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  1. swinggal

    Show us your vintage patterns!

    I just got these two. First one was cheap the second one NOT, but it's a style I really like and I can see myself making quite a few dresses in different colors (the flutter sleeve one).
  2. swinggal

    Show us your vintage patterns!

    Cool!!! I never saw these!
  3. swinggal

    The Antipodean thread

    Surely there would be a vintage clothing fair as part of the napier Art Deco weekend in NZ?
  4. swinggal

    Loungers' Pets

    Aaaaawwwww. Poor Modi :(
  5. swinggal

    Basic Black&White Camera

    This pic however, was done as a test shot the weekend before we used the studio. I just used lamps from home, pointed in the directions I needed and hung a black sheet behind as a backdrop.
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    Basic Black&White Camera

    Here are some of the other ones I set up, shot and retouched. Laura Paula Teresa Ruth Aminee
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    Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!

    Awesome!!! I soooo wish I could crochet. I would love to make all the 30s hats that I have pattern books for. Maybe I should go do a course and learn...hmmmm.
  9. swinggal

    Basic Black&White Camera

    The studio pic was for The Perth Girls of Swing calendar that I art directed and designed for 2004. Myself and another photographer friend set up the studio to resemble 30s and 40s style photoshoots. I have a book that I used to get ideas and which shows how to set up the lighting to recreate...
  10. swinggal

    Nothing but Seamed Stockings

    i love this pic that Lauren posted on her Wearing History blog. Just goes to show the amazing stocking styles that were available in 1939. http://wearinghistory.blogspot.com/
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    The Antipodean thread

    August, 2010 | Australia | 'Way We Wore' Vintage Fairs | Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra Dates for the biggest and best clothing fairs run by "The Way we Wore' around Australia for August, 2010. I will post oter dates when the time draws closer...
  13. swinggal

    Basic Black&White Camera

    Is that what you were looking for? I added a layer of and old photo background, cranked the noise settings a bit, blurred the edges of the photos as a lot of photos were like this in the day with everyday cameras, added a few staines here and there and brought the yellow tones up a little.
  14. swinggal

    Basic Black&White Camera

    This, on the other hand, is a formal 30s style shot I set up in a studio with the same lighting as from the era and with retouching. I did a whole calendar this way and used old books on studio lighting. I have more with very dramatic lighting. Will find them later.
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    Basic Black&White Camera

    I dont think she's trying for the formal 30s formal portrait style. I have done a fair bit of that myself. I think she wants to reproduce the look of old every day photos of the era. Lighting is everything for 30s glamour shots for sure and A LOT of negative retouching was done, but this is what...
  16. swinggal

    Basic Black&White Camera

    I'll have a play with this and tell you what I've done. It's looking great already though, you have the idea :) Back in 10...
  17. swinggal

    Basic Black&White Camera

    Hey there Annie, I am an amateur photographer and use a modern camera to do all my black and white shots. I wouldn't bother with an old camera. As a graphic designer I can tell you that there are so many settings and vintage brushes for photoshop now that you can even download for free, that...
  19. swinggal

    Is dressing vintage a purely modern day phenomenon?

    This clip is interesting. It's from 1949 and asks, "Are modern fashions going back to the 20s?" http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=34929 And this one about modern hats with a Victorian and Edwardian styles http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=34929
  20. swinggal

    Show Us Your Purchases!

    No problemo ;)
  21. swinggal

    The Antipodean thread

    Great old clip 'Yanks and Aussies'. I'd never seen it before. http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=38205
  22. swinggal

    Most amazing vintage newsreel archive - British Pathe'

    This British site is vintage GOLD!! I have been watching clips non-stop for days!!! I started out with a link there with a 'Make do and Mend news-reel from the 40s and just keep on watching everything I could find! And it's not just British clips, they are from all over! I love going straight...
  23. swinggal

    Great BBC series re food and lifestyle - Edwardian, 1920s, Wartime, 1950s etc

    I know!! Very Jeeves and Wooster.

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