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Otago Museum (Dunedin, New Zealand...that's in the Southern Hemisphere :) ) is currently staging an exhibition about vintage swimwear. Not much on the museum website I'm afraid, but I received through my workplace, a 2008 calendar with piccies of mostly older one piece swimwear. If you...

Kevyn Aucoin recommended using white pencil to draw your preferred shape. You're able to 'preview' what it would look like before committing with a pair of tweezers.

The Wikipedia page for the show describes how it ends. Warning about spoilers, etc. :) The show is being rerun in Australia at the moment on Saturdays, ABC, around 6.00 pm I think, for any Australians who haven't seen it before. I chuckle at how Gary sings a Beatles song (or other modern...

Wow Hydronaut. We've had a few 'dachsies' in my family, but I've never seen a piebald dachsie. She's beautiful (and a sweetie, no doubt). :)

Edward, your Jack Skellington costume was brilliant. :eusa_clap (And I loved the other fellow's Shaun of The Dead costume too). For anyone wanting a dash of realism for their fake blood, add one drop of blue paint or food colouring to any red paint/food colouring you are using. :)

Nick Park (from Aardman Animation/Wallace and Gromit fame) is selling his 1958 Austin on ebay for a children's charity. Pick up within the United Kingdom only! :)

I must go to the War darling, they won't start without me. ;) Occasionally, our public radio station plays an abridged version of Dorian G and it's quite chilling.

Cate is indeed a class act. She guest edited an edition of Australian Vogue a year or two ago.

The blondie Silky Terrier was Mr Hobes the Doddery Butler Dog. I had to make the gut-wrenching decision to euthanise him about one month ago. The white, wire-haired Jack-Russell terrier is Whiskey (or Whingey, because she likes to 'complain' a fair bit).

Australians might like to check if their local community radio station broadcasts Hit Parade of Yesterday which is recorded in Cairns, Queensland, but is broadcast in my local town (within NSW/ACT). The DJ's background is American, so he has links to US-based radio shows. This site also has...

I'm an Izzard fan, so I didn't mind him in The Cat's Meow. (I read that he tried to replicate Chaplin's insecurities as a womaniser rather than recreate a caricature). I did enjoy the movie, but I'll warn the dancers out there that their Charleston in one scene is...very ordinary. :eek:

At a local heritage house that has remained almost unchanged since the 1920s, they sometimes do tours of the clothing still held within the wardrobes. One item is a 1940s 'Hollywood' style dressing gown. Apparently, the husband used to wake up, get the kids ready for school and leave for work...

Just noticed that Revamp (LA) is holding the following course: Vintage Children's Pattern Modification Choose from a selection of three children's ptterns and learn to pattern to fit your vintage child.. One day class will last 3 hours . Sewing knowlegde recommended. Sunday, May 14...

Apparently, there was a strong art deco/oriental influence (that I'm just starting to investigate) which included the incorporation of cheong-sam-style dress into those times. (It seems to be a little like the Egyptian influence on 1920-1940 dress in correspondence with excavations of certain...

Lauren, your last photo shows a Tass-ette which looks just like The Keeper. I guess the Ancient Egyptians were using pulped papyrus like a tampon, so tampons would have come and gone through history! :)