Costumes and Masks
Prize-winning robot costume from 1927
Posted By: Alex - Wed Oct 31, 2018 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Robots, 1920s
Have a Slothful Halloween!
Maybe it's not to late to have Karoline Hinz craft one of these for your trick-or-treating.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 10, 2018 -
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Category: Animals, Costumes and Masks, Holidays
The Anti-Dancing Devil
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Sep 19, 2018 -
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Category: Antisocial Activites, Costumes and Masks, 1920s, Dance
Behind the Burly Q
Trailer is Safe For Work. Link to book or DVD below.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 27, 2018 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Entertainment, Public Indecency, Sex Symbols, Books, Documentaries, Twentieth Century
The Eye Creatures
There is a series of videos on YouTube where the maker excerpts horror movies by deleting all shots of people! That's weird.But of course, THE EYE CREATURES itself is plenty weird.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 20, 2018 -
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Category: Aliens, Costumes and Masks, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, 1960s, Fictional Monsters
Weird News Costumes
With Oct 31 almost upon us, I was trying to find examples of people who dress up for Halloween as characters from weird news stories. So far, I've found two.The first is the Swiss Cheese Pervert. You may recall he was that guy who would drive around Philadelphia propositioning women while holding and fondling a piece of swiss cheese. He was arrested in 2014. Chuck mentioned him once in a column.
The Swiss Cheese Pervert
Swiss Cheese Pervert Costume (via uproxx.com)
The second is the "Monkey Jesus" painting — the name given to an amateur art restorer's attempt in 2012 to "fix" a 1930 fresco of Jesus.
via Yahoo! News
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 30, 2017 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Holidays
Beauty Mask
March 1940 — At the International Beauty Shop Owners' show in New York City, Ruth Scott modeled a mask to heat the face and tone up the skin. The scratchers on her fingers were brass thimbles to protect nail polish until it dried.
Newsweek - Mar 25, 1940
Posted By: Alex - Sat Sep 09, 2017 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Costumes and Masks, 1940s
Mystery Illustration 56
Why?
The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 04, 2017 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, 1930s
Mystery Illustration 55
Who? What? When? Why? Huh?
The answer is here.
And after the jump.
More in extended >>
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 24, 2017 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, 1960s
Non-Terrifying Gas Mask
1941: Charles Leguillon, a manager at the B.F. Goodrich Co., invented a "non-terrifying gas mask" that a pretty girl could wear "and remain a pretty girl and not become a gargoyle."The media proclaimed that for this he deserved "female thanks," because of course all women want to continue looking their best, even during chemical warfare.
But was the new gas mask actually non-terrifying? I'll let you be the judge.
American Legion Magazine - Aug 1941
The Akron Beacon Journal - June 11, 1941
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 09, 2017 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Military, 1940s
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