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    Waist coats are a jacket's best friend...

    Marc: Nice! :)
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    The Photographer

    In terms of capturing in print/pixels what I see in my head, I hate digital. :) But I think digital is great for two reasons: 1) It's cheaper, at least in the sense that putting a photo on your computer or online costs less than getting it developed. That makes retaking a shot over and...
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    The Prince

    I believe there is some tradition that gentlemen of the royal family do not wear hats for posed photos (in formal or semi-formal clothing) or when talking to people, unless it is part of a uniform. I could be mistaken...
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    The feel of the era.

    One of the easiest ways I feel to have gone back in time is simply to walk out my back door and hang out the washing. :) If I ignore the top of the new house next-door poking over the fence, everything else in my back garden (washline, corrogated iron fence & shed, concrete path) and the rest...
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    Best quotes - Merged thread - Keep it Clean! No dashes! No Symbols!

    Most of my favourite quotes come from Casablanca. Major Strasser: "What is your nationality?" Rick: "Why, I'm a drunkard." Rick, to Rainault: "When it comes to women, you're a true democrat." Rick: "...Remember, I have this gun pointed straight at your heart." Rainault: "That is my...
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    Ladies suits

    JBD, where did you get this photo? Do you have any details on it? It looks rather like someone I know... er, knew... er, like someone I know looked then? Ech, grammar... :)
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    When you're not dressed vintage...

    I don't wear vintage, and own very little vintage-inspired. It's nearly impossible to find vintage stuff around here, and what you do find is very expensive, usually fragile, and sized to fit a 12 year old. On an average day, I wear worn-out, paint-speckled, holey jeans that are two sizes...
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    Hurricane Katrina

    Well, I'm a heck of a way from the action, but as far as I've seen in the news, looters seem to be coming in two flavours; families uplifting food, water, and medical supplies from stores, and opportunists taking to abandoned homes and businesses. For the latter, I applaud those families lucky...
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    ~Recreating Hair styles of the 1940s~

    :( Drat. Yup... We've had a few on here bemoaning their fine hair which won't take curls; I have the opposite problem, with a bit of natural curl, which is nice, but TOO MUCH HAIR! I got my hair done for the school ball way back when, and the stylist did what she normally did, and still had...
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    How Old Are The Members of The Fedora Lounge?

    Oxford Bags. Considered a very youthful, ugly, frivolous craze by "grown ups" of the time. :)
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    For the Glamourous Vintage Photographer

    I'll have to hunt the library and see if I can find a picture I saw a while back of a chunky vintage gold bracelet that had 2 or 3 compartments for lipstick, maybe perfume and powder. I don't recall when it dated from exactly; may have been as early as the 20s, could have been as late as the...
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    Rundown of 30's & 40's Shoes

    I'm guessing the letters (AAA, M, etc.) refer to width? NZ shoe sizing is pretty lazy; you're doing well if you find somewhere with half sizes, let alone different widths. Anyway, what's an average shoe width, in terms of both contemporary feet, and vintage shoes? It sounds like vintage...
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    Fine Old Linen Handkerchiefs - READY - Pictures

    To sound all feminine and helpless for a minute, [angel] do you have any clue what would be the best way to pay from overseas? [huh] I don't have a Paypal account, or even a credit card, although I could persuade someone else to use theirs. I'm interested but not definite... Specifically...
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    Vintage Makeup Favorites

    This month's B?ɬ©same Girl appears to have that darker colouring we were discussing. (So do June & July). http://www.besamecosmetics.com/english/vintageLooks/besameGirls/madlen.php You may need to sign up for their mailing list to view it...
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    Every Woman Needs Pearls

    That's called a "torsade". It's a popular way to wear the smaller freshwater pearls, and they appear to be quite fashionable again, albeit often in the huge, heavy, jungle-priestess ropes of the 1970s/80s style. :p I imagine it would be easy to find one of the smaller, classier pieces though.
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    An Introduction

    Hi CherryRed! Welcome aboard! :)
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    Every Woman Needs Pearls

    What everyone else said, plus some. :) Some notes on the ways pearls are sold/labelled: Saltwater pearls Some times sold as "Tahitian" or other placename. The real thing. Very expensive but high quality. As LaMedicine said, they usually only come one at a time, and it is hard to get...
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    The Jitterbug?

    Ah yes... I make no claims to a retro lifestyle (only a strong historical interest), and so can't really comment beyond the obvious fact that ladies, the 30s/40s, and tattoos generally do not mix. *ROFL* :clap Too true... One might wonder what I'm doing with a Japanese tattoo, since I'm...
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    Vintage Makeup Favorites

    Well... Having poked around my books a bit... Sophia Loren (a little outside the era) used pale green eyeshadow to good effect, and soft brick-red lipsticks as jitterbugdoll mentioned. Not sure if you should try the 60s baby-pink lipstick though. :p Natalie Wood (again late, but I'm...
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    Vintage Makeup Favorites

    I feel your pain... :) Somewhere in my family's Scots-Irish past, a great-something grandfather married a lady he claimed was "Spanish" (probably a local Maori, but you didn't admit that in those days), and that hit the black-Irish genes to leave my mother's generation with riotous black curls...

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