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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

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

The Beauty of Gene Tierney

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

The Ingenue

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

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

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

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

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

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