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  1. shindeco

    Show us what you have Crafted!

    I was posting this on a tatting site and thought it might be of interest here, too. This is a collar made to a 1942 pattern. The actual collar pattern (minus the tabs) is from a 1950 magazine and the tabs and tatting are from the '42 pattern booklet (J&P Coats). I made it because I was really...
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    Cufflinks and Shirt Studs.

    A few of mine:
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    Snap Cufflinks

    I have three pair in my collection: The blue ones and the silver ones are labelled "Kum-A-Part" and were made in the US; patented in 1923. The green ones are labelled "The Regnum" and were made in England.
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    Care To Dance??

    It's my job. I teach ballroom dance for a living -- beats flipping hamburgers, let me tell you!
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    wedding favor ideas?

    I love the Cracker Jack idea, too. At our wedding, we had an afternoon tea reception. I spent the months before the wedding going to all the thrift stores around buying silver plated teaspoons. We polished them up and people could choose a teaspoon, use it and take it home. It made a great...
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    English for Coming Citizens by H.H. Goldberger

    What a great find. Old ESL textbooks (before it was called ESL) are fun. I have a couple but neither are that old. Can you imagine a salesman bowing today? One of my favourite lines in one of mine is: Q: Who does the cooking at home? A: Cook does the cooking.
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    Asian-Influence Retro

    LaMedicine, Could you provide some more information about the book; it sounds amazing!! slightly :offtopic: This thread keeps reminding me of a former student of mine; a Japanese lady in her early 70s. One day, she was talking about her mother. Apparently her mother came from a fairly upper...
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    Asian-Influence Retro

    When I lived in Japan 15 years ago I bought my sister an uchikake (special over kimono used for weddings) from a wedding rental place. At that time there was absolutely no market for used anything in Japan. It cost me just under a hundred dollars (and these things are huge--and all silk). The...
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    White Tie - Double striped trousers

    No one has actually answered the question so here goes: both stripes are in front of the side seam. When you put your hands in the pockets, you should see both stripes on the pocket. In a brazen attempt to predict some other arcana that you may be wondering about:D : The braid (it's...
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    Asian-Influence Retro

    Shanghai Tang!! http://www.shanghaitang.com/shanghaitang/index.jsp Retro inspired, lots of fun!
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    A recent eBay aquisition

    Well done! That's a bargain, indeed. The colours are fabulous!
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    Classical music 1920-1945

    I've always been a classical music freak. It's the result of my misspent youth; I started taking piano lessons at the age of 4 (and didn't stop until I went to university) When I was in my teens, an elderly lady in our church was cleaning out some of her stuff and came across a great stack of...
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    White Tie - Bib bosom

    When your waistcoat is done up, the only part of the shirt you should see is the bosom. There should be no bib edge visible. If you have custom made trousers and a custom made shirt, the bosom should end at the the waistband of the trousers. As you noted earlier, the tab at the bottom of some...
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    White Tie - Bib bosom

    In commercial laundry products, the blue tinge is from "blueing". It's a light blue dye that gives yellowed whites the illusion of being whiter. Some stuff here from another thread on starching collars http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=11696 Instructions for starching a...
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    White Tie - Bib bosom

    Traditionally, the bib is starched; no matter what the fabric. I usually starch my pique front shirts but I have worn them unstarched. (Don't really care for the look it gives). The modern tendency is away from starch of any sort. The stiffness gives a certain "unmovable" quality to the shirt...
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    Stroller - Morning Dress only?

    Yup! That's it exactly.
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    White Tie - Bib bosom

    Pique was only one of the materials used. It was used because it's patterned and gives a bit of visual interest. It's also heavier than a lot of the regular shirtings and holds the starch better. It's pronounced [pee-kay] with the stress on the final syllable (risque is pronounced [riss-kay]...
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    Stroller - Morning Dress only?

    A stroller (aka a director's jacket) is the sligtly less formal alternative to a morning coat. It's worn with the usual striped trousers and accessories of a morning coat. You see them in movies from the 30s and 40s (often on floorwalkers). It was to a morning coat what a dinner jacket was to...
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    For the seamstresses out there...

    *How long have you been sewing? 25 years *How did you learn to sew? Trial and error at the start. Both my sister and my partner are trained in design and construction so I've got great resources now! *What was the first project you made that you remember? Folkwear pattern number 202 --...
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    Jack Benny or Fred Allen?

    Jack Benny gets my vote! (I love the Burns and Allen show where he guest stars and goes to college with George Burns.)

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