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Newlands Community News has been created in Blogger. Using various templates which may change from time to time. A useful feature of the new Blogger interface is that you can see how your site will look on a mobile. As this site was born out of an old community email list that had become too large to manage, I have linked the blog/website to a Mailchimp. If you have questions or suggestions for the Newlands Community News site, please email the web administrator at janetmgrigg@gmail.com. And join and lea...

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Rita Hayworth | Dress, Memory

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Image by Lee Sandwith 2011. I love that swimsuits used to be called ‘costumes’. The best dress-up is always pin-up. Because fifties swimsuits hold that promise of being truly transformational. Blondes become Betty Grable; brunettes, Bettie Page. And if you’re a redhead you feel like an instant Rita Hayworth, which is one of the best feelings in the world. The Pirates of Penzance. So when my moustache fell off during the second performance, I turned to the audience and exclaimed: ‘Dear me! The scariest th...

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Rockefeller Thai wedding | Dress, Memory

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A week after I arrived in New York I went to a party in the Rainbow Room at the Rockefeller Center. Wearing this dress (bought years earlier for $25), I looked down at that view and I could see exactly where I wanted to live. Thought I would be in that city forever. A year later I wasn’t. I packed up this dress and flew to Thailand for a close friend’s wedding. Then a second ceremony under the stars. Everyone got changed into something else. I changed into this. Wouldn’t it be fun to get married too!

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Red Riding Hood cape | Dress, Memory

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Red Riding Hood cape. When I discovered this dress I was too old to wear it properly. Too small, it was made for a child. Lost for too long in one of Mum’s Narnian wardrobes, but made of the most perfect crimson velvet. I had to find a way to wear it. My mother, a seamstress, a hunter. Sliced it down the middle like she was splitting open the belly of a wolf. The little girl slid out of it. Along with some guts. Gold stripes bordering the cape. Something military and avian about the sleeves, somethin...

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Newlands Community News: August 2015

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Monday, 31 August 2015. I am seeking 4 Apple iMac computers as a donation for a graphic design and web development training centre being established in Dili, East Timor by Info Timor. The training centre will give unemployed young people an opportunity to gain skills and knowledge in web and graphic design. If you know of a school or a company (or an individual) that is upgrading their Mac technology I would be keen to hear from you or them. You can contact me at andrew@xpand.net.au. S to ship to Timor.

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Newlands Community News: Lost

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Sunday, 16 August 2015. Dollyah the Doll is missing. We lost her somewhere down along Edgars Creek on Saturday 15th between the the housing development and the end of Livingstone St, probably on the western side of the creek. She is probably having a wonderful time on her own little adventure but a little girl is sad without her. If you rescued her please contact Mara on 0402 444 744. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). It's easy to get your news on Newlands Community News. We'll do the rest. North of Be...

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Edwardian eighties | Dress, Memory

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Satin and lace. Old-fashioned and eighties. This dress makes me feel like an out-of-date, girlish cliché, the same way a long, string-of-pearl single life can sometimes make you feel. I became steadily single years ago and moved far away. I moved to places where it’s virtually impossible to meet anyone new, like Brisbane and India and my parents’ house. I tried to do my tax return but ended up auditioning for NIDA instead. I didn’t get in. I cried and then bravely pulled myself together.

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Girl Friday | Dress, Memory

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One of my earliest memories is from kindergarten, dancing around with a scarf like Isadora Duncan. Movement was encouraged. Make any shapes you want with the scarves, the teachers told us. There are no wrong shapes! I went back to uni and learnt how to be a book editor, how to fight like a knight for words and meaning. I wore this chessboard dress for my final exam, passed, and found myself in my first office job. Woman of the Year. Or Jacqueline Onassis: first lady, book editor. The elements of style.

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The Driver’s Seat | Dress, Memory

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Image by Lee Sandwith 2011. The Driver’s Seat. I love the neither-here-nor-thereness of travel. Pack the car. Slam shut the trunk. Get on the road. Faced with foreign terrain you often have to invent new words to describe unfamiliar feelings and ideas, words to suit the unpacking you’re doing every day. Portmanteaux. Spinifexcess: the state of native prickliness one feels when hit with an overweight baggage charge. Broochatter: the conversations you pin all your hopes on. In the backyard. As the prot...

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Collection | Dress, Memory

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Dress, Memory: The book! Want to buy some illusions. The Driver’s Seat. The girls of slender means. In search of lost time. Black & gold. The aunt’s story. Red Riding Hood cape. A night at the opera. A New York day. All content and images 2011 Concept and text by Lorelei Vashti Photography by Lee Sandwith.