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The Frog's Eyebrows
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The Frog's Eyebrows is more then just your ordinary vintage fashion blog. It is the complete vintage lifestyle blog. What to know more about the popular films, books and television shows of days gone by, but with pretty pictures and awesome screencaps? Why not drop in and stay awhile. I'd love to meet you and yes, I do also show off my vintage inspired wardrobe.
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Blog from the Road III

Next to the huge statue of Louis Riel outside the Manitoba Legislature.Whos seen Guy Maddins "My Winnipeg"? What did you think of it?

20 apr 12

The Fashion of Doctor Who

Next year Doctor Who will turn 50 and Im really looking forward to seeing what the BBC has planned to celebrate it.If youve never seen an episode of this cult classic, either the new version or the c...

18 apr 12

Blog from the Road II

View from the Top of the World at the Centre of the Universe. Now at the Forks.Lets see you non-Canadians figure that out.

17 apr 12

Blog from the Road

Trying on helmets at the War Museum in Ottawa.

12 apr 12

Vintage Books {A Moveable Feast}

I decided to finally read Hemingways memoirs of being a young writer in Paris in the Twenties after getting my DVD of Midnight in Paris recently. Id been meaning to read it for a number of years, but...

12 apr 12

Daily Outfit

No, I dont just hang out in the cemetery randomly. Okay, I do sometimes. However, Ive been slowly learning how to drive in the cemetery. Its great. There are hardly any people to not run over, no car...

08 apr 12 1 person likes this

I Spy With My Little Eye

Given my affinity for the Sixties Spy-Fi genre, I have gotten a number of requests to write something about I Spy, which ran for three seasons from 1965-1968. I only got into I Spy recently, since I ...

28 mar 12

Before The Parade Passes By

A couple of years ago I took the interwar lit course at uni and its topic was The Great War and Shell Shock. The professor devoted a full month to discussing Parades End by Ford Maddox Ford, which no...

18 mar 12

Recently Embroidered

This year, Ive been embroidering a lot of little quotes to hang on my limited wall space. I love embroidering text above all else, mostly because I am unable to draw and there are just too many wonde...

09 mar 12

Murphy Brown is Kick-Ass!

I have a confession to make: I cant stand the Mary Tyler Moore show. I realize that it is a important show in that it had the first single, independent career woman as its star, but I never found the...

05 mar 12

Im Back

I havent been around blog land at all this year. How shame-making of me.The hours at the store where I work have been cut back and moved around, so Ive been working almost exclusively the night closi...

05 mar 12

Cinema Tuesdays {Thoroughly Modern Millie}

Ive loved this movie since I first saw it when I was six. Its truly delightful! Thoroughly Modern Millie is a 1967 light hearted spoof of the Twenties, complete with slang, speakeasies, flappers and ...

15 dec 11

Cinema Tuesdays {Victor Victoria}

For those of you who have not seen it, Victor Victoria is Blake Edwards 1982 remake of a little known 1933 German film of the same name wherein a struggling light opera singer named Victoria (Julie A...

10 dec 11

Daily Outfit

In continuation of my tradition of wearing seasonally inappropriate garments, Im wearing an embroidered peasant top with split sleeves in December. Who cares if its 2 below out and it gets dark in th...

09 dec 11

Cinema Tuesdays {An Affair to Remember}

An Affair To Remember is Leo McCareys 1957 remake of his 1939 film Love Affair, which starred Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne an is in public domain. In general, the only remakes that I find acceptable...

30 nov 11

Cinema Tuesdays {Harold and Maude}

I once got talking to one of the shop assistants in my favourite vintage store about Harold and Maude and we both agreed that it was one of the most optimistic films ever made and that the daisies sp...

27 nov 11

Classic Television {Maverick}

As Im sure youre aware, the most popular American television shows in the 50s and 60s were Westerns. Id never been a big fan of the classic period of Western films from the 30s-50s until I took a cou...

26 nov 11

Cinema Tuesdays {All That Heaven Allows}

From 1955 and directed by Douglas Sirk, All That Heaven Allows tells the story of a widow with two grown children who finds romance with a handsome, younger gardener, despite the objections of her tw...

20 nov 11

Classic Scents {Shalimar}

(source)Given the number of articles Ive been reading of late about the regrettable change that the perfume world is undertaking by replacing natural notes in timeless fragrances with synthetic subst...

19 nov 11

Cinema Tuesdays {Now, Voyager}

"The untold want by life and land neer granted,Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find."~ Walt WhitmanThis 1942 romantic drama (which Im sure youve already seen or at least heard of) was...

13 nov 11

The Man Who Never Was

Let me tell you a tale.In April 1943, a body of a young Royal Marines officer washed up on the coast of Spain. Amongst his possessions were two letters from two very high up commanders, hand written ...

09 nov 11

Cinema Tuesdays {Indiscreet}

This 1958 Stanley Donen film stars Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in their second pairing together as two older and somewhat wiser lovers. She is a famous stage actress, who is depressed over the thou...

05 nov 11

All Hallows Eve

I hope that everyone had a happy and safe Halloween this past weekend.This being the first year since I got too old to go trick or treating (or rather I didnt get too old, my brother got too tall) th...

03 nov 11

Cinema Tuesdays {Hairspray}

Hairspray (in case you didnt already know) is the story of "pleasantly plump" Tracy Turnblatt who joins The Corny Collins Show as a keen teen dancer and successfully manages to integrate it i...

19 oct 11

Cinema Tuesdays {Cry-Baby}

From 1990 and starring a young Johnny Depp, Cry-Baby is probably John Waters most mainstream film to date. This is a parody of the juvenile delinquent films of the Fifties and teen musical films, lik...

14 oct 11

Cinema Tuesdays {Little Shop of Horrors}

This 1986 Frank Oz musical comedy is an adaptation of the successful Off-Broadway musical, which itself was an adaptation of the 1960 cult classic The Little Shop of Horrors, which is famous for bein...

14 oct 11

My Favourite Summer Dress

This was my new favourite dress this past summer. Its cotton, easy to wear, from the Fifties, machine washable and I picked it up for only $15 from Red Light when I went to Portland. Clearly its perf...

13 oct 11

The Perils of Our Dependency on Our Modern Technological Marvels

My, it has been a while, hasnt it. Ive been here, just not here.My internet service provider has been making such a huge fuss about improving their service. These "improvements" have made my ...

17 sep 11

Cinema Tuesdays {A Free Soul}

From 1931 A Free Soul is one of the most Pre Code of all Pre Code films. It was based on the book of the same name that I previously wrote about, but usually for adaptations, the film is more scandal...

14 sep 11

Cinema Tuesdays {Intermezzo}

Intermezzo from 1939 (clearly the greatest year ever for motion pictures) is quite a sad film and I find it hard to watch simply because you know from the start that Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman ...

14 sep 11

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