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  1. Alice Blue

    tweed run race

    Last fall I was in Stockholm during their Tweed Run. I posted some photos here: http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?69917-Stockholm-Bike-In-Tweed-October-2012 There are reportedly rides in Boston and Providence RI, although I'm a bit out of the loop. I'm watching the Boston Retro...
  2. Alice Blue

    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    I had been wondering if women older than teens and college girls wore saddle shoes, until I saw this photo of a "biker gang." I love everything about it - the bikes, the outfits, and the people. I really enjoy the entire Flickr set, Saddle Shoe Habitat. Image link...
  3. Alice Blue

    Recommendations for starting point to research British life during WWII?

    I've just scratched the surface of British home life during WWII - it seems as if the material is endless. If your novel is set in the countryside you might enjoy Wartime Farm (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6tVEo5wAP4) and the wartime kitchen and garden, which has a little dramatization of how...
  4. Alice Blue

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    Thanks for pointing that out. Now that I go back and look at pictures of actual vintage shoes, I see that you are right.
  5. Alice Blue

    Show Us Your Purchases!

    I bought this vintage knitting pattern on Etsy. The seller thought it was from the forties, but I'm not entirely sure. It was affordable and I haven't seen anything else quite like it so I decided to add it to the ahem, collection.
  7. Alice Blue

    Show Us Your Purchases!

    I got this hat from the Vermont Country Store. They call it a cloche for some reason, which I don´t think is quite right. It´s actually pretty flattering, and doesn´t make me look like I´m trying to ape the trilby style that younger people are wearing.
  8. Alice Blue

    Looking for a dress (circa 1937)

    I wonder if Folkwear pattern number 239, the Blonde Bombshell, would fit the bill? It's described as a 1950s style but the construction seems to be similar.
  9. Alice Blue

    Retro Graphic Novels

    It's not quite retro, but one of the story arcs of The Unwritten (Vertigo, Mike Carey & Peter Gross) is set in the comics industry in 1930s New York. The story runs through multiple issues, which are collected in Volume 5: On To Genesis. I don't know what it would be like to start in the middle...
  10. Alice Blue

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    Those are neat shoes. Wörishofer also makes a laceup style that is probably more retro but I just didn't feel like going there.
  11. Alice Blue

    What Are You Reading

    I recently finished Purge, by Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen. It portrays the predicament of an Estonian family from the time of the Estonian republic through WWII and the subsequent Soviet occupation, to the modern day. Told with a level of artistry that shines through even in...
  13. Alice Blue

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    I've just ordered these from Zappo's in white and beige to try out. I can't decide if they are retro or grandmotherly. (I think my grandmother had a pair just like them.) Modcloth carries them in navy. Wörishofer, made in Germany. ETA: it looks like the younger set caught on to them a while ago.
  14. Alice Blue

    Gertie's new book for better sewing

    I had it out of the library for several weeks. The first section is an excellent how-to for beginning to intermediate sewers and has a lot of great info on understanding and working with vintage patterns. It is also extremely well written and edited. (You can tell that Gertie's day job is as an...
  15. Alice Blue

    What Are You Reading

    Gilmour, John. Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin: The Swedish Experience in the Second World War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010.
  16. Alice Blue

    On yer bike!

    Yes, the fender has a white stripe. That is typical for Raleigh and Phillips bikes in America, and I only learned recently that the white stripe was originally for visibility during wartime blackouts. My childhood Raleigh bicycles had these stripes in the 1970s. There are lots of pictures of US...
  17. Alice Blue

    On yer bike!

    Late 'sixties Phillips, the "little black dress" of English three-speeds.
  19. Alice Blue

    Books about WW2 from a German perspective

    I haven't read it, but Nazism 1919-1945 Volume 4: The German Home Front in World War II: A Documentary Reader looks promising. I linked to the US Amazon site because (from here at least) you can preview the Table of Contents and some of the book. There are chapters on women and on the effect of...
  20. Alice Blue

    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    I've just spent several hours trying to create a Fair Isle knitting chart in Excel based on a 1940s knitting pattern as described here. Traditional Scandinavian and Shetland designs were shown as charts on grids, but for some strange reason many British patterns from the 1940s only list the...
  21. Alice Blue

    Your Genuinely Vintage Shoes (old, not repro)

    Thanks for the recommendation. A fellow over in the men's thread recommended Cadillac conditioner, but I do have mink oil and have used it on my boots. Do you recommend rubbing it on inside surfaces as well? The color right now is a fairly bright russet. Having them a bit darker might not be...
  22. Alice Blue

    Show us your SHOES !!!

    Today's dumb question: does "all surfaces" include the soles?
  23. Alice Blue

    Show us your SHOES !!!

    Thanks for the info. They are ladies' 8C.

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