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    Old hats, new lease of life?

    Thanks ITG. :) I just decided to shelve all the dark-coloured accessories and buy a couple of new ones that will go with the ivory white. Hopefully I can clean off some of the smudges. I'll see if i can get a photo to post... Most of the ladies are making late Victorian stuff, but a few...
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    Old hats, new lease of life?

    I apologise if I'm repeating a topic, but couldn't find it anywhere else... I have a hat decorating workshop in two (TWO!!! :eek: ) days, and the only hat I could find that was even vaguely suitable had two problems: 1) It's white (I need it black or wine, or at least a very dark green or...
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    Just curious...

    I have one daughter, who turned 4 last month. I'm a single mother and struggling to finish university, so I don't do much more than drag a brush through my hair and pin or tie it out of my eyes. I'm trying to find time to try pincurls, but am really dissuaded by the thought of trying to tame...
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    The Wifely Duties

    Ha, this at-home-mum thing is funny, like an anthropology lecture on a culture I've never encountered before... :p In my world, "stay-at-home mum" is something that, like domestic home help, happens to Women Who Marry Well. It can also happen to Women Who Budget Well And Don't Demand Much...
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    Golden Age careers

    Well, I'd like to think I'd be either: "Over-educated", and married to someone moneyed enough to leave me time for committees and societies dedicated to helping improve the lot of those more "unfortunate" than myself, :p or Running a despicably popular and horribly exclusive nightspot...
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    Work and a family

    Firstly, I have to say how impressed I am that this thread is still going strong after my 2 or 3 month hiatus from the lounge... It's interestingly good stuff! :eusa_clap I can't actually think of anyone I personally know who has only been a full-time at-home mother (or parent) for more...
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    Besame cosmetics

    :( It looks like you can't get B?©sam?© in the Asia/Pacific region... Rats. For anyone else who lives outside the nth/central Americas or Europe, try Dr. Hauschka for something with several similar-to-vintage colours and a consistency like that described in the posts above - and it smells...
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    How to Pull Off a Look

    lol Nothing, unless you're a 16-year-old-boy asking for vintage clothing tips... The logic went like this: - The youngest *anything* professor I know is at least 30. - ArrowCollarMan is 16. - A 16 yr old dressed like a 30+ year old can often look odd. - Arrow didn't want to look "old...
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    How to Pull Off a Look

    Sweetie, I think you look just fine, even in your t-shirt photos - maybe not vintage, but fine. :) It's a touch of the individual, and shows more care and thought than most guys your age. I can understand the need to balance a touch of old style with a modern lifestyle; not everyone has the...
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    Shorter-length hairstyles?

    Nope, no-one else to help me, and I don't know of any hairdressers locally that will do such things (and I don't know how much hairdressers cost in the UK and US, but here I don't often have a spare $50 to splurge!). I live in a very casual environment, where anything more than a ponytail and a...
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    Shorter-length hairstyles?

    I'm making this a separate thread so that it will either become a handy reference for people with hair above shoulder length, or someone can answer my question with "Check this thread and this thread" and then one of our lovely helpful bartenders can delete this one. :) I recently cut most...
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    Girdles, Corsets, and Underpinnings

    Well, I wouldn't mind so much if I got to choose between cheap'n'average and expensive-but-fine..! :rolleyes: Being a 34G or so, I don't get to choose. Even if the size label says 12G (NZ size), if the price is under $45 the fabric and construction will be skimpy and stretchy. I'm glad to...
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    Slightly Sinister Children of the Golden Era

    Hand-tinted photograph, it seems to me. Photographers used to do it (or employ young girls to do, respectable enough occupation for a lady) to each photo individually! Not something you see much now... (I recall Frieda Kahlo used to hand-tint photographs when she was small, in her father's...
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    Girdles, Corsets, and Underpinnings

    :eusa_clap I can vouch for that - I have great problems finding bras that are well-made enough to give good support and also stand up to constant wearing (when you buy outsizes, they're so revoltingly expensive it's hard to own more than two at a time!). If any of you can find Triumph bras...
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    dressed down , the trend in the 21st century

    Sorry Zohar!! [bad] Naughty me... Sorry, that's what happens when you have a habit of answering each reply in a new browser window... It doesn't load new replies on the original page while you're typing, and then suddenly you discover three new ones when all your replies get logged...
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    dressed down , the trend in the 21st century

    Cute, Bob... But most of my gay friends are indistinguishable from my non-gay friends. Your statement is one of those opinions that makes those who share your mindset make appreciative noises and clink glasses, but it doesn't really seem to stand up to factual analysis. Sure, some gay guys...
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    dressed down , the trend in the 21st century

    Same things lots of heterosexual couples do I'd imagine... ;)
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    dressed down , the trend in the 21st century

    Well, apparently someone did make that connection; otherwise the topic would not have arisen. :) From what I've read the "Modest mid-20th century quality clothing = good ol' fashioned Christian morals" interpretation was implicit, not explicit. Nobody came out and said, "People who don't...
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    dressed down , the trend in the 21st century

    I think one mistake people have made since the post-1980s "conspicuous consumption" era is the difference between "well-dressed" and "expensively dressed". $15 white cotton t-shirt, or $50 white cotton t-shirt with a logo? Both made in the same asian factory... Also, hippies, punk and...
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    Show us your vintage patterns!

    My local sewing store has every brand of sewing pattern on sale except Vogue! :p Wouldn't you just know it! I'm dying for some of those gorgeous hat patterns... Still, they're bound to go on sale some time soon. :)

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