Detour Magazine (which is an awesome read BTW) published a cool little piece on yours truly today, as an added bonus they didn’t use the picture of me I regretted sending in the first place. Life is good! Check out the piece here.
I really dig unlicensed catalog play sets like this star fortresss. I’m sure that more than a few grandmothers were fooled into thinking this was a death star. I’ve never seen one but it looks to be entirely of laminated cardboard, I wonder how many survived?Also as a Star Wars nerd, the concept of Yoda, […]
Who doesn’t love a clip show? After more than a year and a half of blogging about polyester, it seemed fitting to put together a “Greatest Hits” packageof some of the bigger fashion attrocities of the 1970’s. Thanks of course, to the good catalogs at Aldens, JC Penney, Sears and Wards.So check out the best […]
It’s been too long without some fashion mockery and while these gents score high for truly being “Plaidstallions”, they lose points for not having their belts match their shoes.Source: 1975 Sears Catalog BTW, I wanted to confirm that this is indeed Gayle Sayers, Bob Griese and Tom Seaver modelling these fine outfits. I was born […]
It’s like a meeting of the “future used car salesmen of America”. The rest of October will be devoted to Halloween and Monster merchandising found throughout the 70’s, as our annual Halloween bash begins!.
Plaidstallions makes the news There is nothing more surreal than a morning news show reading stuff you wrote. Thanks to Anthony for the video.
Today marks the one year anniversary of this blog and it seemed fitting to use it to pay a little attention to my favourite catalog model, Brick Mantooth. I originally blogged about him here, calling him “Brick Conners” (after “Mannix” star Mike) but eventually my appreciation for emergency star Randy Mantooth, forced me to change […]
1) You haven’t seen your best friend in over two years nor do you return their calls.2) All your cool stuff is no longer on display in your apartment3) YOU ARE WEARING THIS OUTFIT!RUN!
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