I, as well have an interest in Classic Who. I've only watched a bit of One and some of Five, but I want to watch more as soon as I can.

Sherlock Holmes is really good! I have not watched the show, but I've read quite a bit of the books.

Also, one of my best loved books since I first read it when I was about six is the Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. And that was published in 1911. Pretty old. xD

History is general is always awesome for me. I love studying it. Musuems are a must for me, because I just love old things. Some of my favorite places to be are the period rooms are the MET.

Plus, if it counts, I love dresses. No, not those skimpy scraps of cloth people call dresses these days, good, long dresses. Like ones that reach my ankles and are pretty modest for clothing these days. The ones that make me feel all proper and beautiful. I would happily live out my whole life in dreses of some kind or another.

@ Corina: Do you mean the kind that Anne Shirley would have worn, like back in the early 20th century? If so, I am SO on board with you. Modesty is virtually non-existant these days, which aggravates me a lot. I would dress like Anne all the time if I could, wearing long dresses and putting my hair up and wearing aprons and pinafores and those button up or lace up boots. Yes, yes I would.

That done with, I virtually live in the past. I love old TV shows, like Christy, Full House, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, (most of these take place a ways back in history, but they were produced primarily from the 70's-90's), Nancy Drew/The Hardy Boys (though I've seen very few of these since they're not aired anymore), Road to Avonlea, and many more. That goes for movies too.

I also love some older music, namely John Denver.

Also, just general clothing. WHY HAS FASHION GOTTEN SO UGLY?! Seriously, I can hardly find anything I like to wear or isn't skin tight. What happened to Keds and bobby socks? Or knee length flouncy skirts? How about jumpers, overalls, or pretty blouses?

Old fashioned bikes. I love their look, how simple they were, how they often had a platform for a bag or something on the back, the baskets on the front, they were over all adorable! And they rode so well. 

Basically, I love just about everything old fashioned. 

@ Corina and BHR: Agreed with the both of you wonderful people, who like me, are incredibly annoyed when people walk around wearing "dresses" that look like bits of string have been plastered to their body. I'm assured, "it's all the rage!" Surely that can't be comfortable! I love the long dresses that make you feel beautiful, and clever, but not entirely stiff and odd and halfdressed like the other ones do. People might think me a bit off the rocker if I started wearing petticoats and pinafore aprons, and wore my hair up, but I think that era of clothing was the most beautiful. As for old things, I adore old movies, even though they are a little bit aggravating in a "steryotype boy-saves-girl way". But I adore Audrey Hepburn! She's my favorite... I could watch old Audrey Hepburn movies any day. I also like searching through old magazines, and sewing patterns. But best of all are old journals. There is something so wonderful about the smell of old, crumbling paper that enchants me wholeheartedly.

@ Joe the Stickfiddler.. Arthur Conan Dyole's mysteries are brilliant! He gets annoying occasionally, because Sherlock often solves his mysteries using information that isn't given in the book (eg. he finds a bloody handprint that he doesn't mention until the end of the book) so you can't foreshadow as much as you normally could. I still love his work though. The Mystery of the Speckled Band is my personal favorite right now, but I'll probably change it by tomorrow. And if you like mystery, try anything, LITERALLY ANYTHING by Agatha  Christie. "And Then There Were None" is absolutely, positively brilliant. 

@BHR 

Yes! I agree, I'd wear that all the time if I could. I own quite a few dresses styled from that period and I wish I had more! When I was younger, I actually wore bloomers sometimes under dresses. I also owned quite a few nice pinafores and long aprons. I always dressed kind of old fashioned with a custey spin. I just don't like the way fashion is going these days. I love the old, practical dresses and skirts of woman that woman used to wear before dresses changed into something worn only for special occasions and pants took over. 

I'm with you on the whole skin tight thing. I don't like it! Knee-legth flouncy dresses are very, very nice. Or longer. For pretty blouses, I'd suggest trying to get ahold of some nice button up blouses. They tend to be a little more loose and pretty modest. Overalls . . . I loved those, but I can't seem to find any that fit me. Pooh.

Old fashioend bikes are awesome! :D 

@ Alice 

Agreed! Old-fashioned dresses make me feel good about myself and my body, instead of those entirely too short and too skimpy things they wear these days.  Haha, I do pin my hair up mostly in buns and I used to own pinafores, though I grew out of them.

But yeah. I love old fashion. 

@ Alice, Everinne, & Corina: YES! People say nowadays that you should be "proud of your body and be able to show it off" but to me, that just makes girls all the more self conscious! Then girls feel obligated to have a flat stomach, a thigh gap, and basically have little weight to them at all. The old style dresses, apart from being just pretty, kept girls and women on a more even field.

@ Alice: I love Audrey Hepburn! I've seen her in My Fair Lady and Breakfast at Tiffany's. I also love Katherine Hepburn, especially in the black and white version of Little Women. AND OH MY GOSH I LOVE OLD JOURNALS! They're so unique, and beautiful, and endearing, and I just adore them. It's why I keep journals myself.

AND HAILEY MILLS!!!!! I LOVE HAILEY MILLS IN THE CLASSIC DISNEY MOVIES!!!!!!!!! 

I love Sherlock Holmes the books! I've almost finished the complete series, The series is awesome and show some great details like the harpoon. I also like watching the 60's Star Trek which has some parts that are so funnily bad like the spear bounces off his back.

Just wondering why this is in Pudding's Place and not Down to Earth.

It started as a thread about old TV shows and movies, the arts. Now has branched out.

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Nobody laugh but I love the show Gilligan's Island. It's hilarious.

I have watched a bit of Classic Who of One, and the movie of Eight, but that's it. I have never been able to get my hands on a Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes, just ones made recently. I promise to go to the library and search for that and Fahrenheit 451!

And I have the book Hope For the Flowers which was made in the 70s about caterpillars learning about life. It's really good, and I didn't understand it when I was younger, but I get it now since it's an allegory. (Referenced politics at the time and such)

Oh, and I went to this Bouckville Antique Sale yesterday, "the biggest antique sale" and I got this book called Wild Birds of New York, in near perfect condition. And you know when it was printed? 1912. I always wanted an old book that's not falling apart! :D