{"product_id":"vintage-japan-pocket-mirror-fashion-portrait-auburn-updo-treasures","title":"Vintage 1960s-1970s Pin Up Pocket Mirror 💄 Made in Japan Portrait Auburn Updo Dime-Store Collectible","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize: 2 inches ~\u003c\/strong\u003e a round plastic-rim pocket mirror, printing still bright, reflective glass intact. They vary a little one to the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🪞 Two Portraits, Two Rims\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese come in two versions, and they're two different pictures, not one image in two colors. The \"Red\" mirror shows a woman with honey-auburn hair swept into a high rolled updo, smoky eye makeup and glossy lips, on a pink-magenta ground in a red plastic rim. The \"Blue\" mirror is a different portrait: dark hair slicked back, a pale pearl earring and a high cream funnel-neck collar on a blue ground, and its rim is white. Both carry \"JAPAN\" in small black type at the base of the picture, and nothing else, no name, studio or maker.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e🌏 The JAPAN Mark\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \"Made in Occupied Japan\" wording was required on Japanese exports for only about two and a half years. General Douglas MacArthur, who ran the occupation as Supreme Commander, had his headquarters order it on February 20, 1947, and drop it on December 5, 1949. After that a plain \"JAPAN\" was allowed again, and the portraits themselves are the look of the late 1960s and 70s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003e💄 A Different Look From the Starlet Mirrors\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo-inch plastic-rim portrait mirrors with a face on one side are a familiar dime-store type, and the best-known run is a 1950s series of starlets done as tinted halftone studio portraits, among them Shirley Jones, who became Laurey in the 1955 film of Oklahoma! These are something else: color fashion photographs with heavy contoured eye makeup, and a white rim that series never used. I love them for exactly that. They're little pieces of a vanity table from those years, and a hard one to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-japan-pocket-mirror-orange-headscarf-portrait-treasures\"\u003eVintage 1960s Pin Up Pocket Mirror 🪞 Made in Japan Portrait Orange Headscarf Dime-Store Collectible\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-1950s-collectible-shirley-jones-pocket-mirror-hollywood-memorabilia\"\u003eVintage 1950s Shirley Jones 🎬 Pin Up Pocket Mirror Made in Japan Hollywood Red Rim Dime-Store Lithograph Collectible\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-indianapolis-police-tin-litho-toy-badge-japan\"\u003eVintage 1960s-1970s Indianapolis Police Special Toy Badge Pin 🚔 Tin Litho on Card Mid-Century Japan Dime Store NOS\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Red","offer_id":47324252995816,"sku":"VAG-8330781458664","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue","offer_id":47324253028584,"sku":"VAG-8330781458664-2","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.5299696959_ai9l.jpg?v=1785440133","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/vintage-japan-pocket-mirror-fashion-portrait-auburn-updo-treasures","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}