Hi Sweatergirl! Nice to meet you :)
I'm just about to begin attempting to sew my first ever dress so I may end up taking you up on your offer of advice!
It's very reassuring that there are both experienced sewers here and enthusiastic beginners like me.
I also wear Coco Mademoiselle, I think it's lovely, classical but still contemporary. I have reservations about wearing fragrances that were formulated a long time ago - call me superficial but I don't want to smell like an old lady!
Scent is such a visceral, emotional thing - I spent months...
Hi, Land-o-Lakes! Nice to meet you. It's a great suggestion, I will look out to see if there's something in my area... I've been knitting for years but sewing is something new to me. Seems to me you can always correct a mistake in knitting but not sure if you can do the same with fabric...
Wow! I must say I am continually amazed at the amount of effort that women went to back then to look good. I wonder what those depilatory creams would have been like? Surely at least as pungent and toxic as what we have to choose from nowadays...
Hi ladies! I'm another long-time lurker who's recently stuck her head over the parapet and joined in the conversation. This whole era is just so fascinating to me... mostly what I do is vintage knitting, and when I get it together I plan to post a few pics of the vintage items I've knitted...
I had this a lot after I had my baby and still had the baby weight... one woman in a shop asked me when I was due, when I had my daughter with me in her pram and she was only six weeks old!
Then when my daughter was six months old I went to Greece and another woman in a shop asked if I was...
How common do you think it would have been in the first half of the 20th Century for women to shave? Don't you think it would have been something of a luxury that only very glamorous women did to pamper themselves?
Plus, I can't help but think of the value of that little extra layer of...
Hi ladies,
Mind if I join in? I just wanted to relate my experiences of the cold cream and witch hazel 'diet', because I've been struggling with my skin for months. I don't know quite why but in the last six months I developed a really spotty forehead, particularly at certain times of the...
Hello ladies, this is my first post on this amazingly informative forum. I've already learned so much from reading your posts! The question I have relates to what kind of styling I should do with my naturally curly hair, which isn't particularly frizzy but is definitely on the scruffy side if...
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