Berliner Styl Issue 3

HERBST/WINTER 1929

SPECIAL TRAVEL EDITION

1920s

Berliner STYL

Letter from the editor Gstone Turas

WANDERLUST! This special travel edition of STYL Magazine finds our models, editor and photographers all around the virtual globe.

The Mitteleuropaische Reiseburo (Travel Bureau) in 1920s Berlin, is a business that I started on the old test sim. One afternoon while drinking schnapps in Der Keller with Frau Jo Yardley the idea for a place inspired by the golden age of travel came to me. With Jo’s support I created the space to look like travelers were already on their way.

For this special edition we traveled by automobile, by train, aboard oceanliners, in zeppelins, and now too on aeroplanes. We crossed sim boundaries in hopes of finding destinations worthy enough to recommend.

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Want to know what to wear to a lunch with Hemingway in Arkansas, to an oasis Casbah, or while flying solo across the Atlantic? We’ve pulled together fashions from all over Second Life. Remember too that not all fraulein are full-time coquettes; some now are adventurers and consider themselves garconnes!

Berlin remains one of the few world class cities in Second Life, uber modern with its telephones, and radios. How easy for Berliners to forget that not all the world has kept pace with change the way that they have. America has kept pace and what could be more modern than Seraph City, an architectural wonder with towering skyscrapers that soar above the cloudline. It is in a word, breathtaking.

There is enormous charm and untold mystery in ancient places like Kingdom of Sand, and now too Venexia, a new build inspired by Venice. If you yearn to sunbathe or to see the most exquisite shorelines and waterfalls in SL, then Las Lagunas sim is the supreme tropical resort sim. So, here’s to wanderlust - ours and we do hope, yours!

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1920s Berliner STYL HERBST/ WINTER MODE JOURNAL #3

TABLE OF CONTENTS Letter from the Editor......................................................................2 Mode ergreift die Flucht.................................................................16 Reich Sand..........................................................................................24 Berlin...................................................................................................19 Arkansas State Universit채t Heritage............................................33 Seraph City.........................................................................................45 Vintage Image by Melusina Parkin ................................................57 Venexia ...............................................................................................65 Liebe Hildy ........................................................................................73 Las Lagunas ........................................................................................77 Gertrude Bell: Styl Icon ..................................................................85 REISE Sprechen / Deutsch Vocabulary ........................................89 STYL Sprechen / Deutsch Vocabulary...........................................95

On the cover:

Grey Cashmere Suit with red square pattern

by Pola Solo for Garconne Hat, gloves, scarf, blouse, skirt All available at GARCONNE 1920s Berlin Project

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Mode ergreift die Flucht Shot on location Amelia’s Pilot Lounge WW2 Tribute (30, 214, 22) At left 1920s Berlin Airstrip

Leather Flight Jacket, and Flight Gloves, by E. Watkins E. Watkins, Haddath (207, 29, 37) Wool tweed pants by Cartunno Couture Cartunno Couture Period Clothing, Terric (211, 87, 21) 3-Strap Flight Boots by E. Watkins E. Watkins, Haddath (207, 29, 37) Pilot Helmet and Goggles by Real Arms (RA) Expeditionary Backpack by Real Arms RA Real Arms & Lokos Co MFPA (46, 85, 1514)

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Reich Sand

Photographed on location in Kingdom of Sand Action Roleplay Sim (244, 25, 551) Out of Africa - wool tweed jacket, and pants with shirt and tie, hat and bag All by Cartunno Couture Period Clothing, Terric (211, 87, 21) 3-Strap Flight Boots and gloves by E. Watkins E. Watkins, Haddath (207, 29, 37) Monocle by Leona Luga for NALA Glasses, Goggles & More (13, 35, 28)

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1920s Berliner STYL MODE JOURNAL

EDITOR Gstone Turas GUEST EDITOR Melusina Parkin COLUMNIST Dear Hildy PUBLISHER Gstone Turas Editorial Photography Gstone Turas

Published Semi-Annually FOR ADVERTISING CONTACT: Gstone Turas 29.

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1920s Berlin

Photographed on location at Cafe Elektra and Unter den Linden in 1920s Berlin Project Sim Build Created by Jo Yardley (236, 231, 751) Grey Cashmere Suit with red square pattern and hat

by Pola Solo for Garconne Argyll Grey and Gold Knit Coat, Scarf and Hat All by Pola Solo for Garconne available at GARCONNE (Garconne is located opposite Der Keller Tanzlokal) 1920s Berlin Project Winter Coat in Leopard Fur Coat and Turban

by Sonatta Morales *8* 1920s Berlin Project Teleportplatz Red Wool Stockings

by Bubbles Roxan for The Millinery Shoppe 1920s Berlin Project Vintage Leather Train Case by Esmee Isbell for Cherished Mitteleuropaishe Reiseburo 1920s Berlin Project Automobile MODEL Runabout in Bright Red by Dixi Available at DIXI Motors, Unter den Linden 1920s Berlin Project 31.

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Arkansas State University Heritage Sim

Photographed on location at the Fleisher House and at Hemingway’s Cafe ASU Sim Build Created by Painter Merriman (248, 127, 23) Cyntia Rust Red Chiffon dress with ivory lace trim

by Ivalde Vintage Fashion New Location (93, 139, 24) Loretta Long Pear Necklace Donna Flora Bonin (194, 130, 22) Gilded Pearl Fruit Earrings

by Ava Lu for Paper Couture Tableau, Tableau (208, 67, 25) Schlemmer Cashmere Coat and hat in red and black with black silk scarf and bakelite buttons by Pola Solo for Garconne 1920s Berlin Project Sim (236, 231, 751) Onyx Earrings by Bubble Roxan for The Millinery Shoppe Black wool stockings by The Millinery Shoppe 1920s Berlin Project Sim Teleportplatz (236, 231, 751)

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Photographed on location at Hawksmoor Residential Apartment Building Penthouse, Seraph City Sim Build Created by Pumpkin Tripsa (82,105,177) Celia Silver Satin Gown and capelet by Donna Flora Bonin (194, 130, 22) Black Satin Evening Dress with Deco Diamante Decoration, Black Satin Turban

by Bubbles Roxan for The Millinery Shoppe 1920s Berlin Project Sim Teleportplatz (236, 231, 751) 20s Black Brocade Opera Cape with fur collar

by Cartunno Couture Period Clothing, Terric (211, 87, 21) Oscar Lame and Beaded Gown by Donna Flora Fur Stole by Donna Flora Bonin (194, 130, 22) ILDE Shoes in Pavoni by Donna Flora Bonin (194, 130, 22) Chicago Diamonte Necklace, Earrings and Bracelet

by Eclectica Jewelry Sinaburoe (183, 10, 247) Lola Blonde Hair

by Sonatta Morales for Lola Lola Damen und Herren Friseur 1920s Berlin Project (236, 231, 751) 56.

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his exhibition is the outcome of my dual passions, travel through time and travel through spaces.

I wanted to catch details coming from a time when luxury, glamour, and good taste were the keywords in fashion, building, music, art and cinema. A time full of diversity and contrasts.

In a world where distances are always shorter, thanks to speedy media, I traveled through wonderful places, catching a special floor like the one I photographed in Curio, a great door decoration in Seraph City, an exciting ballroom in 1920s Berlin, great furniture and decor in Stylissimo...

A famous italian writer, Italo Calvino, wrote in one of his novels: “the pen goes through the sheet leaded by the same push that makes you run through the streets; as you don’t plan 58.

what you’ll write in the next line, you don’t know if, turning a corner, you might meet a flaming dragon, a barbarian crowd, or a new love”.

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traveling, writing, taking photographs they are quite similar adventures; they give us a chance at discovery if we are able to feel the spirit of the words, of the places, of the objects and of the women and men who stay behind them.

Objects, hair, jewels, gloves, stockings, or hands, eyes, arms and legs.... Blurred, coarse-grained, faded... images coming from the past, bearing all the scars of the elapsed time.

Fragments from a past reality we imagine are made of luxury, taste and glamour.

In visiting times past, we can forget the blood and the pain of those days, in a way that we can’t do with our present time.

Illusions and dreams are our food here in SL, and filtering the past can be a useful way to learn good things from bygone eras and keep them with us.

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VINTAGE IMAGE continued from page 60

So, I wanted to show only fragments: meaningful details that give meaning to a fragmented and selected memory. Actually, elegance and fascination often lay in details...

These pictures are dedicated to all women who made great the past century by their taste and their intelligence: from Marlene Dietrich to Virginia Woolf, from Josephine Baker to Lillian Hellman.

They and many others inspired me, and SL allowed me to wear their dresses and to live in their places.

VINTAGE IMAGE Details from a Glamorous Past An Exhibition by Melusina Parkin NOVEMBER 15 THRU DECEMBER 15 First City Bank Building, Seraph City Sim 64.

Venexia

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Venexia Sim

Photographed on the canals located in Venexia Sim Build Created by Baal Zobel (40, 246, 608) Northstar Black Silk Gazar Cocoon Coat, Evening Gown, Shoes, Gloves, and Diamond Star dress, hair and shoe clips All by Sonatta Morales *8* Ballyboo (119, 229, 131) Lola Hair

by Sonatta Morales for Lola Lola Damen und Herren Friseur 1920s Berlin Project (236, 231, 751) Kadinsky Light & Shadow Eyelashes Tableau Vivant (106, 115, 25) Flirt Nails Goth Aged Blood Desire (242, 66, 113)

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Liebe Hildy

What is the right way to end a love affair? My mother says that it should be done in person, and that even a letter in one’s own hand expressing regrets is not sufficient comfort to the party whose feelings are likely to suffer the pangs of a loss. You see a very dear friend of my mother’s suffered greatly when her husband of more than a year abandoned her. She wrote to him daily but never a word in return. Mother said that the absent husband had a secret love nest somewhere in the city and that the poor wife stumbled upon it by accident one day, and in distress attempted suicide. Is it cowardly and cruel not to want to face a person whose heart will no doubt be broken? Could it ever be considered a kindness?

Signed: Unfeeling Girl Dear Unfeeling Girl,

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I am inclined to agree with your mother. Ask yourself the reason you would not want to break off a love affair in person. Most likely the answer is because it causes the

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These are all reasons that show one’s concern is only about one’s self. Going to the person face-to-face and sitting down with them may feel a little uncomfortable, yes. And maybe downright awful. But in the long run you will be ensuring less pain is caused to the person you are letting go. And although they may be upset about the news, they will see that at least you are an honest and caring person. Someone who has integrity and the bravery to do what they know is right. The very fact that you need to ask this question, leads me to believe you already know the answer.

All relationship problems are best dealt with privately, tactfully, and face-to-face. A few moments of your feeling uneasy could mean you’ve spared someone you once cared for a prolonged heartbreak. And after all the moments you have shared together, don’t you at least owe them that?

Dear Hildy: I don’t want to marry, but my parents insist that I must. You see they have this silly old idea that the best thing for a girl is to have a husband and lots of children. Isn’t that the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever heard? It’s 1929 and even though I’m just a girl, I think that I can do lots of other things besides being a wife and mother. continued on page 75 74.

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The world is a very big place, and why don’t they at least want to hear about what I want? My friend Gisela’s sister is in secretarial school and goes to trade shows. When I told my father about this his face turned bright red and mother had to bring him a Schnapps. It’s not like I want to do something disreputable like being a showgirl!

Signed: Dreaming in Berlin Dear Dreaming in Berlin, As a working woman myself, one who was fiercely independant from her father, I can have complete sympathy for your plight. It never hurts to have skills.

What would happen if you one day you did marry and something happened to your husband? How would you live then if you don’t have him there to support you?

Maybe bring that up to your parents. I say pursue your dreams as long as they are respectable ones. But be kind to your parents about it. They are from an older generation and change like this can be difficult for them.

Ease them into it. I also suggest that you don’t completely rule out love and marriage either. They can be wonderful and beautiful things in your life. Just don’t let that be your sole purpose for living.

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Las Lagunas, Las Islas Region Photographed on location in Las Rocas Las Region Sims Created by Naiman Broome (76, 160, 22) Art Deco Beach Robe and Bathing Suit by Gstone Turas Turquoise Deco Bathing Suit Red & Black Deco Bathing Suit Straw Sun Hat Sonia Dotted Beach Robe and Bathing Suit All by Gstone Turas for Del Sol Sun & Swim Palacio Presidencial, Las Lagunas Sim (76, 160, 22)

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Style Icon Gertrude Bell

It is only fitting that we recognize an archaeologist, a linguist and the greatest woman mountaineer of her age. And in Baghdad in 1921 she drew the boundaries of the country that became Iraq. She more than held her own as the only woman in a sea of important men. continued page 87 85.

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Gertrude Bell continued from page 85.

As one of Oxford’s most brilliant students, it is not surprising that her eventual diplomatic career is distinguished by the high value placed on her counsel by none other than T.E. Lawrence, Winston Churchill, and the founder of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz ibn Saud.

Before her diplomatic career began she travelled widely and published her writing about these trips.

In “The Desert and the Sown” (originally published by William Heinemann in 1907), her writing style is lyrical, and her enthusiasm for the places she visits sweeps the reader along as in the excerpt from the book reprinted here.

Gertrude Bell lived her life with great style and even greater substance.

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Gertrude front row 4th from the left, Bagdad 1924

“Before noon we reached the khan half way to Jericho, the place where legend has it that the Good Samaritan met the man fallen by the roadside, and I went in to lunch beyond the reach of the boisterous wind.Three Germans of the commercial traveller class were writing on picturepostcards in the room of the inn, and bargaining with the khanji for imitation Bedouin knives. I sat and listened to their vulgar futile talk - it was the last I was to hear of European tongues for several weeks, but I found no cause to regret the civilization I was leaving.�

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REISE Sprechen TRAVEL VOCABULARY

English/German airport, airfield: r Flughafen, r Flugplatz arrival(s): e Ankunft departure(s): e Abfahrt arrivals board/sign: e Ankunftstafel arrival time: e Ankunftszeit baggage: s Gepäck, (pl.) die Koffer (suitcases) Gepäckaufbewahrung train station: bahnhof business trip: e Geschäftsreise call (telephone): v. anrufen, telefonieren cashier, cashier’s window: e Kasse cockpit: s Cockpit compartment (train): s Abteil currency, money: e Währung, s Geld 89.

TRAVEL VOCABULARY continued from page 89 captain: r Kapit채n flight captain: r Flugkapit채n car, auto: s Auto, r Wagen car rental/hire, auto rental agency: r Autoverleih rental/hire car: r Mietwagen, r Leihwagen conductor (train): r Schaffner cruise ship: Kreuzfahrtschiff dining car: r Speisewagen embassy: e Botschaft the American/US embassy: die amerikanische Botschaft the German embassy: die deutsche Botschaft harbor, port: r Hafen hotel, inn: s Hotel, e Pension continued on page 91 90.

TRAVEL VOCABULARY continued from page 96 TRAVEL VOCABULARY

English/German information: e Auskunft, e Informationen I can’t speak German: – Ich kann kein Deutsch.

(Ish kun kine doitsh) locomotive: e Lok map: e Landkarte, r Stadtplan (city map), e Straßenkarte (road map) passenger: r Fahrgast/Fahrgäste (rail) passengers, travelers (pl.) Reisende, Fahrgäste, Passagiere passport: r Reisepass, r Pass (pl., Pässe) passport inspection/check: e Passkontrolle passport office: s Passamt platform (train): r Bahnsteig on the platform: auf dem Bahnsteig 91.

Accessories of the 1920s OBJECTS: Cigarette-holder, strings of pearls, large cocktail rings, jewelry, handbags, compact, gloves, cigarettecase and boa or fan made of plume feathers., HATS: Cloche hats worn low over the brow, and for evening, turbans, silk head scarves tied with ends worn to one side, headbands embellished with embroidery, beadwork, and feather plumes. Hats with wide elliptical brims at the front and side, are often brimless at the nape of the neck.

MAKE-UP: Cosmetics are now popular: Red lipstick for the mouth, powder and rouge (a round splodge). Eyebrows are picked and a black line is drawn, green or blue eye-shadow, black eyeliner and fake eyelashes with a diamond are used.

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SHOES: The “Mary-Jane� style with narrow rounded-toe and cross strap or t-strap in leather and suede for day. Heel height is not more than two inches.

In the evening women wear jewelled evening shoes in silk and satin (dancing shoes). Heel height is low not more than two inches.

HAIR: The styling is short hair; bobbed hair-curled, or straight with bangs. All cuts are above the shoulder line, and most are above the chin-line.

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STYL Sprechen FASHION VOCABULARY (1920-1930) English/German adjustable strap - verstellbaren Riemchen annèes folles - andere Bezeichnung für die 20er baggy - sackartig bell-shaped - glockig belt - Gürtel blouse - Bluse bobbed hair - Bubikopf button - Knopf calf - Waden coat - Mantel collar - Kragen corsets -Korsett cover - bedecken cuff -Manschette decade - Zeitraum embroidery - Strickarbeit 95.

1920s Accessories Sprechen FASHION VOCABULARY (1920-1930) English/German a round splodge - runder Fleck bobble-hair - Bubikopf cigarette-case - Zigarrettenetui cigarette-holder - Zigarretenspitze compact - Puderdose fake eyelashes - falsche Wimpern fan-plum - Straußenfederfächer head-scarf - Kopftuch string of pearls - Perlenkette to pick- zupfen Sources Boucher, Francois: 20,000 Years of Fashion. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1966.

Seeling, Charlotte: Mode - das Jahrhundert der Designer. Köln: Könemann, 1999.

Lehnert, Gertrud: Schnellkurs Mode. Köln: Dumont, 1998.

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