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  1. Idledame

    Trouser gals

    GGG- One of the good things about wide leg trousers is that it hides skinny legs or knobby knees or what have you.
  2. Idledame

    "What's That Ungodly Stink?" - French Cheese Surprises

    My gosh, just the idea of working in a cheese shop.....I could walk right by any kind of dessert to get to the cheeses. And isn't it just totally maddening that by the time you develop a taste for exotic cheeses and are earning enough to be able to indulge yourself it isn't long until you find...
  3. Idledame

    What a sweetheart!

    Very interesting. Thank you for posting this. I've bookmarked that site to look at later.
  4. Idledame

    Can anyone identify the woman in this 1930s photo?

    I haven't heard back from the Smithsonian. Hard to believe, but they must have better things to do.
  5. Idledame

    Wherein I make a spectacle of myself

    It took lung cancer to make me quit. My last cigarette was the night before surgery to check out a spot on one of my lungs. They ended up removing part of one lung. Feeling like crap and being drugged out really helped me to not smoke. That was December 23, 2004. But I still think about them. I...
  7. Idledame

    Vintage Cooking! LOL!

    Oxtail stew is great. No one knows why they are called that and not beeftail or cowtail which is what it is. And as far as catsup cookies, I believe I have a more recent cookie recipe from Cambell's soups that calls for tomato soup.
  8. Idledame

    Show us your vintage patterns!

    For olive bleu, there are 1920's blouses here: http://evadress.com/20s-01.html (Evadress needs to start paying me a commission!)
  9. Idledame

    Women serving during WWII

    It looks like it went with an article about how they have learned how to bathe using only one tin cup of water.
  10. Idledame

    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    That is great to know. I was not looking forward to hand washing all my material. Thanks!
  11. Idledame

    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    Question- I have always sewn on cotton in the past-easy to preshrink. Now that I'm buying rayon, they say to hand wash cold and hang dry or dry clean. Do I still have to pre-shrink? Will hand washing and hang drying even do it? Any tips? Dry Cleaning will cost about $2 a yard
  13. Idledame

    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    You can still buy shoulder pads at Joanne's so they probably have them at clotilde.com too. You can get different shapes and thicknesses. They're modern foam of course, but that dries faster and keeps its shape better than the old cotton batting ones. Your dress may well have had pads that were...
  14. Idledame

    Inexpensive Fountain Pens

    Gosh, was anyone else here taught how to write cursive with wooden dip type fountain pens? It must have been about 1957 for me, in Orange County California. Fountain pens were already rarely used, but I guess the older members of the school board weren't ready to change. The teacher ranted on...
  15. Idledame

    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    My suggestion would be to use woven cotton or cotton-polyester for the first projects. Don't try using any material that's slippery or stretchy or that unravels alot. Also, a nice all over print hides alot of problems, whereas a puckered seam would really show on a solid light color. A...
  16. Idledame

    The Cleaning Clothes (vintage or other) Thread

    I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but since so many ads for fabric and clothes of the 30's and 40's say "use Lux soap flakes", I did a search and came up with this company that is now selling in the US. They've been making pure soap flakes for 100 years. You can buy it online...
  17. Idledame

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    Oh man, I'm busted!! ok Decobelle what can I say. I am a shoe-o-holic. I can't be trusted with a computer and a credit card. I am putting myself on probation.
  19. Idledame

    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    That's fabulous! And you can look at them close-up too. And thank you LD too.
  20. Idledame

    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    I bet Snookie knows the answer to this one. I was trying to look up definitions of different fabrics, say the difference between georgette, lawn, chiffon, batiste and voile. (I was looking at fabrics at denverfabrics.com --less overwhelming than being in a store). I found this site, but it still...
  21. Idledame

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    And yes those wedges are only available in our size 7 and 8. They have this one on sale too, $67.95- was $155! They have it in several sizes. I know, not the same, but cute anyway.
  22. Idledame

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    Yes sorry everyone! It is the shoebuy.com site, here's the page: http://www.shoebuy.com/mariana-by-golc.htm The Golc shoes are only sold online at Shoebuy and shoe-store.net, here's the Golc page on shoe-store...
  23. Idledame

    Cute Vintage-y Shoes

    The Golc shoes are amazing. Look at this No idea how high the heel is. What do you think? Both sites that sell them don't always say how high the heels are, or they give the wrong height. I bought one pair that said the heel was 3 1/4 it was actually 4 1/2" with a 1/2" platform which is just...

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