My hair is VERY odd...it WAS quite curly,and the older I get,the straighter,ie:straight on top, curly at the ends. Ergo I am a slave to hair tools. Right now I have my hair up in rag rollers...but I love Conair pillow curlers. If I want to do a pageboy, I resort to my vintage(MY vintage, as in...
Re: getting harassed for wearing vintage furs : it's a lot easier to attack old ladies in mink coats at the opera than it is Hells Angles at biker bars for wearing leathers.
PJ;s in public, a trend that is pretty sad.
I have a friend who has been known to pop out to the grocery store in a pair of plaid flannel pajamas with a long coat over them on the occasional Saturday morning. Hilariously enough, EVERY time she has done this she has run into my mother, who has...
PJ;s in public, a trend that is pretty sad.
I have a friend who has been known to pop out to the grocery store in a pair of plaid flannel pajamas with a long coat over them on the occasional Saturday morning. Hilariously enough, EVERY time she has done this she has run into my mother, who has...
Johnny's in Ballard. (Seattle neighborhood.) Dave Page does almost exclusively hiking boots. I've had Johnny's fix purses, and favorite shoes and boots that I thought were a lost cause.
(BTW, I grew up in Douglas!)
Vintage bags too small? REeallY? I have a few bags of my mom's from the 1950s the general size and shape of the Titanic. Remember "Rear Window", and Grace Kelly unpacking a negligee AND slippers from a tiny Mark Cross case/valise?
Evening bags, that's another story. OTOH, most modern women...
I went to a wedding this summer- I wore a (non-vintage) silk suit, with a beautiful hat, and silk/lace shoes. The two girlfriends of the bride's sons (2nd wedding, the "boys" were in their twenties" wore dresses so tight, so low-cut, and so short, that they could only be described as...
I love vintage, but a lot of it is very fragile. I went to a fashion show tonight, wearing a beaded puce dress with a peplum, mink "fascinator" with a veil, black beaded purse with rhinestone clasps, and a full lenght mink- all authentic 1940s. However, I didn't wear a garter belt, or...
Infinitely better than the remake! Did you know that Nancy Mitford was one of Barbara Pym's favorite authors? (as well as mine- both of them.)
Well, thank you, now I'm going to be up all night watching this! What a delight!
Even back in my teens, a girl would NEVER ask a boy out, except for a "Tolo" dance, where it was the custom for the girls to ask the boys, OR "Ladies' choice" at a dance or roller skating.
My mom also said it was considered trampy to check your makeup/powder your nose/reapply lipstick at the...
I just got a cool 1940s (I think it's 1940s) suit pattern; size 16. (which is quite different from a modern 16- it says "36" bust." "Double Breasted Suit- wide revers, slim skirt. You'll adore it- the elegant suit with flattering lines. Jacket has the new rounded hip look, sports long cuffed...
Thank you all! I still have a lot of his war memorabilia, including a Japanese company flag and sword. I had to look up a lot of his stuff when I wrote his obit a couple years ago. I had to find his discharge papers to find out his unit- turns out that the article about him in Stars & Stripes...
Somewhere, in the vast number of WWII experts, perhaps someone can help me.
There was a series shown in the 1960s/1970s, repeated in the 1980s called The World at War. (I am not entirely sure that this was the actual name of what I saw.) Basically, it was a series of newsreels about the war...
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