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  1. Viola

    Favorite Vintage Perfumes

    How old is White Shoulders? I know its not exactly Jicky in terms of tier, but I'm asking because my mom wore it for her wedding and I am pondering tracking it down and wearing it for mine as a spin on "something borrowed" - I don't even know what it is supposed to smell like, yet, (going to...
  2. Viola

    Obsolete Occupations

    I had a pair of shoes re-soled last year. By a turkey. I was immediately admonished that I don't I know to go get my shoes fixed where apparently all the old people in my area go. I'm never going back to where I went but I will continue to live the dream of getting my boots resoled.
  3. Viola

    Share your own art here :)

    If this is not the right thread please chuck it out. I cropped it a bit because the address at the bottom is not mine its somebody else's house. Only some text is missing, though, and you can't see it on the background of the Loung but there's a simple black border that goes all the way...
  4. Viola

    Vintage Cartoons

    I'm rather fond of The Outbursts of Everett True. Mr. True on customer service Mr. True and line-cutters.
  5. Viola

    You might be an Atavist.

    What on G-d's green earth is Durkee's dressing? Atavist dressing is Gold's horseradish. (circa 1932!)
  7. Viola

    Favorite Authors

    Eclectically, or psychotically, my list shall go: Stephen King, Lucy Maude Montgomery, Gene Logsdon, Robert Heinlein, C.S. Lewis, Mark Twain, and Vita Sackville-West.
  8. Viola

    Crime at the U.N.

    Ew.
  9. Viola

    You might be an Atavist.

    If the only way to get you out in public in your pajamas is if the paramedics have you on a gurney...
  10. Viola

    You might be an Atavist.

    If by "recycling" your jam or pickle jars, you mean scrubbing them out and keeping dry goods in them, you might be an atavist. If you are saddened by the fact cars have more plastic than chrome, you might be an atavist.
  11. Viola

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    Just don't be that person who uses vintage patterns to make modern purses, or, wherever you lurk, eventually Lady Day will find you and then there will be hell to pay!* *I hate that woman too I would hold her down for Lady Day.
  13. Viola

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    I guess I was conflating ownership of vintage things and vintage hobbies as well. If you like knitting, is that modern, because the sweaters are newly made, or is it vintage if you are home knitting sweaters in a vintage style instead of out at the Abercrombie and Fitch buying thirty dollar tee...
  14. Viola

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    I wonder if I count then, sorry. :o
  15. Viola

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    I have never found money a big stumbling block to vintage. Stumbling block to individual items I really want, hoo boy yes definitely. I want all kinds of vintage things I can't have or don't have yet. But it's not a barricade to the lifestyle, and its not keeping me from slowly getting things I...
  16. Viola

    Retro-extremists? What are we called?

    I think I have a problem with the underpinning argument that it has to cost a lot of money. I think it certainly can, and I don't disrespect anybody who buys their way to it, but I do not think it has to. I myself find it far more frugal to be vintage than modern? Buy used books instead of...
  17. Viola

    For the discriminating golfer...

    I think I would wear a couple of those as skirts. :o With a solid top I think the A-Tisket-A-Tasket or Red & Gray could be cute. Should I show myself out?
  19. Viola

    afraid to fly?

    Well I was terrified to fly. Absolutely hated it. And I fell in love with a guy from 9,000 miles away. Basically somebody's family is always going to be on the other side of the planet. I'll be flying the rest of my life. I told my mom I just got over being scared. Its not strictly true...
  20. Viola

    How did they keep their hair-do's from week to week?

    My mom told me when I was little that you could use Ivory or the kind of soft brown soap I don't know the brand but I'd know it if I saw it, to wash my hair with. She said you couldn't use all soap but you could use those. She also said her dad (a cleanly man but a very impatient one) once...
  21. Viola

    What's on your keychain?

    I don't have a keychain I have just a key to my house. Apparently this befuddles my beloved and flat out INFURIATES my father, both of whom think I am crazy. I just thought it made it easier to fit in purses but apparently its demented. [huh] What would be authentic for ladies? I think I...
  22. Viola

    Transitioning to dresses

    I like the look of oxford heels or short lace-up boots with long skirts and tights, a look that is very forgiving of moving about.
  23. Viola

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    If I wanted to get a self-winding automatic mechanical field-watch, the kind that talks about "the movement of your arm winds it" etc., a) what are the search terms I should use so I look like less of an idiot b) what are good brands? I want a girls' one and a guy's one ideally, or two guys'...

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