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  1. Alice Blue

    girls in guy's garb

    From the Vintage Ladies set on Flickr
  2. Alice Blue

    Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!

    The shaping issue that I was referring to had to do with how decreases are worked at the armhole edges. I was using a modern technique of inward-leaning decreases that shows a ridge, while vintage decreases were worked by knitting the two end stitches together. I'm told the evidence of the...
  3. Alice Blue

    Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!

    Yes, I am a reasonably competent knitter, but I am finding vintage patterns very difficult. The yarn is different, and the sparse written instructions do not have modern charts or diagrams. I am knitting my first vintage patterns with "training wheels" (i.e. modern adaptations with more...
  4. Alice Blue

    Women's Hats

    This illustration from a 1943 Vogue pattern confirms that some tilt hats were indeed worn tilting forward, but I still don't understand how the ones without straps stay on. On the plus side, it looks as though size might not be a deal-breaker. Source...
  5. Alice Blue

    Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!

    Is that really your first sweater, Wahine? Well done!
  7. Alice Blue

    Women's Hats

    Hello, I am potentially interested in this hat, which is described as being from the 1940s. The problem, as usual, is that it is a size 22 and I have a 23" head. Is size as important for this style, as it seems to sit higher up, or am I just engaging in wishful thinking? Would this type of hat...
  8. Alice Blue

    Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....

    I think I recognize the interior of the Auburn Cord Deusenberg museum in Indiana.
  9. Alice Blue

    Christmas knitting?

    Is anyone else knitting anything special for Christmas? Susan Crawford recently posted a delightful Christmas cardigan for the small ones. After dithering over her Perfect Christmas Jumper, which is based on a vintage pattern, I decided to go with the popular Star Cardigan based on a freely...
  10. Alice Blue

    Saddle shoes

    I guess saddle shoes weren't just for teenagers. Here are a few photos of grown women in saddles, most of them working in the military or aviation industry. WASP class 43-3 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:43-3_Jan-1943.jpg WAVE arrives at Port Hueneme, California - October 1943...
  11. Alice Blue

    What Does The FL Think of So-called Black Friday?

    Well put, and this reminds me of Harvey Cox's famous 1999 essay "The Market As God." http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/03/the-market-as-god/306397/
  13. Alice Blue

    Singer dress forms: used Tru-shape vs. new?

    No, I've read about it but 1. I would still need a stand and 2. all forms of tape hate me and I would end up taping myself to the ceiling or something.
  14. Alice Blue

    Singer dress forms: used Tru-shape vs. new?

    I think I'm finally going to get a dress form. (I'm tired of sticking pins into myself and would rather stick them into the form. :p) There is a used Singer Tru-shape dress form on Craigslist at around the same price as a brand-new Singer DF150G on Amazon. (My local independent sewing store...
  15. Alice Blue

    Where were you 50 years ago when JFK was shot

    I'm from Massachusetts and there are ordinary people here named Kennedy who aren't Those Kennedys. One time a co-worker told us that when he was with the Army in Germany he could pull out his Massachusetts driver's license with the Kennedy name in any German bar and he never had to buy drinks...
  16. Alice Blue

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    K.P. - Kitchen Patrol.
  17. Alice Blue

    International Conference on World War II Starts Tonight

    Thanks for the tip. I caught some of the sessions live, and the talks were pitched at just the right level for the interested layperson. The conference videos are archived here: http://new.livestream.com/nww2m/events/2558831/archives
  19. Alice Blue

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My Grandmother used to go "marketing" rather than shopping, and her favorite pseudo-swear was "Oh Godfrey." If we had to go out in the rain, she would say "you're not made of sugar, you won't melt." The only phrase of hers that I use today is "tin foil" rather than aluminum foil, but I think...
  20. Alice Blue

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    The Comfortview Alex oxford looks like it has potential. It comes in four colors and three widths. It seems to be part of the menswear trend, but the styling is fairly subtle. They are cheap and made of "man-made materials" and I hate the idea of buying shoddy throwaway goods. On the other...
  21. Alice Blue

    Ladies watches

    I've just purchased my first vintage watch: a Gruen Veri-Thin. The price was right, it seems to keep time, and the band is large enough for my 7" wrist. I'm not used to the look yet - the face seems tiny in proportion to my wrist. There were quite a few Veri-Thin ads to look at on Ebay showing...
  22. Alice Blue

    Native language/dialect...disappearing

    I thought you were a real Mainah because you say 'wicked.' :) Massachusetts is also wicked territory although we're not as wicked as we used to be - I rarely hear it any more.
  23. Alice Blue

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    That's one of the things I miss about Minnesota - groaning boards full of "hot dish" that were a matter of clan pride. Here in the hippie academic part of the Northeast, potlucks are popular but there is a lot of take-out, and so many people are vegetarians that you can't really bring a lot of...

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