I guess she didn't have a good day =/


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"17 year old Bianca Passarge of Hamburg dresses up as a cat, complete with furry tail, and dances on wine bottles, June 1958.  Her performance was based on a dream and she practiced for eight hours every day in order to perfect her dance.” Image by Carlo Polito


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Looks like something Busby Berkeley would have used in one of his dance extravaganzas.
Maybe there is a battery in the headdress/engine that makes the propeller spin.


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Ah, those resourceful Vermont girls.  If they don't have sequins or rhinestones, they can make do with popcorn.  I wonder if she could sit down?


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I am guessing this is a First Communion photo for this little girl.  Her hat gives the illusion of a halo around her head.  Very appropriate.


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In the Victorian-Edwardian period, long hair was a woman's crowning glory.  Then along came the 1920s and off went the hair.  I suspect many women said, "Good riddance!"


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1920s, Paris.  Corsets for m'lady and for m'lady's daughter.  Corsets for children?!  Who knew?


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A tintype image of a toothless granny with handtinted rosy cheeks.  I guess she ate a soft diet.  Reminds me of an ancient Arabic curse:  May all your teeth fall out except one...and may it ache.


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French singer and cultural icon who became an international singing sensation.  Photo by Emile Savitry.


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The grotto where young Bernadette Soubirous  experienced her apparitions of the Blessed Virgin.  At the time, the grotto was a garbage dump. Note the crutches of pilgrims  who were healed by its miraculous spring water.


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