60s christmas

Decorated with ornaments made of papier mache or cut from tin cans, Designer Gere Kavanaugh's peppermint-stripe tree -- made of drinking straws -- can hang

American actress Jayne Mansfield decorates a Christmas tree, circa 1960.

The history of Christmas trees goes back to the symbolic use of evergreens in ancient Egypt and Rome and continues with the German tradition...

Want to have a holiday get-together with a little retro charm? Check out these creative and colorful 1960s Christmas party decor ideas!

Style is always changing - whether you are throwing away your last year's sweater because it is hideous now or finding the home decor horrendous. On the other hand, something from twenty or so years ago is now comfortably back in fashion. And while in some instances trends change faster than seasons do, other times a vintage style might stay forever. Though you might've never thought about it, even Christmas trees aren't impervious to the trends around us.

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Was Christmas better in the seventies? All that tinsel, polyester and fake snow. Yesterday, I shared my gift guide for the nostalgic old world traveller, today, I thought we'd get a little less classy and a little more sassy... A Classy Cross Stitch Cross-stitches by Alicia Watkins availabl

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