Grandma always told us a lady should sacrifice comfort for beauty. She also liked to remind us that she was 118-pounds when she got married. Come to think of it, she often told us not to look at Black people funny or they'd shoot us, so maybe we shouldn't have listened to the sacrificing-comfort-for-beauty part. Still, we do, to an extent — you know if it means not eating a cheeseburger and fries three times a day even though we want to, and squeezing into jeans that make it hard to breathe.
Anyway, Grandma would have been only 18 when this "Face Harness for Milady's Beauty" was advertised in 1933, and we know she was hit hard by The Great Depression, so she probably didn't have one. And if she did, and gave it away, that would break our hearts, because imagine going through Grandma's costume jewelry after she died (which we most certainly did), and finding this. We wouldn't have the first clue what to do with it. First guess would have been some weird pre-vibrator, electric-shock, orgasm-producing underwear. And we'd have thought Grandma to be very, very cool. But if she'd kept the newspaper clip...
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