Filmi Ladies: “Dhoom 20th Anniversary, Plus Bonus Dhoom 2!”
At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch Dhoom and Dhoom 2 and “20 years of fast bikes, fast cars, stylish locales and questionable fashion!” Listen here.
“Catsuits, Boilersuits, and Racing Suits”
At the Vintagent, Paul D’Orléans writes about the history of one-piece utility suits from boilersuits to Catwoman and Girl On A Motorcycle (1968). “The story of the ‘boilersuit’ and its (super)heroic descendants is a curious tale; a purely functional clothing item historically laden with a mix of Utopian […]
Bessie Stringfield on the Open Road
Read about Bessie Stringfield, an African-American motorcyclist who road the open road in the 1930s! “At the age of 19, young Stringfield flipped a penny onto a map of the US then ventured out on her bike alone. Interstate highways didn’t yet exist at the time, but the […]
“The Girls On Their Motorcycles”
A gallery of vintage photographs of women with their motorcycles.
The Girl Who Flirted With Death
A gallery of photos of a female daredevil from the 1920s , Lillian La France. Her symbol was a skull and crossbones.
The Cultural Gutter 