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  1. ColeV48

    Show us your vintage patterns!

    Those are adorable! Oh boy, maybe it's back to Hancock's for more fabric (arming myself with ideas is a bad thing).
  2. ColeV48

    Loungers' Pets

    This is Bailey, our 7 month-old Cavachon. She's really just a spring-loaded cotton ball.
  3. ColeV48

    Vintage cars, golden era photo shoots

    We rented a Rolls Royce for our wedding and, boy, do we have tons of pictures of it!
  4. ColeV48

    Are you a Military wife?

    Too cute SayCici! I don't think Evan would let me take pictures of him, let alone in his dress blues. I'll have to trick him sometime (you know, when he's actually home).
  5. ColeV48

    Sewing Lessons & FAQ

    Yep, Zipper is a trademark name, started in 1923 for a pair of boots!
  7. ColeV48

    Revolutionary War Films?

    Marie Antoinette, John Adams, The Duchess, Vanity Fair (2005), The Lady and the Duke, Beau Brummel, Restoration, and The Libertine (Chausser certainly gave a wonderful list! Jefferson in Paris is still one of my favorites!). For 30s/40s renditions: Queen Christina, DuBarry Was a Lady, and...
  8. ColeV48

    Show us your vintage patterns!

    My old work place occasionally had fundraising things selling stuff people clean out of their house (fabric, crafting supplies, movies, etc). One of the ladies that runs it picked up a bin of vintage patterns for $5 a while back at a garage sale. They had dozens out! One even looked like a...
  9. ColeV48

    Show us your vintage patterns!

    Just got these today and I don't know where to start! I don't know how complete they are, but it was only $4 for the bunch.
  10. ColeV48

    Talk to me about silverware!...

    I don't remember the names of what I have, but my family seems to have an over-abundance of silverware. I somehow ended up with two full sets, plus numerous serving pieces, and a few extra random pieces. It's all silver plated. I think most of this was my great-grandmothers:
  11. ColeV48

    Who Loves Linen?

    So many of the 18th century items I make are done in linen. The really good stuff doesn't wrinkle as much, in fact the historic linen barely wrinkled at all. It's generally attributed to the harvesting, since modern machines create shorter threads of flax. Where ever the ends are it can bend...
  13. ColeV48

    Drafting your own patterns

    I love doing both. Most of the garments I've been draping lately are 18th century women's gowns and patterning 18th century stays and men's suits. It's done a bit differently than modern garments, but it's really helped with those. Gowns are cut on the person and suits are patterned by eye...
  14. ColeV48

    Vintage Weddings

    Thanks! The song is We Are Man and Wife by Michelle Featherstone (I hadn't heard until the slideshow either, but I love it!). The shoes were from My Vintage Sole and one of the most comfortable pairs of heels I've ever owned!
  15. ColeV48

    Vintage Weddings

    Thanks everyone! I think the cake was my favorite part of the whole thing. They actually let me design it, which was really fun. The lit-up piece is based off of an art deco light on the Disney cruise ships, combine it with a bakelite radio and a sun-burst mirror to finish it out! The...
  16. ColeV48

    Show us your vintage-vintage inspired Engagement Ring!

    I had been looking for a completely different ring, but I found this one at an estate sale and fell in love. It even fit perfectly, so I couldn't say no! They had it listed as 1930s:
  17. ColeV48

    Vintage Weddings

    We just had a 1930s inspired wedding at the end of the year. We had planned on a vintage engagement shoot too, but it was too cold to wear the suit I had made for it. I choose our photographers because their style reminded me of a picture I have of my grandfather circa 1920. Here's the...
  19. ColeV48

    why to mens shirts button opposite of womens?

    It actually didn't exist like that until late 19th century when clothing became industrialized. In fact, in the late 18th c. male tailors still made any women's clothing that was masculine in style: the riding habit. Nothing else usually buttoned closed until the 1780s. Extant garments from...
  20. ColeV48

    Oldest person you ever knew?

    My Grandmother is turning 92 this year. She spent most of her life as a farmers wife in the country, but actually worked on "computers" in the 1940s! My Grandfather, his sister, and his brother all lived to be 92 as well. Grandpa fought in WWII in N. Africa and Italy, loved travel, and was...
  21. ColeV48

    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    My Grandmother around 1944 I think: Next time I'm back home I'll have to get the picture of her "wedding dress". A very cute soft pink suit (I wish she had kept it!).
  22. ColeV48

    If you said you looked like one celebrity from the Golden Era...

    Oh this looks like fun! Any ideas for me?
  23. ColeV48

    Are you a Military wife?

    My husbands been in the Navy for about a year-and-a-half now. He just finished with all of his schooling and is about ready to go onto a ship. Unfortunately, that means he'll be on a long deployment right away. It certainly does test any relationship! I hear all sorts of horror stories of...

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