Recent content by Marla

Shangas, I've been closely following your progress. Recently I purchased a typewriter of my own. It's a portable Remington Rand with the original instruction manual. It seems to be in good shape; none of the keys are sticking. Regarding your advice to use methylated spirits to clean the keys...

Admittedly, I get nostalgic for the early 1970s sometimes. Not as often as the primary decades of the Golden Era, but I wouldn't mind living in 1972 either.

A very pleasing skirt-and-socks combination, Miss Tuppence!

Marsha Hunt (b. 1917) is still alive too!

Wearing NOS vintage clothing. There is just something about putting on something old for the first time, knowing that it felt the same back then.

Oh, and I've started a tumblr called The Eton Crop to share my favorite vintage images.

Mojito, good to know you're still blogging! I used to be an avid follower of your livejournal and have been missing your posts.

Well, for me it's being in a group of people who are wearing vintage clothing while having a conversation about the era or doing something vintagey.

I really needed red lipstick while in New York so I got the Besame Red from the vintage shop Dusty Buttons. It's not too different from my MAC lipsticks, but the metal container is more aesthetically pleasing.

I just received a Kindle Fire as a gift (otherwise I wouldn't have bought one, being dedicated to books on paper) and I have to admit I like it for travel. Usually, I'm want to pack two or three paperbacks for long trips, but the Kindle makes lightweight traveling much easier. Also, probably the...

Chemical-heavy deodorant can be very damaging to vintage clothing. I think every vintage suit jacket I own has some degree of extreme discoloration in the lining of the arm pit from the previous owner. So for me its either natural deodorant or none at all. If odor isn't an issue, there's...

Perhaps the links expire after a certain time; they were working earlier. Either way, the BeautiFeel shoes can be found by searching for the brand on Endless.com. As I said, some very Victorian looking boots (minus the zipper).

If you can ignore the zipper on the inside, these boots by BeautiFeel look almost Victorian. I rather like them. There are also other vintagey styles by this brand at Endless.com, such as this one and this one. Even the heel shape is right!

While there is really no social acceptance in being young and vintage, you can't let the world judge you too much. I'm RodeoRose's contemporary, and have been wearing vintage everyday for the past several years. Where I live it's actually easier to find than fashionable clothing. The past has...

Whenever I look especially good I get heckled, and usually by people with horrendous grammar. Take today: "Is that the '50s?" Such episodes always remind me of Oscar Wilde's famous epigram. "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."