Weekend Conversation Starters

[Messy Nessy Chic]   The open road is waiting. It’s a damn weird time to be a tourist – but then again, you and I were never tourists. When we travel, we explore with a different ethos in mind. With a wanderlust to see, hear, and learn. To support the mom & pop shops, and the beloved local figures who make places like Paris, London, New York, and everywhere in between magical. Today, Keyholders will find a fresh summertime eBook in our travel library: [A New Yorker’s East Coast Vacation Guide](, focusing on precious outdoor spaces, quicky rentals, family-run B&Bs, and small businesses that need our support. In that vein, we invite readers celebrating July 4th to bring some new conversation starters to the campfire this year, from the [original inhabitants of Manhattan]( to the incredible living history of the [Black cowboys who built the American West](. There’s nothing more American than the dream of the open road – so let’s hit the ground running. Stay curious and safe travels, Nessy [Nessy]   [America’s Hidden “Mad Men” Age of Black Advertising](   [Screenshot-20200628-015929-Chrome]( Style and smiles all-round, saturated to the max; sexy undertones complete with sexist overtones and carefree capitalism – those iconic mid-century advertisements weren’t just unique to the magazine pages of white America. In the 1950s and ’60s, the notorious advertisers of Madison Avenue, aka the real-life “Mad Men”, courted African American dollars too. Unbeknownst to…  [Continue Reading](   [Savour the Date with Post-Pandemic Weddings of the Roaring 20s](   [Roaring-20s-Wedding-Theme-Ideas-and-Inspiration]( A century ago, the world was recovering from the deadliest pandemic in modern history. Post-Spanish Influenza and post-World War I, no other decade in history can match the change and innovation brought forth by the 1920s. Things were changing fast – new and impressive lines of communication were opening up, with new fangled inventions such…  [Continue Reading](   [Inside the Mystery of an Untranslatable 600 Year Old Book](   [voynich-manuscript-facsimile-73457b97f1ed90]( It’s like Medieval Times, with a kiss of psychedelia. A book in which strange globules float freely, alien plants shimmy across the pages, and female figures slide into a pool of green plasma. Binding them all together? A beautiful, albeit entirely indecipherable script by an unknown author.  [Continue Reading](   [Oh, Just the World’s Tiniest (Hand-Knitted) Sweaters](   [Screenshot-2020-06-29-at-11.19.09]( One Size Fits None for Althea Crome, the fiber artist who has been knitting miniature – and micro-mini – sweaters fit for a size range that we’ll just call “ladybug (XS) to mouse (XL).” As if knitting a 5mm turtleneck wasn’t hard enough, Crome’s designs are often imbued with varied, intricate artistic symbols inspired by…  [Continue Reading](   [13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CDXCXIX)](   [1800x-1-1]( 1. An Entire Old West Town for Sale in New Zealand A detailed replica of an 1860s Wyoming frontier town, set in the heart of a 900-acre ranch has gone up for sale with an asking price of $7.5 million. Found on Bloomberg.  [Continue Reading](  Interested in Becoming a MessyNessy Keyholder? [Apply now to unlock the Vault!](    [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [Blog]( [To read more from MessyNessyChic visit the Blog]( and make sure you keep getting these email by adding contact@messynessychic.com to your address book or whitelist us. Our postal address: In a Café, Paris 75001 Want out of the loop? [Unsubscribe](.