Call me a nerd, but I love looking back at what people were doing a century ago — what tools they used every day, what jobs they had…and also? What the heck they WORE. I’m no fashion guru, but after doing a deep dive on what people used to wear 100+ years ago, I kinda feel like Miranda Priestly.
(That’s Meryl Streep’s character in The Devil Wears Prada, in case…
At the same time, we’ve seen a revival of what Abby Sandel, the creator of the baby name blog Appellation Mountain, calls “old-school antiques.”
“Favorites of 2025 like Eleanor, Evelyn, and Hazel would’ve felt like granny names compared to Kayla, Taylor, and…
I’m in my history era RN — which basically means I love looking up random facts about the olden days and making trivia quizzes about it. And as it turns out, there are soooo many obsolete professions I had no idea even existed, and they’re too fascinating not…
