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Anyone else into fountain pens?
Sorry for the long wait! I use it for just plain old writing, myself - it adds a bit of spice. With a more graceful hand you could probably use it for a modified form of calligraphy (1.1mm isn't a broad as real calligraphy nibs, like for dip pens), but with my semi-Spencerian handwriting it...- Cassidy
- Post #13
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Anyone else into fountain pens?
I mostly use my two TWSBI pens (one is the Vac Mini with a stub, the other is the limited-edition gold Diamond Mini with a fine nib), but I do also regularly use my grandfather's Parker Vacumatic, mainly with Diamine Sepia ink. It's not a very fancy Vacumatic - opaque cap, translucent body - but...- Cassidy
- Post #6
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Besame Mascara, specifically.
I use Besame's cake mascara with a brush much like the one that comes with it (rather than the more typical round brush), and I really like it. I don't know if it's chemically more gentle, but it ends up being less thick on the lashes this way than a typical cream mascara. And because it's not... -
Any other curly girls in here?
My hair is somewhere at the nexus of curly, wavy, and frizzy, and it sometimes works very well with vintage styles and sometimes not. The really annoying problem I have is that when I do a wet pin curl set overnight, the sides and top hold the curl very well while the back loses it, and ends up... -
Vintage style hiking/active wear, especially shoes/boots?
I'd definitely be interested in some recommendations for active shoes - not so much for hiking, but I walk a half mile to and from work every day, and while I can change footwear there I'd rather not have to. As the weather's getting cooler I've been wearing some Aerosoles flats with an oxford...- Cassidy
- Post #3
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Show us what you've made!
I have a couple to share that I've made since last posting at The Fedora Lounge ... This is Simplicity 3673 (a reprint, now OOP) - the same pattern as in my userpic, but the version with a flared skirt and not worn over a girdle. I made this up in a wool check as well, last winter, with an...- Cassidy
- Post #7,644
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Do you have a soundtrack ladies?
At work, I listen to a Pandora station seeded from Eartha Kitt's "Just an Old Fashioned Girl", Rosemary Clooney, The Puppini Sisters, and Andrea Marcovicci (she's modern - well, more '90s, I think - but everything I've heard from her has been standards); other tracks I've thumbed-up are "Stormy...- Cassidy
- Post #9
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Sewing failures
I love that dress! Sometimes that just happens, though - you like the style, but on, it doesn't work. I've just about finished Butterick 5813, full-skirted version, and I'm hesitantly categorizing it as a possible failure. It's extremely frumpy on me, in part because I should have taken the...- Cassidy
- Post #16
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Golden Era Women's Names
My grandmother (b. 1930) is named Phyllis, which has always seemed like the epitome of old-fashioned names to me. My great-grandmother (b. 1904) was Ardis, and my great-great-grandmother - a little before the period - was Mertis, so there was a theme going. I've come across quite a few...- Cassidy
- Post #26
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Sewing failures
I seem to do this a lot! I'm experienced enough to know better, but only having JoAnn's available for shopping, I'm very susceptible to using quilting cotton with cute prints. I know it's wrong, clothing generally needs thinner fabric with more drape, but the selection is terrible (especially if...- Cassidy
- Post #7
- Forum: The Powder Room
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New Ladies and Gents Step Forward
Good morning! I found this forum a few days ago while searching for information about girdles. When I do reenacting, I tend to be a good number of decades behind this era, but recently I decided I should start making all of my everyday clothes - and so I might as well make them all or mostly in...- Cassidy
- Post #4,296
- Forum: The Observation Bar
