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  1. W-D Forties

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    I would avoid Primark if I were you! Those pram-faced little madams will probably grow up to be lap dancers (with obvious apologies to any FL lapdancers out there...) Either way, give it 5 years or so and they are the ones that will be sereptitiously asking 'you where you got that....'
  2. W-D Forties

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    That is a seriously well made suit, well done! I'm presuming you are a tailor or similar?
  3. W-D Forties

    Make your own vintage inspired hats

    crwritt- you are a saviour! Whilst I'm not sure my hat will ever look like the one on the packet at least I now have some idea of how to finish the blooming thing! It's such a fiddly hat and having no pic of the back is such a pain. I'm glad I used cheap felt to try this one out! I'll post a...
  4. W-D Forties

    Goodnight Sweetheart Anyone?

  5. W-D Forties

    Unpopular movie opinions...

    I don't know many people that really like Robin Williams. Makes you wonder who pays to see his film! Mind you, I do rather like him when he's playing creepy, as in Insomnia. He does that worryingly well.
  7. W-D Forties

    Show us what you've made!

    I've got that pattern and my sister-in-law is making it for me. It's lovely to see one actually made.
  8. W-D Forties

    Make your own vintage inspired hats

    It is indeed a mental puzzle - a puzzle that's driving me mental! I think the problem lies in the picture on the pattern packet. I can see the remnant piece clearly in your pics, but it's not obvious at all on the packet picture.
  9. W-D Forties

    Unpopular movie opinions...

    I agree that James Cameron comes across as a smug jerk, and I think Titanic was a rotten film that trivialised the deaths of hundreds, but Aliens is a GREAT MOVIE!
  10. W-D Forties

    Make your own vintage inspired hats

    I'm just starting out with this pattern. Can anyone advise me - when it says 'remnant' for the oval pattern piece at the start of the instructions - what does this mean? Any material at all, or is it all made of felt (as it looks in the pictures)? I thought, it's only 4 pieces, how hard can...
  11. W-D Forties

    Goodnight Sweetheart Anyone?

    Goodnight Sweetheart is enjoyably goofy. The later ones where her befriends and influences Noel Coward are a hoot, ditto the one where he gleefuly nicks all of Elton John's songs and sings them in a 40's stylee!
  13. W-D Forties

    Pencil skirts...

    Sounds like you may be giving the boys un-christian thoughts Miss Elizabeth!
  14. W-D Forties

    A forgotten Golden Era virtue, Thrift

    I think one of the biggest problems is the shoddy manufacturing quality of most items these days. Nothing is built to last. I am amazed if a microwave lasts 18 months, ditto a washing machine, etc. My bl**dy expensive 160GB ipod lasted 2 years before the hard-drive packed up. most of these...
  15. W-D Forties

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Just watched the new Sherlock Holmes. Not bad, quite a good feel, although I was distracted from the 'plot' by spotting the filming locations I knew well, Greenwich Naval College (VERY overused location for peiod shoots), St Georges Hall (gorgeous) and Stanley Dock in Liverpool. Of the recent...
  16. W-D Forties

    Make your own vintage inspired hats

    Tuppencehapenny, thanks, you are a star! I will give them a go.
  17. W-D Forties

    Pencil skirts...

    I don't have much of on opportunity to wear pencil skirts in my job, sadly, but I did recently buy a couple of thick jersey high waisted pencil/tube skirts in the sale at Warehouse. They're slightly more 80's than 40's but are incredibly comfortable and flattering on and can be dressed up with...
  19. W-D Forties

    Make your own vintage inspired hats

    You have made an excellent job of that crwitt, lovely hat.
  20. W-D Forties

    Make your own vintage inspired hats

    Ahh! If anyone else has made anything from this pattern, please do post the pics! I have this pattern too and have made the 'halo' hat (as this was the easiest!). The shape looked ok, but the 'felt' I used was just awful, really cheap. It was jsut what I could get hold of at short notice to...
  21. W-D Forties

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Just watched Terrence Davies's 'Of Time and the City'. A rather lovely love letter to a city. On New Years Eve I introduced my 11 year old son to 'Night Of The Demon' with Dana Andrews and Peggy Cummings. A great film, I first saw it at about his age and loved it (even the slightly shonky...
  22. W-D Forties

    "I want to feel like a new man"

    My husband's made-to-measure tweed suit was from asuitthatfits.com (hope that's right, but you could google it if not). They have a travelling tailor that roams the UK and takes your measurements and discusses what you want from a 'menu'. He got a lovely vintage styled 4 button 3 peice suit...
  23. W-D Forties

    Detroit in ruins

    Thats just crazy, rue. What a terrible waste. Arn't you tempted to 'liberate' a few bits and pieces?

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