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more about #periodpieces more comments → MarissaExplainsItAll: It's all fun and games and fighting the power and such until a "supressed" male decides that erections need to be made public. more » Bollywhaaa: In the "Vanity Fair" article a couple of months back, they mentioned how they can't just use any fruit for props, because fruit back then was much sma... more » Katxyz: They can feel free to come shoot at my grandma's house anytime. more » Skellatrix: The vintage money reminded me of the day I tried to pay a parking attendant with a $5 bill from the 50's (it was my friend's). She flat-out refused be... more » Red-headed bookworm: My mom has her Chatty Kathy doll from when she was a kid and I know I have some stuff I bought at vintage stores or got from my grandma. I may even ha... more » Flackette Goes Retro: In Lexington, Ky., of all places, we have this fabulous vintage store chock full of 60s stuff (particularly kitchenware, signage and purses). Maybe I ... more » hydrogen_jukebox: Wow! I had one of those weird erasers, (found in my grandma's attic) and I never knew what the heck it was until this very moment. Thanks, Mad Men! more » rah29: I have the same handbag I've seen Peggy with in an ep about halfway through season 1, except in red instead of brown. Thanks grandma! more » Chamalla,barren crone: The print spread (I have a sub to EW through infinity) made me drool. I would buy AND wear lipstick if I could get it in such glam packaging. I love... more » winner: I never knew how much I needed a nail polish stand until I saw a picture of a nail polish stand. more » just assign me a random number: Just heard about this yesterday: The museum of menstruation. [atlasobscura.com] The website's a mess, but I can imagine the new museum turning out p... more » JerseyGrrrl: Look, if a man decides that blowing a load on a newspaper page is art, and New York City believes him, then this is art. It's making me think, and I l... more » Plum-Pie: Am I the only one whose read Microserfs by Douglas Coupland? A segment in which the women in the office talk about periods and you also see the IMs be... more » embarcadero13: I feel like this gives feminism a bad name. more » TheUptightMidwesterner: Urban Decay has got to take that color and name for a new lipstick: "Menarchy". THEN it may get put on my lips! more » -
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Lowball Glasses, Vintage Remotes, Jeweled Lipstick & Old Dolls
Mad Men props are selected with care! Slide show at the link. Also, if you have mail from the '60s, property master Gay Perello and set decorator Amy Wells will take it. [EW] -
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Bloody Hell: Menstrual Activists Make Periods Public
Today we learned an awesome new word: Menarchy, or menstrual anarchy. This is just one name for the growing movement to make "the curse" something a little more bearable. Or, as the case may be, wearable. More » -
#flowrida
Why Don't More Celebrities Hawk Tampons?
Any pearl-clutching over Serena Williams doing Tampax ads seems kind of strange when you consider that the Women's Tennis Association was sponsored by cigarettes — specifically, Virginia Slims — for 20 years. More » -
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Linda's Film About Menstruation: An Intentionally Funny '70s Filmstrip
In this surprisingly charming and funny filmstrip, a girl named Judy and her boyfriend take a trippy journey and learn everything they need to know about menstruation. (Let's not take the film's advice and use two tampons at once!) More » -
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Vintage PMS Commercials Just Want Us To Be Ourselves...And To Save Us From Werewolves
There is nothing the makers of feminine hygiene products like to promise more than a return to "being yourself," in the midst of a rough PMS cycle. In these vintage spots, cheerful women make promises, while crampy women flip out. More » -
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Ocean Not Having A Happy Period As Tampon Applicators Wash Up On Canadian Shores
A "major hydraulic failure" at a sewage treatment plant in Halifax, Nova Scotia has caused authorities to remove four solid waste outflow filters "as they were backing up with what the mayor called 'floatables,'" a.k.a. flushed tampon applicators. More » -
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"I Guess I'm Just Too Old To Follow The Modern Ideas"
Don't worry, you can get a trial package in the mail — in a "plain wrapper," just like porn. [Vintage Ads] -
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Changing Bodies, Changing Lives
As part of a viral marketing campaign, Tampax has released this series of videos, in which 16-year-old "Zack Johnson" wakes up one day with "girl parts, down there." He learns to love tampons, and realize that "men are pigs." [AdAge] -
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#badvertising
Blame Twilight
An all-male creative team in Switzerland have created this vampire-themed ad for o.b. Click for larger image. [Copyranter] -
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Your Monthly "Gift"
According to this 1949 ad, this "new-shape" box could contain bath salts, candy or tissues, but instead it's "discreet" and full of Modess napkins. Shh, no one can know women bleed! [Vintage Ads] -
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Couple Splits Over Extreme PMS
UK woman Marie Seward suffered from 10-12 days of extreme PMS every month, but didn't realize her symptoms weren't normal until her husband of 17 years walked out on her. -
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Feminist Artist Makes MoMA A Woman
Pipilotti Rist is currently showing her work Pour Your Body Out at NYC's MoMA, where she turns the atrium of the museum into a womb, making over the masculine space into something inescapably feminine.
