transientism:

The Virgin by Joey Lawrence

I read somewhere that in the Arbore Tribe, the young woman shave their heads as a sign of virginity and also seen as a form of being single. The girls only start growing their hair after marriage.

soundofthebaskervilles:

The Hackney brothers (pictured) saw The Beatles play on Ed Sullivan for the first time and decided to pretty much invent punk music. Their band, Death, had broken up and was over and done with before anybody knew what a Ramone was.

kawaiih0re:

A towering headdress and plug earrings adorn a 1930s Balinese djanger dancer, part of a coed performance that was “more of popular fun than of temple dance or disciplined art,” wrote Maynard Owen Williams in his March 1939 Geographic article, “Bali and Points East.” The dance’s male participants “at times resemble a troupe of cheer leaders made up like Groucho Marx,” noted Williams. “Syncopated movement, swaying forms, flashing fingers, and glittering crowns in high relief against deep shadows under the banyan tree—such is the djanger.”

— Margaret G. Zackowitz  from National Geographic Magazine

Members of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) pose at Camp Shanks, New York, before leaving from New York Port of Embarkation on Feb. 2, 1945. The women are with the first contingent of Black American WACs to go overseas for the war effort From left to right are, kneeling: Pvt. Rose Stone; Pvt. Virginia Blake; and Pfc. Marie B. Gillisspie. Second row: Pvt. Genevieve Marshall; T/5 Fanny L. Talbert; and Cpl. Callie K. Smith. Third row: Pvt. Gladys Schuster Carter; T/4 Evelyn C. Martin; and Pfc. Theodora Palmer. (AP Photo)

theniftyfifties:

Chet Baker and his wife Halima, 1955.  Photo by William Claxton.

my Benny, Tara Lynn #BetterOffRed #VSS2

veganslove:

So beautiful.

miss-shirley-temple:

The Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer, 1947.

this is hot. nsfw.

thehottesthere:

Wow!.x

todaysdocument:

August 28, 1963 - Images from the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom 

curveappeal:

Denise Bidot 

42 inch bust, 34 inch waist, 46 inch hips

sunkissedpinups:

thatmodelgirl:

yum.

Dorothy Danridge