Recent content by Irene Goodnight

Thanks for the kind welcome, Derek. Widebrim - My family has been in Samoa since the mid 1800s, owning/running a plantation farm. We still have relatives living on the same plantation now, although on my side of the family, my grandfather was the last one to actually grow up in Samoa. As...

Thanks for correcting me on that, Tomasso. Ok, first one is a photo from the late 1930s/early 1940s, taken in Western Samoa. The gentleman in trousers and a white shirt is my great-grandfather, while the three men in shorts and rope belts are the crew of an aeroplane that had been used in...

A small note on the subject of fur - I think culture and national background has something to do with personal views on the appropriateness of fur as well. As an example, in Australia, you are legally required to destroy rabbits if they are living on your property (using methods condoned...

The Dollydagger online shop has some great vintage-style clothes and accessories.

I do love this post :) Aye aye to everything written above - it's the personal choice of each person/couple as to what they decide to do regarding having children, and society has become far too 'familiar', in that everyone seems to think they have the right to act too familiar with people...

Alas, my hometown is an agricultural area on the coast - so we get a LOT of red Australian soil dust and black sugar-cane trash blowing in through the windows. Basically, anything that isn't stored inside a well-closing drawer or cupboard gets absolutely covered in reddish dust and greasy black...

I either try and ignore the fact that the mis-matching is driving me nuts (and hope nobody else notices), or I give up in frustration while still in the house, and change into something completely different! It's a sad fact of my life that every time I see a photo of myself, I suddenly...

I've always found most reds, even those billed as 'suits everyone' and 'vintage red for all skin tones' look far too orange or brown-toned on me. But I have one red lipstick that suits my colouring fantastically, looks perfect as a general 1940s/1950s silver screen bombshell red, and it was...

Just adding an Australian view - I've just gone through family pics from the 20s, 40s and 50s taken in England, Western Samoa and Australia, and the collar over the jacket crops up in all of these decades in all of these places. I'm quite taken with the look, when it's done well ;) I'll...