End Of Summer Fun!
Vacation Or Stay-Cation?
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Cool Summer Togs and Jewelry
Whether You're Spending A Day At The Shore, Hangin' By the Pool Or At A Tiki Party...
We Got Yah Covered!
Clothing Lore
Who Wore The First Girdles?
It was the Ancient Egyptians! Girdles were mostly worn for protecting eternal organs during labor and battles, but also for decoration. They were usually made of long, woven linen and were referred to as belts.
King Tut wore a girdle, and it was known as a "Tjet" or an "Isis Knot." The Tjet was worn by both men and women, and symbolized the Goddess Isis. So Tut rocked Egyptian-style “Spanx” by the Sphinx!
Pics below:
Ramesses' girdle, worn by King Ramesses III, circa 1185 BC.
Second photo: our vintage 1940s Rego girdle.
Both look sooooo comfy! LOL!
Jewelry Buying Tip
Are the stones in your pin glass or lucite?
Sometimes it is tough to tell whether stones in pins are glass or lucite.
Glass will be cooler to the touch. A quick test is to tap it on your teeth. Of course glass will make a more solid sound than lucite. You can also tap it on glass. Glass will make a louder solid sound. This goes for beads as well!
If there is a small area on the side of a stone that you can stick a point of a pin into without it compromising the piece, the pin point will leave an indent. If it is glass, it will just slide across the stone. Some pieces have both! And a lot of newer pins have faceted stones that look quite brilliant.
Below are a few examples of some rhinestone pins.
Three are all glass; the others are both lucite and glass, and one is all lucite. Can you tell which are lucite and which are glass without reading the titles? It's tough to tell by just sight.
The Answers:
1st photo - all lucite stones
2nd photo - mostly lucite and some glass stones
3rd photo - all glass stones
4th photo - all glass stones
5th photo - lucite and glass stones
6th photo - all glass stones and beads
Quirky Fact: Is Peanut Butter A Gal's Best Friend?
In 1953, Marilyn Monroe sang "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" in the movie "Gentleman Prefer Blondes".
But are diamonds really a girl's best friend? Or is it peanut butter?
Diamonds and peanut butter both contain carbon. Scientist Dan Frost, at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut in Germany, decided to see if he could convert the carbon from peanut butter into a diamond. After Frost exposed peanut butter to the same intense heat and pressure a diamond undergoes in the Earth, he was able to produce a crystallized diamond.
Well, I know what I'm doing this weekend! LOL!
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