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  1. Vanessa

    Graf Zeppelin Found?

    Wreck likely that of Nazi aircraft carrier By VANESSA GERA, Associated Press Writer WARSAW, Poland - Poland's Navy said Thursday that it has identified a sunken shipwreck in the Baltic Sea as almost certainly being Nazi Germany's only aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin — a find that...
  2. Vanessa

    Vintage Inspired Outfits: Price your own!

    Ooh. Off to buy shoes. Good link.
  3. Vanessa

    Vintage Inspired Outfits: Price your own!

    :offtopic: (Except he's holding a We want ebay! sign)
  4. Vanessa

    Show us your critters

    Xena, Rottie-potamus of the Wood household
  5. Vanessa

    Show us what you've made!

    Thanks! I am recovering a parasol also, but it's for another dress that I'm working on this weekend. Pictures of that when it happens. :rolleyes:
  7. Vanessa

    Show us what you've made!

    Hmmm. . .tempting!
  8. Vanessa

    Questions About Day Dresses

    Having separate or specified dresses for "day" or "evening" wear goes back even a bit farther than the 30's. . .to the age of Queen Victoria and the rise of the middle class in society. With the increasing affordability of fabric and the strict social customs that were imitated from the very...
  9. Vanessa

    Show us what you've made!

    Thank you. I was in full crunch-sewing mode, but I'm very pleased with how it's turning out. Rosie - it's not beading, but a tassled trim. There will be beading once it's complete though. Daisy - I'd love to bring it to the QM, but it's a little too early time-wise to be appropriate...
  10. Vanessa

    Hawaiian Fashion help

    Thank you! It's so cute. I'm going to Oahu in November, I'm going to search high & low for one like it.
  11. Vanessa

    Show us what you've made!

    How I spent my weekend. (ruffling endless yards of fabric) It still needs finishing touches, and the bodice isn't fitted yet, but it's probably 80% done. Not very 40's I'm afraid. . .but the 19th C was my first love. Front view Side
  13. Vanessa

    Hawaiian Fashion help

    I second that. Can we see a close up picture?
  14. Vanessa

    Can you navigate?

    Lauren's the Pilot, I'm the Navigator. (We have photographic proof. . .somewhere.) I think you can teach someone to read a map and show them where they're going, but they have to have an inner sense of where they are in relation to everything else and how to retrace their path. And I don't...
  15. Vanessa

    A teeny thing 'counter-vintage' about you?

    It'd be cool to say I dress vintage & live vintage everyday. . .but I don't. I think I'd prefer, if someone were talking about my day to day fashions, saying that I was elegant or classic, even non-vintage. I love the Golden Era, but if I could get away with wearing a big, poufy...
  16. Vanessa

    Capes (not in the superhero sense)

    Yard sales, yard sales, yard sales. (Ok, maybe an occasional estate sale). I have three vintage formal capes (which, sadly, do not get worn very often) and each one I picked up at a yard sale for under $20 apiece. Look right after the main prom & wedding seasons, as that's when I've found...
  17. Vanessa

    Project Runway

    And how perfect is it that Austin now designs wedding gowns?
  19. Vanessa

    Project Runway

    I think perhaps the judges were hoping that he was just trying to be eccentric. . . and it came across badly. His dress was unflattering, as I saw it, but I believe one of the judges commented that they liked it, albeit without that hideous hat. But - his dress was complete. . .whereas...
  20. Vanessa

    There's something awfully screwy going on around here.

    *ahem* Spare hair pieces, definitely.
  21. Vanessa

    Project Runway

    You can check out Tim Gunn's blog here: Tim's Take And another blog. . .Blooging Project Runway (Did I mention I read too many blogs?)
  22. Vanessa

    Project Runway

    Yes, forgot to mention that - it was the first dress he'd ever made. According to his bio, he's sketched women's wear a lot & collaborated on pieces, but never actually whipped out anything himself. In fact, at the interview, he brought three men's pieces as his show 'n tell.
  23. Vanessa

    There's something awfully screwy going on around here.

    It's a nice place to be. . . as long as you don't break your glasses.

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