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  1. phyllis1753

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Adios, Les Paul "Vaya Con Dios", Les. Thanks for all the licks and tricks you taught us down the years. You've earned your rest (and how!) I started noodling with guitars over 40 years ago and it's usually said among guitarists said that Les probably did some guitar trick long before you ever...
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    Oh the Stigma with wearing seamed fully fashioned stockings!

    Did someone say "psychology"? Oooh. Sounds like my cue. (That's my field of training) Actually, Lizzie and Vampy, I've thought about the very same issue and without going on and on, I've come to the general conclusion that seamed hose was always erotic in nature. It is just that...
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    Best vintage camera for the starting enthusiast?

    OK. If you know what you're doing have at it! Cheers
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    Best vintage camera for the starting enthusiast?

    Realities of vintage An Argus "brick"! How that brings back memories. I first did photography with one way back in the mid-60s. It's a good camera to start with. HOWEVER.....! Any vintage camera will probably need maintenence. Even a camera as basic as the Argus is now at least 40 years...
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    Nothing but Seamed Stockings

    Cricket, go no farther than Corinth way up north there in Mississippi. There you'll find Magnolia Hosiery and they still make FF hosiery. They also do mail order through their website (http://www.magnoliahosiery.com). It will be about the same cost as VS but they're real stockings! Cheers!
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    Can anyone identify this lace collar?

    The guimpe seems to have been fashionable into the late 30s. There are pictures of them in Schiffer Book's "Sears Fashions" series. A lace octopus! I like thatlol Size? Try it on and see. Cheers!
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    Nothing but Seamed Stockings

    A little :offtopic: but I'm a historian of sorts and what I've read thus far is that heavy black hose was "concealing" which tied into Victorian morality issues. Legs were to be hidden, etc. Young women of the 20s wanted to break with that and demanded sheerer, flesh colored, hose. BTW, if...
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    Nothing but Seamed Stockings

    Well, OK. I come to FL thinking vintage styles of the 40s (1943-47 are my favorites) and sheer black hose really wouldn't "go" for daywear. Just my mind-set:) I'm 55 so I grew up with stricter dress codes in the 50s and 60s. I got out of it in the late 60s but I still tend to think in terms of...
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    Nothing but Seamed Stockings

    FWIW, my observations seem to suggest that black stockings went out of fashion in the 20s as hemlines rose to the knee and women wanted sheerer looking hose. By the 40s, black ( or other darker colors) was relegated to the older, "mature", woman or those younger women who observed a period of...
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    I've been fascinated by aviation since a trip in a DC-3 in 1955, when I was two. I don't have ONE favorite but the sound of a P-51 flying past will ALWAYS send such a chill up my spine and a tear to my eye. The growl of the Merlin and the whistle undertone of air passing through the...
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    Vicki's Nylons?

    Vicki's Nylons?! Are they still around? I bought a pair of FF stockings from them NINE years ago. I had just gotten on the internet and hadn't discovered Magnolia yet. Anyway, I had no problems with them then (FWIW). Good luck! Cheers!
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    Name This Plane...from the inside

    No. The elevator was high up enough on the tail for that. I'm assuming that you know something about tail-draggers. One has to get the tail up quick enough for the elevators to provide control. Early jets accelerated soooo slooowly that test pilots on the prototype 262 had the trick of tapping...
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    Name This Plane...from the inside

    The first Me-262 was a tail-dragger. It was immediately obvious that tail wheel jets melted the asphalt. Quick, Willy, back to the drawing board! (There were other drawbacks as well) All other 262s were tricycle gear. Cheers!
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    Oh the Stigma with wearing seamed fully fashioned stockings!

    I read that article so I can only assume the writers associate seamed hose with being a prostitute[huh] . I can only mutter something lame like how perceptions have changed in 60 years. Go figure!
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    Oh the Stigma with wearing seamed fully fashioned stockings!

    Well, was it explicit that the woman was, in fact, a prostitute? Many women saved their hard-to-get hosiery to wear only on dates or some other important occasion. This was common and there was no stigma attached to wearing socks or going without hose altogether. In any event, hosiery seams...
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    low heel heights in shoes

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    Anyone interested in vintage nylons and gloves?

    FWIW; "Royal Purple" was the name of a line of hosiery sold by Sears-Roebuck for many years. Don't know who actually made them for Sears, tho'. Anyway, the name disappeared sometime in the early 60s. Cheers!
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    Oh the Stigma with wearing seamed fully fashioned stockings!

    :offtopic: Helen, the Marine Corps is a branch of the U. S. Navy (not that many Marines like to admit it :) ) and is mainly responsible for conducting the Navy's military operations on land. Sailors conduct military operations at sea. That's the main difference. The point of my tongue-in-cheek...
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    Oh the Stigma with wearing seamed fully fashioned stockings!

    The photo was taken by Life photographer Alfred Eisenstadt on VJ day (Aug. 14. 1945). It has become iconic for the sense of feeling of release that the war was over. The woman has been identified as a nurse, one Edith Shain. The sailor has never been positively identified tho' many men have...
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    Oh the Stigma with wearing seamed fully fashioned stockings!

    Ahhh, Helen? The man is a SAILOR not a Marine. My dad was in the Navy during the war. I wouldn't want to tell you what he would have said about that error. According to him, anyway, Marines were called many things by sailors (and vice versa), not all of them complementary. :eek: Of course, it...

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