leila, professional wanderluster.

Meet Leila Hadley, travel writer/socialite/general badass. Although she was the “chic, high-level, in-the-know career girl that millions of young women dreamed of being about in New York,” she decided it would be more fun to run away to Singapore. So in 1951, she took off to South Africa, Jamaica, Beirut, Malta and the West Indies with her six-year-old. And had some torrid affairs with dashing sailors along the way. Happy spring break/summer travels little capslocks, and if you ever think about going on a cruise to Cancun…what would Leila do?

back when I was your age: bjorn’s drunk, 1970’s

Back when they were our age…our parents were smashed too.

back when I was your age: USA, 1975

the great outdoors: yes. oversized circus tents: yes. long surfer hair and  patchy mustaches: yes. tight jeans and mini longboards: um, duh.

back when I was your age: everyone could play guitar.

back when I was your age: sweden, 1975

Capslock got tired of hearing our parents say: “I wore those acid-washed jeans/sparkly studded cowboy boots/fill-in-the-blanks when I your age. And I wore them first.” So we went through the family photo albums to prove it.  Here’s what our Swedish family members (and some random Germans) were wearing in 1975. Start stealing.