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3 & 4- this makeup was only 50 cents and enabled you to adopt the attributes of any age or race of man/womankind. amazing! see the numbered list?

2- do you have a "Favorite" BEST & CHEAPEST letter & invoice file? It's also IMPROVED.

1- apparently Juicy Couture was making stationery in the 1920's. seriously though, this is beautifully decorated for a throwaway item. 

I don't like nostalgia for its own sake nor do I desire to imitate Art Nouveau; however, these objects hold a powerful attraction nonetheless. I wonder why... do I inwardly crave decoration, preciousness, kitsch, hyper-sincere branding, outmoded standards of beauty? Is it being in the presence of "the dead"? Is it escaping my own constraints for the while? am I- unbeknownst to myself- a genre person, like a Goth or something? Or, is it CRAFT? Is it wondering how these items were produced and distributed in a pre-digital age? I will ponder these questions in my sleep.