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    Show us your hair do's....

    Thanks ladies. The dress still needs to have the shoulders padded a little but apart from that I'm pleased with it. :) Kitty S - Hah, yes, if you have to be a paranormal orb you might as well be a pervy one I suppose! :p
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    Show us your hair do's....

    Here's my hairdo from a 20s-30s jazz party I went to a couple of weeks ago. There was some fingerwave-ish action going on at one side but it doesn't really show in the bad pic (complete with big white blob on boob!).
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    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    What exactly do you need to be aware of when sewing with silk? I've heard that some kinds of silk can ladder like nylon if the needle isn't sharp enough. And what's that trick with sewing through a layer of paper under the fabric about? Could I sew up a pair of french knickers in, say, crepe de...
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    1930's Makeup Tutorial

    There's a reproduction of a 1930s makeup booklet on ebay (search: 1930s makeup) that has really cool pictures in colours. I noticed that the rouge was applied very high up on the cheeks, almost below the eyes. These rouge pots was the best picture I could find, I hope you get the idea. Aren't...
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    How often do you "set" your hair?

    I have a vintage beauty book that says to massage the scalp thoroughly every night at bedtime - this distributes the oil so the hair doesn't get greasy as quickly - and also the famous 100 strokes with the natural bristle brush. It also talks about dabbing the scalp with eau de cologne...
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    Oil Cleansing Method

    Actually, I got fed up with the rose hip oil from Helsemin because it has rose oil added and the smell got so sickly sweet, so I got an unscented one online instead. I usually like rose scents but this one was just ... blergh! My skin seems to be a little allergic to something in the Boots...
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    If you said you looked like one celebrity from the Golden Era...

    http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?p=649871#post649871
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    Dead people's facial features

    That nose has always fascinated me, too! And her incredible thick wavy hair. I also find her jawline quite striking, it's another androgynous feature. There was a girl in my high school class who was such a classic pre-raphaelite beauty. She had the melancholy gaze, slender limbs, wavy dark...
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    If you said you looked like one celebrity from the Golden Era...

    Elizabeth Siddall! Yes, she totally looked like you! Oh, I love the turn this thread has taken. I went through a huge Pre-Raphaelite phase as a teenager, all Anne of Green Gables-like. lol Dante Gabriel Rossetti called women who personfied his ideal of beauty "stunners" - deep-set melancholy...
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    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    Yes, they do have a duck's foot kind of toe going on but it only adds to their baroque charm in my opinion. Sigh ... have to stop salivating over these. I just bought a camera but now I kinda wish I had spent the money on shoes instead. It's horrible. Come on, you know you like it!;)
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    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    I have an old sewing/housewife book, probably from the 40s, in which it says that all silk lingerie should have all seams sewn by hand, even the side seams, because hand sewing is elastic as opposed to machine sewn seams. The book also goes on about how French women always sew their lingerie by...
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    Show Us Your Purchases!

    I'm so thrilled with these 1940s earrings that I just etsy'ed. They may not seem much but I've been looking for this kind of earrings for ages!
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    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    Urgh, I know ... about the money, I mean. I've fallen in love with these, "Dutifi". The heel! The heel is perfection.
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    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    Blondie and Miss 1929, I found them at gravitypope.com It's in Canada, though. The style is "Dedete". Exquisite shoes ... and expensive!
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    Show us your hair do's....

    I think this was called a love lock. It's mentioned in descriptions of the coquettish Lizzie Eustace's hair in Anthony Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds (1873). But maybe that style had another name during the rococo era?
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    Market Research for My Etsy Shop

    Thank you! I knew there was a proper word for those things :)
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    Show Us Your Purchases!

    Lovely suit, Lauren! I love the rust colour. I wonder what the lapel looks like. Any chance we could get an upclose picture of it? With you inside it on your honeymoon perhaps? :)
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    Market Research for My Etsy Shop

    I would love a 30s beret with matching musketeer style gloves (or whatever they are called, the ones with the cuffs that kind of flare out) in beautiful autumn colours like rust, mustard or forest green. Damn, why am I too impatient to learn how to knit?! :eusa_doh:
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    1930's Makeup Tutorial

    Urgh no, my eyesight is already poor enough as it is, thank you :rolleyes: I bet there's false eyelashes available somewhere that recreate that beaded look. Laura Chase, I didn't know it was Kiki de Montparnasse in that photograph ... but she seems to have been photographed a lot back then...
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    girls in guy's garb

    Here's some inspiration for the guys as well ;) Artists in a Montparnasse café: I'm in love with this pattern from EvaDress:

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