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  1. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Those glass heads are really handy. I have one in my bedroom. It's where my hats sleep, temporarily. Long term hat-storage means I return them to the hat-rack.
  2. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    That's quite a watch-chain, Gin! What's the fob that's dangling off the end?
  3. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    Antique Singers are very easy to fix. If all it needs is cleaning and oiling and a little jiggering around, you could easily do that in an afternoon, or a weekend, provided you have all the right tools. Sewing-machine oil, needle-nosed tweezers, pliers, tissues, a torch, a screwdriver, a steady...
  4. Shangas

    Monocles.

    I already explained it's not meant to go in my eye-socket. Otherwise I *would* have used a ribbon. It's not sized to fit in my eye, so there's no point trying to make it do what it won't. Of course, I'd love it if I did have a magnifying monocle that would fit in my eye, but I'm not that lucky...
  5. Shangas

    Monocles.

    The screw's now in flush and tight, so the frame won't be popping apart anytime soon! This particular monocle isn't meant for eye-socket placement (if it was, I would've used a leather cord, which I believe is more traditional). It's merely a handy pocket magnifying glass. I bought it in London...
  7. Shangas

    Monocles.

    After disassembling an old pair of glasses which I no-longer wear (and am never likely to, ever again), I found a screw of a suitable size to replace the one which was missing from my glass. After a bit of testing, squeezing and screwing... Compare that with having to lash the frame...
  8. Shangas

    Show us your Vintage Office Supplies.

    Rocker-blotters and desk-blotters were used to soak up ink to prevent smudging, smearing and feathering of the ink. I still use both of those things on my desk. I'd be lost without them.
  9. Shangas

    Show us your Vintage Office Supplies.

    It's a very beautiful fan and those blades are so very shiny! I just hope, for your sake, you've not got kids around the house during the summertime, or else they might be short a few digits and you'll have a lawsuit on your hands...
  10. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    Ooh, very sharp. I like the grey hat!
  11. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    Thanks, guys :) The sleeve-garters were a flea-market purchase. The guy I bought them from said they dated back to the 1930s. I don't know how he knew this (they look almost identical to modern sleeve-garters) but these are a nice silvery colour.
  13. Shangas

    What are you wearing today??

    Heading out tonight with friends to a party. White shirt, silver tie, ivory waistcoat, ivory trousers, black dress shoes... Not shown is the hat and the light grey, double-breasted jacket I'll also be bringing along. That's not style! That's fashion! And thank God for us, fashion...
  14. Shangas

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    "Now which way to the Welfare Office!?" "What!?" "I'm kidding! I'm kidding! I work! I work!"
  15. Shangas

    Monocles.

    For that, you'd need to visit an actual optometrist, surely? I have a 5x magnifying lens in my monocle, which is plenty sufficient for stuff like reading maps, menus, booklets, brochures...anything that requires a quick, confirming squiz.
  16. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Absolutely! The box is a simple white cardboard box. But here's the picture that was stuck on the top: The dunny-light brightening up a 21st century dunny: Using the old trick of popping the candle in front of the mirror to maximise the light output of just one candle.
  17. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    It is pretty nifty, huh? It came with a cardboard box with a drawing of a man holding a dunny-light, fumbling his way to the outhouse in the middle of the night. Underneath, it says: "When you cannot see at night, Use your Soho Dunny Light!"
  19. Shangas

    Monocles.

    Oooh you're too kind! I started carrying around my monocle again. I'd forgotten just how handy this thing was! I went out for dinner tonight with my cousin. We went to this lovely Italian restaurant. The food was delicious, but the lighting was HORRIBLE! It was that "romantic" candlelight...
  20. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    It's my birthday next week. And my friends at the local charity thrift-shop where I work threw a small party for me (since I won't be available for the day itself). Since I'm a closer at the shop (I stay until closing time to help pack stuff up), I always go home carrying a torch. The boss...
  21. Shangas

    Monocles.

    I'd love a pair of gold pince nez, but then I'd be scared of being stabbed in the neck with a letter-opener, to be found bleeding to death by the housemaid in the master's study...
  22. Shangas

    Monocles.

    The chain is really useless. I swear. It's really, really weak. Anything more than the SLIGHTEST bit of stress causes it to snap. This is what my monocle looks like at the moment: The screw popped out. I replaced it with a healthy dose of gold-colored thread. And the chain was toast, a...
  23. Shangas

    Monocles.

    This is what I have: That cheap, gold-tone chain snapped off it within a week of my buying it, and the screw popped out. I fixed the deficiencies in the cheapness with some thread and an old pocketwatch chain.
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