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  1. Viola

    What's your favourite Red Hair colour?

    Ladies, help! I promised in a gesture of solidarity that I'd finally stop wussing out at the last minute and really colour my hair this weekend. Promised! My mother! So you know I have to. But I'm really nervous and I've never coloured before. Clairol, Revlon, L'oreal, or Feria? Which...
  2. Viola

    the country drive

    Not a fun part of my childhood memories; my poor mom is always drugged to her eyeballs on motion-sickness pills for any drive longer than maaaybe 15 minutes, and my sister was similarly delicate as a child. And I never really saw the point; I wanted to be somewhere, sure, but driving was always...
  3. Viola

    Eyebrow Grooming

    I tweeze but I'm going for a style they do naturally so I don't have to do a tremendous amount. I have a good arch and strong brows, so no drawing anything in, and I'm basically just cleaning up and making sure nothing starts to connect. Sometimes I fantasize about thiiiiin '20s brows but...
  4. Viola

    Does vintage make you look.... *older*?

    I think wearing stuff that flatters one physically will help it not look aging. '20s, for me, is very much a no-fly zone because big drape-y dresses and long single-strand necklaces would look deeply un-charming on me. Other women look delightful in that stuff though so I am NOT saying '20s...
  5. Viola

    Time Warp Wives

    I would love to have a job like that and live in West Virginia, which has a lot going for it, but not job-wise. Yeah the sheer number of housekeepers/maids/nannies that were more normal back in the day; these women had families too. I know my maternal grandmother was very defensive of the...
  7. Viola

    Time Warp Wives

    Not as many as would have been preferred. It wasn't considered as nice for married women to have to. But they did. The image of it being something you did only until you got married was largely that; an image. At least at some income levels, and from what I can tell where that point was...
  8. Viola

    Time Warp Wives

    To be fair plenty of Golden Era women worked. Both my grandmothers worked through my parents' childhoods. All of my great-grandmothers worked, at least intermittantly. They were not exotic, either, not brazen doing truly bold things; nothing it wasn't perfectly normal for women to do. Part of...
  9. Viola

    Do You Love Platform Shoes?

    Two thoughts warred for space in my brain immediately: OH MY GOSH THEY ARE ADORABLE. and, unfortunately, OH MY GOSH THEY ARE A HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS!!! lol They are incredibly cute, though, and made in the USA, and I'm going to see if I can maaaaybe get a pair, but oh no. My...
  10. Viola

    Do You Love Platform Shoes?

    I want a pair of clear platform heels with interchangeable ribbons like Marilyn Monroe had. That way I can coordinate for the cost of ribbons instead of shoes (...and with my 8W or 9 regular I don't have the range of shoes I would like...) does anybody know where I can get a pair? You'll be a...
  11. Viola

    female clothing sizes (made in the 1940's-WWII era) to clothing sizes of modern day

    In fifties' sizes, what is a 36" bust? I'm having an argument with my boyfriend about Marilyn Monroe being a "size 14" which he is insisting is a modern 14 and, well, I doubt it. I had thought it shifted in the fifties and then again in the seventies? That site only has "pre-70s" as one...
  13. Viola

    Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds

    Can't think of any movie-Hermans in WWII only Hans. Resistence in movies usually takes the form of a remarkably well-maintained French brunette who may or may not be named Marie. I would like to see more takes on what other countries had/did than just France, myself.
  14. Viola

    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    Don't remember if I've tipped my hat to expressions like 'from the git-go' or describing things as 'about yea high' already in one of the older incarnations of this thread but I'm pretty sure I haven't yet given their due to exasperated ones like 'you should be so quick into my grave' which is...
  15. Viola

    Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds

    It's interesting to me that I agree with this, but I see it as a rather more intriguing and appealing than you apparently do. (And if I misinterpreted your stance, I apologize contritely!) I agree it's a look at a sociopathic, or nearly so, view. That is who the characters are, and in a way...
  16. Viola

    The Wall Bed....

    These are fancier and with my flawless ability to pick out things that are more expensive than I can deal with, a little pricier than your average wall bed, but these are what I truly want some day. They have good reviews, though they take thinner, European mattresses. I really REALLY want...
  17. Viola

    Show Us Your Tattoos

    Can we talk about our tattoos we don't have yet? I'm leaning towards getting a tattoo for my 30th b-day (I'm 26) because I want to make sure its a design I like for at least two years before I have it put under my skin. And first I have to make sure my skin can take the ink - I like the dot-test...
  19. Viola

    Historic Jewish Haven In Shanghai Faces Demolition

    Had a cousin (if you muddle generations slightly, of course - a second cousin removed once or twice) born in Shanghai during or immediately after WWII. Others ended up in Cuba or Argentina. Anywhere you could get a visa to that wasn't Europe. I don't know why it's surprising that China...
  20. Viola

    Help me decide on a new hair color!

    Well as far as the special effects go (and I'm not busting on your Photoshopping) the red also has the nicest photo-quality which could steer votes a bit. But I think the contrast of the black is very striking and would make your skin look porcelain. With blonde would you be going with a cool...
  21. Viola

    Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds

    Need to see this immediately.
  22. Viola

    CONTEST: Name my baby!

    Olivia.
  23. Viola

    What Are You Reading

    Oh man I can't reread Nop's Trials - I read it once years ago (I think I was about 14) and it totally scarred me. But that doesn't make it a BAD book, if you know what I mean. No disrespect intended.

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