To know oneself...

Quincy West, of Q's Daydream has bestowed upon me a blog award. It is so nice she deems me worthy for a blog award, but man, when I visit other gal's blogs I am always thinking I need to work that much harder. But nonetheless, I am honored and will dutifully respond! However, I edited the questionnaire, just to spare you all just a bit!

1. Your hair?  likes to be under hats

2. Your favorite food? goat cheese, is that a food in of itself, can i say that?

3. Your favorite drink? fizzy water with a lil' juice

4. Your dream/goal? sell and wear vintage forever

5. Your hobbie? yoga and sniffing my cat's breath - may be gross to you, but it's true!

6. Your fear? spiders, murderers

7. Where were you last night? is this on record? home, i hate leaving!

8. Something you say all the time? "crimony"

9. Something that you're not? subtle

10. Wishlist item? a new, giant, well lit space for my shop

11. Last thing you did? check on the vintage dresses i have soaking

12. What are you wearing? this crazy soft little boys flannel shirt and vintage cords from Ann's estate sale

13. Your pets? somehow rule me

14. Friends? are my family

15. Missing someone? far away friends

16. Something you're not wearing? sheeeeeesh...

17. Your favorite store? one's where everything is old and nothing is new

18. Your favorite color? gray, greige, champagne, mustard

19. The last time you cried? it's been a while, i think i must be very happy!

20. Whens the last time you laughed? it's constant, really.

21. One place that I go to over and over? the woods, value village, the post office, the dry cleaner...

22. Where do you eat? Beezy's!

And passing this little ditty on...

Megan at 13Bees

Amy at Gulping Beauty

Karen at Small Earth Vintage

Giana at The Greedy Seagull

Rachel at MouseVox Vintage

Friday Shop Update...and Four Friday Favorites!

The first dress? The Snow Princess dress? Kills me. I have no answer as to why I am not keeping it,

not even to wear, just to like, stare at.

The Princess Cut

I'm a little nutty over the princess cut winter coat, I love how they are like heavy dresses and have a slightly Russian feel, or maybe that's just my own perception. I came across these top one from designer Ida Sjöstedt recently and although they are not from her current collection, they are still stunning! And of course there is my own 1940s chocolate princess coat still available in the shop. The last two are both vintage Lilli Ann coat that can be found on Etsy!

Suzy Perette

Living where I do, not in a big city, I am lucky to come across great vintage clothes, wearable, cool and nicely made clothes. But rarely do I come across the coveted labels as I might if I lived in a larger city. But there are some exceptions, those rare times that I pull out a dress from a rack only to find that not only is it a great vintage dress, it's also "something", a label! Such was the way with this Suzy Perette dress. I have only done better than this once, when I found a simple and elegant black Claire McCardell dress (which I somehow cannot seem to part with).

This amazing 1950s Perette takes all it's cues from Dior's new look - the black, the nipped waist and the voluminous ankle skimming skirt. In a jet black silk faille with huge soutache trimmed pockets, it is certainly a dress that will garner attention. I am not sure it ever got looked over at the store in which I bought it! I've held onto it for while as I am wont to do with dresses of this ilk, but as of today it's listed in the shop...just in time for the holidays.

For more about the Suzy Perette dress company go here.

Parting is such sweet sorrow

The real test has begun...sifting through dresses and deciding what to keep, what I will allow myself to keep that is. These are some of my favorites from the fancier dresses I recently acquired. Obvious the one I am wearing is a keeper! But the other two black ones have a fate yet to be determined. Sometimes when I think about keeping dresses I don't think about where or when I am going to wear them, but rather I think about what amazing pieces of history they will be when I am very old. These are all late 1930s-early 1940s, so when I am old, they will actually be museum pieces...weird.

Feeling Black Tie

A shop update in a pulled back palette. I am really feeling the dusty pink right now!

Lest I forget...

In my excitement and flurry for the holiday items to get into the shop I have sadly overlooked that it's still autumn! I seem to be rushing through my very favorite season, which is sad because it's also a very shirt season. And so in homage to what we have left for autumn I have posted some autumn items, some new, some not. The first two dresses I got yesterday from Aunt Evie's estate!

Aunt Evie's clothes

Yesterday, as I set out the sun was bright, I felt well rested and as I had the shop in very organized order. Little did I know that a normal Tuesday would turn out to be so amazing! I went to meet a woman who had her mother and aunt's vintage clothing to sell. Without seeing photos or much information at all, I drove just over an half an hour to check it out. And just under an hour later left with a car full of the very best vintage I have ever bought up. Every time I find an estate with a lot of vintage I feel like it's the very last time that will ever happen. Well I think I can say that judging from the lot of 1930s-1940s dresses, blouse and skirts I got today I likely will not come across such a bounty as this. I felt sort of stunned really, but also grateful and excited! I have Aunt Evie's clothes! I asked the woman selling the clothing if I could see photos of her mother and Evie and she brought me out photos...wonderful old photos from the 1930s. Though we were in a garage without heat and my toes were completely frozen I didn't care at all...I was surrounded by old dresses! And get this...my size!  That being said, I'll pick only my favorites and into the shop the rest will go!

plum knit shrug - clothing exchange score

tank top - H & M

skirt - vintage, thrfited

olive riding boots - thrifted

peacock feather earrings - thrifted

Quite simply, I'm head over heels

I am just about knocked out by this collection from Austrian designer, Susanne Bisovsky. How absolutely lush is are these clothes, and this is just a tiny snipit of her work, which you can see at her site. Do check out the MITGIFT Collection, my personal favorite! I love clothing that set up a story of another time or place and I am pretty sure I would actually wear these clothes around town, with nary a reservation! I'd write more about these clothes right now, but honestly, I am going straight back to her site to oogle them more!

Gold.Pink.Black.

Monday shop update...fit for a party! I am really liking gold with pale pink and black...perhaps I am planning my own holiday outfits? Can't wait!

Advanced Style

So I have a real thing for older people, I have talked about this before on this blog, but here, I am talking about it again.  My first jobs were purposefully chosen so I could be around older people (nursing home for nuns & bingo hall) and that was pretty strange I suppose. But hey, now there's a cool site, sort of a la The Sartorialist, that is dedicated to the fashionable people who are advanced in age. And I love it. I find so much inspiration in older people who's affinity for fashion has yet to fade. Above are some of my favorite picks from the blog, Advanced Style.

Black Tie...and dress and shoes and...

A mixed collection of sophisticated black holiday attire and casual attire!