Marc Chevalier
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A brilliant, insane article on 1950s rodent rock n' roll. Written by Nathan Marsak, the man whose massive collection of vintage belted-back suits we all admire. The first few sentences:
"The late Fifties were a strange period in American popular design and culture. It was a time of exaggerated hugeness, in which pneumatic busts and bouffants shared the seemingly-infinite lebensraum with bulbous, elongated automobiles and twenty pound ham-pineapple loaves ...
... How then do we explain the emergence of a group of minuscule celebrities, each no larger than a dinner roll? What strange forces conspired to draw Americans simultaneously toward the massive and the infinitesimal?"
Ready for the rest? Look here:---http://www.scrammagazine.com/tags/nathan-marsak
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A brilliant, insane article on 1950s rodent rock n' roll. Written by Nathan Marsak, the man whose massive collection of vintage belted-back suits we all admire. The first few sentences:
"The late Fifties were a strange period in American popular design and culture. It was a time of exaggerated hugeness, in which pneumatic busts and bouffants shared the seemingly-infinite lebensraum with bulbous, elongated automobiles and twenty pound ham-pineapple loaves ...
... How then do we explain the emergence of a group of minuscule celebrities, each no larger than a dinner roll? What strange forces conspired to draw Americans simultaneously toward the massive and the infinitesimal?"
Ready for the rest? Look here:---http://www.scrammagazine.com/tags/nathan-marsak
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