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  1. Spiffy

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    I was working at my university's open house, representing my (Critical Film Study) department. I was wearing a pretty normal outfit- a green-and-navy patterned shift dress, a navy blazer and some flat sandals. A group of prospective students walk up to the table, start asking questions, blah...
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    The very best image of yourself

    Two of my favorites... Last year, at the height of my vintage-ness And back when I was a blonde....
  3. Spiffy

    How to live a vintage lifestyle in a modern world?

    You could just set up a cheap digital projector to screen on an empty wall, then cover the projector itself with a vintage breadbox or tea-tin. :) Is that putting too much thought into it?
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    That one thing that you need to feel like yourself

    Caffeine. In soda, in coffee, in tea, in gum, in energy drinks and pill form. When I camped out for a music festival this summer, the vintage disappeared, cleanliness fell by the wayside, and healthy (or even nutritious) food was abandoned for sleeping in the rain, grubby festival-wear, and...
  5. Spiffy

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Arrested Development season two and Torchwood:Children of Earth
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    What is your favorite red lipstick brand/shade?

    My new favorite is MAC's longwear lipgloss in Lasting Lust. It goes on creamy like a lipstick, dries like a stain (but not one of those cheap stains with too much alcohol) and then lasts for-ev-er! I purchased mine yesterday at noon and it's still almost perfectly applied, lasting through: -2...
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    Gentlemen what is the ideal lady for you?

    Pssh. I'm 5' 3'' on a good day.....the trick is to get your guy to lean over, like you are about to whisper a seductive secret in his ear, then get his cheek and flee in the opposite direction.lol
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    Do you get comments when you DON'T dress vintage?

    I spent four days at a music festival dressing like a body-painted, feather-headressed hippie in long patterned dresses and with mud-covered feet. Since arriving home, it's been a slow, slow process getting back into vintage dressing. Several people have told me that I seem "friendlier" and...
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    Childhood Fears

    Ick, ick ick! I'm pretty sure my paranoia stems from a Calvin&Hobbes comic where Calvin claims to have a "frog in his throat" to convince his mom to let him skip school. Then a frog literally climbs up his esophagus and fights it's way out of Calvin's mouth. Truly traumatic stuff for a...
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    Coco Avant Chanel...

    Gah!! I'm dying to find a copy of this with English subtitles! Any clue as to when it might be released stateside?
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    Defiance with Daniel Craige

    Fabulous. I loved the gritty realism, the sense of peril, the raised stakes.This is one of the few films I've seen this year where I was ACTUALLY worried that the main characters wouldn't make it through.
  14. Spiffy

    Twilight

    I can't even remember how this conversation started. All you need to know, my friend, is that the war between Whedonites and Twilighters is fierce in this thread.
  15. Spiffy

    Love Letters

    I have a rather large collection of letters, notes, sketches and portraits (yes, a painted portrait too!) from my First Great Beau, who was a prolific artist. I'm at the point in my life now where I am trying to figure out what to do with them. I don't want to drag them around behind me for the...
  16. Spiffy

    Childhood Fears

    Escalators, frogs, heights, deep deep ocean water, stairways without railings. I've also been afraid of an old building in a nearby county for most of my life. When I was quite young my parents took us all on one of those historical reinactment tours, and one of the sites was an old...
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    Twilight

    Now, what you need is True Blood. Lots of messy vampire-biting and drug use and sex and all the lovely things that HBO gifts us with. Plus the vampires *explode* when you stake them. Like a shrinking waterballoon filled with blood bursting all over innocent bystanders. I too, was...
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    Who Reminds You of Which Era?

    Eva Green (Vesper Lyn in Casino Royale) reminds me a lot of the early silent film actresses....like a Theda Bara crossed with Lillian Gish. Neil Patrick Harris (of How I Met Your Mother and Dr. Horrible) looks like a 40's comedic actor to me (Jack Lemmon-y). Stephen Moyer (Bill from True...
  20. Spiffy

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Anvil:The Story of Anvil. I'm getting kind of tired of the pseudo-documentary trend.....
  21. Spiffy

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The third series of Skins. don't judge!
  22. Spiffy

    Men wearing make-up

    Didn't Valentino wear makeup? I remember reading somewhere that his "effeminate" airs (including wearing pressed powder in public) were seen as a HUGE threat to young men. Let's see if I can find my book.... -from Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture 1875-1945 by Jon Savage
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    good drugstore brand pressed powder?

    Not drugstore, but Urban Decay makes a translucent pressed powder that comes in a pretty purple floral-y compact. I'm pretty hard on compact/pressed powdered ANYTHING, but I've taken this to clubs and thrown it in the bottom of my bag and dropped it without ANY damage to the mirror or powder...

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