Category: Looking Good
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Dazzle Them With Denim!
Make it in Denim Todhunter 1977 Wow! That is a lot of look. If it is all denim, that has to be a very heavy caftan. I remember that caftans were big in the late 60s and 70s. I think it was probably fading by 1977. My grandmother always sported…
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Mommy needs to get pretty
My Beautiful Mommy Salzhauer 2007 A Twitter friend steered me to this title as a possibility for discussion. Our story is that Mommy picked unnamed child up from school. Girl goes with Mommy to visit Dr. Michael, a plastic surgeon that looks like he has been doing steroids. Older brother…
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There’s a Thin Person Inside You!
There’s a Thin Person Inside You! Schoenthaler 1983 Submitter: This book was in our nursing library (in a community college) and it’s all kinds of wrong! I’ll start with the cover. Ew. Next, fat people are referred to as “fatty’s” and surely if you’re fat you must be completely miserable! Overall,…
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This is your face doing isometrics
Isometrics: the Static Way to Physical Fitness Obeck 1966 Submitter: My staff was weeding the good ‘ole 613s and came across this beauty from 1966. This book is awful because, well, it’s an outdated health book from 1966 and the photographs are terrible, not to mention comical. Holly: The pictures…
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Macrame Forever!
Practical Macrame Andes 1971 Submitter: I work in a public library, and I have to say that I’d never heard of macrame prior to retrieving this book for a patron. I asked my mother, who graduated from college in the late ’70s, and she remembered it vaguely. The book itself…
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Looking Good For Your Man
How to Dress for Success Head 1967 I was so excited to find this gem tucked away in a university collection. Of course Edith Head is a fashion icon, and this book is completely appropriate for any serious fashion collection, but this book is almost comical for today’s modern public…
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