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do we agree this looks old?

'retro' if you prefer.

Dec 11, 2024
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Fun 50’s? Does this look like fun 1950’s?

The maker of these ‘retro’ XL sleep bonnets agrees with me, though.

Well. I am on hour #12 of scrolling through cotton prints. I am losing my bearings.

There are only a few hundred to get through. On another website this would be the work of 1 hour. This, however, is the only website in the entire world that takes 30 seconds to load each page and only let’s you see 25 entries at a time.

So, it is a 2 day job.

Worth it. Practicing patience and stretching.

Which actor is this above? 1957 max relaxing somewhere sunny. Someone I should know.

That shirt is like a lot of shirts I have seen in the domestic scenes of the late 1950’s. That mottled background and batik-like wax created shapes seems popular.

So, I am giving a big yes, to all of the batik-y, mottled backgrounds.

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