Name's Cat. I'm an L.A. gal who loves everything from classic movie queens to pinups to classic horror. My likes vary a lot. Having said that, I refuse to fit in a box or apologize for being me.

Smoking Models learning proper cigarette smoking technique for a TV ad, 1953 (x)

“Members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Conn., explored the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other masculine enjoyments as had frequently cost them the evening companionship of husbands, sons and brothers.” 1941 (x)

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Jimi Hendrix

by Jan Olofsson

collective-history:

Burning Cigarette Dispenser ca. 1931 (Retronaut) 

tothecabaret:

1930’s Teen Delinquents

Squirrel on little girl’s head, 1964

Illustration by Coby Whitmore

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Frances Farmer after being arrested, 1943

read more about her life

Vincent Price in Twice-Told Tales (1963)

Photography by Irving Penn for Vogue, June 1950

Lupe Velez c. 1948

Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

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Bettie actually disliked this photo. She was afraid people were going to perceive her as a smoker.

“Smoke Dreams” by Albert Vargas

Posed by Shirley Veron in 1927. Vargas said of this work,”the idea of a woman smoking raised eyebrows-altogether shocking.”