HOT TAMALES!
todays history lesson is more French Quarter lore than classic history.
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the Quarter, you will undoubtedly run into the Tamale guy. He’s always got a cowboy hat on and a smile on his face while he drags a cooler full of tinfoil-wrapped homemade tamales behind him and inevitably pleasantly accosts you with the incredible smell of the food while yelling HOT TAMALES BABAYYYY!!!
If you buy one he will tell you how he will love you all his life.
I have had them and they are great.
But this shirt he had printed is even better.
just dressing room things
everything except my shoes is vintage 🧢
the black cutoff tank is a 70s Monkees band tee grail ($150)
skateboard is an original 1980s Jeff Kendall (they go for about $1500 but this one’s NFS)
playboy tee is 1980s ($120)
shorts are 90s high waisted denim chopped into cutoffs ($65)
high top black on black chuck taylor’s are new but the brand has been around since the 1910s!
1940s tulle skirts
Usually worn under a dress to create a more dramatic look, tool skirts became popular in the 1940s and 50s.
Tulle was originally created in the Victorian era, and became popularized for use in lingerie and wedding dresses. By the 1940s became a wardrobe staple used under dresses to fluff out the skirt.
You can see here I have a bunch – in nearly every color. Some have a stretchy material at the top to pull them on, and others have buttons and ribbons, which is indicative of the age of the garment.
this post was supposed to be about my vintage 90s Levi’s jeans but
(what I would’ve told you is about how there exists a small group of denim hunters that we keep in touch with that go into the old mines out west looking for turn of the century denim jeans. they’re incredible and typically sell at auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Check out Original Indians Jeans on Instagram)
God Bless America! 🇺🇸🦅💋
This flag is a 48 star flag which was used for a period of just under 50 years for a period of time between 1912 in the 1960s when Hawaii was adopted, adding a new star.
The flag I’m using here is from World War II and is the same type of flag that was raised in Iwo Jima, and the same kind sent home to loved ones when soldiers were lost.
They’re not that hard to find, but ones in good shape can be. They usually made of heavy cotton and go for between 100 to 400 bucks.
(for my patriotic folk in this crowd, rest, assured, I took very careful care of this flag, when posing with it)
POV: we wake up and I can't stop telling you about space stuff while we get ready
My first naked Get Ready With Me: Telescope edition! This one is about the Andromeda Galaxy.
After requests to include videos of me getting ready and giving a space lesson, I finally made one!
*in the video I incorrectly stated that Andromeda is 30 light years away which is horribly incorrect: it's actually 2.5 million light years away. I had just woken up, and hadn't had coffee yet, or my notes in front of me :)
It’s my birthday!! Celebrating another trip around the sun in my new bathing suit and my birthday suit ☺️
I would love for you to buy me a present 🥹🎁 My wishlist is: https://throne.com/prettysadiereed
interrupting my regularly scheduled posts to announce that MY TELESCOPE HAS ARRIVED!
for those that tipped towards it - I’m editing your content - stay tuned for it arriving to your inboxes later this week! 🚀
I am so goddamn excited.
in the meantime, please enjoy these glamor shots with my new toy
xo Megan
American beauty: Bettie Page playing cards edition
In case you live under a rock. Bettie Page is considered the Queen of Pinups. She reigned in the 1950s and in the 1980s with the rise of Olivia De Berardinis's watercolor pinup (aka cheesecake) art. Many of the more modern-day pinup art featured in Playboy from the 1980s on was from de Beradinis.
When talking about Bettie Page, you can't not talk about the two most famous photographers she worked with: Irving Klaw and Bunny Yeager.
I’ve mentioned Bunny Yeager before for her influence on the modern day bikini but as a refresh: she was a model-turned-photographer during the pinup era, capturing hundreds of iconic pinup images of Bettie Page (as well as other pinups). She also designed and sewed many of the outfits she and her models posed in!
We’ll save a lesson on Irving Klaw for another day. 💕
If you’ve been in the shop, you know I collect Ponchartrain Beach pieces. They’re hard to find and the older pieces are worth a lot. Especially the Tiki mugs.
For those new here, Ponchartrain Beach was a beach and amusement park that was on the south shore of Lake Ponchartrain here in New Orleans. It was opened in 1928 (by the grandfather of actor Bryan Batt for those of you that like the show Mad Men) and closed in 1983.
Ponchartrain Beach had a killer tiki restaurant on the property (called the Bali Hai club) whose tiki mugs are hard to get your hands on. We’ve moved a lot of them through the shop and they sell within minutes. One tiki Bob mug typically sells between $400-600 bucks.
Here at home I have mugs, the menu from the 1950s, coins from the arcade style games, and more. Picture here is the book Bryan Batt wrote about sifting through the memories and items left behind after Ponchartrain Beach closed. 🏝️
A 1960s ruffled string bikini top and tie skirt. I found this in an old costume shop in western Louisiana and couldn’t let it go! 💕
You can’t mention the modern day bikini set without mentioning Bunny Yeager: one of the most famous photographers of the pinup era who also designed and sewed bikinis for her models, which greatly influenced swim fashion of the time, ultimately pushing the bikini as the standard for sexy, playful beachwear.
A little Sunday service in a grail
this is a rare 1992 Olympics Lithuania Grateful Dead basketball tee from when the band sponsored the Lithuanian team following their separation from the Soviet Union.
The Lithuanian team didn’t have the funds to compete, so the Grateful Dead bankrolled them. The whole team competing in head to toe tie dye uniforms.
It’s almost my birthday!
Here’s a little tease from my upcoming birthday post later in June 🎂 🎈
I have a wishlist now and would love to be surprised 🥰
If you look at my profile, the wishlist is linked!
It’s also here:
https://onlyfans.com/away?url=https://throne.com/prettysadiereed
A 1950's formal robe in a shimmery green gold chartreuse color.
Also wearing a necklace hand made from a Royal Street artisan of vintage ship's rope and emerald-color crystals.
Got to shoot this in an old French Quarter home <3
A 1980s oversized crop top Playboy tee from the famous vintage seller Slobby Robby.
Vintage Playboy (from any era) is super hot and sells quick. This top sells for around $85 but it’s NFS because I like it so much :)
a 1960s frilly cupless bra and garter belt, 1950s nylons and a 1960s black lace robe with the original tags
Nylons and garter belts were part of a woman's typical outfit until they lost popularity into the 1970s and 1980s with the rise of a full leg stocking. Since then, garter belts are marketed less as a necessary tool to hold up stockings and more as one of the sexiest pieces of lingerie you can wear (but, I'm biased. I love them.)
For the record, cupless bras are purely decorative, and designed more as an accessory, harkening back to the days of Ancient Greece where breasts had open layered harnesses around then. It wasn't until the 1700s in France when corsets and stays rose in popularity for the wealthy, and by the 1800s cloth layers around the chest and on the shoulders began to take form as what we know today as the modern bra.
An early 1900s (estimates between 1875 and 1920) Odd Fellows ceremonial (inner guard) robe. It’s heavy and has multiple layers of fabric (velvet, cotton and wool) with chains and hooks that audibly clink when walking in it.
The Odd Fellows are non-political & non-secular fraternity founded in America in the early 1800s but worldwide they’ve been around a century longer than that. Interestingly, the Civil War saw huge declines in all fraternal memberships (for obvious reasons given the impact of the war both due to casualties and political divide of the nation as well as an increase in socioeconomic challenges of the average American.) Following this, the Odd Fellows regained it strength, surpassing the Free Masons to become the largest fraternal organization in the country.
Their stated goals are “visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan,” and ceremonies (rituals) are held for various celebrations including initiations.
The links on the costume represent the three values of The Order: Friendship, Love & Truth and would have been worn by a member assigned as the Guard protecting the entrance to the ceremony.
I have several other ritual costumes from them from this time period - more to come if you liked this! 💋
Cha-Ching! A Saints grail tee.
For those new here, grails are rare; hard to find and much envied t-shirts.
The New Orleans Saints were founded in 1966 and named after the well-known Jazz classic “When the Saints Go Marching In.”
The team colors are black and gold which is allegedly from the days of olde when they would practice at the New Orleans Athletic Club, which is situated on the edge of the French quarter where the original building featured black and gold decorative colors. Of course they weren’t called the Saints back then, and there wasn’t an NFL yet.
Saint stuff sells almost instantly in the shop – we even have a wait list of people that have us call them as soon as we get a vintage piece in. I was lucky to get to try this one on!
A 1970s Rain Lamp
Rain lamps were popular in the 70s during a resurgence in 1920s Art Nouveau style. Usually you see these as chandeliers, and when you find them they're almost always in need of repair.
They almost always feature a greek goddess (usually Venus) and some have faux greenery on the bottom as if she's standing in a garden.
This one's a pedestal lamp and in perfect working order. It's mineral oil (not water) that creates the rain effect. It makes a low humming sound when it's on.
simple pleasures: a good cup of coffee, watching Ted Lasso on repeat just to drool over Roy Kent and panties made by a Kardashian 🍑
comments with the best line from Ted Lasso gets a prize to their inbox
Rubik’s Cube Striptease
come hang out with me on an average Thursday night and watch me create a new form of ASMR: solving a Rubik’s cube and removing clothing at each step
