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  1. Shangas

    Amazing! Fabulous! Awesome!

    Please stop. I'm turning green and nauseous just thinking about it... "Snazzy", I use pretty often. "Bully" I also tend to use (as in "bully for you" - 'Good for you'). Another older expression I use tends to be 'book' as well. As in "make book" ("To be/make certain/sure of something").
  2. Shangas

    Top Hat with Business Attire?

    The top-hat was always seen as a capitalist symbol. So yeah, you might wanna be careful on that score as well. Although I admit that personally it never occurred to me. Perhaps you should try a coachman's hat instead? They look like this: Of a similar style, but flatter, with a wider...
  3. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Oh very well, Michael. Here: I know it's nothing fancy, but I couldn't afford to be super-picky. I knew if I didn't snatch this, I'd probably never own one.
  4. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Hi Tack, thanks for the posting. I realise that the manual I have isn't PERFECT, but it was the closest that I could get. And it does the trick for the majority of the machine. And besides, the machine isn't that intricate. I mostly downloaded it for the sake of completeness. I also referred...
  5. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    So, mine is from the 1950s! Cool. So is my machine, so that's wonderful! Mine also comes with the original box, feed-dog plate, nuts, bolts and anti-corrosion-paper. It was sans-manual, though. So I had to figure out how to work it using my brain.
  7. Shangas

    Fridge Help

    Isn't freon dangerous? Or am I thinking of some other substance? Surely they would put a more modern, safer refrigerant into the system instead? And this being Australia, I wouldn't hold up many hopes. We're SO far from everywhere else in the world that good help is hard to find. It's why I do...
  8. Shangas

    Customer Service in the old days versus now.

    That, and Mrs. Slocombe's pussy*. Seriously, I do see what you're saying. Even though it WAS a comedy (and a damn good one), AYBS did show how service USED to be. I don't recall seeing anything like that in recent years in any big department-store. Perhaps when I was in London, but not around...
  9. Shangas

    Top Hat with Business Attire?

    It depends on the TYPE of top hat. The black silk/felt ones are strictly formalwear. But in Mid-Victorian times (ca. 1830s-1860s), the top hat was made in a whole variety of colours. Black, brown, grey, blue, red... And those were for everyday wear. The type of top hat that most people think...
  10. Shangas

    Panama Hat Thread

    I wasn't looking for anything super-fancy. A panama that was light, airy, comfortable, fit well, from a good maker and which didn't bust the bank was what I was after. I've been chasing one for a while, but all the prices I've seen made them just...scary-expensive. From like $500 and down. The...
  11. Shangas

    Top Hat with Business Attire?

    In the old days, the top hat was worn with White Tie formalwear. If you were just going to and from the office, as Thomas says, then all you need is a fedora, or a homburg, or a bowler or something. Putting a top hat might be acceptable if you're doing late-Victorian garb, with a frock-coat...
  13. Shangas

    Customer Service in the old days versus now.

    LizzieMaine, the way you talk, you're reminding me of that British sitcom, "Are You Being Served?", which, by the way, is bloody hilarious.
  14. Shangas

    Customer Service in the old days versus now.

    I find it's the little shops that give better customer-service. Stationer's shops. Those little nick-nack shops. Smaller cafes and restaurants. Bakeries. Butcheries. Smaller clothing-shops, charity-shops etc. I don't recall the last time I went into one of those huge shopping-centers and had...
  15. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    This is the buttonholer that I bought: As you can see, Singer-branded. Goes perfectly with my vintage 99k and it's all solid steel. Solid as a rock! I had to disassemble it, clean it and oil it before it would work, but otherwise, it's dandy!
  16. Shangas

    Customer Service in the old days versus now.

    Yeah, nothing like that, really. At least, not in the big places. Small places like stationary-shops, art-supply shops, bakeries, cafes, smaller shops, etc. Yes. But not any of the big shopping-centers.
  17. Shangas

    Panama Hat Thread

    Unfortunately, Photobucket is being a pain in the ass. The best I could do was these: I bought this today at the flea-market for $35. It's a Montecristi Panama, size 58. It was brand new. Did I do good?
  19. Shangas

    Customer Service in the old days versus now.

    I'm not quite understanding this concept either. Please elaborate.
  20. Shangas

    Top Hat with Business Attire?

    Unless you're wearing the hat to a White Tie business dinner or something...no. I'd stick with a homburg, bowler or a fedora.
  21. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Everyone seems to be finding Singer buttonholers these days! Haha! Congratulate me, gentlemen. Today I purchased my PANAMA HAT! It's a beautiful white, black-banded Montecristi, Ecuadorian-made Panama. Brand-new. Size 58. I paid $35 for it. Have I done well?
  22. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It looks so beautiful! Why the HELL would someone want to throw out such a wonderful machine!? You should get one of those old dynamo headlamps and clamp it on the front...
  23. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    that is a beautiful machine, Lizzie! Is it a Schwinn?

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