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  1. Dawna

    Trumpeting: How to learn to play jazz?

    If you want to play jazz, you've got to learn how to improvise. To be able to improvise you need to really know your stuff - what's your range like? You should do drills every day, and you don't need a tutor for that. Have you tried the Rubank method? You can order the books online, they're not...
  2. Dawna

    How many colors have you dyed your hair?

    I've bleached it twice, the first time it turned too yellow (I have naturally light brown -aka mousey - hair) and my roots looked shockingly dark, so I went back to brown quickly. Then I tried again last year but crazily enough I thought I could do it myself and it was awful, all blotchy and not...
  3. Dawna

    Regulation lengths

    I've long been curious about the references to "regulation length" that I find on so many patterns, for everything from shorts and slacks to socks and skirts. Does anyone here know anything more about it? Of course, I gather that this refers to standard lengths but who regulated it, what lengths...
  4. Dawna

    Vanishing cream and cold cream?

    And here I always thought vanishing cream was something meant to make spots vanish! Thanks for the info, ladies!
  5. Dawna

    Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!

    oooh Miss Tuppence, I love them, especially the blue one! They look great! Can I ask about the patterns?
  7. Dawna

    Doe eyes, 1950

    Grant Fan, that's so cool that you have that hope chest! I've seen so many ads for it, and have always wanted it!
  8. Dawna

    Doe eyes, 1950

    I was wondering about her hair too, and how she manages to pull it off at all! I've had my fringe do that at times and it is not pretty! ;)
  9. Dawna

    Stolen Historical Treasures

    It's not just individuals, either. The Hermitage in St Petersburg has a room that does not appear on the gallery map, and which is full of paintings that are labelled as having "arrived" from Germany in around 1946. "Arrived" indeed (as opposed to all the other paintings whose method of...
  10. Dawna

    How did the average couple dress for weddings?

    My grandparents were married in late 1946. I've seen their photos although I don't have them to hand now. As I recall, my grandfather was in uniform (he served in Halifax during the war) though I'm not positive it wasn't a regular suit. My grandmother was definitely wearing a long, white wedding...
  11. Dawna

    Doe eyes, 1950

    Here's a neat article from Life magazine about doe-eyed make-up, the new thing for winter, 1950 - "cosmetic men predict an essential future for drawn-on eyes." There's a neat photo tutorial, too. Here's the link, but if that doesn't work, it's on page 63 in the 30 January 1950 issue of Life...
  13. Dawna

    Make Do and Mend

    Now that's resourceful! This is such a great thread and since there are so many clever re-users here I guess it's a good place to ask this question I've got (if it's not the right place, just let me know!) Does anyone know if it's possible to revitalize a teflon (non-stick) frying pan? I...
  14. Dawna

    Correspondence - Find a Pen Pal

    Gee this thread is kind of old, so I don't know who's still looking for pen pals, but I'd love one! I'm from Canada but live in Sweden (have done for about a year and a half all told), I'm a student and I have a weekly radio show so I love talking about music - especially from the 40s, I need to...
  15. Dawna

    Show us what you've made!

    What a beautiful dress - that colour really suits you! I very seldom wear purple but I think you've inspired me :) Great job with the collar, too, such a nice, simple yet compelling detail!
  16. Dawna

    Show us what you've made!

    Thanks guys! :D
  17. Dawna

    This generation of kids...

    I have a couple of degrees (and counting...) and while I don't think they're the most practical things in the world, I do think they're worth having, but only because I took them because I really wanted to. I enjoy the academic environment and am pretty good at it. I think the problem, as far as...
  19. Dawna

    How "vintage" do you go?

    That's a good point. I was visiting an older relative this weekend and I thought it was so nice that her television set was just a tiny thing tucked into a corner. Everyone my age, even people that live in tiny student rooms, seems to feel compelled to have a huge black monstrosity (aka tv set)...
  20. Dawna

    How "vintage" do you go?

    Totally off-topic (sorry!) but I moved to Sweden from Canada quite recently and this still throws me off. I'm pretty sure I was the only university student in Toronto paying their mobile phone bill by cheque but I liked it that way! I can't get used to paying my rent, etc. online.
  21. Dawna

    For the seamstresses out there...

    *How long have you been sewing? Since I was about 14. Before that I think I fooled around sewing stuff by hand, but nothing serious until I got my first machine. *How did you learn to sew? As a wee one my grandma taught me to knit, but never to sew, although I would sit around watching her...
  22. Dawna

    How "vintage" do you go?

    Yes! This is pretty much how I feel too, especially when you say, "It's as current to me as modern stuff is to a modern person." I just couldn't put it into words so well myself, I'm glad there are people around here more articulate than I am. I really like the phrase subverting technology, I'm...
  23. Dawna

    Vintage Desecration - Things Altered/Repurposed, and a Vintage Treasure Lost Forever.

    Gee can I relate! I just don't get the appeal of looking at ads out of context when you could have a whole magazine to read. I think I'm from a different universe than those people, too. I'm glad to hear someone else is saving them! Whenever I see a bunch of ripped out ads I just wish I’d...

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