Christian comedian Jeanne Robertson never fails to make us laugh. And when she starts telling a story about her teenage son Beaver I couldn't help but giggle. Hearing the hilarious antics of a...
A swinging vintage New Years Eve celebration is planned for the Colston Hall in Bristol. Bands playing on the night will be The Bruce-Ilett Big Band, The Zen Hussies and the Paper Moon Band as the hall is transformed into a 1940s ballroom.
Ever wonder? A historical and a modern interpetation… Vocabulary.com has the following things to denote about hussies: A hussy is a woman or girl who's disrespectful or immoral. Your old fashioned grandmother might call your brother's live-in girlfriend a hussy. The noun hussy is an insulting and somewhat antique way to refer to a woman whose actions don't line up with traditional ideas of being respectable. A sexually bold women is most likely to be called a hussy, especially if she's seen as "stealing" another woman's partner. Originally, hussy was a shortening of the Middle English husewif, "housewife." Through the 1500's, hussy came to mean "any woman or girl," and by the 1650's it meant "an improper woman or girl." Sexual connatations aside, I could easily accept the definition as
Nestled amongst a series of tacky tourist shops and attractions along Highland Avenue in Los Angeles sits a grand Art Deco building designed by famed architect S. Charles Lee. It is the home of the Max Factor Makeup Museum, and was in fact, purchased by the famed Hollywood makeup artist, wig maker and inventor in 1928 – just months before the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression. It didn’t open until 1935, but when it did, it changed they way cosmetics were marketed and sold in America. Everyone wanted to look like their favourite stars up on the Silver Screen, and cosmetic sales took off. Factor created the signature looks of most of the first screen legends such as Marlene Dietrich, Clara Bow, Joan Crawford and Jean Harlow. In 1935 he introduced the first commercially available foundation called Pan-Cake Foundation. Motion pictures, Max Factor, Helena Rubinstein and Elizabeth Arden changed the world, and for the first time, society and working class women could purchase makeup without the stigma of being labeled “hussies.” Up to that point, makeup had mostly only been worn by actresses and prostitutes. Max Factor Makeup Museum in Los Angeles The lobby of the […]
