Capri Pants: The Favorite Fashion Trend of Women From the 1950s

Invented by Neil Munro Roger, and first introduced by fashion designer Sonja de Lennart in 1948, Capri pants, also known as capris, crop pants, are pants that are longer than shorts but are not as long as trousers. They typically come down to between knee and calf or ankle length.

The name of the pants is derived from the Italian isle of Capri, where they rose to popularity in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The American actress Grace Kelly was among the first movie stars who wore capris on the island.

Capris are widely popular with people in many countries; especially in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

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18 Hilariously Awkward Haircuts of Vintage Christian Album Covers

The digital music revolution has, for the most part, been great for music fans. But even though listening to music online costs less and gives you access to millions and millions of songs you might not otherwise hear, one thing has sadly been lost in the streaming era: Appreciation for incredible album art.

Sure, we still see tiny thumbnail images of singles and LP album covers displayed next to the song streaming on our iPhones, but it’s just not the same as regularly examining album covers in all of their visual glory. In the world of Christian music, where many artists used the cover to blend spiritual metaphors with airbrushed supernatural entities, inspired outfits and creative font selections, there is truly something that modern music fans are missing.

Here, below is a collection of 18 vintage album covers that feature artists with the craziest hairdos. Most of them look like they’re from the 1960s but there’s at least one from an ’80s Christian hair band. Hopefully we don’t see a resurgence of these hairstyles, but who knows... your move hipsters!

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Innocent 'Naughty' French Postcards From the 1920s

Taking erotic pictures and then sending them to your partner seems like something people have always managed to do. In the late 19th century and the early 20th though, taking photographs was not that easy, and exchanging “French Postcards” was that time’s sexting.

Most of these postcards were made in France, hence the informal “French Postcards,” and they were a lucrative practice for early photographers, who would produce these under a nickname as they had to avoid being stigmatized and protect themselves from having troubles with the law. Sending these postcards via mail was actually illegal in the U.S. and the only way to find them was in stores and through French street traders.

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Young Man's Mood: Vintage Sansabelt Slacks Ads From the 1960s and 1970s

No suspenders or belt required - this thin band of elastic was all you needed.

Sansabelt is a brand of men's trousers. The trousers have a wide webbed elastic band sewn into the waist, which is intended to make a belt or suspenders unnecessary, hence the name (sans a belt).

The Sansabelt slack was invented by Edward Singer of Silver Manufacturer Company, located in East Chicago, Indiana, which subsequently sold the company and their patent to Jaymar-Ruby, an Indiana-based clothing company, in 1959.

Jaymar-Ruby's Sansabelt brand was acquired by Hartmarx in 1967 and the last sansabelt pants were produced in the early 90's. On 24 January 2009, Hartmarx Corporation filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Peter Schwadel, President of MPS & Partners, Inc., purchased the license to Sansabelt in February 2013.

On the American television Good Eats episode “Ear Apparent,” when making creamed corn, host Alton Brown remarks “Back before the days when I started seriously eyeing the Sansabelt pants rack, I used to put lots of cream in here. Sometimes a quart for one batch.” In episode “Mussel Bound” he says “But I gotta tell ya, I'm already Sansabelt challenged here, (...)” when explaining why he is not going to use butter or cream to thicken a sauce.

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36 Found Pics That Show How Victorian and Edwardian Women Enjoyed Their Lives

By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, all kinds of people lived in the cities. Laborers and servants were the most numerous. Although some became better-off, many were still poor. They lived in cramped, decaying houses.

Whether rich or poor, easy to see that people in these periods always enjoyed their lives and seemed to be happier than today.

These found pictures that show how Victorian and Edwardian women enjoyed their lives.

Pretty girl laying on the beach

Riding on a horse

Group of women sitting together on a building roof

Sleeping in the grass

Smiling women sitting in a field

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27 Historical Photos That Show Construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the 1930s

Construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge began with the groundbreaking ceremony on July 9, 1933. Discussion of connecting both sides of the Bay with a bridge began in the early part of the 20th century.

In 1929, the California Legislature established the California Toll Bridge Authority with the responsibility of connecting the counties of San Francisco and Alameda with a bridge. The construction of the bridge continued through the Great Depression employing many workers on both sides of the Bay.

Construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the 1930s

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic on November 12, 1936 at 12:30 p.m. Celebrations included a boat parade, Navy air show, yacht regatta, Navy ship race, air parade of China Clippers and lasted for five days.

Train service across the Bay Bridge began on September 23, 1938 and ended in April 1958. The upper deck carried three lanes of automobile traffic in each direction, while the lower deck carried three lanes of truck and auto traffic on the north side and two railroad tracks on the south side.

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge continues to be well-known landmark of the San Francisco Bay Area.

A historical photo collection from San Francisco Public Library that shows construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the 1930s.

President Herbert Hoover, Governor James Rolph and beauty pageant winners pose at Bay Bridge groundbreaking ceremony on Yerba Buena Island, July 9, 1933

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge east span under construction, circa 1934

Workers posing with reinforcing bars during construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, September 26, 1934

Aerial view looking west toward San Francisco showing towers, anchorage, and Yerba Buena Island span being erected for San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, March 1, 1935

Aerial view of east end of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge under construction, June 7, 1935

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Vintage Burlesque Show Ads From Between the 1950s and 1970s

Burlesque show, stage entertainment, developed in the United States, that came to be designed for exclusively male patronage, compounded of slapstick sketches, dirty jokes, chorus numbers, and solo dances usually billed as “daring,” or “sensational,” in their female nudity.

Introduced in the United States in 1868 by a company of English chorus girls, Lydia Thompson’s British Blondes, the burlesque show of the 19th century was patterned after the popular minstrel show. Burlesque shows, with their show of exposed legs and bawdy and often obscene entertainment, were not considered respectable, and raids by the local police were often prompted by offended citizens.

By the early 20th century two national circuits of burlesque shows, as well as resident companies in New York City, such as Minsky’s at the Winter Garden, were thriving in the United States. W.C. Fields, Al Jolson, Fannie Brice, Bert Lahr, and Phil Silvers were among the comedians who served their apprenticeship before the rowdy burlesque audiences. The addition of striptease dancing, the illogical conclusion of a process that had begun with the belly dancing of Little Egypt at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893), established such stars as Ann Corio, Gypsy Rose Lee, Margie Hart, and Georgia Southern. Censorship and “clean-up” policies, and then the competition of motion pictures, led to the decline of burlesque.

By the early 1960s few burlesque houses remained, and these usually provided no more than striptease performers, a motion picture, and a comic who told his jokes with an air of defeatism to an audience waiting for the next display of feminine anatomy. By the 1970s, when topless—and bottomless—dancers of both sexes appeared in drinking establishments, American burlesque was virtually dead.

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