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  1. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I make most of my own baked goods. Cookies, cakes, pies, etc. I baked this last week. My first-ever apple pie. And my first pie EVER: It's certainly nothing fancy, but it tasted delicious...
  2. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    If it just requires cleaning and oiling, you can actually do that yourself (I did!). But if it's something more serious (broken parts, electricals, etc), then best to get a professional guy to take a tinker.
  3. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    No offense to any of the other manufacturers out there, but when trying to get a vintage ANYTHING running again, it's best to buy a market-leader. There were more spare parts, the machines are more familiar and the fact that they're still around is a testament to their quality. From what I've...
  4. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    So far, I haven't had the honour of a blood sacrifice to the Patron Saint of Tailors, so I count myself lucky.
  5. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Hah. My grandmother wasn't much one for maintenance either. She was this machine's ONLY owner, and it was absolutely filthy when I was pulling it apart to clean it. I doubt she ever had it serviced or anything, in her life. Sewing the manual together was probably the toughest thing that...
  7. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Yes that's right! They looked a lot like those. Fearsome looking choppers. Gran never let me touch them when I was a kid.
  8. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Thanks. The last things I need are the attachments and accessories (a buttonholer might be nice), and then I'll be done. I wish I could find my grandmother's old cloth-shears, but they're long-gone. I remember that they were big, black, shiny steel, about a foot long, and they could chop your...
  9. Shangas

    Which items of vintage clothing would you never wear? And why?

    The bowler was developed by the Bowler Brothers, a pair of English hatmakers. It was originally designed as a gamekeeper's hat. It was supposed to be comfortable, close-fitting, low and strong (to prevent gamekeepers injuring their heads, should they gallop under low-hanging tree-branches). It...
  10. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Oh, and when you guys said these things were tough, you weren't kidding! I used it to sew the manual together:
  11. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Hi Drappa. Restoring these old machines isn't that hard. They're quite tough and so long as you don't do anything abundantly stupid, they'll forgive you. If you want to restore your machine to running order, you will need (this is what I used to restore my machine): - Long, thin...
  13. Shangas

    The French Cuff Connection

    Surely you could buy some masonic cufflinks off of eBay? What do you mean by "right size"? I wasn't aware that cufflinks CAME in sizes...As far as I know, there's ONE size. How well it will fit you is dependent wholly on how well the SHIRT fits you.
  14. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    The plate arrived this afternoon! Previously... ...Now... Yes, it has a matte-finish instead of the traditional polished finish, as Lark said it would (and which I already knew when I purchased it), but with reproductions, you can't be picky. In most cases, you should be grateful that...
  15. Shangas

    Vintage Guilty Pleasures?

    Anyone on this forum who knows me, will know that it has to be a nice waistcoat.
  16. Shangas

    All You Need to Know About Hat Etiquette

    Smooth down hair. Place hat firmly on head. Done. Okay seriously... How you wear it is totally up to you, so long as it doesn't look stupid. Traditional rules of hatiquette said that you removed your hat when entering a private building. So for example, you might wear it inside an...
  17. Shangas

    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    They don't make 'em like that no-more, and Singer's a shell of what it used to be. Look after it.
  19. Shangas

    Which items of vintage clothing would you never wear? And why?

    I've never worn vintage-style sock-garters, but my grandmother used to make me simple home-made ones out of elastic cloth to hold up my school socks when I was a kid. They were certainly handy.
  20. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    I don't know if I'll ever become a real tailor, but I am proud of this. I think gran would be too. It was the machine which she earned all her money on, which I made that backing with.
  21. Shangas

    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Hi Lark, Yes I've seen the "Singer 160" as it's called. I dunno...It has no...It looks like a paperweight, to be honest. It's all cheap plastic junk as far as I'm concerned. I'm used to handling things of substance (gran's Singer has about 31 pounds, 4oz of substance!), and the 160 looks...
  22. Shangas

    Enough to make a grown FLer cry. Tell us your worst finds or ruined clothing stories

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I know it's a sort of military tradition at weddings to cut the cake with a sword, but surely he had the presence of mind to CLEAN the sword before he put it back!? Apparently not...
  23. Shangas

    Which items of vintage clothing would you never wear? And why?

    This is me and my boater: You like it that much, huh Mike?

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