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Music I’m loving: Little Miss Higgins
I just love the old timey style of Little Miss Higgins. (www.littlemisshiggins.com) For a retro girl like me this music just gets my feet a-tapping. She’s got talent, attitude, a good dose of the...
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40s style: women’s hairstyles
As many of you know, I just love 1940s style hairdos. Victory rolls, pin curls, side parts, sweeps and waves. Whether you go for an old timey style, or a more modern burlesque feel – there is something...
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40s style: men’s hairstyles
Unlike the huge variety of women’s hairstyles in the 1940s, the typical 1940s man had three basic hairstyle choices: there was a pompadour, a slicked-down side-part or a military style crew cut. The...
View ArticleTop 3 favourite old school expressions
Just as every decade has it’s fads, so too it has it’s ‘language fashions’. There are so many wonderful ‘old school’ words out there (and I’m not talking 80s – dudes) that it was really hard to chose...
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Hair tutorial: the basics of pin curls
Pin curls have been around since the 1920s and form the foundation of many vintage women’s hairstyles from the 1920s through to the 1950s. In an era that is obsessed with hair-damaging curling irons,...
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My descent into Rubik’s cube geekdoom
As a child, solving the Rubik’s cube was a true marker of brilliance. When it arrived on the scene, there was simply no other toy like it. Children’s playgrounds were dominated by the distinctive cube...
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