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  1. Frk.W

    Vintage beauty tips for when time and money are scarce?

    That neck roll with a rat + combs or, if I can be bothered, some sort of large pincurl or roll do around the face is my go-to hair for 3d to 5th day pincurl sets, bad hair days and bad weather. Neat, practical, looks allright, if not amazing. I should practice doing different updos more, though...
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    Going to the beach...

    I made a 1940's/50's-ish bathing suit with modesty skirt front from fused double layers of modern swimsuit fabric a couple of years ago, loosely based on a Mrs Depew bra pattern and an old favourite suit of mine. I had vague plans to make a wool jersey suit with longer legs this year, but I...
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    How to cut a 1930s bob

    Pretty sure there are layers, and reading descriptions and trade articles from the 1930's I think hair was frequently thinned out, too. Many of those distinct 30's styles are very curly and fluffy but still stay rather close to the head. That's an effect you only get with fairly thin or...
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    New to the Vintage lifestyle, first meet up turned into a disaster

    This is heartbreaking to read. I'm so sorry. The two cents I would like to add to the discussion is that 1. those of us who are privileged enough to never have to worry about being treated like this can and should do our best to be good allies. That means calling out racism (as well as...
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    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    - The Awful Truth, a lesser-known but amazing screwball comedy with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. One of my favourites. - I'm No Angel, one of Mae West's first and best films, and her only pre-code along with She Done Him Wrong - again with Cary Grant. There's a courtroom scene at the end that is...
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    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    Yes, I think she was - great-grandma died rather young, in the early 1950's, so my mother doesn't remember her and I mostly have photos to go by. My grandmother adored her, and grandma was very elegant, too. I have some of her vintage hats, actually, and some other things, but most of her hats...
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    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    Family photos, 1930's mostly. Unknown family friend, my great-grandmother and my maternal grandmother, Easter vacation in Tännäs, mid-1930's. My grandmother in the pointy cap, her friend Tanja and someone else I can't identify. I love that cap and wish it still existed. They...
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    A Guide to Elegance by Genevieve Antoine Dariaux

    Interesting! I like that structured, organized way of thinking around building a wardrobe, but when people make blanket statements about an entire bodytype not being elegant like that, I just tend to think they're displaying incompetence on that particular part of the subject, quite frankly...
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    Sewing failures

    It happens. Off the top of my head, I made a quick safari suit last summer, using my regular jacket pattern that nearly always comes out well, but some combination of a bad, rushed fabric choice - a light, cool-toned khaki cotton with a bit of stretch in it and a matte satin texture that just...
  11. Frk.W

    When did the pin-up look take over the vintage esthetic?

    Yes to a lot of this. Discussions of modesty aside, though, I don't find that aspect very relevant and I enjoy being outrageously vulgar every once in a while, you know how hard and uncomfortable it can feel to wear something you feel really ugly in? Work clothes you hate but have to wear, say...
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    Party in my Pants Cloth Pads

    Sounds dangerous. :D Well. Insertion was difficult. I tend to pass out from having syringes and things going under the skin, so to speak, so part of that is just my body and the way it reacts to medical situations. Passed out having my ears pierced too. We had to have two goes at it, the...
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    What Are You Reading

    I'm drawing out reading the very last stories of Tove Jansson's The Summer Book, because I don't want the book to end, and going through Heinrich Böll's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum very fast, because it's engulfing and slightly horrifying. Both are very good, and I'm reading both in...
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    Motorcycle girls

    I love these images! Not even close to the coolness factor of Bessie Stringfield, but cute: My mother with her father on his Matchless, late 1940's.
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    Party in my Pants Cloth Pads

    That's great, thank you! She did cut the strings, I'll have to do some research and try one. Seems so much more practical in so many ways.
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    Vintage trains

    That's gorgeous. One of those strong ones built for steep slopes, I suppose? I really like the brutal functionalism of early electrical engines, no fuss whatsoever. The early Swedish D class electrical engines had wooden bodies, just like the narrow gauge railcar I think I posted a photo of...
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    Party in my Pants Cloth Pads

    Interesting! I've heard so many great things about menstrual cups, but they're not recommended for use with an IUD, apparently. This sounds like an alternative worth investigating. I've been looking for biodegradable pads for use up in the cabin in the mountains as well, without much luck - we...
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    How do you style your front hair/bangs?

    I cut my hair the other day (so grateful for that simplified middy cutting tutorial! I've been doing it a much harder way before without getting better results, really), and got a bit trigger happy with my front hair. I usually set my hair in pin curls to get a pageboy with a distinct wave, with...
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    Vintage trains

    Yes, do! Lovely views, too, that's a very beautiful part of the country. There are disused lines around those parts where you can rent rail bicycles, too.
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    What is your favorite red lipstick brand/shade?

    I like Chili too! It's nice to have a less bright red in the arsenal. I have a hard time finding reds that read as pure red on me, without obvious undertones. Blue-based reds turn almost fuchsia on me too, there aren't that many yellow-based reds around and many of them are VERY yellow. I've...
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    Favorite Uniforms

    Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia in the 2. Leib-Husaren-Regiment uniform, a few years before WWI. Women's Motor Corps of America, 1917. M/1942 kv for the Swedish Red Cross.

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