Hair care

A beautiful hairdo begins with taking care of the hair. The recommendations in the 1940’s were a bit different from today, for example how often one should wash. There are different bids, though. I have found one recommendation for washing normal hair once a week and greasy hair even less often. Another book states that really dry hair should only be washed every third week- if possible only every forth, while greasy hair should be washed every seventh or tenth day. But whatever advice you follow, the rule is that the hair should be as clean as possible.

Ball of Fire

I only recently realized that one of my childhood favourites, A Song Is Born , is a remake and the original movie was made in 1941 and was called Ball of Fire. I just had to find it, of course. It’s a bit funny, in my view, to do a re-make just a few years after the original movie and they are really quite similar. A Song Is Born is in colour and the professors are working on a musical encyclopedia, not an encyclopedia. Gary Cooper in Ball of Fire plays his professor straight when Danny Kaye plays his for laughs, while Barbara Stanwyck is more playful than Virginia Mayo, but the plot is basically the same.

Giveaway winners

Thank you all for participating in the giwaway! It was fun to read what you would like to see more about and I will certainly write about it. Vintage Vicky may already have noticed a bit more on hats.

The winner of the Worth fashion print is; the perfect drug!

The winner of the second price, a felt flower is; Miss Katie!

Congratulations! I will contact you shortly for address info.

The continued perfume hunt

I took advantage of this offer at The Perfumed Court and ordered a couple of samples, plus a few others and I’m now happily testing my way through them.

Giveaway reminder

It is after midnight in Sweden, so it's less than 48 hours left before the giveaway closes.The Blogger trouble seems to be going on still for some, so here's a tip for you: Don't tick off the little box on the log in page that says that you want to keep being logged in. It's totally unlogical that it should help, but it seems to do the trick. If you have mailed me, due to this trouble, then you ought to have got a reply from me. If you haven't, then it means that I haven't got your mail.

If you have missed that there is a giveaway, then you can read about it here.

A black 1940's hat

As we are on the subject of hats, here are a few photos of my back 1940's hat. I bought it years ad years ago and it has since nested, wrapped in silk tissue, in an old hat box. It's made to sit on the back of the head and despite having either combs nor rubber bands to keep it on, it stays on. Perhaps not on a very windy day, but still. It is made in black velvet, decorated with smooth feathers that are wrapped in black veil.

Hats, hats, hats

Vintage Vicky asked for more hats. Or hats, really, as I haven’t really talked about them at all yet. When I was a child I always wore something one my head. Always. If no cap/hat/helmet were available other things could do like paper bags or a small buckets or my gruel bowl. Usually before I had eaten all the gruel… The red cap with fake fur I wear on the picture was a favourite.