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Welcome to HOW RETRO, which is all about the 20th century - films, fashion, TV, people, popular culture and more. Like Lot's Wife, we just can't help looking back...

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Mary Hardy

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Loud, Rude and Strangely Likeable Mary Hardy with co-worker, Graham Kennedy.  Image from "The  Age" newspaper. Eccentric, v...

The Beauty of Gene Tierney

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An American Babe 1940s beauty, Gene Tierney 1940s leading lady, Gene Tierney, was a Brooklyn-born beauty who wowed screen audiences w...

The Ingenue

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Mary Pickford - an ingenue of  silent films What is an Ingenue? An ingenue is an innocent; a guileless girl-woman who has charm, phys...

Fop Hairstyles

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17th century engraving of a British actor, in character as 'Lord Foppington'. Source:  Wiki Commons What Does Fop Mean? Th...

Top Actresses of the 1960s

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When you're hot, you're hot and in the 1960s there was no-one more sizzling than these female movie stars... The social rev...

Wooden Framed Sunglasses

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The Wood Look What goes around comes around in the fashion industry and that's certainly true of sunglasses, the designers of wh...

Decorating with Chandeliers

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"The term "chandelier" is from the 12th Century Old French world  Chandelier ,  which evolved from an earlier, 10th cen...
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