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Start them young.
We watched the 1940s house on DVD recently and my daughter (10) really wants to do a similar project. It should be interesting given that she is a very fussy eater...- Anwen
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- Forum: The Powder Room
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Vintage Knitting!
I bought the Stitch in Time book yesterday, it's lovely! I like that they've included the original patterns in full as well as the updated versions :) I've already bought wool for "It Couldn't Fail to Please", though it looks like (from Ravelry) there are some Errata to look out for...- Anwen
- Post #163
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Advice on choosing a vintage style or decade.
I love the 20s and first two 60s pics! I definitely agree with kamikat about hair colours, the stronger colours look great on you. I think the 20s pic is lovely and elegant, and the 60s pics look really fun, so I suppose it depends a bit on what you're going for :)- Anwen
- Post #21
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Dressing for the Holiday / Christmas party season
I'm now looking at dresses, oops! Can't find anything partyish that's terribly VI so far, but I am quite keen on both of these...- Anwen
- Post #59
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Was there such thing as comfy clothes???
Ah, well there you go! *jealous of your collection* I think jersey was a bit stiffer then, as well, maybe? I have a 60s jersey dress and it's not much stretchier than a comparable-weight woven dress would have been. I think that, for the most part, slobbing around wasn't the done thing, even...- Anwen
- Post #5
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Dressing for the Holiday / Christmas party season
Ooh, everyone looks fabulous in their party frocks! I'm not sure what to do about party wear this year, I've lost a lot of weight since coming off some nasty medication and I've already bought quite a few new clothes, so can't really justify a party frock as well. I have a nice little black...- Anwen
- Post #57
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Was there such thing as comfy clothes???
I think house dresses were popular - they seem to have been generally cotton, often cheerful prints, a little 'roomier' than the average going-out type dress presumably to allow for a wider range of motion when scrubbing floors/washing windows etc. Jersey/knit fabrics such as tend to be popular...- Anwen
- Post #3
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!
Thanks! I totally agree about closing it up, everyone at work said it looked good open, which may or may not be true (personally I think it made me look wider...) but I definitely think it looks more vintagey this way.- Anwen
- Post #201
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!
Thanks :) It's the "Favorite Cardigan" pattern from Custom Knits - if you're on Ravelry the link to my project page is http://www.ravelry.com/projects/purpleanwen/favorite-cardigan which has a few notes and you can get from there to more info on the pattern/other people's projects :) It's lovely...- Anwen
- Post #198
- Forum: The Powder Room
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What are you wearing today??
Nothing genuinely vintage, I'm afraid, but I think there was a certain mid-century feel to my outfit (or maybe I'm just deluded...) today, I had on a cabled, very fitted jumper that I made, with a dark brown skirt with godets and curled (ish - it never holds that well) hair and red lippy:- Anwen
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!
I sewed it closed up the front, here's another pic (I bothered to put on some lipstick at least! And my hair is a little better...)- Anwen
- Post #194
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Today I am a "Ma'am"
I'm mostly happy so long as I'm not being called Sir, that hasn't happened in a while though, but considering how, um, well-endowed I am, it happened a lot when I was a little younger... I get the occasional Madam (Ma'am isn't in general use here, it tends only to be said by butlers in plays, or...- Anwen
- Post #47
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!
This isn't really very vintage (the yarn's too thick, for one thing) but I love my cardigan and I think that, being very fitted, it has a certain '40s aspect: The reason it's hanging open like that is because I could only find 3 snaps, but I couldn't wait to wear it because it's so cosy and...- Anwen
- Post #193
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Rave 'n' Rant
If anyone wants to try out the No7 serum stuff, Boots has an almost identical product in their Botanics range http://www.boots.com/en/Botanics-First-Signs-of-Ageing-Wrinkle-Reduction-30ml_35714/ - I compared the ingredients and they are almost exactly the same, but it's much cheaper. It's really... -
Correspondence - Find a Pen Pal
*waves* Me, me, I love penpals! I used to have scads of them, in my teens. I have ADD so am sometimes a bit slow remembering to reply, but I'm lovely really ;) I'm in the UK, would particularly love to write in French or Italian (or Welsh) as I really need to practice those, but I'd like...- Anwen
- Post #304
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Any other gals growing their hair out?
I've spent more than half my life in the crop-grow cycle. I've been growing it for about two and a half years now, and it's down to my bra strap at the back, yay! I have a tendency also to dye my hair black and then get fed up of it and try to bleach it out which results in hair death and... -
Vintage eyebrow shapes
Well, I did manage to make it out for hallowe'en, unfortunately I thought I'd left my camera at home (except I just found it lurking in a pocket of my bag, bother!) so I don't have pictures, but I did the whole 20s vamp(ire) thing. I used some whiteface stage makeup mixed with tinted... -
Tips for Single Ladies (1938)
The last picture is hilarious! I love the waiter's expression!- Anwen
- Post #22
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Vintage eyebrow shapes
I've also got the whole mismatched-brows thing going on: I kind of like it, though sometimes (like in the colour pic!) it does look a bit like I'm doing the whole Roger Moore one-raised-eyebrow look ;) which sadly I can't actually do. (Excuse the uneven makeup, I was experimenting with... -
As if we didn't chat about pin curls enough. . .
Fabulous, I tried looking on the Sally website for UK branches, but got horribly confused by their stupid website, which claims they have NO STORES in the UK. Thanks!
