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    Something For the Loungerette with Everything

    OI!!! I might be sick ... and yet I would adore seeing it on someone else. I'm sure I'd love seeing it on someone really outre and fashionable, but evidently I am not that woman. (If I saw it, I'd be like "Ooh! I want that!" but it's on ebay and available and all I can think is "Eeeewwww!")...
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    How old is too old ?

    My dad seems to like me in vintage. Hates my mom in vintage. He gripes whenever she wears anything vintage, or even something like a flare skirt. On me or my cousins it is cute and arty. On my mom, he says it ages her 10-20 years. It works out OK for me, since whenever she tries something I...
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    Opinions on Victorian silhouettes

    :eek: When I worked on Sunday in the Park with George in Chicago, we rented Bernadette Peters' dress from the original production. It was a gorgeous frilly pink Victorian gown mounted on a pneumatic armature, rigged so the gown would open up and let Dot jump out in her underwear and corset and...
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    Opinions on Victorian silhouettes

    Well, my favorite steampunk picture is this ^_^: http://mystmakers.org/nommie/steampunk.jpg My husband will be getting the frock coat he's always wanted, and we're going to rig him up a brass propeller backpack and a ray gun made of blown-glass tubes. Also some Ichabod Crane goggles, of...
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    Opinions on Victorian silhouettes

    I totally agree! The comic was so good, but the movie so very bad! Le sigh. It's like they spent all their money on Sean Connery and had nothing left to make the movie not completely terrible. I guess it was a bad sign when the movie was made up by focus groups. (Hence the odd appearance of Tom...
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    Ladies Globe Trotting Hat?

    Oh, that sounds like fun! I'll play; I'm in New York. BV
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    Opinions on Victorian silhouettes

    I have a question, but I'm not really sure if it belongs here, or even on the FL. But I don't know where else to find people who know what Victorian dresses look like. My real life friends are of absolutely no help, because as soon as I show them some examples all I get is a rousing chorus of...
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    Turbans

    Oh I'm so jealous! I love turbans! I bought the most gorgeous red velvet one on ebay ... It even has the original pin! But I forgot that I'm not allowed to buy hats on ebay anymore because they don't work on my very big head. :( I'd love to make my own, but I'm not sure it would look...
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    Help! What am I wearing?

    I mean that literally. I was given a big pile of vintage sleepwear, and I have this one truly spectacular thing, but I have no idea what it is. It's a pink silk charmeuse shawlish sort of thing. It's shaped like a thick C if you grabbed the points of the C and pulled them out like taffy so...
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    Show us what you've made!

    ^_^ Thanks guys! I think next I'm going to try making something to wear every day. i wore that to a big anime convention in California. It was fun. BV - sometimes dresses up like cartoon characters
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    Show us what you've made!

    I feel a little silly because there are such amazing, wearable things in this thread, and my stuff is all kind of silly and very, very not vintage. I don't trust myseslf to make clothes to wear every day, I'm totally sure they'd fall apart in the middle of the office. But this is what I wore...
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    Vintage showgirls

    http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Age-Beauties-Collection-Photographer/dp/0789313812/ref=sr_1_6/104-5886108-9242315?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1184869595&sr=1-6 This one is coming home with me! "Jazz Age Beauties: The Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston" Anyone have any...
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    Vintage showgirls

    I love old showgirl costumes. Ziegfeld girls, burlesque stars, Salome dancers, anything. I was given the Ziegfeld Follies paper dolls as a small child, and I think it permanently warped my aesthetic. Does anyone know where I can find more pictures? Is there a book of photos? I'm not really...
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    Original Veronica Lake Dress

    I know a reasonably well-off man who lives by that phrase, but it has gotten him into trouble on occasion. He will not ask the price of something before buying it, which is why he accidentally paid $25K for his mattress. But I don't need to ask the price of that dress. I know I can't afford...
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    Dare I start a doll thread?

    Agreed! My Soah definitely needs a set like that.
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    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    I used a gaff tape/duct tape form for a few years and I liked it quite well. I don't personally like the adjustable ones, but some of my friends use and love them. I have two, one standard basket bottom and one with legs. They're both by Wolf, which makes top-quality professional forms, but...
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    Vintage Weddings

    I agree. I'd never go into debt for a wedding. I mean ... we'd have been happy with just us at the court house (I would be wearing an evening gown to the court house, of course.) Ours is going to be a little, er, fancy. But the wedding isn't about us, it's for the family, so they can have...
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    Marilyn Monroe/Norma/natural hair color

    I agree entirely. When I first saw some early pictures of her I was amazed by what a beautiful girl she was under that glossy-lipped, overtly sexy blonde bombshell. I had had no idea how attractive she really was. Now I get why everyone was in love with her.
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    How to treat a lady...?

    That's genius. I think more people need people like you. Maybe movies are leading people astray? I mean, Say Anything was one of my favorite movies growing up, but later in life I realized that Lloyd Dobbler is sitting right smack in "creepy guy" land. He gets away with it because he's John...
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    How to treat a lady...?

    This comes up all the time on another board I frequent because men frequently come around to vent when they are turned down for dates. They often say that they can't get dates because they are "too nice" and "Girls don't like nice guys." Which is, of course, a crock, and these guys in...

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