Fashion history

While digitizing historical documents this past weekend, I discovered that “lolita” fashion predates Mana and Baby the Stars Shine Bright by several decades. Here is a primitive example from 1968:

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For the curious, here are a couple of the artifacts I digitized. The first is from 1968, the second from 1970.

[audio:http://tancos.net/audio/03 Flower Punk.mp3]

[audio:http://tancos.net/audio/13 Oh No_The Orange County Lumber Truck.mp3]

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