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  1. five6seven8

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    Yes, they are very smooth, but my shoulder is extremely temperamental unfortunately - it'll take exception to the wrong kind of movement even if I only do it twice.
  2. five6seven8

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    Oh that's in lovely condition isn't it! I have a modern electric machine too and I never use it at full speed. Took me months to get above the minimum setting. I'm never completely convinced that using a hand-crank machine regularly is good for my dodgy shoulder but sadly I don't have room for...
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    Skills For "Living The Era"

    I grew up watching my mother use a machine like that, and eventually bought my own for about £10 from someone whose mother-in-law had had it in her attic for decades - if memory serves mine was made in 1911. It has a beautiful art deco style wooden case that locks wth a key, and a dozen...
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    Lost art of proper relaxation

    I'm another person very much of the opinion that technology exists to serve my needs, not vice versa. I was a late adopter when it came to mobile phones - I only bought one in about 1999 because I wanted to be able to leave the house rather than wait in for phone calls from temp agencies...
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    Zipper Pin.........

    Alas it looks as if the tailors are right: The DIY Tailor: Three common broken zipper problems and how to fix them "If either of the little tabs at the bottom of the zipper come off the zipper tape, there is no way to repair this. They are put on the tape as part of the manufacturing...
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    wartime home

    I don't know that I'd say people in the UK romanticise World War II, as much as that it left a very deep mark in our national subconscious; as a nation we haven't really forgotten it yet. My stepfather, for example, studied history at university and in his retirement is working on a PhD on the...
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    Anyone Else Stuck in the Early 1930's ?

    I've very recently discovered how much it means to me to take inspiration from the way things were done in the past, and I'm still exploring it to some degree. But one thing is very cut-and-dried for me - at least two things I can't change about myself were either illegal or deeply frowned upon...
  9. five6seven8

    New Ladies and Gents Step Forward

    Hello everyone :) It took me a couple of weeks to think up a username, but I've signed up since I think my eccentricity has finally found its spiritual home in the 1940s. I'm a clothes and costume nut fast developing an obsession with all things 40s, and I love making my own vintage style...
  10. five6seven8

    *tap tap* is this thing on?

    *tap tap* is this thing on?
  11. five6seven8

    Hat band replacement step by step

    I'm currently trying to do exactly this but the photos in this post have been steamrollered away by time, and archive.org doesn't have the page. Does anyone still happen to have the photos?

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