Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Search results

  1. Viola

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    I use C.E. and I always have. The problem is mostly that A.D. means "Our Lord" not that people who use B.C.E. and C.E. don't know the numbering is the same and that it is still based off the Christian calender. I don't see why anyone would get offended by C.E. it doesn't ask for any sort of...
  2. Viola

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    You don't have Holiday/Winter Parties where you are?
  3. Viola

    Can the Snood Save Christmas?

    Is it true, really truly true, that real men really wore skintight cordouroy pants? I have hundreds of issues of Mother Earth News in this house (A back-to-the-lander publication) many of which I've reread since I was ten, and I have to say some of the pictures make me question the sanity of...
  4. Viola

    Can the Snood Save Christmas?

    You don't let it show. Your age, or that decade*, both of which is admirable! lol *I have an ongoing joke/argument with somebody I love dearly, who is utterly enamored of the '70s, that it is The Worst Decade of Aesthetics. :)
  5. Viola

    Can the Snood Save Christmas?

    Aw, Marc, you've researched the '70s more than I ever did.[huh]
  7. Viola

    Rosie the Riveter

    Do you think that anyone really thought that? It was the Depression. Women who worked on farms or did stoop labor or scrubbed on their knees all day were the women we can't fit into their dresses when we find them because they were TINY. Surely even the upper-classes were aware that their...
  8. Viola

    Can the Snood Save Christmas?

    Then was the '80s the '40s because of the big shoulders? The '80s WISHES it was the '40s! Every decade has some borrowed stuff. The '90s certainly borrowed from the '70s but I don't see the tiny shirts and very low-waisted flares and bellybutton tattoos in '70s things? A whole lot more...
  9. Viola

    A new hair style quandary

    Of those three I like the curly one on the right but I'd be interested to see it in a strawberry-ier or light auburn-tinged blonde. Rather Nicole Kidman? I seem to remember you having very blue eyes unless I had some sort of fever dream and fictionalized the whole thing or am misattributing...
  10. Viola

    Can the Snood Save Christmas?

    I thought the '90s look was girls in baggy pants or flares, often camo, with teeny tiny tank tops and cropped belly shirts, and nude/icy beige lipstick, and those faux-barracks hats and trucker hats and big hoop earrings. Tee shirts with camo stars on them. Shimmery frosted purple eyeshadow...
  11. Viola

    Today I am a "Ma'am"

    I was taught in Boot to call female officers ma'am and female enlisted by what they were ("Yes, Chief! Aye aye, Petty Officer!" etc.) And all female civilians are ma'am. I do not know what would have happened to me as a Boot Camp recruit if I called my female Chief sir, and I did not care...
  13. Viola

    Today I am a "Ma'am"

    In my regrettably short stay in the Navy I got very tired of being referred to as female, as in "hey, female!" and my friends and I would secretly and rebelliously refer to each other as ma'am.
  14. Viola

    Windsmoor coat, fur collar dilemma

    I would wear a new fur. But only of certain animals, and if I had reason to believe it was ethically harvested, the same way I feel differently about eating free-range chicken than factory farm chicken.* I would not wear VINTAGE fur of certain other animals, either, that I don't think should be...
  15. Viola

    People with more money than sense

    Well I love the idea, Geesie - but what's wet-sanding? [huh] I might be an idiot.
  16. Viola

    People with more money than sense

    That's not even cracking the top twenty list for silly/overpriced things Anthropologie sells. For one thing, its only about twice as much money as it oughtta be, and it doesn't look half bad. A phone I painted with Krylon, using my own skill at painting, will look pretty cruddy. That's not...
  17. Viola

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    That's because only posers use "yo" that way. That's not what it's for. [bad]
  19. Viola

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Alexi, I tried the vowel/consonant test and I realized something; I don't say "thee" before anything except possibly "thou" and "thine." I [thuh] unless I'm so exhausted or in such a hurry I start losing the "th" sound for a slurred "duh/da" sound.
  20. Viola

    Today I am a "Ma'am"

    Generally I'm only called ma'am on the phone or by very Southern men. I love a Southern accent so I don't mind in the slightest. I've heard a couple accents I could listen to all day. I've been called "deah" by a man from up in New England and that really confused me the first time as to...
  21. Viola

    Red or Black? Ladies, I need your help!

    Black. That red is too pink. Go black.
  22. Viola

    The Great Aussie Burn - how can I avoid the heat?

    Light khaki can be quite attractive as long as you avoid the Steve Irwin affect. A boater or a Panama can be quite attractive. Hawaiian shirts are one of those "when they're good, they're very very good, and when they're bad they're horrid" things - try to pair it with the hat and land on the...
  23. Viola

    Nazi deserters have reputations restored at last

    p51 was pointing out not all deserters were doing so out of moral conviction beyond not getting shot. A valid point. Still not, in my mind, enough to besmirch their reputations compared to serving with Axis forces regardless of the legality of such and with the understanding that certainly not...

Latest posts

Members online

... and 47 more.
Total: 3,448 (members: 97, guests: 3,351)

Forum statistics

Threads
109,992
Messages
3,091,592
Members
54,675
Latest member
wooosie
Top