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  1. Viola

    your vintage Achilles heel

    I sometimes muse on what it would be like to be taller BUT I cannot complain my 5'0" is anything but terribly historically accurate. lol
  2. Viola

    your vintage Achilles heel

    Wide feet are the bane of fashion in general, not just vintage fashion. I have 8W, would kill for a regular-width 6. I would dearly love one of those teeny vintage waist measurments, but without the girdle!
  3. Viola

    How does a girl keep warm?

    I just bought the cutest argyle cardigan at Burlington Coat Factory for only 14 dollars. I love argyle. I've decided to admit to myself I need more cardigans and in fact probably couldn't have too many if I tried. Right now I have white, black, my new argyle, which is gray with coral red and...
  4. Viola

    Vintage Things that are Still in Common Use

    Not to cater to my own rather ethnically-specific childhood but Manishewitz dates to 1888 and while they've added new things, the matzo and wine are pretty much the same as the original recipe. Also, one of my favourite candies says on their site: "Joyva Corporation was founded in 1907 by...
  5. Viola

    Public Displays of Affection

    I definitely hold hands and kiss and stuff in public. That said, I mean, I think I'm the polar inverse of Lizzie as far as culture: I scream and hug and kiss and stuff with just friends that I know, too. Yankee reserve the who the what? ;) I will tongue-kiss my guy in public. We're in a...
  7. Viola

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The liquor stores were closed on Sunday in PA until just a couple years ago. Car dealerships still are, I believe. You still can't buy beer in the grocery or anything crazy like that in PA.
  8. Viola

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    They have Beeman's and Blackjack and I think one other flavor gum at my local grocery (Acme, but I think Acme is regional...?) in a thing that says "taste the nostalgia!" or something similar, I know the word nostalgia is involved, with a pin-up girl winking.
  9. Viola

    Indoor House Paint?

    Neither my brother, or sister, or I ever dared to draw on the walls either, but I knew a lot of kids who did: the best story being my cousin, who was like 5... framed her infant sister...by signing the 1-year-old's name. lol
  10. Viola

    Where were you on July 20, 1969?

    My first historic memory is the Berlin Wall coming down when I was five.
  11. Viola

    Is there something you really want to wear but are chicken?

    I was looking at vintage-style fancy ladies' hats with veils and feathers and so on... I really want one. They're not even expensive. They look good on me (I think.) It's just a question of where I'd wear it and the looks I'd get. Oddly enough, mens' hats are no problem at all for me. I have...
  13. Viola

    Nutty Neighbors

    Why can't a couple kids play in the street? I'm confused. Around here kids play in the street all the time...sometimes with whole field hockey goals they have to move when cars come. Honestly I'd rather see kids playing outside no matter the weather than inside with their X-boxes and...
  14. Viola

    Golden era door to door solicitors

    We get mostly the Sierra Club and groups like that. I see more religious evangelizers on public transit than I do door-to-door, and the door-to-door ones are generally more polite.
  15. Viola

    Nutty Neighbors

    I'm going to celebrate when we go from an apartment to our own home by painting all the interior walls with the Sherwin Williams historic paint! I just can't decide whether to go with their Streamlined Years or Suburban Modern lines... lol Whaddaya guys think? I want a chihuahua, btw. Great...
  16. Viola

    Nutty Neighbors

    Personally, not saying anyone else is wrong for choosing to live under a Homeowner's Association, but I could never live where I am owning, not renting, yet cannot paint or garden. To me, decorating and gardening and pet ownership are the most compelling reasons to give up being able to call the...
  17. Viola

    Halloween costumes!

    Going back to the topic and vintage - here's a thread shamelessly borrowed from bhuz about vintage belly dancing costumes
  19. Viola

    1950's Beauty Pageant Judging Guidelines

    Just recently hitting size 4, I worked REALLY HARD to get pronounced collarbones and "irregular legs." lol
  20. Viola

    Halloween costumes!

    Shirin, if I clean out my inbox will you and pretty much anybody else who knows anything about belly dance PM me? I think I've made it PRETTY CLEAR how much of a newbie I am on that score and I would appreciate any and all tips/hints. Wandering over to bhuz now to look around. Hmm, bhuz...
  21. Viola

    Halloween costumes!

    This: I don't think it's probably the greatest book ever put to paper but it has a lot of fairly clear photos and its very beginner (no beginners more beginner than I exist) and it was under seven dollars at Barnes and Noble.
  22. Viola

    The death of the American luxury sedan

    Well they're on metric they sort of have to. :) They do the same in Australia and I can work it out but the conversion takes me a mental moment... the first time I saw a gas-station I said to my guy "oh your gas prices aren't THAT bad..." and he was all "...baby, that's not in your gallons."...
  23. Viola

    Halloween costumes!

    I just got a pair of bright yellow/black striped knee-high wool socks...I'm thinking that necessitates going as either a witch, or a honeybee. If I go as a witch, I have good shoes, the socks, a multitude of black outfit pieces to mix-and-match, and only need to buy the hat and maybe some...
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