My goodness! Somebody is certainly in love with her own appearance, isn’t she? I can’t help but wonder why this young lady doesn’t have a date.
Archive | July, 2009
Tags: Postcard Friendship Friday
A Curt Teich Glamour Girl, 1940
Posted on 30 July 2009 by Chris Overstreet
Tags: Edward Weston
“Floating Nude”, 1939
Posted on 29 July 2009 by Chris Overstreet
Edward Weston was far ahead of his time; his series of self-portraits, nudes, landscapes and close-up still-lifes defined modernist photography.
Tags: India
Celina
Posted on 28 July 2009 by Chris Overstreet
This postcard came to me from Portugal, but it was published in Bombay, India. Is this girl Portuguese? Is she Desi? Do I really care? Plus: a Bollywood dance number!
Tags: Scott Idleman
A is for Amour
Posted on 27 July 2009 by Chris Overstreet
The sight of a man wearing nothing but gloves and shoes would be ridiculous in the extreme. Do you begin to understand how I chose my subject matter?
Tune In on Coca-Cola
Posted on 27 July 2009 by Chris Overstreet
No, I’m not shilling for Coca-Cola. But the Netherlands apparently had this very bizarre promotion, once upon a time.
PinUpCards.com #1
Posted on 26 July 2009 by Chris Overstreet
This postcard has no descriptive text regarding the image — not that any is really needed, mind you….
Tags: Alexandre Cabanel, Venus
Cabanel’s “The Birth of Venus”
Posted on 25 July 2009 by Chris Overstreet
Katja writes, “If I had painted this painting (I wish!), I’d have left the angels out of it.” Agreed.
Sun Bathers on the Beach
Posted on 25 July 2009 by Chris Overstreet
Is it just me, or do the men appear to outnumber the women in this photo by about 37 to 1? And where are the bikinis?
Tags: Gil Elvgren, Postcard Friendship Friday
Kneeding a Lift
Posted on 23 July 2009 by Chris Overstreet
I don’t know where this young lady’s going, but I’m sure I’d go out of my way to get her to her destination.
Tags: Lithuania
Dancer of the Lietuvá Dance Group
Posted on 21 July 2009 by Chris Overstreet
Kristina sent this Lithuanian folk dancer to me from Vilnius, but she had to go all the way to Russia to get it first.
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