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Nowadays, discourse on fetishes and kinks is much more mainstream than in previous years. But, in 1923, one newspaper article…
Edwardian undercuts? Yep, it was indeed popular. The St. Louis Dispatch reported in 1907 that women and girls in Pennsylvania were…
Looking for an expert to weave your cut hair into an art piece? Well, if you lived in Ste. Genevieve…
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Fashion is a choice everybody makes daily, even if you claim you don’t care about…