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  1. St. Louis

    Could you survive?

    Oh, I am so sorry to hear that the Confidential Chat ended! I'm originally from Boston, and the CC was the first column I turned to in the Globe. I have so loved reading this thread, all the way back to the beginning. I tend to write long posts, so I'll try not to write an encyclopedia, but...
  2. St. Louis

    Best beauty decision you've made?

    The best thing I've done was to start a real nighttime beauty routine. That includes cleansing with a real product, not just any old soap; putting on some night time cream and eye stuff; starting my morning coffee (which helps me relax at night, because I know I'll wake up to a nice fresh hot...
  3. St. Louis

    Cocktails anyone?

    I find this thread very helpful, but I have a more basic question that I hope someone can answer. I'm planning a mid-to-late 1930s party here in my tiny St. Louis bungalow. I can probably fit about 15 people in here, if some gravitate to the front porch. I plan to serve 1930s food and...
  4. St. Louis

    Images of Shanghai from the Golden Era

    Wonderful images. For some reason, as I was looking at these photos, Marlene Dietrich's famous line kept running through my head: "It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lil." I imagine this is the environment where she would have been indulging in her antics.
  5. St. Louis

    Feels like fancy dress.......

    Great suggestion. I'll look for it right away. I used to wear Mac's Redwood, but unfortunately it was discontinued. Russian Red looks even better, because it's more of a blue-red. What do you think about Dubonnet? Too dark / plummy for the late 1930s? Here's the link to the shades. I...
  7. St. Louis

    Feels like fancy dress.......

    I've been pondering this question because I don't get a lot of reactions to vintage clothing any more. I think it's because I dress kind of frumpy. That is, I wear my hair in a simple wavy bob, with plain cotton blouses and skirts, simple low-heeled sandals or white keds-style sneakers with...
  8. St. Louis

    Golden Era Passtimes / Hobbies

    Like many ladies here, I like all the domestic arts: gardening, baking, sewing, and knitting--the last of which I find weirdly addictive. And I'm really enjoying tinkering with the house, trying to retrofit it back to the 1930s one square inch at a time. My all-time favorite golden era...
  9. St. Louis

    Favorite Vintage Perfumes

    Shalimar is delicious heaven in a bottle. And Emeraude is one of my all time favorites (the vintage version) -- in fact, it's quite reminiscent of Shalimar. I just found this fascinating interview on a fragrance blog. I can't wait for this book to come out...
  10. St. Louis

    Is It More Difficult For You to Dress "Vintage" in the Summertime?

    I'm with you. The relentless searing hot sun in St. Louis this summer has a lot of us tearing our hair out. Though in the summertime, for me, the vintage livin' is definitely easier ... cool, lightweight cotton dresses seem so much more comfortable than the jeans and tight T shirts that I see...
  11. St. Louis

    The Little Things

    I love Shanga's suggestions. That copper tea kettle is gorgeous. Re: repairs; I'm going to try to repair my flap toaster, as per Lizzie's encouragement, but a sewing machine would be beyond me -- I am much better at breaking things than fixing them, or more accurately, breaking them while...
  13. St. Louis

    Favorite Vintage Perfumes

    Bluebird, those perfumes are so beautiful! Little works of art. What a treat that must be to see every morning. Fort Worth, oh, I'm so envious of your Je Reviens ... that's one of my all-time favorite scents, and I've never been able to find a vintage bottle that hadn't gone off slightly...
  14. St. Louis

    Favorite Vintage Perfumes

    Actually, I've found quite a few bottles of L'Origan on ebay. Just search for it in the Collectibles-Vanity category. 4711 is still being produced, and I can't tell much difference between the current & vintage versions, or even the German and U.S. versions. You can find that in a lot of...
  15. St. Louis

    The Little Things

    Thanks for the great advice! I really love the wooden hangers suggestion. I already own a few of the smaller appliances, but my problem is that I don't know how to repair them & can't afford to buy ones in working condition. Dilemma. Yes, I know it makes no sense to buy appliances that are...
  16. St. Louis

    Favorite Vintage Perfumes

    I feel a bit weird replying to myself, but I've been thinking more this topic ever since reading Bluebird Marsha's post. Two things; first, after researching the launch dates of various perfumes, I've come to the conclusion that it is absolutely possible to scent vintage clothing with the...
  17. St. Louis

    Copy a pattern or use an original?

    Someone earlier mentioned the German Burda patterns (not modern the ones sold in U.S. fabric stores) -- they're printed exactly this way, with all the pieces overlapping each other on a single sheet. In fact I grew up using these types of patterns, since I learned to sew and knit from my German...
  19. St. Louis

    Vintage Phones

    That looks fantastic. I like the whole setting. Here's a question I've always had about the subsets of these phones -- I only learned about them from my lurkage (is that a word) on this forum. I don't believe I've ever seen an old movie where the actors were speaking into candlestick phones &...
  20. St. Louis

    The Little Things

    Thanks! These are all wonderful ideas and suggestions, and exactly what I was looking for. I'm lucky in that the previous owners stopped after they had vandalized the kitchen. They ripped out the vintage one (I saw it in the junk heap just before I moved in) but fortunately left all the old...
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    Favorite Historic Buildings or Places

  22. St. Louis

    Favorite Historic Buildings or Places

    Oh! My goodness. Sorry about that goof. Thanks for letting me know ... I've taken the steamboat upriver a few times and I was told that this was the original Rte 66 bridge. -- silly me, I should have looked that up & confirmed it! Blush.
  23. St. Louis

    The Little Things

    Hi there. I'm still new to the FL, though I've been living in the past for most of my adult life (in one decade or another) and have been lurking on here for a while. Now I have a question for those of you more experienced in recreating an environment from the golden era. What small-scale...
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