Meet Leila Hadley, travel writer/socialite/general badass. Although she was the “chic, high-level, in-the-know career girl that millions of young women dreamed of being about in New York,” she decided it would be more fun to run away to Singapore. So in 1951, she took off to South Africa, Jamaica, Beirut, Malta and the West Indies [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Back When I Was Your Age’
January 14, 2010
back when I was your age: bjorn’s drunk, 1970′s
Back when they were our age…our parents were smashed too.
December 21, 2009
back when I was your age: USA, 1975
the great outdoors: yes. oversized circus tents: yes. long surfer hair and patchy mustaches: yes. tight jeans and mini longboards: um, duh.
November 29, 2009
back when I was your age: sweden, 1975
Capslock got tired of hearing our parents say: “I wore those acid-washed jeans/sparkly studded cowboy boots/fill-in-the-blanks when I your age. And I wore them first.” So we went through the family photo albums to prove it. Here’s what our Swedish family members (and some random Germans) were wearing in 1975. Start stealing.
