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  1. W-D Forties

    Dialects/Accents in the Movies

    I think the dodgy accents in Coppola's Dracula are deliberate to add to the theatrecality of it all. At least I hope so...
  2. W-D Forties

    Dialects/Accents in the Movies

    How did they do in 'The Big Easy'? That tends to be how I imagine a New Orleans / Creole accent, was it even close?
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    Going to London

    When I used to live in London we used to spend almost every weekend at Greenwich Market, which (at the time) was ace with lots of vintage stuff, cheaper and not as crowded as Camden. It may have changed since, but it's still a lovely place to spend the day anyway. 'The Observatory' on Greenwich...
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    Fine hair vs heated rollers

    Ahh, I shall have to leave the rollers on the shelf for a while yet then!
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    Fine hair vs heated rollers

    I have bob length poker straight hair that never seems to hold a shape well without me causing another hole in the ozone layer with hairspray. It's also baby fine and colour treated, lovely combination! I don't have the time or patience to do a wet set and last time i tried pin curls...
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    ~Recreating Hair styles of the 1940s~

    I used to have (amongst other things) pink hair. It was actually more a pink/magenta. As I'm naturally pink toned in skin colout, it actually looked very nice and it was always easy to choose what to wear with it, both make-up and clothes wise as it was such a strong colour that it limited the...
  8. W-D Forties

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    Alas, I didn't take him up on the paintballing offer. Just as well perhaps, as I'm quite a good shot and very competitive!
  9. W-D Forties

    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    Southern Comfort - for exactly the same reason. Everytime I smell it now I want to heave!
  10. W-D Forties

    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    The smell of the coal hole - smokeless fuel. Sounds weird, but when I was little and used to stay at my grandma's I used to play there, it was my 'house' as she lived in a post war tenament and had no garden. The coal had long gone (obviously!), but the smell remained.
  11. W-D Forties

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    When I was rooting around in a junk warehouse last week (in my usual schtick plus headscarf) several people asked me the price of things. I said, 'I actaully don't work here, I just look like I should'!
  13. W-D Forties

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    Quite a few people made nice comments about my hair today, which was lovely, but then a (very cute, but waaay too young) guy stopped me in the street and said, 'Hey, I love your hair! Want to go paintballing?' That was quite the most random comment I have ever had!
  14. W-D Forties

    High Waisted Pants & Jeans!

    I have the utility jeans form Freddies too. I originally erred on the cautious side and bought a 32 but they were very baggy at the front. I changed them for the 30's and whilst they are a litle snug when freshly washed they give slightly in wear. They hold their shape and don't seem to go very...
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    Life In the Penthouse-Look At ME!

    Back to the car: it takes a certain dedication to drive a true vintage car. They can be tempremental and not always quite as reliable as a modern one, but they have character, as do (most) of the people who drive them. Now, if I see a man (and lets face it, it's usually a man) in a souped up...
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    Childhood, Today's Kids...and The Goonies

    This is an interesting thread. I was a kid (pre teen that is) in the mid to late 70's and I remember friends knocking at the door and going out to play unsupervised for hours on end, building dens in the trees, running around the streets screaming, making mud pies. If parents worried about any...
  17. W-D Forties

    Show us what you've made!

    BoPeep - I love that dress and the fabric is gorgeous, the colours really suit you!
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    Ghost stories please..

    Many years ago my then boyfriend (now husband) and I decided to do some home made Christmas cards. Discounting the usual leaning on the fireplace ones, we decided to be a bit silly (not to mention blasphemous) and do the 'holy family', with me as Mary with a blue hand towel on my head, the bf as...
  20. W-D Forties

    Vintage Manicures

    That looks really nice, you have done a good job of it! Did you use the hole reinforcing stickers for the half moon?
  21. W-D Forties

    50 Unexplainable Photos

    That man has no neck. Wait...... is that George Lucas under there?
  22. W-D Forties

    Dita Von Teese

    Ahh, Bieber Musk... made from freshly squeezed Bieber.
  23. W-D Forties

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Harry Potter Pt 7. Not bad, too short to do justice to all the minor characters who we've come to know and love along the way. I admit I cried a little bit, but so did my kids!

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