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  1. PrettySquareGal

    The Gender Thread, vive la difference!

    I've always gotten along better with men than women. Even so, I grew up in an apartment in NYC so I know nothing about fixing junk around the house. I welcome and seek explanations for certain basics. That doesn't make me Basic. As far as withholding "sexual favors", that was cringe-worthy to...
  2. PrettySquareGal

    What is the "right" age to retire?

    I've been posting here since 2005, which makes me a Fedora Lounge Elder, but I have yet to see any sort of retirement options. :p
  3. PrettySquareGal

    What is the "right" age to retire?

    I'm curious how many of you are factoring on social security being around? Many people my age (40s) and younger are looking at little if any social security being available to us. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/
  4. PrettySquareGal

    Best beauty decision you've made?

    Letting myself be.
  5. PrettySquareGal

    Vintage Brand Loyalty

    Unfortunately many vintage brands are simply now intellectual property and the trademark is licensed to shoddy manufacturers. Also, formulations are frequently changing.
  7. PrettySquareGal

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    So, that would make sense, except that the same garbage 12 year old music was playing today in Brooks Brothers and Talbots. What gives???? Talbots demographic is not 25, and neither is Brooks Brothers as hard as they are trying to be.
  8. PrettySquareGal

    A question for people who do their dishes by hand

    Since I started this thread I came up with a new system--I place a dish towel over my metal wire drainer which acts as a buffer and helps speed up drying!
  9. PrettySquareGal

    A question for people who do their dishes by hand

    I pour boiling water on my sponge every day when I boil the water for tea.
  10. PrettySquareGal

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    Speaking of ordering online, a couple of weeks ago the UPS man left my package on top of the potted plant that sits next to my front door. Today FedEx left a heavy package in front of my door so that I couldn't open it. USPS routinely shoves packages that aren't designed to fit into a small...
  11. PrettySquareGal

    A question for people who do their dishes by hand

    My vintage house never had a dishwasher and I have been content doing them by hand for many years. I would like some suggestions for vintage-y and/or elegant dish drying racks. Presently I have a wire rack but it's not gentle on my more fragile dishes and china. Normally I dry my dishes by hand...
  13. PrettySquareGal

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    Ohh lucky you, living in the UK! I order a lot online from the UK. Wish I could shop there in person!
  14. PrettySquareGal

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    I don't blame all of it on dwindling incomes of the middle clas Oh yes, I am well versed with online returns and almost always read online reviews. In fact, I'm a prolific reviewer myself. Sometimes, though, I want/need something the same day or want to actually leave my house. ;) After today...
  15. PrettySquareGal

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    I agree. I buy the vast majority of my clothing online, including shoes. Now that I think of it, I usually go to the mall when I have to return something I ordered online such as Land's End. Today I went because I wanted socks. I learned after placing an order online that most now come with...
  16. PrettySquareGal

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    Just returned from the mall and have come up with a list of why the stores within them are leaving which leads to mall closures. Please add your own reasons: They play loud poppy music that only a segment of teenagers would like. They play that music too loud. I should want to linger and buy...
  17. PrettySquareGal

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Tea and scones.
  19. PrettySquareGal

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Thank you. L.L.Bean is iconic and international. Cabela's is a relative newcomer. I don't know what the sales volume is side by side.
  20. PrettySquareGal

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Do you mean RFD written in 1938?
  21. PrettySquareGal

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    I'm curious as to what your source is for this? I'd never heard that before.
  22. PrettySquareGal

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    That's funny. And true.
  23. PrettySquareGal

    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Americans began the 20th century in bustles and bowler hats and ended it in velour sweatsuits and flannel shirts—the most radical shift in dress standards in human history. At the center of this sartorial revolution was business casual, a genre of dress that broke the last bastion of...

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