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  1. Shangas

    anti-hat article | The Guardian UK

    If I wanted a "Look at Me" hat, I would've searched for one of those ones from the Edwardian era with a dead bird on top. This crazy lady has no idea about hats.
  2. Shangas

    Foyle's War UK WW II period police drama

    I love Foyle's War! It's been widely acclaimed for its historical accuracy.
  3. Shangas

    What to Wear with a Deerstalker

    I say tweed.
  4. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I still use the phrase "Coke-bottle glasses". You can still buy coke in old-fashioned contour bottles, but they're not as common as they used to be. I think the last Coca-Cola bottling plant in the 'States, which still produced the old-style glass bottles, stopped manufacturing them earlier...
  5. Shangas

    Typewriters

    Windex is excellent for polishing the body, and cleaning the metal, but for cleaning the key-linkages and the type-basket, you NEED methylated spirits (also called denatured alcohol in the 'States). The meths dissolves the dust and gunk inside the typewriter and drips it out the bottom, and...
  7. Shangas

    Vintage Desecration - Things Altered/Repurposed, and a Vintage Treasure Lost Forever.

    It's not true that people necessarily hung onto their old technology. My father said that as a child, the moment the family got something new (like a radio, or a telephone, for example), the old one was automatically thrown out. But I was making the point that back in those days, if you DID...
  8. Shangas

    6 oz of shrapnel in his leg for 68 years

    ...ouch...
  9. Shangas

    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    For me, two smells... 1. Talcum powder. 2. Tiger-balm. When I was a child, these two smells hit me every time I went into my grandmother's bedroom. They never went away. Every time I smell Tiger Balm, I think of my grandma.
  10. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    Does the Fedora Lounge come with a drooling emoticon!? That is sweet!
  11. Shangas

    Vintage Desecration - Things Altered/Repurposed, and a Vintage Treasure Lost Forever.

    The thing is that back when a lot of these things were made...Mechanical typewriters, hand-crank, treadle sewing-machines, tube-radios, cathode-ray TVs, fridges and so-forth...on a whole, there wasn't the kind of buying-power that there is today. People didn't have the kind of money that most...
  13. Shangas

    Theater Evening Attire

    Things you need to consider are... 1. What's your lady wearing? If she's going casual and you're wearing BT, it might look a bit weird. But if she's wearing a formal dress of any persuasion, then a tux would look nice. 2. People don't normally dress up...for anything...these days. So...
  14. Shangas

    Show us your suits

    That is a SWEET suit!! Best of luck with the stains. With luck, they're all on the inside!! That's the curse of white/cream/ivory clothes...they dirty up so easy... By the way, what's it made of? Linen? Wool? Cotton?
  15. Shangas

    Theater Evening Attire

    Semiformal or casual, suit or not, if you can get them and think you'll use them often enough, invest in some nice theatre-glasses. They'll go with whatever you pick :)
  16. Shangas

    Theater Evening Attire

    No reason why you shouldn't, so long as you feel comfortable in it. Wearing a tux to the theater is acceptable. If you have bad eyesight (or just want a better view of the show), and go to the theater often enough, you might want to buy a pair of theater-glasses.
  17. Shangas

    Vintage Desecration - Things Altered/Repurposed, and a Vintage Treasure Lost Forever.

    What I really can't stand is people who chop up old typewriters for their keys so that they can make those fancy "retro" keyboards, and cufflinks and bracelets, and necklaces and stuff. Those old chrome-glass keys aren't being made anymore, and the typewriters which still have them are getting...
  19. Shangas

    Question: The music of the GI Generation

    My grandmother who died last year, was born in 1914. As I recall, her favourite music was the crooners of the 30s-50s, and a smattering of Classical. She used to tell me that the Blue Danube Waltz was one of her favourite pieces of music. She also used to sing me "South of the Border" every now...
  20. Shangas

    Help me find a backpack!

    A friend of mine made a backpack out of two pairs of old jeans once. If you're good with a sewing-machine, perhaps you could try something similar. I'm sure homemade stuff like that must've been pretty common back then, especially during the war-years when cloth was tight on the home front.
  21. Shangas

    Question: The music of the GI Generation

    During the 20s to the 50s, the predominant style of popular music was some variation of jazz. Starting with ragtime and "hot" jazz in the Edwardian & post-WWI era, then "Sweet" jazz during the 20s, morphing into the more familiar "Swing/Big-Band" stuff that lasted from the late 20s/early 30s up...
  22. Shangas

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    That vent at the front, is that to pour out excess melted cheese? Or to release the steam?
  23. Shangas

    Less-than-Informal Dress: How Do You Put it Together?

    Heh, I like the second photo. You look like an old-time gangster!!

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