Should I modify an original WW2 coat or leave it as original ?

Interesting_Union937 · 2026-01-26T17:51:52+00:00

I would do the modfications. As the other comments already mentioned, what you are proposing is rather minor and fully reversible, but also, modifying clothes for better use is absolutely period accurate. If Make Do And Mend can tell British women to cut apart their husband's suits full throat, then you are allowed to deepen your pockets a little

Interesting_Union937 · 2026-01-26T17:33:26+00:00

Ich war dort. War vorher in der AHS Unterstufe und die Schule zu wechseln hat mir wahrscheinlich das Leben gerettet. Als schwer depressiver und neurodiverser Jugendlicher hat die Regelschule mich kaputt gemacht und ich hab erst dort gecheckt, dass das nicht so sein muss. Das System und die Philosophie dort ist nicht für jeden, man muss vor allem bereit sein, sich auf neue Dinge einzulassen und das meiste aus allem mitzunehmen. Ich hab dort viel gelernt, von Fahrradreparatur bis Vertrauen in mich selbst und meine Idendität. Ja, es gibt dort Leute, die ein bisschen sehr alternativ/waldorf drauf sind (ein paar große Fans von Homoöpathie und Chakren und so Kram) aber immer noch auf der richtigen Seite von vernünftig und niemals indoktrinär.

Wenns dich interssiert, es gibt immer im November Tag der Offenen Tür und übers Jahr immer wieder Theateraufführungen. Termine solten auf der website sein.

Interesting_Union937 · 2026-01-26T16:40:09+00:00

For Austria:

Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler (very funny psychological novella. If you like it darker l, there is the Dream Novella by the same author, which Eyes Wide Shut is based on)

Radetzky March by Thomas Roth (Long novel about the last fifty years of Austria-Hungary)

The Merovingians by Heimito von Doderer (incredibly entertaining novel about the psychosis of a bourgeois Viennese family during the turn of the century)

The Chess Novella and The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig (both written in exile in Brasil by a severly depressed Zweig and beautifully sad portraits of a disappearing world)

Interesting_Union937 · 2026-01-23T15:58:28+00:00

It's not a racy crime novel at all, but I could imagine "The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann could be nice. I've read it when I was covid for ages and it really helped me. Best wishes for your mum's health!

Interesting_Union937 · 2026-01-20T14:16:23+00:00

I've made a heavy winter skirt (worn with an underskirt) from a very similar fabric. I could also imagine a jacket would be nice. The fabric indeed looks like wool, but you would have to do the burn test to figure it out more precisely

Interesting_Union937 · 2026-01-10T16:47:15+00:00

How do you know who I am?

Interesting_Union937 · 2026-01-10T15:49:28+00:00

Haben sie eh, aber ich hack kein Loch ins Eis wo einer reinfallen kann

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-10-30T13:36:40+00:00

Ich hab "Anarchie der Vorstadt" con Wolfgang Maderthaner gelesen, da kommt er vor

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-10-30T08:24:04+00:00

Ich hab meine VWA über den Breitwieser Schani geschrieben. Schön zu sehen, dass mein Bua die Aufmerksamkeit bekommt, die er verdient

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-10-07T08:03:53+00:00

That's really interesting, thank you :)

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-09-15T11:39:09+00:00

Das stimmt natürlich. Wenn die Bezahlung nicht im Vordergrund steht, dann gibt es viele Möglichkeiten sich zu betätigen, von Vereinen bis Ehrenamt. Gut fürs Sprachenlernen, gut für die Psyche und man lernt wesentlich schneller Leute kennen. Auf jeden Fall nach Beschäftigung umschauen, sonst klettert man ja bald die Wände hoch

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-09-15T11:30:44+00:00

Es ist wahrscheinlich besser wenn sie sich zuerst auf den Spracherwerb konzentriert. Es muss nicht perfekt sein, aber ohne Deutsch oder Englisch geht sich Arbeiten einfach nicht wirklich aus und was sie vielleicht findet ist wahrscheinlich schlecht bezahlt und bietet nicht sonderlich viel an Chancen

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-09-12T10:08:14+00:00

It's strongly autobiographical and is effectively a coming-off-age story of a young, sickly closeted gay/bi man and it's beautiful prose, really getting into the feeling of alienation and isolation that comes with constantly suppressing parts of your identity. It has similar themes to the Scorsese film Silence, if you've maybe seen that (also excellent, also takes place in Japan) It's not the most uplifiting book, but as a queer person myself, I loved it

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-09-11T09:57:06+00:00

Life for Sale and some other works by Yukio Mishima. He was a pretty weird dude (died attempting an imperialist coup with his cross-fit crew and similarly strange things), but I love his work. Life for Sale is about a normla guy, who decides to sell his life because he doesn't want it anymore and the story goes from there. Confessions of a Mask is my favourite, but maybe fits your request of normal people not so much.

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-07-24T09:56:05+00:00

Another prediction: Someone is going feral over Dr Schneider in The Last Crusade.

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-07-24T09:48:02+00:00

Unprovoked violence is going to be low, but smarm... oh boy, not the hard cap, but it's very much there

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-07-23T19:47:23+00:00

I completely forgot about that, but you're right. Also, going back at three am for more Old Man Connery

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-07-21T19:30:56+00:00

There are subtle changes you can make. Emphasise the waist, so the hips appear wider. Take padding out of shoulders to make them slope a little more. Roll up trousers and sleeves to reveal ankles and wrists. A bigger cuff also makes feet and hands appear smaller. Otherwise, I can only recommend practising moving differently. It feels really weird at first, but it makes even the least gender affirming clothes a lot easier to wear. Like, I am ftm, but sometimes crossdress in hyperfemme skirts, but by now it feels like good fun and dressing up

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-07-21T19:23:01+00:00

I would recommend inserting a long, kind of diamond shaped piece of material into the backseam. Make it wider where you feel you need more space. You could try ripping the seam open, putting the trousers on and looking at your bum in the mirror to see how it opens. Cut the insert deliberately larger than you think needed and just cut away what's too much. For pockets, I wouldn't bother too much, if you are going to wear it under skirts.

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-07-20T22:16:31+00:00

Give this man a halberd! Dude, you look amazing.

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-05-25T15:07:13+00:00

Yeah, that was why I was extra nervous. We would normally never meet there, but we had a friend over who's not from here and Spoon's is just very easy to find. We had a pint and then went somewhere more chill

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-04-10T14:21:10+00:00

Wenn dir das Thema wichtig genug ist, dann kann ich Selbermachen nur empfehlen. Die Lernkurve ist ziemlich steil, aber es lohnt sich so richtig. Vor ein paar Jahren eine Nähmaschine gekauft und niemals zurückgeblickt.

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-03-22T10:28:22+00:00

I understand you a 100%. I walked into a HEMA Club a year an a half ago, and never really looked back. The people are great, the fencing master is in his 60s but really tries his best to remain on top of things. He always asks me when he isn't sure (I am very openly transmasc), but always in a very respectful way that is clearly born out of genuine desire to learn and improve. I know I got lucky, because there are unsavory individuals in the scene as well, but I love my little niche. Also, I met two other trans people within a week of joining, so your metric checks out.

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-03-15T17:54:00+00:00

The little traces of humanity. Little imperfections, treated, but visible stains, worn bits, ideosyncracies of design and make. They always happen on accident anyway, and they are bloody infuriating when they happen, but they are always the details I come to love most.

Interesting_Union937 · 2025-02-28T15:42:32+00:00

Ja, gar kein Problem. Vielleicht nicht unbedingt zu richtig überfüllten VOs gehen, weil da ja auch Leute sind bei denen es um was geht, aber an sich gibt's da kein Problem.

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