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95A Day in the Life of a 1950's Housewife
Post-feminist revolution, 1950's housewives carry a certain amount of hip kudos. Now that we have equality (or a facsimile thereof) we don't have to be on the defensive anymore. We can wear a stiff, full skirt, vintage aprons, masses of lipstick, absurd hair and play at having afternoon teas and being as ultra-feminine and retro as we want.
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84Cigarettes and the Seduction of Women
Although smoking is now socially akin to having two heads and a contagious disease, when it was at its fashionable peak in the 20th Century, many people were persuaded to believe it was the smart, sophisticated thing to do. Film stars did it and so did politicians, singers, sports stars, the intelligentsia, dentists and even doctors.
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85Hyperrealism
An art dealer first used the term Hyperréalisme (meaning Photorealism) back in the early 1970's to describe a genre of painting and sculpture that mimicked the exactness of high resolution photography. Photorealism depicted images frozen in time and grew out of American Pop Art in the late sixties and gained momentum throughout the seventies.
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83Phillip Island Fairy Penguins
At just 40 centimetres the Fairy Penguin is the pygmy of the penguin world and found only along the southern coast of Australia and New Zealand, away from the ice and snow usually associated with penguin habitat. The most famous colony in Australia can be found at Phillip Island, 140 kilometres South East of Melbourne, in Victoria
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76Stand-up Computer Desks
Sounds weird eh...standing up at the computer? Yet more people are doing it and there are desks available through retail outlets that have been purpose designed for standing.
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86Home Perms
Since the style pundits have declared the straight look tired and are predicting the return of the curl, perms might be back on the fashion agenda.
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88Beehive Hair
The original 'big hair', the beehive style, also known as the bouffant and the B52, was invented in the late fifties, possibly as an antidote to the mundanity of the pageboy and ponytail, which had dominated the earlier part of the decade.
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76Dignitas
Dignitas is the name of an organisation in Schwerzenbach, Switzerland where people from all over the world travel to die, via assisted suicide.
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73Weird Toys
The consumables we offer up to our children say much about what we are about in any given decade. Toys and products we may have happily given them yesterday, we might cringe at today and products we sell to children today would have horrified parents of the past.
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77Australian War Songs
I clearly remember the first time I heard The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda - Eric Bogel's poignant ode to the men who were maimed and killed in the Great War and in particular Gallipoli.
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