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    How to wear hats without ruining your hair-do

    Thanks ladies for the answers. The one problem I still have is that when I do have to take the hat off, it can leave the hair on the top of my head a little fuzzy, even if it's the flat part of my hair-do. This can happen even with a really lightweight hat. Is there a way to avoid that...
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    Curler help needed!

    Tatum, that is very interesting. I will have to look through frenchy's thread on perming and think on it. I would love to not fear rain and humidity. As a gardener, I should love rain. Now I catch myself looking at the clouds and thinking about my hair. I feel like the Wicked Witch of the...
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    Vintage ladies on the farm

    Oh, you would love where we went yesterday. We went to a threshing festival. We go every year. They have a tractor parade each year featuring different tractors. I love the ones from around 1940. They even had some art deco styling (everything was better looking then!). There was even a...
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    Curler help needed!

    Thanks for posting that! I'll check out the combs, too. By the way, thanks again to C-dot for the advice it putting curls up for night-time. I used a little bit of advice from everybody here in setting the hair, and it hasn't been so humid lately. I am on day three without setting! First...
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    Correspondence - Find a Pen Pal

    If anyone wants to correspond, I'd love to. I'd really love to write to someone from abroad, but would have fun writing anywhere. I love different places and am absolutely enamored of the British Isles, or would love to correspond with somebody from Scandinavia or Germany (that's where my...
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    How deep is your style?

    That's exactly it. I've just never felt connected to the era I was born and lived in. My mannerisms, my tastes, everything is just not "with-it". Even when I was at my most "current" phase in life, my friends called me June Cleaver. I've always gotten along with older folks best- either...
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    What Are You Reading

    There are so many good ideas for books to read here. I'm reading a book called We are at War compiled by Simon Garfield. It's some of the journal entries from Britain's mass observation project from just before the war was official until 1941. It's like opening a time capsule. I had to order...
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    Vintage ladies on the farm

    Photos would be awesome. My mom and grandma have all the photos so I can't post any. However, there was a sweet one with Grandma and Grandpa sitting next to each other. He had a nice summer hat on and she had the classic 40's pincurled 'do. There was another one of grandpa (young, too, maybe...
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    Vintage ladies on the farm

    I was on another topic and saw that there is a fedora lounge member that does vintage and farms! YAY! So, I thought I'd start this thread. My grandparents on either side were upper midwestern farmers. One Grandma had 11 kids (German Catholic family;). Yet, I just found out, she still set...
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    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    I think this would be the appropriate place to put this question, vs. starting a new thread. Any tips for a newbie on reading patterns and altering them? I have weird sizing (my waist is a modern sewing pattern 14 and my hips are a 10). I also have some vintage patterns that will need...
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    Oh, the Stigma of an Astigmatism. . .

    This is mostly on topic- retro glasses seem to all be 50's (and very cool). What did ladies wear in the 40's? Do they make retro 40's glasses?
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    How to wear hats without ruining your hair-do

    I checked to see if anyone posted on this and couldn't find anything. I LOVE vintage hats. It's bordering on an obsession. I love to wear them out errand running just like ladies would have in the golden era. Before I cut and started curling my hair, I wasn't as concerned with mussing it up...
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    Curler help needed!

    Tatum, the body wave is a good idea. I have insanely healthy, undamaged hair. Always have had really healthy, shiny, board-straight hair (except for my brief stint as an appointment setter at a salon- my hair was dyed 4 times in one year- it was fun). This could be why the perms when I was a...
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    *Snoods*

    I am in need of laundry folding while children are asleep, so I couldn't go through the whole thread to see if these were posted or not. Here is an address for a free crochet 40's pattern http://www.allfreecrochet.com/Crochet-Accessories/Perky-Snood# and there is another site that converts it...
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    Motherhood & the Vintage Lifestyle

    Land o' Lakes Gal, would love to do a playdate! I'll try to figure out how to use the PM. I still haven't figured out how to put in a photo. I am technologically inept. What are lock-loops? They sound promising. Indeed, my morning routine is insanely fast now. It's the hour (I haven't...
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    Curler help needed!

    This has been an issue. I've been having to set it almost every night! Yesterday the curls just fell out. It was a double wammy, wind and humidity. My hair doesn't like to hold a curl in the first place. During middle school when spiral perms were all the rage, I tried three times to get a...
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    Motherhood & the Vintage Lifestyle

    Any vintage Moms out there? So, do any of you have little ones? I have two under 5 years. My question is, what is the easiest way you streamline your hair routine and whatnot to save time? Right now I am new at curlers and it takes an hour (!!!!!) for me to do it. I don't want to spend too...
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    The Middy Thread

    I'd like to say thanks to everyone on here who have given tips etc., and yes, definitely C-dot who was very patient with my questions. I went to a stylist armed with all of the things people said here, diagrams, pictures, and such and got a GREAT haircut! I followed the brush out tutorial...
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    The Middy Thread

    I am probably the only person who has botched this up.:( I think I under cut the long part and I cut too wide a swath for the bangs. Consequently I looked like one of those late sixties mom's with the big poof around the top of the head and the little flip at the bottom. I set up an...
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    Curler help needed!

    C-dot, this may sound remarkably stupid, but how would you pin them to the top of your head so that they stay there while sleeping and keep the curl? I know you have been walking me through this, thanks!! I'm a rank beginner at the hair part of vintage stuff. Tatum, thanks! I checked out...

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