comebacks

From time to time, WalletPop compiles a list of the hottest comeback people, products and cultural trends. In 2008, the list included single-sex schools, streetcars and macaroni and cheese. In 2009, the list included classic cocktails, home hair coloring, and Lance Armstrong. In 2010 we see a...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. The comics page of my newspaper lost interest for me on January 1st, 1995. That was the day that Gary Larson, author of the single-panel strip The Far Side, put down his inking pen, leaving those...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. My first real job outside of babysitting was for an odd local fast food chain in Portland, Ore. called "Arctic Circle." We were famous for three things: our fry sauce, our enormous taco salads,...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. Neither my husband nor my eldest son will eat pie crust. As I believe my talents in the pie department are at least an A-, it's my theory that the vast majority of today's pies have so...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. Before Martha Stewart was even born; when Mid-Century Modern was in the future; before anyone had come up with the moniker "shelter mag," House & Garden magazine had already hit its stride....

This post is part of our series on people, places and things that have found new life in 2008.Finally. Just when you've lost faith in everything stylish and genteel, men's hats are making a comeback. Not a moment too soon, if you ask me.Time was every man wore a hat in public. Everyone, from the...