vintage everyday

71 Colorful Pictures of Fashionable Furniture and Interiors in the 1970s

Furniture of the 1970s was full of bright colors, lava lamps, flares and flower power. Patterned prints including geometric shapes and stripes were common in most family homes. Vibrancy was key in this era. Curvy and bold designs were popular, including tub chairs and metallic bar stools were heavily featured in living rooms across the country. And don't forget shaggy rugs.

Another major aspect of 1970s furniture is the use of teak wood. The use of teak in fashionable furniture and panelling regained popularity in the 1960s and items became chunkier as it progressed into the 1970s. Because of the popularity of wood in homes, dark color palettes also became more widely used as the 1970s progressed. In the mid-to-late 1970s, pine wood began to replace teak wood, and color palettes became even darker.

These colorful pictures show what furniture in the 1970s looked like.

Woman poses while holding a gun to her head, Tijuana, Mexico, ca. 1940s

Cut Due to Illness or Fashion? Whatever Reasons, Here Are 20 Cool Photos of Victorian Women With Short Hair

Until the first years of the 20th century, women had long hair. Waist-length tresses were not uncommon, and longer hair was the norm due to the fact that cutting women’s hair was something done only as a necessity, as in extreme sickness. Long hair was considered a mark of femininity.

Young women and girls wore their long tresses in braids, or cascading ringlet curls in the 19th century. Older women usually wore their hair braided and coiled atop their heads or in French-style twists pinned loosely along the nape and crown.

But in the late 19th and early 20 centuries, Western women who wore short hair, and/or garments usually tailored for men, had to be pretty badass to go so visibly outside the usual gender norms, whatever their reasons. And their reasons were many.

15 Photos of Sean Connery Rocked a Scarlet Mankini in 1974 Sci-Fi Film 'Zardoz'

Zardoz (1974) is quite possibly the weirdest film ever made. As 70s as prog rock, fondue and woodchip wallpaper, and mad as a lift full of wolves, it’s a film full of intriguing ideas, pretentious chatter and incongruous images.

Set in the year 2293 on a post-apocalyptic Earth, Zardoz is a science fiction film written, produced and directed by John Boorman.

The film starring Sean Connery as Zed, who dressed in a scarlet mankini, his plaited ponytail flowing in the breeze, escapes the thrall of the Eternals and smashes their regime with sex and death.