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  1. St. Louis

    Golden Era Halloween

    I'd like to celebrate Halloween in Golden Era style. We still get a lot of trick-or-treaters here in St. Louis, and most of them are very creative with their costumes. This year I want to do it up right, more or less in the age of my tiny bungalow (circa 1929.) I found a wonderful book dated...
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    Agony column?

    I'm so glad you're happier at work. Since that's where we spend most of our waking lives, it's very important to have a good work environment. I'm not surprised you're experiencing some trouble sleeping -- all transitions can be stressful, even wonderful ones. I can tell you that I got excellent...
  3. St. Louis

    The Powder Room's Etsy Directory

    What a great name for an etsy shop!
  4. St. Louis

    Agony column?

    Thinking good thoughts and wishing good wishes. Stay strong.
  5. St. Louis

    Tailoring clothes for spies

    I've immediately put that on my netflix list. I would also recommend "Wish me Luck," which does get into some of those details, including dentistry (ugh) and learning the continental style of knitting.
  7. St. Louis

    Tailoring clothes for spies

    I'm not positive that this is the right folder for this thread (?) I found this article intensely interesting, since I make virtually all of my own clothes from 1930s and 1940s patterns. The specific information about how to deal with buttonholes, seams, and all the other tiny tailoring details...
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    Bad Movie Descriptions of the Golden Era

    I do remember sneaking downstairs to watch the old movies that came on long after I was supposed to be asleep. The descriptions Lizzie mentions were so mysterious to me that I decided they were being deliberately obscure in order to keep children from watching the films. (Yes, that is how my...
  9. St. Louis

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    red lipstick
  10. St. Louis

    Am I The Only Dinosaur Here?

    I'm a dinosaur for decades that happened before I was born: the 1930s and 1940s. I cannot force myself to enjoy or even feign an interest in modern music, fashions, or (most) technology. Thank goodness for computers, though.
  11. St. Louis

    What Are You Reading

    I've almost finished a novel titled Ignorance, by Michele Roberts. It takes place in Paris during the German occupation. If anyone else has read it, I'd really appreciate your thoughts. it's like nothing I've ever read before and I can't decide what I think of it.
  13. St. Louis

    30s Secretaries Dressing Inspiration

    I thought I'd revise this interesting thread because I'm always in a quandary about how to dress for work. I live a vintage way of life at home, and I pretty much always wear 1930s-40s, but I'm never completely comfortable doing full-on 100 percent 1930s. I teach for a living, and I feel it...
  14. St. Louis

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    Royal Vintage Shoes are having a tremendous sale. Their Emily boots are marked down by nearly $100.
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    Vacuum bags and vintage clothing storage.

    I've used vacuum bags to store my hand-knitted sweaters over the summer. I've never noticed any ill effects, and the moths stayed out of them. I think you have to be careful to fold the garments neatly so they don't become too creased in storage.
  16. St. Louis

    Max Factor Pan Cake dupes

    This sounds like a great substitute. I was lucky enough to find two cakes if MF Pancake in my shade -- it happens to match exactly. I was lucky enough to know my shade number & found both cakes on ebay. That should last me for a good many years.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It's July 7 and here in St. Louis they're still setting off the rockets. Fireworks aren't legal here, but when I walk outside my bungalow in the evening, I can barely see the street for all the smoke and the smell of the explosives.
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    Agony column?

    You fed them pizza! You actually sound like a great aunt. Seriously, there was probably a lot of other nonsense underlying her behavior toward you, but if she didn't have the emotional maturity to recognize that, then her absence is obviously not a major loss. I'm sorry if that meant that you...
  20. St. Louis

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In these parts we call that a "St. Louis Roll-right-through Stop."
  21. St. Louis

    Agony column?

    Do you ladies think it's always necessary to tell a friend that you no longer want to socialize? I have a neighbor who has occasionally been a good friend and a fun companion, but I find her so abrasive and argumentative that I no longer want to see her on a social basis. "It's not you it's me."...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I loathe those things that float down in front of a web page I'm looking at. I don't know what they are called. Usually these are images telling me to sign up for their email spam assaults. It makes me crazy with rage. I almost always close the site and spend my money elsewhere. Anyone know...
  23. St. Louis

    Deodorant and Vintage Clothing

    My grandmother used to squeeze lettuce leaves and apply the chlorophyll to her underarms. It's a great deodorizer.

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