-
The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.
Search results
-
Restaurantware in the modern home?
Our current mid-century dishes (Royal Staffordshire Tonquin) have a tendency to develop cracks in the microwave and also chip fairly easily. I just ran across restaurantware when looking for a more durable option, and there’s a series that I like the looks of. Does anyone know how older...- Alice Blue
- Thread
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Your Vintage Home
-
BBC documentary on American folk music
The BBC made a nice three-part documentary on (Southern) American folk and early blues music in 2009. I'm posting it here because it covers the 1920s to the 1960s, so it includes our era. Perhaps the material will be old hat to Loungers, but I found the historical narrative and context to be...- Alice Blue
- Thread
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Radio
-
Free Golden Age comics at the Digital Comic Museum
Got an interesting tip today: an archive of free public-domain Golden Age comics. Read all about it here: http://www.openculture.com/2014/03/download-15000-free-golden-age-comics-from-the-digital-comic-museum.html- Alice Blue
- Thread
- Replies: 1
- Forum: The Reading Room
-
Russian Imax movie on Stalingrad
Russian actor and director Fyodr Bondarchuk has made an American-style 3-D IMAX epic about the battle of Stalingrad. It will be Russia's 2014 Academy Award entry for the foreign language category. New York Times, "Russia’s ‘Stalingrad’ Is a Hit on Screen."...- Alice Blue
- Thread
- Replies: 10
- Forum: WWII
-
Christmas knitting?
Is anyone else knitting anything special for Christmas? Susan Crawford recently posted a delightful Christmas cardigan for the small ones. After dithering over her Perfect Christmas Jumper, which is based on a vintage pattern, I decided to go with the popular Star Cardigan based on a freely...- Alice Blue
- Thread
- Replies: 0
- Forum: The Powder Room
-
-
Singer dress forms: used Tru-shape vs. new?
I think I'm finally going to get a dress form. (I'm tired of sticking pins into myself and would rather stick them into the form. :p) There is a used Singer Tru-shape dress form on Craigslist at around the same price as a brand-new Singer DF150G on Amazon. (My local independent sewing store...- Alice Blue
- Thread
- Replies: 6
- Forum: The Powder Room
-
White frames for sunglasses: 1940s only?
Hello, I'm looking at vintage spectacle frames to make up into (ladies') prescription sunglasses. I do like the lighter colored frames (see picture below), but since I also like the 1930s I was wondering if the white frames are a 1940s phenomenon only, and if I should be looking for a different...- Alice Blue
- Thread
- Replies: 17
- Forum: The Powder Room
-
Etiquette of attending WWII events in vintage?
Later this summer there will be a "World War II weekend" at Battleship Cove in Fall River Massachusetts. According to the description below, there will be living history people present. I am not a member of any reenactment group but was thinking it might be fun to attend in a summer dress made...- Alice Blue
- Thread
- Replies: 11
- Forum: WWII
-
Ad: the "soul" of the Leica M-Monochrome
"It’s not often an ad gets recognized as a phenomenal piece of cinematography, but that’s what has happened for the short film ‘Alma’ (translated: “soul”) produced by Sentimental Filme for the release of the Leica M-Monochrome at the Leica Store in São Paulo. Not associated with Leica Camera AG...- Alice Blue
- Thread
- Replies: 1
- Forum: The Observation Bar
