Love and Pride

I won this shirt on ebay the other day; it is amazing how hard it is to find a Thompson Twins shirt on ebay, and even more amazing is how much they go for. But I got this one for cheep.


This rug from Urban Outfitters is really cracking me up. It's pretty enough for a library and funny enough for a kid's room. Or something. I don't need any justification to buy it!


here is a pretty dress I found on etsy, alas already sold. I wish all my clothes looked like this.


Finally, my new favorite song. I wish all songs sounded like this.

My New Dress

(Hah, I will update more than once a month, I promise!)

I have been, like a lot of you, scouring thrift stores and vintage stores for the perfect old 40s day dress-etsy and ebay are great (obviously) but $40+ for someone else's clothes?


Thrifting in Florida (and I know, since I've been doing it for almost 10 years) is a great thing if you like vintage designer or great old coats that people brought down and then realized they would never need to wear again. It is not so great for sweet little old Edwardian blouses or novelty-printed crepe rayon frocks. I reckon no one really lived in central Florida prior to the 50s-at least no one who would be wearing dainty blouses and high button shoes.


So you can imagine my shock, shock as I was rifling through the racks at Goodwill yesterday, and found Her. This dress is so iconic it looks like a costume-the straight-cut skirt, the drape, the double collar, the feedsack print, the REMOVABLE (!) rhinestone pins, and the belt, still there through 60 years and the indiscriminate hands of the Goodwill sorters.

And the best part is, it was half off day, so she only cost $2.99. I love all my old ebayed and etsyed dresses. But this time is different. I found her. And she's all mine.

Hi All, have you missed me?

I've been thinking lately that while I love the 20s, 30s, and 40s dresses I have amassed (and there are lots), I'm of the mind that 60s clothes are well-suited to summertime, especially summertime in Florida. Now that I'm finally old enough to not actually be a lolita*, I find myself craving the minis and pigtails I eschewed in earlier days.

*Of course, in the movie she just dresses like a typical kid in the 50s, go fig.

I can't believe it's been almost a month since last I posted. I've just been SO BUSY with buying cars, moving out of houses and wearing American Apparel tri-blend tees constantly that fashion hasn't been foremost in my mind. As soon as I get settled in there will be more fashion to be found. Here are some links to keep you busy:

No Good for Me today has a lovely sad little meditation on growing up.

The Likkle Girl is the sweetest woman in the uh Southern Hemisphere. The one opposite from mine. Whatever. Just go enjoy her blog.

Apocalypstick Now, besides being hilariously named, is a wellspring of beauty info, and this week she's doing sunscreen, which is going to be of crucial importance to me since I'm moving downtown (!)

And if you're feeling in a spendy mood, trot over to my etsy for a secret sale... just mention code BLOG when you purchase and receive 25% off of your order!

See you next week!

Gosh has it really been 2 weeks since my last post? I'm so caught up in work and trying to find a new place, and trying to buy a cheap car...

(Please click on this pic for more...it's too dark to see if you don't!)

But enought about me. Here's a handmade ...40s? dress I found at a local scenester consignment shop. I am having a really hard time dating this dress-it's made out of such a fine feedsack cotton that I'm afraid it will melt if I try to wash it, but it has a zipper, but the length is too long to be 50s, but the sweep of the skirt is too wide to be 30s...we'll just leave it at the 40s for now and be happy.


Here is a close up on the pattern and the hand-done pintucking. Unreal!

Extra for Experts: Don't forget to peep at my Etsy shop...discount for all my readers! (All 8 of you)

Things I Didn't Even Know I Wanted

-I saw a girl on Friday night at Wal-Mart (don't judge me) with beautiful, soft, matte waves that flowed across her skull like a font of silken beauty. If she hadn't looked like a bitch, I would have asked her what hair products she used. I think I found it, though:

It hits all the rich girl pointers: it's exclusive to Sephora, it is prohibitively expensive, and yep, gives you matte waves. Now if I can only pony up $24 for this stuff.

I'm a sucker for names; if you call your ebay listing NANCY SINATRA DOLLY TWEE DEPRESSION NEW WAVE DRESS I am 75% more likely to bid on it, even if you're only selling a toilet scrubber.

So these Nars nail polishes are really hitting me in the caveman part of my brain; with names like Arabesque, Pussy Galore (ouch) and Schiap, they are impossible to resist.


In my mad search for mattening hair products (and most of the mattes seem to be waxes, ni goed ni), I found this website full of Camellia oil hair treatments, baby food, and these bizarre hair dyes, which come in colors like Cinnamon Milk Tea and Jewelry Pink. I have always wanted pink hair (but subtle, not shocking), and for $8.99, how can you lose? Well I guess you can lose by not being fluent in Japanese and not having any idea of how to apply or for how long. But I think if you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much room.

Which leads me to my last and final covetable; Today on Luxirare, she featured a pair of thigh-high stockings with back zips, and I felt the proverbial apple fall on my head-I could cobble my own Margiela boots, and make them flats so I need not totter around on a pair of nails! And for considerable less expense!

Hey Goths and Preps,

peep my ebay auctions. Cool stuff now and more to come.



LEATHER HOODIE


HIGH WAIST YVES ST LAURENT SHORTS



AMERICAN APPAREL SKIRT