We have the POWER

Go wild, kids! It's the nuclear age!

 

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Have space-suit, will travel

Beautiful futuristic imaginings, found over at Dark Roasted Blend
(individual image credits provided on the original posts)

Computers - and the women who use them

(via Retrospace)

USSR, 1953

Last year I had to explain to my class (of uni students, i.e.: young adults) what the USSR was, and some of its social and environmental implications. Wow. The generation gap makes me feel old, and I'm not yet 40!

Here are some lovely pictures from Soviet Russia in the early 50s - they were some of the first to be seen outside Russia in a decade. My family had escaped emigrated by then.

More here.

Um ... rewind a bit.

Let's just pretend that I did upload this before my post earlier today ...

I love these designs from Dior's dastardly (former) head designer. They're part of the Spring 2011 collection, designed as a tribute to Rene Gruau, Dior's fashion illustrator who was instrumental in bringing the 1950s 'New Look' to the world and creating an instantly-recognisable fashion icon. I like the modern twist ...

Check out these snappy little beauties from the Fall 2008 collection too:

I like the cloches, and can imagine Jean Harlow or Louise Brooks rocking these little numbers.
(I do wonder though, if women who don't have such super-slim pins could carry off the pearlescent/white stockings without their legs resembling freshly-steamed Bavarian Weißwurst!)


More here, here and here.