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  1. Shangas

    Help for Fashion Disaster

    I think he's referring more to the TYPE of clothes, rather than how they're worn...
  2. Shangas

    What's the meaning behind your Avatar ?

    I was at my desk. At night. You can see the time on my watch. 10:06pm. Bored stupid. I was just spinning around, and I thought of how nice it looked. So I took out my camera and snapped it. That's all it was.
  3. Shangas

    Help for Fashion Disaster

    Surprising deals can be picked up at thrift-shops and other such places. I have two pairs of wingtips. One black dress pair, made by a very well-known local company, and one brown pair of wingtips made by Florsheim's. The pair of blacks was completely free. I didn't pay a bent penny for...
  4. Shangas

    Irony in the misconception that people who wear fedoras look ridiculous

    I can't speak for BB caps, but newsboys and their brothers, the flat cap, will most certainly keep your head warm!
  5. Shangas

    Help for Fashion Disaster

    Well shirts with buttons that you can't sew back on, or replace. If you can, then it's sort of expected that you can handle a needle and thread. But shirts with serious issues (fraying, tears, irremovable stains) should be either thrown out, or modified and used for something else.
  7. Shangas

    Help for Fashion Disaster

    A few other points... Go through your wardrobe. Throw out anything that you haven't used in at least two years, and which you aren't keeping for some special occasion. Check the condition of all your clothes. Shirts which are fraying or missing buttons etc, throw them out. Anything that...
  8. Shangas

    How Old Are The Members of The Fedora Lounge?

    26.
  9. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    Fried rice. Tomorrow, I'll try making Sushi.
  10. Shangas

    Question about fountain pens

    To clean an old, clogged up pen that hasn't been used in a while, flush it repeatedly with warm water. If the pen is particularly stubborn, you may use warm soapy water, or warm water with ammonia (very weak solution), and then rinse out later with fresh water. For REALLY clogged up pens...
  11. Shangas

    Question about fountain pens

    If it's a pen of modern manufacture, I wouldn't worry in the least about it leaking. The only time when that might happen is when you're flying in an airplane. If you ARE flying in an airplane with a fountain pen, then fill the pen completely with ink before you fly. And keep the pen nib-up...
  13. Shangas

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I haven't heard anyone use 'dandy' in years. If ever. 'Dapper' is still used fairly regularly, though.
  14. Shangas

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I use "Fresh" in some of my writing. Someone who's overconfident, a smart-aleck, someone who's really bold. "Smart alek/ck/c", I haven't heard used in years. These days, I think it's replaced by "Smartass".
  15. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I bought one of the fans from a dedicated shop in Singapore. It was selling fans and chopsticks. The really fancy types. Carved wood, or porcelain chopsticks, and really really intricately-made sandalwood fans. Some of them were HUGE, and more for decoration, but their smaller, everyday-use fans...
  16. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    No photographs yet, but I recently purchased a pair (though not identical) of sandalwood folding fans. I can see now why people love sandalwood. It smells so wonderful. The fans are very light and beautifully decorated. They open and shut extremely smoothly. A flick of the wrist in either...
  17. Shangas

    Question about fountain pens

    Hello HistoryTeach. Take it from someone who has used fountain pens for over 20 years. Bottled ink is a damn sight cheaper than cartridges. And I would recommend using a pen fitted to take bottled ink, rather than cartridges. One bottle of ink will last several years. One pack of...
  19. Shangas

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    I don't KNOW what my EXACT location would look like in the 1940s. The house I have now was built in 1965. But based on the surviving houses in my immediate neighbourhood, it would probably be a one or two-story Californian bungalow or Art Deco sort of house. They were popular around here back...
  20. Shangas

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    FIRST THING? These: From the 1920s until the 1990s (and some of them still run today), the W-class streetcar was the MAIN mode of public transport in Melbourne. In the 1940s, these would've been all over town, not just the tourist-attraction that they are these days. They're...
  21. Shangas

    "The Vanishing El" (1950)

    One of the most enduring images of the "Golden Era", the period from the late 1800s to the mid-20th century, is the clatter of elevated railway systems that ran through major American cities, most notably, New York City. By the 1930s, these railway systems were already under threat from...
  22. Shangas

    What's the meaning behind your Avatar ?

    That is a lovely avatar! My current one (in case it should change in the future) is a photograph of my typewriter. I was in my room one evening, bored out of my mind. I spun around in my chair and saw the light on my desk and the shadows...it looked pretty, so I snapped a B&W shot of it...
  23. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    I THINK that black one with "SINGER" on it is a zigzagger (buttonholers are bigger); that would date to the 1950s, I believe. -- the others..I have no idea.

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