Wednesday, October 28, 2015

WTF Wednesday: Firming Your Figure (1981)


Hallo Wednesday! Hallo WTF!

This week's focus is Firming Your Figure, the Consumer Guide from 1981 filled with 96 pages of a woman in Adidas jogging shorts over panty hose (sometimes legwarmers) demonstrating 7 days of exercises designed to give you the best figure you've ever had. 


This glorious magazine was sent to me by my friend Allison from Robin Egg Surprise Vintage. 

firming your figure

Start off with some abdominal exercises.

leg up


Do the best you can.


abdominal


You should feel a tingling in the legs. 

you should feel a tingling in the legs


Run in place, then grab your foot.

stretch


Don't forget your wrists.

wrists


Now slump.

slump


And hunch.

hunch


And slump again.

slump again


That's it! You got it.

As with all wtf wednesdays, there are no answers, only questions leading to more questions. 

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

WTF Wednesday: Hugging Teddies, Cooking French, Dreams


Hola Wednesday! Hola WTF!

Hola hugging teddies.

hugging teddies

Hola streetlamp drunkard.

streetlamp drunk


Hola pig in overalls.

pig in overalls

Hola duck stuffed with fake flowers and mini ducks on pins.

dead flower ducks

Cooking French. The old way removed eyeballs.

cooking french

Here's a thoughful little cowperson.

cowboy on elephant 2

Sitting on an elephant.

cowboy on elephant

It's a ceramic salt box fashioned into a (broken) clock. 

salt box clock

Songs about ladies and love...and jumping hounds.

jumping hound

Anne Murray where do you go when you dream?

where do you go when you dream


Someplace very, very different from this.

where do you go when you dream back

As with all wtf wednesdays, there are no answers, only questions leading to more questions. 

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Friday, October 16, 2015

happy birthday, DAD!


Today is my dad's birthday. 

Here he is winning the Rhode Island Jr. Chamber of Commerce Golf Sportsmanship Award in 1959. 

rhode island jr chamber of commerce golf sportsmanship award 1959

He's in a seersucker suit, and that's my dearly departed grandpa Wallace cut off on the left behind him. 

Of course he won this award, he is the most right-minded, selfless, even-keeled person you could ever meet! The other kids never had a chance. 

Happy birthday Big Papi!

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

WTF Wednesday: Cat in a Loafer, Phallus Duplicatus

Hello Wednesday! Hello WTF!
 

I must start this WTF Wednesday with a moment of silence for my Grandpa Wallace who passed away in Palm Beach at the ripe old age of 94 this weekend. He was pretty cool.  He was an architectural delineator and led a fairly charmed life. 94 is a lot of years, we should all be so lucky.

grandpa wallace lobster


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Now it's a cat in a loafer. 

cat in a loafer

And a rabbit on a carrot. 

rabbit climbs carrot


Last but not least, a stinkhorn mushroom spotted on a hike on Big Butt mountain off the Blue Ridge Parkway on Monday. Phallus duplicatus - astonishing net-like skirt.

stinkhorn
 
As with all wtf wednesdays, there are no answers, only questions leading to more questions. 

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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

WTF Wednesday: Stoic Clowns, Free Kisses, Rescue Dummy


Good morning, Wednesday! Good morning, WTF!

Let's begin with a dog sleeping like a sugarnitwit. 

comfy sug?

Now for a couple of stoic clowns: Asian...

asian clown

And argyle.

argyle clown

Flute section of the angel band.

angel flute

At least this one has her hands properly placed. 

flute mandolin

This broken music box depicts, I think, pregnant hippies. 

pregnant music box

Free kisses!

kisses free

Ewe isn't fat...

ewe is fat

Listen to how to speak up.

how to speak up

Dr. Bear is here to scrape your gums.

dentist bear

 Oh, the horrors this ceramic doll has seen.

strawberry fruitcake


Last but not least, they are charging $75 for this "Rescue Dummy." (Gently used).

rescue dummy


As with all wtf wednesdays, there are no answers, only questions leading to more questions. 

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