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  1. St. Louis

    What gives you that vintage feeling?

    Those diaries sound like such a treasure. I had a great accidental vintage moment the other morning. My electric coffee grinder bit the dust some time ago, and I never bothered to replace it because I usually buy ground coffee anyway. Imagine my chagrin when I opened a container of coffee &...
  2. St. Louis

    Golden Era movies for material culture?

    I was watching Letter to Three Wives recently, one of my favorite postwar films. I get a huge chuckle out of the kitchen scenes in Lora Mae's Mom's home. Whenever a train rattles by, everything shakes and all conversation stops. I'm particularly intrigued by the little details in the kitchen...
  3. St. Louis

    Turn out your vintage Purse or Handbag

    Wow, that is so sweet of you! I would love a needle book. Could we swap for something? Is there something you've been wishing for?
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    Vintage candy that is still on the shelves

    There are also some very old candies that have been around for centuries, like Turkish Delight, sugared almonds, and all forms of marzipan or almond paste. I have very fond memories of German almond paste pigs that my grandmother gave us every New Year's.
  5. St. Louis

    Golden Era Passtimes / Hobbies

    Country club Joe's post made me realize that Golden Era hobbies and pastimes were so much more active (and by extension so much less passive) than ours. Even something as simple as listening to a game on the radio requires more imagination than passively sitting in front of the TV and watching...
  7. St. Louis

    Relax...dont do it?

    Glad this thread was bumped. Great suggestions here, just in time for the new term to begin. Knitting always calms me down; must be the repetitive motion, and also the fact that no one ever criticizes my knitting. Pretty much everything else I do is subject to critiques, but not my knitting...
  8. St. Louis

    Going to work in vintage apparal

    I teach history, so I get away with it. I wear vintage or vintage-inspired (what I call vintage lite) every day. I'm not comfortable in modern styles, and they're not comfortable being worn by me. At this point my coworkers are used to my get-ups. I've never had a single negative comment...
  9. St. Louis

    Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!

    Coble, if you can crochet you can knit. This is particularly true if you can get someone to teach you the continental style, which uses a similar hand-hold to crocheting. I say this because there are so many fantastic (and easy) vintage men's knitting patterns out there. Check this out...
  10. St. Louis

    Body Shape

    Miss Stella, I agree with your dressmaker friend about taking a pattern from a garment that fits well. But you definitely don't have to take the garment apart. You can do what's called a "rub-off" pattern, which is fun and easy. Essentially you're copying your well-fitting garment by laying it...
  11. St. Louis

    What gives you that vintage feeling?

    Ditto novels and baking. Flicka, have you ever read anything by Monica Dickens? Wonderful, funny books. Check out A Pair of Hands. Also: --knitting while listening to KDHX's Old Time Music program on my cathedral radio, wearing a vintage dress, perfume & hairstyle --playing my 78s...
  13. St. Louis

    The best face powder in the world!

    I found both the gum arabic and the benzoin on Amazon. You can also find gum arabic at art supply stores; water colorists use it to mask out any areas they want to remain unpainted. For reference, here's the 1942 Popular Mechanics recipe, which I found on google books. The amounts given in...
  14. St. Louis

    The best face powder in the world!

    I'm glad this topic came up, because it gives me an opportunity to ask about Coty Airspun: is it true that they've discontinued the Lalique box? I've searched everywhere and can only find a plastic box. How horrible. They've kept a tiny bit of the Lalique design on the paper label, but ...
  15. St. Louis

    Turn out your vintage Purse or Handbag

    Ok, I thought I'd share some photos of my purse project. Obviously this is a work in progress. Technically, those stamps shouldn't be cancelled, and the compact mirror is a little mottled looking (it would have been brand new) but I'm relatively pleased with this project so far...
  16. St. Louis

    Show us your vintage home!

    What are the winters like where you live? I had to decide between a garage and a yard, too; in St. Louis, all the older houses have such tiny garages that they're not useful for vehicles. I finally decided I'd leave it alone for a few years, and work on the garden for a while, in order to see...
  17. St. Louis

    Vintage Phones

    After several hours' worth of conversations with various phone customer service people, I have discovered that I can switch my phone line back to analog, because the old copper wires are still present in my house. So all is well in St. Louis. By Wednesday all my vintage phones will be ringing...
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    Vintage Phones

    I think Gin & Tonics and I are asking the same question ( right?) My situation is that I recently switched to Uverse, which bundles my internet, phone, and satellite. Before I got the wireless connection I was able to use my vintage phones, but apparently Uverse is the kiss of death to them...
  20. St. Louis

    Turn out your vintage Purse or Handbag

    Interesting -- I interpreted this thread to mean, "what's inside your vintage purse in vintage times," not "what's inside a vintage purse you wear every day." Is that how you meant it? As it happens, over the past couple of years I've been collecting and fixing up items to go into my vintage...
  21. St. Louis

    Dressing for the Ballet

    That is a wonderful question, and one that I wish more people would ask. Here in the Midwest, unfortunately, people wear jeans to the ballet. I always find that so depressing. Why waste a perfectly good chance to dress up? Are you thinking of wearing vintage? If you're sitting in the...
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    Vintage Phones

    Thanks -- I agree regarding the land line. I just want to clarify that I do have a land line now, but it's too powerful (or something) to allow my vintage phones to receive the signal. So I would have to cancel my current phone service and install a new analog land line in order to be able to...
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    Vintage Phones

    These phones are beautiful. What I particularly appreciate about them is their individuality. Today's phones all have a dreary sort of sameness about them. I have a burning question. I just acquired two monophones, both of which have been fitted with new subsets. This was one of those...

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