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  1. shindeco

    Vintage Eyeglasses

    Just bought a pair at an antique store -- $18.00. (The cost of the prescription, on the other hand...) They're not wire frames but those are out there, too. You have to be willing to dig through the piles of bad 80s frames but they are definitely out there. Good luck!
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    Formal Wear Primer

    I totally agree. It reminds me of a short scene in "Gaudy Night" by Dorothy L. Sayers (1935 mystery novel) where an Oxford don is having dinner at a ladies' college and his shirt front -- front closing kind-- is too long. Every time he leans forward, the two halves snap together making a...
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    PINK for the feeling, MARTINI for the flavor.

    Heard them when they played in town (Vancouver) earlier this year. My advice to all my friends is "if they come back -- GO!!!" They put on an amazing show!
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    If you are interested in living in Japan

    lol Given North American portion sizes, they'd just plunk the whole fish on the plate and say "be careful around the liver!"lol
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    The Sense of Smell and the Link to Memories

    Walking in a department store one day a lady walked past who smelled just like my grandmother--don't know what the scent was/is but it sure took me back. Wood smoke in the rain sends me back to Japan.
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    Roaring 20s Murder Mystery Dinner

    Looks like a swell party! Congratulations!!
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    If you are interested in living in Japan

    Mmmmmmmm, fugu ... (haven't had any since I left which was in 1991)
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    If you are interested in living in Japan

    I was in Shimonoseki.
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    If you are interested in living in Japan

    I spent two years in Japan on the JET programme. I highly recommend it!!
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    Those Unknown Shows We Discovered Later

    Recently discovered Candy Matson. There are only a few shows around but a great series. There weren't a lot of female detectives but she's defintely a swell dame!
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    Roaring 20s Murder Mystery Dinner

    What fun!! I dug out my "Good Housekeeping" recipe book from 1922 and checked the section whre they have recommended menus. For example, a Sunday dinner for November: Okra Soup Tenderloins of Pork with Sweet Potatoes Creamed Cauliflower Lettuce Salad French Dressing Tapioca Cream...
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    I think that the tailors of the time were far less fussy than we are! "It needs a stripe; put a stripe...Where? on the side of the leg, where do you think??"lol
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    Mccall Magazine November 1942

    What an amazing resource, Lauren!! Many, many thanks for making this stuff available!
  16. shindeco

    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    It really depends on the type of pocket. I've seen modern evening trousers with the stripe behind the pocket but they have slash pockets (diagonal pockets not in line with the side seam). The older evening trousers all have pockets set into the side seam. :offtopic: This really IS turning...
  17. shindeco

    Show us what you have Crafted!

    A couple of weeks, working off and on; it's a very simple pattern. I was working on it while my dad was having open heart surgery so a lot of it was done in the waiting room during his surgery (that's the main reason I can't get rid of this particular one!!) [highly successful surgery, by the way]
  19. shindeco

    Cufflinks and Shirt Studs.

    And they charge outrageous prices for the most boring cufflinks. I don't think I've ever spent more than $20 for a vintage pair. (I've seen them more expensive but I'm just cheap)
  20. shindeco

    China Patterns

    First of all, CONGRATULATIONS!!!:eusa_clap And what a great wedding present. I'm glad to hear you're planning on continuing to use it. Things like that need to be used (carefully, of course, but used nonetheless).
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    Single stripes range anywhere from half an inch to a full inch wide. The older ones tend to be a little narrower, in my experience. The forward pockets were done only by some tailors. It was supposedly on just the pockets but the whole side seam. The trousers were cut so that the side seam...
  22. shindeco

    Show us what you have Crafted!

    Thanks for the compliments. Maybe someone here has some insight on a question I've always had about the original picture/pattern: Ever since I first saw the picture for the pattern, I've been trying to figure out how she gets the cuffs to stay on her wrists. Cufflinks, probably but do...
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    Show us what you have Crafted!

    I'm a boy (and I don't do drag. But wouldn't 40s drag be fun!!)

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