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    Little Black Dress

    I guess if I have a Little Black Dress it is this one: But I think it is just one of my dresses that happens to be black.
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    Suggestions for Daughter and Vintage

    As a teenager sussing out her own style, it's a good time to experiment. I think she should have lots of freedom to play around and make mistakes. (If not for those awful yearbook photos, how would we ever know what bad hair looked like?) If following the old style rules is her thing, then...
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    Girdles, Corsets, and Underpinnings

    Oh right, also, am I supposed to wear it over the petticoat like that picture shows? Or is the ad just doing it like that to show off the merry widows? (I can never quite wrap my brain around the wearing order of vintage undergarments.)
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    Girdles, Corsets, and Underpinnings

    New Look foundations What are your favorite foundation garments, and has anyone had any success getting the "new look" silhouette with modern shapewear? I've tried every waist cincher, bustier, girdle, and merry widow I could possibly find, and nothing even approximated the V-shaped torso of...
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    Under eye cream

    I use the night cream and eye cream that contains active copper since my dermatologist said that research was indicating that copper increases collagen production in your skin. I forget if it is by Neutrogena, but I think it starts with an N. It comes with a bright copper lid. I think I pay...
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    Modern wedding gowns

    Oh, I love that one. Norma Shearer was so beautiful. I was going to go vintage or make my own, but I fell in love with this one: BV - No strapless duchesse satin ballgowns for me...
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    Who is Your Beauty Muse?

    I like bold women who push the rules, break them, and have very distinct styles. I like Schiaparelli, Josephine Baker, Gala Dali, Katherine Hepburn, and Lucy. My own style always winds up more glam than avant garde. (It feels like hte safest option to me, unfortunately.) I look mostly like...
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    Displaying your goods~

    I ran out of room. The laundry basket is full of clean, folded clothes, but we can't put them away because there is no more room. @_@ (I really need a big dresser or somehting for xmas. Or maybe another closet. I already took mine and the hall closet, and for awhile I used my fiance's closet...
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    Powder room Finishing School

    My grandmother was from a Social Register family. She was not, however, a debutante. Her debut was cancelled because of WWII. She says that most of her friends did not come out because such things were "just not done" while there was a war going on. (This is the same grandma who very much...
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    STOP STARING!!!

    It looks black on my screen but I would bet that it is probably navy, because it looks to be the same fabric combination as this one, which is navy: http://www.daddyos.com/retro/ssd2.html That looked burgundy to me. Am I crazy to think that it looks like a dark color in the reddish family...
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    Presents for your S.O.

    He wants a subscription to the Harvard Journal of Chinese Studies and a new dictionary. I also found a DVD of the last acts of Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura, but that's more for me. ^_^ He also wants a paper cutter and a laser printer. OH! I just remembered! I should get him some pictures by John...
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    Pick me up...

    I wash and set my hair, and maybe do my makeup. If I plan to leave the house I put a little more effort than normal into dressing, but if I feel like that I probably don't have a reason to leave the house. Then I force myself to get up and work on something, even if it's just something like...
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    Why? Why? WHY?!!!!!!!!

    Ha! I'm the exact same measurements, and I have the same problem! I can't find anything and when I do find something nice it goes for like a zillion dollars! I've taken to wearing "contoured" undergarments.(Love those modern euphemisms.) Suits are the big problem for me. I can never find any...
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    Headin' Off To Harlem!

    Boy, I thought I was uptown! I don't have anything to recommend that far uptown; I've only covered places from 130-54th. But Casbah Rouge on 110 does fantastic tagines. Tokyo Pop on 103 is some of the best sushi I've ever had, and their cocktails are my favorites in the whole world. Pisticci...
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    Bullet bras and 50's dresses?

    I've been looking all over for one of those ... do you have any good sources?
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    Vintage 1945 lipstick ad...with lipstick!

    That is just too cool! Which color did she get? And did you open it and look inside? ^_^ BV
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    MEN of the LOUNGE

    I can't believe I only now discovered this thread. But what a nice discovery it is... xoxo, BV
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    Bullet bras and 50's dresses?

    :eek: I always thought Tennessee Williams made that up!
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    Birthdays and how to celeberate them

    My mother in law's birthday is Dec. 26, and she is very adamant that she must get two gifts from everybody, and that they must be wrapped in distinctive paper. She doesn't go in for any neutral wrapping; it's all either xmas trees or balloons. (She's kind of crazy about the wrapping of presents...
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    Red Wines?

    This is an excellent thread! xoxo, BV

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