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  1. Idledame

    Vintage style while doing chemo ?

    When I went thru chemo, I bought a little portable dvd player and watched old black and white comedies during treatment. It made the time fly by and put me in a good mood. Wigs are hot, but it's good to have one for some occasions. But more and more you see women just going out bald with nice...
  2. Idledame

    How much do you pay for dry cleaning?

    It does seem you have to try a few cleaners to find a careful one. I always point out that it is vintage and show them any problems like rotting threads, beads, stains etc. I often ask that the item be put in a net bag before it's cleaned (so it doesn't get tangled up while it's tumbling around...
  3. Idledame

    Can you help me date this item??

    Hepville, I found a F Farr & Co Ltd, clothworkers, export packers and shipping agents in London http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=B2899&tabType=HISTORY The archives are from 1924-1971. That's all I could find.
  4. Idledame

    Show Us Your Purchases!

    As I recall, old melamine isn't microwavable, (it gets real hot). The new stuff is ok though.
  5. Idledame

    Show us your hair do's....

    Marymary, I'm quite sure they added clip-in hair pieces to fill out a lot of the styles we see in the movies and can't copy. Plus "rats" for extra fullness and height. Heck, some do's we admire might be only 10-20% of an actress's real hair!
  7. Idledame

    Cold Cream- Brands and advice!

    My mother always removed cold cream with a kleenex, then splashed warm water on her face and patted it dry with a towel. This avoids the greasy washcloth problem.
  8. Idledame

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    GGirl, lucky you!
  9. Idledame

    Art Deco creations from the game BioShock

    My daughter asked me about what Art Deco was after seeing this game. How great that it's exposing them to styles they never really noticed and music they probably never heard before.
  10. Idledame

    Nerd Culture in the 1920's and 30's

    Somewhat off topic, but the words nerd and geek are really recent. This is from Wikipedia: The first documented appearance of the word "nerd" is as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo (1950), in which the narrator Gerald McGrew claims that he would collect "a Nerkle, a...
  11. Idledame

    Nerd Culture in the 1920's and 30's

    In one of the Thin Man movies there's a nerdy young man who is into the study of psychology. And then anyone who knew nothing about the music and dance of the day, who maybe was into opera and ballet instead would have been "all wet, a flat tire, a pill, pickle, drag, rag or oilcan or even a...
  13. Idledame

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    I was looking for comfortable practical shoes and got side tracked...why are practical shoes so ugly and or boring! It's the Sofft brand so it is probably very comfortable too. this was on Amazon...
  14. Idledame

    VICTORIANA

    I too have meant to go there. Maybe the next time you're in town we can do a FL trip there.
  15. Idledame

    VICTORIANA

    to see the girl shimmy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJQVjsWYdHs
  16. Idledame

    VICTORIANA

    Well, not nearly as impressive as previous posts, but here's some of it: pig skull chomping old plastic army guy in front of vintage ice cream maker Chicken skeleton I put together. In days before hot glue guns...white glue meant everything would sag by the time it dried. Coat hanger wire...
  17. Idledame

    VICTORIANA

    Well, some coprolite still looks like its former self and some just look like odd rocks. And they're displayed with other rocks and fossils, so they don't really stand out that much. Skulls are so beautiful and it's interesting to look at the commonality and differences in skulls of different...
  19. Idledame

    VICTORIANA

    Doran, I've always been fascinated by the idea of Curiosity Cabinets and decided as a kid I had to have one when I grew up. I don't actually have a cabinet but I have a hutch to serve the same purpose in my dining room. Other people seem to think it's unseemly, even somewhat revolting to have a...
  20. Idledame

    Vintage Christmas cards

    Those are great! Show us more.
  21. Idledame

    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    I use the quick reference chart from that threads article. http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/4424/quick-reference-for-cut-and-spread-pattern-grading I printed it out it and it's a breeze after you've used it once or twice. Especially if you have the cardboard cutting board I mentioned at the...
  22. Idledame

    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    Somewhere LD wrote something about how great cotton thread was. All my thread is cotton polyester so I was curious and found this online showing magnified differences in cheap and expensive threads...who knew there was such a big difference: Coats and Clarks cotton Lucky Strike cotton...
  23. Idledame

    Knitted repro vintage dresses

    My mom had matching knitted tops and skirts in the 5os and 60s. The whole-body girdles she wore would not allow any bumps or lumps to show. The outfits were fitted, not baggy but not skin tight.

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