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  1. St. Louis

    Healthy, delicious Golden Era recipes

    What are some of your favorite recipes? And have you noticed anything particularly surprising about this style of cooking?
  2. St. Louis

    Healthy, delicious Golden Era recipes

    Does anyone else here cook from period cookbooks or magazines? This is a side-hobby of mine. I've learned a great deal about what people liked then: the flavors, textures, consistency, preparation techniques, and so on. I thought it might be interesting to talk about our discoveries. Today...
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    Would you spend a few days in the rural 1930s?

    I'd love to organize an event like that. It's not particularly hard, because I know the family who own the village and find them wonderful to deal with. The problem is that the rental is $500, most of which goes to insurance and water. We would have to get at least 20-30 people involved to keep...
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    LizzieMaine on TV

    I just watched both episodes. Both were fantastic! Really interesting historic puzzles, and the information was fascinating. Lizzie, you came across exactly as you do on the forums -- deeply knowledgeable and very pleasant.
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    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    I live in St. Louis, where race and class divisions are still painfully evident, yet I frequently meet fellow St. Louisians who are barely even aware of the problem. In fact, some claim there are no problems, at least none that have anything to do with them. Racism is a thing of the past, and...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Sounds as though it had become one of those unconscious and tiresome verbal tics, like the above-mentioned "you knowwhatImean?" or "what was I gonna say," which I'm hearing more and more often lately. On days when the job has been more than extraordinarily annoying I'll insist on an explanation...
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    What's in your lunch box?

    I think that's undoubtedly true, swanson eyes. I don't know how many calories the average 30s /40s woman burned off each day, but I once read a food history of the U.S. that claimed that nineteenth-century Americans who did farm labor burned up to 4,000 calories a day. Astonishing. I imagine...
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    What's in your lunch box?

    Yes, surely there must have been something like that available? Today I tried the grape-apple-celery salad. I made it with 1 cup each of black grapes, chopped celery, and diced. apple. I used Miracle Whip instead of mayonnaise, mostly because Miracle Whip has been around since 1933 and has...
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    What's in your lunch box?

    I just found a 1942 edition of the Good Housekeeping cookbook, which contains recipes for lunches for "Business Girls" Now that's exactly what I was looking for! Here's one I would definitely try--picture it presented in typical centered format: Cream Cheese and Nut Sandwiches Salad of Celery...
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    Favorite Era Photograph

    I love that photo. You know, I think a lot of clothes from the Era look wrinkled or sloppy in photos, but that's just because they were made from natural fibers, and were probably worn and washed much more than most modern garments. I find the dress at the far right fascinating, because I've...
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    Sewing failures

    That's too bad. I like the dress, though! If that were my dress I'd shorten the sleeves and turn it into a Cleaning Kitty Litter dress. I don't mean that in any disrespectful way. That's what I do with things that don't work.
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    3/4 sleeved Harrods tea dress labels?

    I think it would really help to have a full-length photo of the dress. There may also be online resources to help you identify the label, but I suspect that a long-lived business like Harrod's probably didn't change their labels very much.
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    Sewing failures

    To add insult to injury, just as I was about to sit down to finish the Frumpiest Dress in the Universe, I discovered that one of my cats had thrown up hairballs all over it. Sigh. So now I'll have to launder it. What chances do you give my motivation level for finishing this rag now?
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    When did the pin-up look take over the vintage esthetic?

    I always try very hard to state all my personal views and tastes as personal. Nothing I said should be taken as normative in any way at all. Of course I realize that lady-like is a loaded term; I was merely observing that I found that notion less destructive than some others, particularly those...
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    When did the pin-up look take over the vintage esthetic?

    It really does become tiresome, having to gauge one's every clothing decision by whether someone, somewhere, will draw weird conclusions about it. I recall not too long ago there was a thread here about women wearing dresses, where some soul of romance opined that women in dresses made him think...
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    When did the pin-up look take over the vintage esthetic?

    Youth-obsessed and sex-obsessed. I know I'm sounding like a terminal prude bemoaning the foolishness of the younger generation, but I do worry when I see young women buying into the idea that they look their best when they're, shall we say, displaying all their wares. I'm not talking about the...
  20. St. Louis

    Modest clothing sites as a resource for vintage inspired

    For long hair, I recommend those three-inch long bobbie pins, more than the U-shaped hairpins. Some of the modest clothing sites sell the straight (not wavy) hairpins to people who do authentic 19th century reenacting. The straight hair pins are made by various sellers like Mennonite Maidens and...
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    When did the pin-up look take over the vintage esthetic?

    This is all relatively new to me, since there's no discernible organized vintage scene in St. Louis (unless there's something I'm missing?) But perhaps it explains the tedious ebay descriptive headers that read "Mad Men Gatsby Pin-up 1940s." I've often wondered who on earth is taken in by those...
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    Modest clothing sites as a resource for vintage inspired

    Yes, I agree, there's something really appealing about those sites, and I've found some good sources for patterns, hair pins, and the like. But I have to admit, I sure couldn't live the life. I'm a retrograde lady in many ways, but ... !
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    Summer clothes from the Golden Era

    Modern antiperspirants also leave unsightly yellow stains, particularly on white clothes. It's the combination of the chemicals and perspiration that creates these permanent yellow underarm stains. I've been using Tussy cream deodorant for about a year now--you can buy it in bulk, and the...

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