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Post by Coopsgirl on Jul 25, 2009 18:40:06 GMT -6
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Marina
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Post by Marina on Jul 26, 2009 15:43:45 GMT -6
Hummm...those books seem very interesting, Coopsgirl. Thanks for the tip. I need to buy a vintage fashion book too, I haven't got any. Now I'm after a 1920's cloche hat, like the one in the pic...I think they're so fascinating..
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Post by Coopsgirl on Jul 26, 2009 16:50:50 GMT -6
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Marina
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Post by Marina on Jul 26, 2009 18:09:32 GMT -6
Wow!! Your wardrobe must be full of vintage clothing! Just beautiful...especially the 30s day dress and Dobbs hat combination...Good taste! And I'm enchanted by your white vanity furniture...so charming. Another vintage garment I really would like to have is a 1930s style evening dress. I think those kind of evening gowns are so glamorous...they are usually backless and made of satin or silk..very chic!
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Post by Coopsgirl on Jul 26, 2009 18:58:08 GMT -6
Actually, those are the only vintage clothes I have along with a white mink collar (got for just $20), a cute pair of ivory colored gloves, and a peach satin quilted housecoast. I'd be too scared to wear clothes that old out and about. I do wear the gloves and stuff like that though. Those styles though are popular again so I have a lot of new clothes that looks very 20s and 30s. My mom knows how to sew (wish I did too) and I've got some patterns for dresses and blouses that look very 20s-40s and she's gonna make them for me. I love the 30s evening gowns too, they are stunning. I'd never really have an occassion to wear them, but who cares. I'll just wear them around the house while watching Gary's movies . I love my furniture, it's so girly and pretty. I have a matching nightstand and chest of drawers too. What's funny is, I bought them in the kids section of the furniture store. My room isn't that big so I thought maybe I could find some smaller furniture there and sure enough I did. I felt silly having to tell the sales guy that I wanted it but oh well, it was just what I needed and way too pretty to be in a kids room anyway. ;D
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Marina
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Post by Marina on Jul 27, 2009 8:10:41 GMT -6
You don't need to wear a 100% vintage look to be stylish. You can wear a casual look with special touches of vintage. Like you said, the retro style is back in fashion so don't be afraid to wear your vintage clothes. I have several romantic blouses with frills that look very 20's and 30's, and I love to wear them with jeans and a nice pair of shoes But there are some garments in my wardrobe that I've never used, like a 40's style hat. I've never had the occasion to wear it... I love the 30s evening gowns too, they are stunning. I'd never really have an occassion to wear them, but who cares. I'll just wear them around the house while watching Gary's movies . Huahaha. That's a good idea to help get into the mood of the movies...
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Post by maggiejones on Jul 27, 2009 9:11:07 GMT -6
You go girls ! as for me, I'm just vintage anway. I love the style of 20s & 30s, women looked like women. The beauty of both men & women in films of that time period was something else.
Up untill the age of 14, I dreamed I would stowaway on a ship leaving from liverpool to be a star in Holywood, only to find out some years later that the ships from liverpool only went as far as Ireland or the Isle of Man. !!
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Marina
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Post by Marina on Jul 27, 2009 11:25:40 GMT -6
People at that time dressed so elegantly, with hats and everything. Even just to go to the bakery they would dress nicely. I wish I had lived in those days... Up untill the age of 14, I dreamed I would stowaway on a ship leaving from liverpool to be a star in Holywood, only to find out some years later that the ships from liverpool only went as far as Ireland or the Isle of Man. !! ;D We have the craziest dreams when we are younger....
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Post by Coopsgirl on Jul 27, 2009 14:19:16 GMT -6
That's funny Maggie about you realizing the ships didn't quite go as far as you wanted. It's fun to imagine anyway . Here's a neat site about the 20s and 30s I thought y'all might like. www.1920-30.com/People definitely dressed better back in the day. I think today we've gone way too casual. I'll be so glad when the flip flop craze is over. I wore them when I was a kid but now I see people of all ages wearing them all the time. It's just not right to see grown men out and about wearing funky old flip flops. For kids and teens I can see it, but everybody else needs to save them for around the house or at the beach.
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Post by Coopsgirl on Jul 31, 2009 7:18:51 GMT -6
I found a wonderful website that specializes in deadstock; old items that have never been circulated so they are basically still new. It’s like my dream of going back in time and going shopping but without needing that pesky time machine. www.accessoriesofold.com/I just got my order yesterday and it was so exciting. I got two Casein buckles made in England in the 1930s. Casein was a type of early plastic made from the Casein protein in milk. I can't get the picture of the white one to display but here's the salmon colored one. A card of mother of pearl buttons made in occupied Japan in 1946. These will be great with some of the dresses and blouses I’m going to make (with my mom’s help) from vintage patterns and some new patterns that look like old styles. They’ll be new clothes, but they’ll also have a touch of something actually vintage. This is my fave item though. It’s a pin made in Czechoslavakia in the ‘30s. I love pins and this one is definitely my new fave. Just think, it’s been waiting 70 years for somebody to wear it.
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Post by Marina on Jul 31, 2009 13:20:30 GMT -6
Lovely items!! Great finding!! And the cool thing is they are brand new....very nice!!
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Post by maggiejones on Nov 3, 2009 19:16:27 GMT -6
Evening shoes by Vida Moore, 1927.
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Post by Coopsgirl on Nov 3, 2009 21:05:16 GMT -6
I love t-strap shoes! I have three pairs of new ones and two of them look very 20s (Clara Bow has a pair just like them in Mantrap from '26) and one is more 30s looking with a deco type decoration on the toe.
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Post by mariastwin on May 13, 2010 13:12:02 GMT -6
I like the 20s, 30s and 40s fashions and own some vintage shoes and hats. Some of the shoes my Mother had, and she had two jewelry cases full of different jewelry - a quarter of it the rhinestone kind in necklaces, a bracelet and several pins.
I have to say I really like the 40s Victory roll hairstyle, but I am not talented enough to do it so it looks right. I also like the hair "net" they wore called the "snood" (Ginger Rogers wears a variation in "The Major and the Minor" - a cute movie with Ray Milland - after the dance at the boys' military school). I found a pattern for making a snood, but I don't know how to crochet or knit - but I can do beadwork.
Jean Arthur also wore he hair with pincurl ringlets at the crown and then the rolled under hair (particularly in "The Talk of the Town") and since my Mom was in her 20's in the 40's I got some genuine style advice. She even allowed me to wear her silk nylons back in 1968 or 1969 when I was twelve - the kind you had to wear garters with ... she'd saved a pair from back in the day.
I also own a typewriter like Barbara Stanwyck uses in "Meet John Doe" - and found out after I purchased it that it was the exact model that Ernest Hemingway used when he wrote "For Whom The Bell Tolls." I got it for $25 and found out it sells on e-Bay for $200 plus - and yes, I can still get ribbon for it so I can use it.
And, we used to have one of those tall 1930-40's Zenith radios (the floor model) that cost nearly $70 back in 1940 ... I wish we still had that. It worked and had beautiful sound - kind of hard to find tubes for it though.
I loved your dressing table - I'd have had to add my bottles of old "Evening In Paris" perfume to the mix. I have several of the old bottles - it came in various shapes of cobalt blue bottles. I think I found it once in a recent catalog - maybe the Vermont Country Store, where they feature old-time hard to get items ... I may have to see if they still offer it. It really smells pretty and feminine.
I love the 30s and 40s shoes, but when I am lucky enough to find a pair they are always too narrow. My feet grew (or aged!) so I can't really wear the brown suede peep toe platform shoes my Mom had, but they are so pretty -they also had a metallic thread accent.
I also have gloves, a silk bed jacket, many photographs of family dressed in the fashion of the day (great for ideas!).
Mariastwin
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Post by maggiejones on May 13, 2010 14:02:23 GMT -6
Always love reading your entires. I used to sneak into my mums bedroom as a child in the late 50s, take her dresses out of storage and imagine myself in her gowns, great big frills, lace and petticoats galore. Red polka dots and rich lemon colours. I thought they would be handed down to me and I would have them when I got older.
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