I’m swooning over the French aviators (and their uniforms) found in a new Flickr album uploaded by archival image maven, Pillpat. Check it out, noting all the new-to-my-eyes, sartorial details: unique pullovers, cool tunics, curious collars, striped socks and military-duty clogs. Sign me up for any branch of service that issues such lovely off-duty garb (off-duty, …
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Matchbook Peleton
I tried watching the 2016 Tour de France but lost interest after the first week. I miss the panache and personal style of cyclists from the past. Now, I can barely distinguish one game piece from the next (logos, lego shaped helmets and mirrored shades drown out the personalities of the individual riders. I much …
From the archives – Jack et Mary
From the archives – more heritage paper dolls from Pillpat featuring stylish war time aid workers, Jack and Mary.
Shopping from Pillpat
From Pillpat, a cryptic French playing card games involving beautiful objects.
From the Archives – Les Compagnons
I never tire of reprinting print ephemera from the collection of Pillpat (agence eureka). Next to the Library of Congress, no other flickr stream issues forth so many amazing, hard to source images of French clothing catalogs, playing cards, maps, children’s books, educational texts and party games from the early to mid twentieth century. …
Shopping from the Past: Archival Plus Fours
Images courtesy Pillpat, Flickr Commons, Zombikombi1959 and my personal archives
Archival Geographie
Obsolete Geography lessons from 1933 (via the incomparable Pillpat print ephemera collection).
From the Archives – Great War Painting Book
Images coutesy Pillpat’s The Great War Painting Book set on flickr.
Shopping from 1926 – Catalogue Messner
Students returning to college in the Fall might consider shopping from the 1926 Louis Messner catalogue for the perfect campus cruiser. Louis Messner sells a broad range of fenders, racks, bars, bells, grips, pedals, lights, pumps, saddles and frames. Ditch that impractical fixed gear and build yourself up a fully fendered Luxe Dame or Garconnet …
Archival Pillpat
Favorite Archival source for print ephemera, Pillpat, posted these vintage playing cards from Tops and Tails, a game from Austria. While the rules of Tops and Tails are lost on me I love the larky illustrations of my favorite outdoor pursuits. I encourage you to print out the cards and generate your own topsy turvy …