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  1. Amy Jeanne

    Vintage for the over 40 crowd

    My grandmother (b. 1929) was a teenager during WW2 and she's told me she used to wear her older brother's clothes during that time. She said it with a huge smile on her face!
  2. Amy Jeanne

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    New Jersey, too.
  3. Amy Jeanne

    Electro-Swing or: How I Learned to Stop Complaining and Love Modernity

    I love vintage-ified versions of modern pop songs!! Non electro-swing examples being The Puppini Sisters and The Baseballs!! Love it!
  4. Amy Jeanne

    Question: The music of the GI Generation

    My grandmother, born 1929 (still living) loved Burl Ives and Bing Crosby. She liked some swing, too. She says she could never stand Sinatra.
  5. Amy Jeanne

    The Early to Mid 1970s: The Last Gasps of the Golden Era

    I'm loving the Color Lady!! I just read this reading up on those SMPTE color bars on TV: In the 1970s and early 1980s, the color bars were often broadcast by local television stations during special "color check" segments. For example, CFQC-TV in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan preceded each nightly...
  7. Amy Jeanne

    The Early to Mid 1970s: The Last Gasps of the Golden Era

    Ah The Colour Timing Lady!!! A mystery solved. I remember one 5th grade teacher would ask us to "wait" for her because she was the other 5th grade teacher (she was trying to be funny...lol)
  8. Amy Jeanne

    The Early to Mid 1970s: The Last Gasps of the Golden Era

    Maybe you can answer me this. I know of the marks you speak of. When I was in school and they would show us reel-to-reel movies there would always be a quick flash of a woman before the movie started. She was usually VERY 60s/70s and always very colourful! What was she?
  9. Amy Jeanne

    The Early to Mid 1970s: The Last Gasps of the Golden Era

    Also, the movies were usually unrestored, whitewashed, grainy, and shaky. Terrible "for TV" prints. When I was a child in the mid 80s I *did* watch them as relics from another time -- and that's why I had a huge fascination with them. They actually scared me a little bit, but in an "I'm so...
  10. Amy Jeanne

    The Early to Mid 1970s: The Last Gasps of the Golden Era

    This is how I got interested in "old stuff" when I was a child -- before I even realized what it was. "Old" movies from the 30s and 40s were usually shown on Sunday afternoons and "the late show" and I would watch them in awe. This was a late as 1987.
  11. Amy Jeanne

    The Early to Mid 1970s: The Last Gasps of the Golden Era

    The original poster says the last gasps of the 30s and 40s were still being breathed into the 70s. Those who grew up in that generation were now older adults so their culture was still having an impact on things. By the time they were beginning to die in the later 70s and 80s, the golden era...
  13. Amy Jeanne

    Show us your home decor!

    Love everyone's homes!! :D
  14. Amy Jeanne

    What, to you, is glamour/glamorous?

    I agree with LM about Marilyn. I was trying to put it in words, but she did it for me!! ;) A glamourous man: William Haines. There's no way Billy would associate with someone with lowly taste such as mine! And that's why I love him!
  15. Amy Jeanne

    What, to you, is glamour/glamorous?

    To me "glamour" would be icy aloofness. Exactly what it is. It's over-the-top. It's kind of like a painting or a statue. It's there to admire, but you can't mingle with it. I would also like to point out that the "30s slouch" (as I call it) is extremely glamourous! Nothing says icy...
  16. Amy Jeanne

    What, to you, is glamour/glamorous?

    Glamour, to me, is unrealistic and unachieveable. Both outward an inward. The example of Garbo is a good one because I think she's glamourous onscreen, but not so much off. Also Dita having to put on all her "Dita" things to be glamourous is also what I would define as glamourous. To me...
  17. Amy Jeanne

    That vintage feeling

    For me, it's pure FUN. When I get the "vintage feeling" (which is rare) I just go with it have a good time with it. Whether it is walking down the city street at night, reading and old magazine, or listening to Al Bowlly I just realize how much FUN I have with my interest in 20s-40s nostalgia...
  19. Amy Jeanne

    Round 3 Beauty Box Official Thread

    Has the Beauty Box been spotted????????
  20. Amy Jeanne

    MAC to Launch Marilyn Monroe Collection in Autumn 2012

    I think it's just lighting in that photo. I put it on last night. Two coats was all I needed and all my nails look identical. And I'm mastering putting it on smoother, too! ;) I love it!!! Can't stop looking at my nails lol
  21. Amy Jeanne

    MAC to Launch Marilyn Monroe Collection in Autumn 2012

    I like MAC's "Sparks On Screen" nail polish. You can only buy it online. It reminds me of the Ruby Slippers. And it's not even that smooth when you put it on lol It is all course and rough! HAHA. But I love it. It's bold. /something to distract you from the Marilyn hoopla.....
  22. Amy Jeanne

    Ghost stories please..

    I have a recent ghost story. I have my great-great grandmother's dress from 1900-1910 era. On Saturday I put it on my dress form to get a nice photo of it. As soon as I brought it into the room my dog began to go bonkers! She began to prance around anxiously and started whimpering. I just...
  23. Amy Jeanne

    Is the powder room dying on it's feet.

    I love cleaning, too, and I am trying my best to ignore my husband's mess at the moment...lol He's going away for a year next week and I have been stepping over all this while he sorts everything out! It is dusty in this area and there are dog hairs everywhere. No point in cleaning...

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