE accompanied 10,000 young men and women to Balboa Beach in Southern California for spring break, the shenanigans wouldn’t have scored any higher than a PG rating. Daylight brought beachside dancing, boat races, beauty pageants and sunbathing. The evening hours found students aglow in the warmth of bonfires as portable radios churned out the tunes of the day.

These fascinating vintage photographs, taken by Peter Stackpole, that show what spring break looked like in Southern California in the 1940s.

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Rare Portraits of Olive Oatman, the Girl With the Tattooed Face, From the 1850s

More than 150 years ago, Olive Oatman was a 14 year old traveling west in 1851 when Southwest Indians attacked her family’s wagon train in Arizona (then Mexico), capturing Olive and her seven-year-old sister Mary Ann.

The girls lived with their captors for a year, then were traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. Mary Ann died, and Olive was ransomed back to the whites in 1856, wearing a chin tattoo. She became a celebrity in her day, embarking on a lecture tour promoting a book that Rev. Royal B. Stratton wrote about her ordeal, The Captivity of the Oatman Girls.

In 1865 Olive married John B. Fairchild, a cattleman. They adopted a baby girl. Fairchild burned all the copies of Stratton's book and stopped her lecture tours.

Later in her life she reportedly went to New York to talk with a Mohave leader about "old times." She always kept a jar of hazelnuts, a Mohave staple, as a reminder of her experience.

She died in 1903, aged 65.

(via Mashable/Retronaut)

Amazing Vintage Photographs of Streets of Paris From the 1860s

Beginning in the mid-1850s, Paris experienced a grand transformation. At the orders of Napoleon III, old, narrow streets made way for wide boulevards, thousands of gas lamps lit the streets at night, and a host of other public projects thoroughly modernized the city. Charles Marville, a photographer employed by the city, was charged with documenting those changes.

Banks of the Bièvre River at the Bottom of the Rue des Gobelins (Fifth Arrondissement), 1862

Passage Saint-Guillaume Toward the Rue Richilieu (First Arrondissement), 1863–65

Cour Saint-Guillaume (Ninth Arrondissement), 1866–67

Rue de Constantine (Fourth Arrondissement), 1866

Top of the Rue Champlain, View to the Right (Twentieth Arrondissement), 1877–78

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