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Bet it smells nice too!Returning home
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I love going out and getting away from it all!
Bet it smells nice too!Returning home
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Yes it does. It was a great place to grow up. Lots of walking around, with plenty of fishing to do in the warmer months. Plus, six garage bays.Bet it smells nice too!
I love going out and getting away from it all!
Mount Vernon Trail?Yes it does. It was a great place to grow up. Lots of walking around, with plenty of fishing to do in the warmer months. Plus, six garage bays.
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Good guess, as I currently live not too far from the Mount Vernon Trail.Mount Vernon Trail?
Agreed!
I know I've said this before, but the clothes that "regular" women wore in the '40s ('30s and '50s) look great even today, but the "fashionable" clothes of the upper classes of those eras look completely foolish today. Not the best examples, but the below all came up in an image search for "women's clothes 1940s."
Most could work or, with some tweaking, could still work today (the way men's suits of the era could still work with some slight tweaking today). But the high-end fashion stuff women wore back then look crazy (with, as always, some exceptions).
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My Dad opening his gift
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This brings to mind days long ago spent "shopping" on Melrose Avenue here in southern California with my wife. I use quotation marks around the word "shopping" because no purchases were made; initially it was a case of curiosity, but soon became a case of ridicule. The "boutique" shops that lined Melrose in those days were filled with ridiculously overpriced goods which exhibited such shoddy workmanship that the folks at Walmart and Target would have been embarrassed to sell them--loose and/or untrimmed threads, improperly matched seams, loose or missing buttons, sleeves of unintentionally different lengths on the same garment, and so on. And the fabrics used were so thin that I can't imagine they would have withstood even the gentlest of laundering processes more than a few times. Truly a case of clothing for people with more money than brains. That was approximately three decades ago and we haven't been since, but I imagine nothing has changed.Pretty much the only fashion designer of the 30s/40s I like is Elizabeth Hawes, who was revolutionary in her belief that clothing above all else must be practical. As Fading knows from having read "Fashion Is Spinach," she firmly believed that high-end fashion was a racket -- something she knew about firsthand from having been a participant in it, making garments to order for a clientele she dismissed as "les riches bitches."...
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Thank you V!LOVELY!
It looks like the inspiration for the frieze in the living room of my little cottage on H street.
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