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Totally adorable, Amie! I have a few knitting patterns from the 30s and they often seem to be held at the shoulders with buttons - so cute.

Hi Sweatergirl! Nice to meet you :) I'm just about to begin attempting to sew my first ever dress so I may end up taking you up on your offer of advice! It's very reassuring that there are both experienced sewers here and enthusiastic beginners like me.

I also wear Coco Mademoiselle, I think it's lovely, classical but still contemporary. I have reservations about wearing fragrances that were formulated a long time ago - call me superficial but I don't want to smell like an old lady! Scent is such a visceral, emotional thing - I spent months...

Hi, Land-o-Lakes! Nice to meet you. It's a great suggestion, I will look out to see if there's something in my area... I've been knitting for years but sewing is something new to me. Seems to me you can always correct a mistake in knitting but not sure if you can do the same with fabric...

Wow! I must say I am continually amazed at the amount of effort that women went to back then to look good. I wonder what those depilatory creams would have been like? Surely at least as pungent and toxic as what we have to choose from nowadays...

Hi ladies! I'm another long-time lurker who's recently stuck her head over the parapet and joined in the conversation. This whole era is just so fascinating to me... mostly what I do is vintage knitting, and when I get it together I plan to post a few pics of the vintage items I've knitted...

I had this a lot after I had my baby and still had the baby weight... one woman in a shop asked me when I was due, when I had my daughter with me in her pram and she was only six weeks old! Then when my daughter was six months old I went to Greece and another woman in a shop asked if I was...

How common do you think it would have been in the first half of the 20th Century for women to shave? Don't you think it would have been something of a luxury that only very glamorous women did to pamper themselves? Plus, I can't help but think of the value of that little extra layer of...

Hi ladies, Mind if I join in? I just wanted to relate my experiences of the cold cream and witch hazel 'diet', because I've been struggling with my skin for months. I don't know quite why but in the last six months I developed a really spotty forehead, particularly at certain times of the...

Oop! Nice to meet you Annie - thanks for pointing that out...

Hello ladies, this is my first post on this amazingly informative forum. I've already learned so much from reading your posts! The question I have relates to what kind of styling I should do with my naturally curly hair, which isn't particularly frizzy but is definitely on the scruffy side if...