Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing great! So in today's post i decided to focus on the WWII Women's Army Corps of the US and some interesting regulations they had to follow. The first rule we will be discussing today, is the hair do's and don'ts! It will also be very helpful for [...]
Author: A Vintage Athenian
Vintage recipes: 1930s Zippy egg salad
Hello ladies and gentlemen! Yes, i am back! I know i know. I haven't written anything on my blog for a while but if you follow my Instagram account you know how busy i have been. However, i truly missed writting here and i decided to get back to it (at least as much as [...]
WWII Advertisements
Hello darlings! I was looking at some WWII advertisements the other day and I noticed that most of the companies, were trying to sell their products in one specific way: by encouraging people. They were motivating them that the war would soon be over or that their products were the right ones for those who [...]
WWII Greece: Women with guns (or guts)
The following article is non-political. Hello everyone! In today's post I'll be talking about the young women of Greece during WWII, and how they started being part of the Greek resistance during that period. It all started with the national liberation organization, "Ελεύθερη Νέα" (Eleftheri Nea meaning Free Young Lady) which was founded on June [...]
Flirting: now and then
Hello my loves! I hope you're all doing great. Since my Instagram page is public and since I attend festivals very often, I've received comments by many types of men as well. I've met kind ones (that's less likely to happen) and I've also met rude and cursory ones. I've noticed some common things in [...]
An article about Distomo massacre by the Nazis
Hello everyone! I found an article the other day, written by LIFE magazine on 1944. The article is about some incidents that took place in Greece during that time, focusing on the Distomo massacre and I decided to make a post, showing it to you. In the first photo we see Maria Pantiska still weeping, [...]
What’s my era? (1940s-1950s)
Hello darlings! Welcome to the third part of the What's my era posts. I talked about the 1930s on the previous one so if you haven't read it yet you can find it here! Many changes occurred during the 40s and especially in the 50s! They were both more colorful eras (yes, i'm indeed talking [...]