tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91827112973849122762024-03-12T21:45:02.412-07:00A Vintage RambleA Vintage Ramble: Musings on Vintage FashionTangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-73108495508616607822014-09-22T12:43:00.000-07:002014-09-22T12:46:03.594-07:00Faux pearls, immortal style.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Coco Chanel mixed them with the real thing, Jackie Kennedy wore
them exclusively and Miriam Haskell used them to create some of her finest
pieces. Man made…fake…costume…faux… simulated…
Human kind has been imitating natural pearls
for many hundreds of years. One source I read said that the Ancient
Chinese employed a method for creating a pearl like bead in the first century
AD. In the 1700s, M. Jacquin of Paris formulated a method for simulating pearls by lining hollow blown glass beads with an iridescent substance derived from fish
scales. The beads were then filled with wax for weight and stability. In the later 1800s a man named Eduard Heusch obtained a patent for making imitation pearls. Heusch is the man behind the Majorica pearl. His company dedicated itself to
perfecting the art of the simulated pearl and by the 1950s they had a break through in their process which enabled the creation of a bead that looked so much like a real pearl; it is said to have fooled jewelers. The Majorica process mimics nature
by coating glass beads with multiple layers of a lusterous pearlized laquer made
from synthetic and natural ingredients. Their formula is a highly protected secret and
to this day the Majorica company is considered the finest in the trade. Just like real pearls, man made pearls come in a range of shades, most often the same as those found in nature although novelty colors are sometimes used as well. If you
are interested in knowing more about the history of man-made pearls <a href="http://www.bigbeadlittlebead.com/guides_and_information/history_of_faux_pearls.php" target="_blank">here </a>is a
great article to read.</span></div>
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imagine a jewelry box without a strand or two or more…. they come in an endless array of styles and have amazing versatility. You can wear a simple strand with jeans or a ball gown. Even the showier styles can be mixed up with day or evening outfits. Below are a few examples of different pearl looks. Keep in mind though, this is just the tip of the iceberg :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The above strands are all from the 1950s. They are high quality from companies like Prestige and Deltah. One way to tell higher end
costume pearls is that the thread is usually knotted between each bead and they often have
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<o:p> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we have a faux pearl choker by Carolee. In the 80s and early 90s this was a popular look, a bold clasp was often used and could be worn in front as a point of interest</span>.</o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And finally, a 38” rope of 1970s Majorica pearls with original
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The vintage market is an excellent source for great pearl costume jewelry and there is such variety to choose from. You can find cheap and fun all
the way up to investment pieces. The prices are generally quite affordable even
for the very best. A new strand of Majorica pearls will run you in the hundreds
while there are vintage sets available for less than one third the price. You can find
faux pearls to fit any occasion, something to keep in mind the next time you
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-17379239324666650132014-09-10T20:13:00.000-07:002014-09-11T11:59:46.178-07:00How to put together a Rockabilly or Swing look on a budget<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This past July we vended at a fabulous event, The Roaring Twenties Lawn Party, put on by a group called <a href="http://www.bostonswingcentral.org/2013/07/21/roaring-twenties-lawn-party-at-castle-hill-on-the-crane-estate/" target="_blank">Boston Swing Central</a>. It was a 20's themed picnic/dance party with live music and everyone there was dressed the part. The tunes were genuine Gatsby era and so were the dance routines but the clothing was more about the look. Some folks wore the real deal but many went for flapper inspired clothing and accessories from later eras like the 70's and 80's. Also quite a few wore brand new retro-look outfits. Genuine 1920's clothing is rare, expensive and usually quite fragile so it made perfect sense that so many of the guests opted for creative costuming rather than true vintage. In my booth I had both and I had a lot of fun helping my customers pick out new additions for their vintage event wardrobes.<br />
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At the end of this month I will be vending at another vintage themed celebration. This time it's <a href="http://www.newenglandshakeup.com/" target="_blank">The New England Shake-Up!</a>. A three day Rockabilly bash with round the clock music including over a dozen live bands. We worked this one last year and my bones are still humming. I can't wait! </div>
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Dress for last years Shake-Up was an eclectic mix of 1940's thru early 1960's with a dash of punk. A functioning barber shop was staged across from our booth where expert stylists, snipped and razored, rolled and teased... creating the most amazing hairstyles I've ever seen (for men and women). A great "do" was priority for many but the outfits were none too shabby either. The clothing was once again a blend of true vintage and vintage inspired.<br />
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1940's - 60's era clothing is more plentiful than 20's but iconic pieces are rare and prices can soar. There are retro companies who create vintage knock offs, the cheap ones make tacky costume-y stuff, I'm not a fan of that. However, there are a couple good companies who do a beautiful job, I especially like <a href="http://www.bluevelvetvintage.com/" target="_blank">Blue Velvet Vintage</a>. Their 1950's style dresses run around $150 and up and a good petticoat is around $59. Well worth it if your budget will allow but not everyone can swing that so for those of you who are living with tight purse strings I'm going to suggest a few penny pinching ideas.<br />
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Lets start with a 1950's look. I picked up this early 1990's dress at the thrift store for $10 and belted it with an 80s wide red belt, another thrift find ($4). I used a new petticoat to flair the skirt. Petticoats can be found new and used and range from $30-$60. The shoes and bag are actual 1950's and cost about $30 each on Etsy. If you prefer to spend less you can find 80's does 50's purses and shoes at the thrift, they should cost around $10 each. The red beads and button earrings are from the 70's and cost less than $10 for the set. So...depending on the accessories, the total for this entire outfit would be between around $100 and $150.<br />
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This next look is 1940's Swing. I started with a 1970's polka dot dress that was $50 at a vintage show. I added shoulder pads to give it better 40's style. After I cinched it with a $2 thrift store belt it looked a lot like the iconic Authentic War Time dresses run well over $100 in any vintage shop. Shoes are important for a 40's look but the real thing in a wearable size can cost a pretty penny. Instead I used these 1970s peep toe sling backs with polka dot bows valued at around $20. Silk flowers were a favorite accessory and were worn in the hair or as corsages. They are readily available for less than $10 at vintage stores and online. It's nice to add something authentic so I chose a genuine 40s <span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Corde</span> clutch with a lucite pull. These bags are undervalued right now and are selling between $35-$75 online and in vintage shops. If that's too steep you can look for an envelope clutch from the 70's or 80's, they are usually available for about $20. Finally I included a cute 70's does 40's circle brim hat to be worn on the back of the head. Approximate price $35. Again depending on the accessories this complete outfit, head to toe, would cost between $100 and $150.<br />
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These are just two examples, there are endless ways to pull off a vintage look on a budget. If you look at period magazines or watch old movies you will get a feel for the styles. Pay attention to the accessories they can make all the difference. Sometimes you will luck out and find the real deal for a steal, you gotta love it when that happens. Meanwhile get creative with later era fashions with a retro flavor. Most of all have fun!<br />
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A while ago I was watching re-runs of Hemlock Grove, a deliciously dark, supernatural soap-esque TV series. The show is set in modern times but in one of the episodes I noticed that upir (Ukranian Vampire), Olivia Godfrey, had on a heart stopping, vintage coat which looked a LOT like <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 15.333332061767578px; text-align: center;">Courrèges</span>. To my delight, Olivia's entire first season wardrobe seemed to be peppered with fabulous vintage. It's exciting to me, when vintage is a fashion choice of film and TV costumers and I love reports of vintage sightings in high society or the Hollywood crowd. But, my vintage radar is on high wherever I go and I mostly love seeing it worn by real everyday people. <br />
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The other day there was a discussion among my fellow trade members on the <a href="http://vintagefashionguild.org/" target="_blank">Vintage Fashion Guild</a>, about house dresses, the kind our mothers and grandmothers wore to tend family and home. A number of members shared their own preferences for these pretty but practical frocks. Some dressed them up for special occasions and others simply wore them as they were intended, to work around the house or garden.<br />
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This got me to thinking about how real people choose to wear real vintage. I put a shout out to my VFG friends and asked if they might share pictures of themselves showing off their own unique vintage style. I got a great response and here goes... Real people wearing real vintage.<br />
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<br />Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-74864292204440639982014-01-23T11:27:00.000-08:002014-01-23T11:30:27.150-08:00 Vintage Handknit and Classic Pattern Sweaters: The spotlight comes round again.My love affair for vintage clothing started when I was in high school in the early 1970s. My grandmother was thinning out her closet and she let me pick what I wanted from the discards... I went off with an armload...sheer nylon blouses with rhinestone buttons, cropped orlon cardigans, pleated plaid skirts, her beautiful war time floral rayon dress and two fitted suits. I loved my Grandmothers classic vintage style and wore everything until it was threadbare. Looking to expand my wardrobe I made my very first vintage purchase at a little shop called Shaky Jakes which specialized in cool "old" clothes (the term vintage was not coined until years later) I picked out a 1940s star patterned ski sweater which precipitated what became a life long obsession.<br />
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Over the years I have amassed a rather large collection of classic vintage wool sweaters. They are a staple of my cold weather wardrobe. Living in New England means long frosty winters and having a large stash of festive sweaters helps to brighten things up. Aside from their fetching designs, I love their fine quality. The wonderful worsted and mercerized wools of yesteryear that do not pill and have such a lovely sheen. After all these years I am still finding new additions for my closet because there are so many styles to choose from, many of them with long histories. From Norway there is the <a href="http://spinsjal.blogspot.com/2010/09/norwegian-sweater-story-this-is-my.html" target="_blank">Setesdal Sweater</a> with its intricate designs and hand embroidered collar and cuffs as well as the <a href="http://thevintagetraveler.wordpress.com/tag/selbu-star/" target="_blank">Selbu Star</a> (like my first sweater). Iceland gave us the <a href="http://iceland24.blogspot.com/2013/09/lopapeysa-icelandic-sweater.html" target="_blank">Lopi</a> sweater with it's bold yoke pattern and from Sweden the more subtle <a href="http://fleeglesblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/bohus-sweaters.html" target="_blank">Bohus Stickning</a> patterns. These traditional styles are timeless and beautiful but I'm also fond of novelty sweaters, especially the <a href="http://theknittingneedleandthedamagedone.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-mary-maxim-sweater.html" target="_blank">Mary Maxim</a> styles.<br />
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For decades, classic knit designs have made their way into the fashions of the day. Interest has ebbed and flowed but it never goes away. Over the past year popularity has risen again and both designers and retail customers are snapping them up. It will be interesting to see how they inspire the coming trends and collections.<br />
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-76341547890024258552013-12-17T08:09:00.002-08:002013-12-17T08:11:58.373-08:00A Very Vintage Christmas to you!It's a winter wonderland here in New England with more snow on the way, a good time to focus on indoor tasks, like holiday decorating. In my home Christmas is all about going over the top. Lots of lights and tinsely glitz and most important, quirky vintage ornamentation. I've been collecting vintage decor since the 1970s. My Mom was just starting in the antiques business and I caught her yard sale fever. Early on I began an obsessive hunt for old Christmas decorations. The find that hooked me was a box of unused holiday cards from the 1940s-50s. The pictures were utterly charming AND the cards doubled as tree ornaments. They have graced my Christmas tree ever since.<br />
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I've slowed down my search over the years, but occasionally a new piece will make it's way into the collection. This past weekend I found a little celluloid and chenille elf riding in a golden sleigh. Without a doubt, he needed to come home with me.<br />
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So without further ado, I would like to say Seasons Greetings! by sharing pictures of a few of my vintage holiday treasures.<br />
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Ornamental molded candles from the 1960s</div>
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This is one of my few reproduction pieces. There is a rotating multi colored light inside, very retro. You can see my little 1950s porcelain choir boy caroling away on the right. </div>
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Dainty and demure, this 1960s, alabaster porcelain deer makes a beautiful table piece.</div>
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Here he is! My latest acquisition. A celluloid and chenille elf with his golden sleigh. </div>
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Darling 1950s porcelain angel with wired gauze dress perched on a cut crystal globe</div>
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Home crafted stuffed felt elf doll from the 1930s.</div>
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Felt girl-elf tree ornament, circa early 1960s.</div>
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I love old blown mercury glass bulbs, especially with baby or childrens themes. 1940s blue mercury glass ornament with ducky (top right)</div>
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From my box of card ornaments, this jolly snowman. I can never decide which of the cards I like best, they are all so sweet. To his right a 1960s spun cotton Santa.</div>
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A 1940s porcelain snowman bell.</div>
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A 1950s Florida souvenir ornament, cute little orange person. Behind that, another one of my card ornaments.</div>
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This one is from the 1980s, wall plaque, reproduction of a Victorian Christmas card.</div>
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And last but not least, a sleigh full of 1960s Made in Japan, cloth elves and the big man himself, Santa!</div>
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-75945296493767312932013-09-30T10:29:00.000-07:002013-09-30T10:30:29.348-07:00The New England Shake Up! Three days of Rockabilly heaven!What a weekend!! We did the<a href="http://www.newenglandshakeup.com/" target="_blank"> New England Shake Up</a> and it was amazing!! Where to begin... The crowd was dressed to the nines, both guys and dolls. It was like a three day retro fashion show and I was over the moon. I want to live in that world!<br />
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I was not able to escape my booth much but I did manage to make it to the ball room a couple of times to hear some of the bands. The music was crazy good!! There was a vintage car show on Saturday and a Tiki inspired pool party on Sunday. A mini Viva Las Vegas right here in New England!<br />
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Everyone was as nice as could be. The vendors room was great fun. We had old school hairdressers and a barber plying their trades which was fascinating to watch. They even had a complete barbershop set up. There was a full retro make up counter, authentic vintage and repro clothing, custom guitars, vintage vinyl, a whole booth filled with luscious Bakelite ... a perfect mix.<br />
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<a href="http://www.newenglandshakeup.com/" target="_blank">www.newenglandshakeup.com </a><br />
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Resting at the make up counter.</div>
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The "Beauty Salon" </div>
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My Friend Jeanette with her new hairdo.</div>
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Johnny, selling vinyl! </div>
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Yummy white mink!</div>
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My booth.</div>
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Novelty print circle skirts.</div>
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LOVE her look!</div>
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Plenty of beaded and fur trimmed cardigans.</div>
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Rockin' ties!!</div>
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Marianne from Montreal in a dress she purchased from me.</div>
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-32890931258434211762013-08-27T06:14:00.001-07:002013-08-28T09:56:14.385-07:00The Man behind the Fashion History Museum<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 15pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">As a trade member
of the <a href="http://vintagefashionguild.org/" target="_blank">Vintage Fashion Guild</a> I am part of a large community of vintage fashion professionals.
All our members are passionate about vintage and work hard to maintain integrity
in our businesses. We are constantly
fact checking the history of our merchandise to make sure our goods are
properly represented. Whenever we are stumped about something we turn to each
other for answers and 99% of the time someone is able to help. Jonathan Walford
is a long time VFG member and one of our most knowledgeable. He is always
generous with information and never ceases to amaze me. He has written a number
of books (which I highly recommend) on vintage fashion and recently opened </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the <a href="http://fashionhistorymuseum.com/" target="_blank">Fashion History Museum</a></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> in Ontario, Canada.
I asked Jonathan if he would agree to an interview for my blog so you could all
meet the man behind the museum and hear his story. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u>-When did your passion for the history of fashion and textiles begin? Did
you begin as a collector or a historian?</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My
fascination with historical dress began when I was a kid. My favourite movies were
historically set films like: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Great Race, and
Thoroughly Modern Millie. I remember crying myself to sleep because my parents
wouldn’t let me stay up to watch the Six Wives of Henry VIII on TV, I must have
been ten at the time. I began collecting soon after I started working at a museum
called Heritage Village in Burnaby, B.C. in the summer of 1977. I was given a
collarless shirt to wear as my costume and I figured I could do better than
that and began combing the vintage clothing stores of Gastown (the old heritage
district of Vancouver) for starched collars, knitted ties, and straw boaters.
By the end of the year I was receiving gifts from friends and family members
and putting most of my paycheque into buying the oldest pieces of antique
clothing I could find. My first dress purchase was a black net dress from the
mid 1890s. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">-<u>Tell us a little about your journey in the field and how it evolved over
time.</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When I
began collecting, vintage clothing stores were still being run by Hippies who
had started their shops in the late 1960s. By 1980 the Punks and New Wavers
were buying old clothes and the stock in vintage shops shifted from Edwardian
underwear and 30s chiffons to 1950s prom dresses, stiletto-heeled shoes, and
leather motorcycle jackets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I used my
collection for producing lectures and fashion shows in the 80s and 90s as a
sideline to my museum career. In 1987 I landed the curatorial job for the </span><a href="http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Bata Shoe Museum</span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> collection in Toronto. The museum was
not yet open to the public and its collection was held in the basement of the
Bata shoe company headquarters. With the help of a healthy acquisitions budget,
I was able to transform that collection into the internationally important
institution the Bata Shoe Museum has become today. In 1999 I had done all I
could at Bata and it was time to move on. As a freelance curator I phased out
my fashion shows and instead began creating travelling exhibitions for museums.
My first exhibition of 1960s paper dresses debuted in Montreal in the summer of
2001. In 2004 my partner Kenn was taking a leadership course and took the idea
of creating a fashion museum as a project for his course. By the end of that
year we had founded the Fashion History Museum. Five years later, in 2009, the
museum received its charitable status, which qualified us to offer tax receipts
for donations and brought us to the next hurdle – finding a home for the
museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">-<u>Your books are beautiful and contain a wellspring of knowledge. They must
represent countless hours of painstaking research and appear to be a true labor
of love. Could you talk a bit about this?</u></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Even
though I had written numerous exhibition texts and museum catalogues, I didn’t
consider myself a writer. I have no patience for reading fiction and most
academic treatises are mind numbingly dull. I love ‘I was there’ memoirs. I
want to read what people thought at the time about what they wore and why they
thought it was beautiful or ugly. That information comes to us mostly from
period accounts, ranging from private diaries to magazine articles. While I was
writing the text for the 1960s paper dress exhibition I came across an archive
of period news clippings on the topic. The public reaction about paper clothing
in the 1960s ran the gamut from ‘innovative wave of the future’ to ‘the
stupidest fashion ever invented.’ I turned this research into the book ‘Ready
to Tear’, which doubled as a catalogue to accompany the same-named exhibition.
While looking for a publisher for the catalogue, Thames and Hudson rejected the
paper dress book for being intended for too specific a market, but asked if I
could write a shoe book instead – something I had wanted to do when I was still
at Bata. That turned into a three-book contract: The Seductive Shoe, Forties
Fashion, and Shoes A-Z. and I am now on my fourth book: Sixties Fashion, which
is coming out this October.</span></div>
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Internet has made researching these books possible. It would have taken years
and endless trips to libraries and archives to find what I can get now in the
comfort of my own home. With every passing year the access to obscure
publications increases, which makes the books feasible.</span></div>
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mind, yet you and Ken did just that. I am intrigued to learn about your journey
from idea to reality in this venture.</u></span></span></div>
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because a potential site for our museum was available. That plan didn’t pan out
but we liked the town and stayed. Three months ago we were given the
opportunity of a space to set up the museum that we grabbed because we had to
take a leap of faith and show everyone what we can do and how fascinating a
fashion history museum can be. Although we had a shoestring budget, we had some
devoted volunteers who really put their backs and time into helping us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There is about 2,500 square feet of exhibition
space in three galleries. The building is an old limestone foundry from the
mid-late 19th century and is a beautiful piece of Victorian
industrial architecture. There are large Eiffel tower-like columns and thick
limestone walls that provide the background for the fashions -- it feels grand.
The challenge for us was to turn this space, which had been used most recently
as a retail store, into a gallery. We hid existing shelving units with large
canvas panels, and the landlord allowed us to reuse lumber we scavenged from taking
down changing room walls. We transformed the space on less than $5,000,
including electrician bills and professional signage. </span></div>
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encounters…humorous happenings…moments of inspiration or encouragement… perhaps
you could share a memory or two with us?</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tough question to answer because every day there
is something that amazes me – some visitor who has something they want to give
us or a story about their fashionable past that is amazing or humorous. I
honestly can’t think of any specific story at the moment…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">-<u>I know absolutely zero about running and managing a museum. What
proportion of the collection is generally on display? How often do displays
rotate and change. Will you feature “visiting” collections?</u></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We manage about 8,000 artifacts and the museum
currently has about 200 of them on display. With everything that needed to be
done before we opened I had to install some ‘easy’ exhibitions to start with
because I didn’t have time for a complicated curatorial text. So we started
with our main exhibition looking at paisley and plaid as recurring patterns in
fashion. Starting October, this show will be morphed into a timeline history of
fashion from 1760 to 2010 that will become a permanent feature of the museum.
The clothes within the exhibition will be changed on a regular basis to keep
the show fresh and the artifacts in good condition. This guarantees that there
will always be something on display that everyone will like as some people like
20th century designer fashions, while others only come to see
Victorian clothes. The smallest gallery has a purse anthology and it will be
changed to other accessory exhibitions – gloves, hats, shoes etc. because
everything in this gallery is in showcases. The middle-sized gallery will be
changed on a rotating basis (between 6 and 12 weeks depending upon the
sensitivity of the material on display), and feature different topics and
approaches to fashion history. We are planning an annual showcase of recent
acquisitions called Open Drawers, and have three exhibitions already in the
works: Mod Modes – 1960s fashions, for late fall/early winter; ‘To Meet the
Queen’, clothes worn to be presented at court or meet royalty, which will open
in the new year; and although we haven’t figured out what to do next spring or
summer, we have a fall show planned “It Came From Hollywood’, about costume
designers who became fashion designers. We will be borrowing from other
collections and museums for these three shows but I doubt we will be hiring any
travelling exhibitions in the foreseeable future.</span></div>
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the museum?</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We are in discussion with various people
regarding our future and it will take some time before we will know exactly
what is happening. In the meantime, it is business as usual and we will
continue to travel exhibitions around the world, and I will continue to write
books. My next book will be on fashion during the rise of ‘The New Woman
1880-1925 – from tailored suit to the vote’. After that, I would like to work
on something more modern. There isn’t a comprehensive book about fashion in the
1970s and 1980s yet… but that will be a few years down the road.</span></div>
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-17706995076640264002013-08-08T13:39:00.000-07:002013-08-08T13:39:16.801-07:00Sewing with Vintage PatternsA lot of you know that I recently moved my vintage business to a beautiful new studio space. It's been one of my better decisions and I could not be happier, but it's also been a heck of a job. I'm still in the process of transitioning inventory. This week has been dedicated to bringing over my stash of vintage patterns, sewing books and fabric. Last week I spent some time sorting vintage buttons and I still need to process through all my vintage trims. It's all very tedious and a bit overwhelming but I know it will get done and I look forward to finally being organized. I also look forward to expanding my website and Etsy shop to include many of these treasures, but that's a future plan. First things first as they say!<br />
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Handling all that lovely fabric made me nostalgic and I started to wonder what might be happening in todays world of dressmaking. It's been a long time since I had my own dressmaker/millinery business and the only sewing I seem to have time for now are repairs and alterations for my customers, but I still love the craft. For a little break I decided to check out the internet and see what's going on out there. I was especially interested in who might be sewing from vintage patterns. I did the Google and discovered there is a vast and wonderful world of people making their own "vintage" clothing. I found a number of great blogs. Some folks were purists others not so much but they were all really passionate and I had a ball reading what they had to say. I'd like to share a few of my favorites.<br />
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Most of the time I like my job as a vintage dealer...then there are the days when I just love it! Sunday was one of those days. A few weeks ago I was invited to be one of 8 vendors at a brand new and exciting event, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/343076385796111" target="_blank">The Roaring Twenties Lawn Party</a>. This Gatsby themed party was planned by <a href="http://www.bostonswingcentral.org/" target="_blank">Boston Swing Central</a> and the <a href="http://www.thetrustees.org/crane-estate/about-the-crane-estate/" target="_blank">Trustees of the Crane Estate</a> in Ipswich Ma. Spending a summer day on the beautiful Crane Estate was more than enough reason to say yes. <br />
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Just close your eyes and imagine winding your way up a private wooded road, until you come to an open manicured hilltop with terraced grounds. There, a gravel drive leads to a magnificent 59 room, Stuart style mansion. The grounds behind the mansion are the most breathtaking of all....like something out of a fairy tale. A half-mile-long corridor of perfect emerald lawn, softly rolling it's way to a distant private ocean beach, flanked on either side by larger than life, Grecian style statues. The surrounding hill is lush with protected forests. Lawn party is an understatement! The vendors were to set up on a lovely side terrace with post card worthy vista as backdrop. Oh yes, this sounded nice :)<br />
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If the setting didn't hook me the venue was sure to. Live jazz music all afternoon and evening, performed by Brooklyn's own, <a href="http://babysoda.org/" target="_blank">Baby Soda Band</a>. Swing dance lessons were scheduled for afternoon and evening . A huge dance floor to be spread beneath a gorgeous summer sky. Nature would provide a steady flow of ocean breeze to cool the revelers, picnickers AND the vendors. <br />
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Advance ticket sales promised a huge crowd. Dressing the period was strongly suggested for all party goers and I was looking forward to enjoying the parade of twenties inspired attire. The vintage community is close and I knew most of the other dealers who were attending, so I was keen to hear all the news. <br />
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The fates were with us because the day arrived just after the break of a heat wave. The morning dawned cool and clear. It was hard to focus on setting our booth up with so much beauty around but we managed to be ready when the first guests arrived. Picnickers staked out their spots, some even set up vintage venues complete with linen covered tables and flowers! In time the band began playing and they were amazing. After a brief dance lesson, the floor went into full swing and the party was on!<br />
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Things were busy in the vendors area as well, people strolled in and out of booths to peruse the carefully curated merchandise. Shopping may not have been the main event but so many tempting choices made it hard to say no. This was our crowd, people who loved all things beautiful from earlier times. Jason Volk, was the man who coordinated our little market and he did a wonderful job.<br />
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By 8:00 pm the festivities were over, content guests made their way to the parking lot and the merchants started to pack up. There were smiles all around. <br />
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A few snap shots of our lovely day. Enjoy!<br />
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Two of my favorite outfits. <a href="http://www.laurakimsey.com/" target="_blank">Laura Kimsey</a>, on the left, is an illustrator and devoted fan of vintage as well as a long time and dear customer. <br />
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The fine art of picnicking.</div>
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The music was intoxicating and the dancing divine!</div>
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Amy and helper Amanda, <a href="http://www.artifaktori.com/" target="_blank">Artifaktori</a> </div>
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Carrie , <a href="http://cur.io/" target="_blank">Curio Vintage</a> </div>
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... my dear and VERY handsome husband Bob. I could not do any of this without him.</div>
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-81861851434716921822013-07-11T08:57:00.002-07:002013-07-11T11:55:35.217-07:00Fashion Ephemera from the turn of the 19th to 20th Century (1900-1902)<br />
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January 1900, Ladies gray cloth costume trimmed in Karakul (Persian lamb) fur, with matching muff </div>
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April 1901, early spring outing toilettes. Notice the difference in hairstyles. Adolescent and teen girls often wore their hair down in ringlets or braids. Their dresses hovered above the ankle to mid calf. Pompadours and floor sweeping hems were reserved for the ladies.</div>
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January 1901, outdoor toilettes for winter. Elaborate wide brimmed hats were de rigueur in the early 1900s. Feathers were the appropriate millinery trim for winter.</div>
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March 1901, a duo of visiting toilettes. Note the iconic S-bend silhouette with tiny waist, jutting rear and puffed pigeon chest. This was achieved with a very specific corset, ironically called the "Health Corset". It was anything but healthy. A stiff, straight busk in front, forced the torso forward and pushed the hips out in back putting terrible strain of the back.</div>
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October 1901, promenade costumes. The promenade or leisurely walk was an important activity. It was an acceptable activity for courting couples, a way for neighbors to keep in touch and a much need source of light exercise for the pampered society lady. In 1895 the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promenade_concert" target="_blank">Concert Promenade</a> became popular in London. A live band provided music as strollers walked the public gardens, how genteel! </div>
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March 1902, indoor toilettes. Delicate pastels and feminine prints marked the onset of spring.</div>
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October 1902, another duo of promenade costumes. Note the more conservative suit, designed with the "older" woman in mind, on the right. </div>
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-457007702361719982013-06-27T17:13:00.000-07:002013-06-28T03:21:26.951-07:00Peeking behind the curtain...what goes into preparing for a vintage show.<br />
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I am in the middle of prepping for the Sturbridge Textile Show and it's utter chaos...as usual. My work table is stacked high with mending and my ironing basket is overflowing. The jewelry corner in my studio is a jumble with display forms and vintage "jewels". I have gone through my clothing racks countless times pulling pieces and putting them back while I try to decide what the customers will be looking for. <br />
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Should I load up on sun dresses, it is summer after all? But wait! The designers are going to be looking for fall, should I pack a few coats? Is it to early to think about Holiday? I think so...but maybe not! <u>Definitely</u> some nice transitional pieces...light sweaters, late season dresses and the like. I haven't even opened my bins of belts, scarves and hats and OMG! It's already Thursday! I only have 8 days left to do this.....<br />
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This is my life.... I am a vintage clothing dealer and the bulk of my business is done at vintage shows. Aside from the occasional stress induced, mini breakdown, I really do love my job. I love it when the van is all packed and we are on our way. When we arrive I take my time setting up the booth, I want it to look perfect when the customers come in. Looking around I see my neighboring dealers fussing over their displays and it feels nice, we all want the place to look beautiful. Then the doors open and the crowd rushes in. It's show time.<br />
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Pressing a vintage cotton blouse</div>
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Inspecting a 1920s beaded dress</div>
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Box of vintage and antique trims and sewing memorabilia. The lace is gossamer thin and had to be delicately pressed and folded. </div>
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Should I bring Holiday to a July show? Decisions... Decisions</div>
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Replacing an elastic waist in a 1970s silk dress.</div>
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What a mess! Staging my jewelry display. When I am done I take pics for reference to help me set up at the show.</div>
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-90750689688340934562013-06-20T11:50:00.000-07:002013-06-20T11:50:38.411-07:00Fabric styles and prints offer great clues for dating home sewn Vintage<br />
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Dating vintage is a process that employs a number of factors. Style, labels and methods of construction are probably the most heavily relied on but there are others. Sometimes fabric and print offer good clues. Textile innovation and esthetics evolved with the times and the materials used to make a garment can often help pin down it's approximate age, especially with home sewn pieces. We need to keep in mind that women sometimes used older fabric to sew with, but in general, dressmakers and home sewers tried to stay on trend. A great way to glimpse what was being worn at a particular time in history is with the women's or fashion magazines of their day and a really great resource for fabric styles can be found in old mail order catalogues.<br />
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I keep a number of vintage Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogues on hand because they always have a sewing section. I love the yard goods pages that picture multiple fabric swatches. The button pages are also a favorite. Original catalogues are hard to find and can be pricey but to me they are well worth the investment. There are also reproductions available for less money. <br />
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Below are a few clips I chose from my collection, to illustrate a small sampling of the iconic fabrics from the 1930s - late 1960s. <br />
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The Mod era was in full swing in the late 60s</div>
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-58168185507849778992013-06-14T08:41:00.000-07:002013-06-14T08:41:32.761-07:00The morphing of the vintage business and my new studio!Vintage is how I make my living and I've been in the business for over 15 years. Before that I was a custom dressmaker and milliner with a passion for the evolution of fashion. So you could say I've been immersed in this for most of my adult life. Over the years I have seen the business of vintage go through tremendous change. There was a time when brick and mortar shops were the backbone of retail vintage. Shops that established themselves in the 1970s stayed in business for decades, their merchandise was always eclectic...Victorian whites to psychedelic Mod. There was something for everyone and the vintage customer shopped with imagination.<br />
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Interest in styles from the past ebbed and flowed and each era enjoyed a heyday but there was always a demand for diversity. A good vintage shop made sure they delivered. In the later 1990s vintage hit the internet and caught the eye of mainstream fashion. By the early 2000s major fashion magazines were including it in their shopping spreads and announcing the various celebrities who were adding it to their wardrobes. The demand for vintage surged, which was exciting, but I remember feeling a twinge of uneasiness. Vintage, after all, was a place for inspiration. It covered over a century of eras and represented thousands of different looks. I worried what might happen to the business if it began to follow the dictates of trend. <br />
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Fast forward and retail vintage is no longer recognizable in comparison to it's earlier incarnations. Some of the changes have been wonderful and others I lament deeply. The internet has provided a platform to sell to an unlimited market. I send orders all over the world which is fantastic. However, the internet also dealt a lethal blow to many brick and mortar shops, especially the ones located in less populated areas. Some savvy shop owners turned to the web to supplement their businesses but that meant double the work and not necessarily double the income. For some it was a godsend for others the beginning of the end. <br />
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Then there is trend... vintage always had it's own form of trend...the 40s were the <strong><u>it</u></strong> era for 70s vintage, the 80s loved the 50s and so on. The big difference between now and then is the narrowing of trend and the pace at which it seems to change. Last summer my customers in the Boston area all seemed to want 80s Coach or Dooney and Bourke, my other vintage bags just sat. I had never seen anything quite like it. A micro focused trend eclipsed the unlimited choices that vintage had to offer. It was eerie.<br />
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Over the years I have watched the flow of customers at my shows and market venues and have witnessed an increasing homogenization of style. Up to just a few years ago I was blown away by the creative ways in which people were incorporating vintage into their wardrobes. This past year a number of my colleagues and I noticed how much less creativity we were seeing and how similar everyone dressed, even at our NYC shows (NY has always been a cauldron of fashion innovation). I can only hope this is as temporary as the other trends because vintage without creativity holds no interest for me. <br />
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My own business has seen tremendous change over the years. I went from solo Brick and Mortar...Web/Brick and Mortar...Web/B+M/Shows. Today I sell on the web along with a number of shows and markets. I closed my shop a little over three years ago. The most recent change has been relocating my merchandise from my old storefront to a large sunny studio. I plan to ramp up the internet side of the business and when the studio is finally organized to my liking I will make it available "by appointment". Change is exciting but also exhausting so here's hoping that the need to morph my business takes a break for a while!<br />
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Let me know what you think of my new studio!<br />
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-26181219400934234502013-06-06T09:27:00.000-07:002014-11-07T06:39:12.451-08:00Reinventing the Cloche<br />
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of those icons of fashion that never seem to disappear for long. Milliners have
been reviving and reinventing this little bell shaped hat since it’s inception
sometime around 1908.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><a href="http://www.speak-fashion.de/fashion_dictionary/c/caroline-reboux" title="Permanent Link: Caroline Reboux"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri;">Caroline Reboux</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> is credited with
inventing and naming the cloche. It became popular around 1915 and is the
signature chapeaux of the Roaring ‘20s often referred to, today, as “flapper
hats”. The dominance of the cloche remained strong until around 1933 when it
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comeback, some decades it was embraced more than others but examples can be
found throughout the 20<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> century and it’s influence on millinery
fashion continues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Long live the cloche!</span></div>
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Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-49013144365026790072013-02-11T08:11:00.000-08:002013-02-11T08:43:12.015-08:00My vintage gown at the Grammy Awards!Despite the dismal winter weather and the fact that I am on DAY FIVE of battling the dreaded flu I'm a pretty happy camper right now. This morning I woke to some really wonderful news. The phone rang and it was Stephanie Pernice, one of the producers of the <a href="http://www.sowavintagemarket.com/" target="_blank">SOWA Vintage Market</a>. The market is in the South End in Boston and I have a booth there where I sell vintage. A few weeks back I sold a 1960s gown to a woman by the name of Susan Battista, she was planning to wear it to the Grammy Awards where her husband Fritz Klaetke, design director at <a href="http://visualdialogue.com/" target="_blank">Visual Dialogue</a>, had been nominated for an award in the best package design category. As you can imagine Susan wanted to look perfect for the occasion. She chose a chic sleeveless column gown from the 1960s done in a gorgeous metallic brocade. The ground color was dark chocolate and the brocade pattern, stylized splashy gold flowers. It was exactly what she was looking for AND it looked stunning on her. So fast forward to this morning when Stephanie called to tell me that Fritz had won the award! How thrilling that must have been for him AND his wife, a dream come true. I was SO very happy for them and to be honest pretty darn happy she had chosen my dress for the occasion!<br />
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Stephanie wanted to know if I had a picture of the dress for her blog which sadly I did not. I told her that Susan promised me a shot after the event but something tells me that this might not be the most important thing on her mind at the moment :) Maybe once they have settled back at home Susan will think to send a photo, till then here is a <a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/art-director-fritz-klaetke-and-wife-susan-battista-attend-news-photo/161391992" target="_blank">link to a picture</a> of the proud winner, his wife AND my dress ;)<br />
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We are back!! This weekend we opened our booth at the SOWA Vintage Market in Boston and I couldn't be more happy! This will be our third Spring/Summer (the market runs year round) and I swear it just keeps getting better! It was so nice to see old friends and to meet new dealers. There was a lovely big crowd all day long and everyone seemed to be having a great time. SOWA is an eclectic market offering a little of everything, INCLUDING the occasional vintage sink ;) Although my main business is vintage clothing and accessories I do dabble in antique/vintage decor as well and SOWA is the perfect venue for both. That's one of the things I like best about this place... the great balance of merchandise, literally, something for everyone (and every wallet).</div>
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Stephanie and John are the managers and they work tirelessly to keep things fresh and exciting and dealers replenish with scads of new items each week. I made the rounds yesterday to see what treasures were to be found and I was so impressed by the selection I just had to take pictures and share. I focused more on the decorative as opposed to the wearable, but don't be fooled there are racks and racks of vintage clothing to choose from as well. Just to let you know, during the summer SOWA Vintage is not alone, there is also a farmers/craft/artists market that takes place in the parking lot right outside the door, AND great food trucks (I'm talking everything from gourmet cupcakes to Thai food to gigantic hot dogs). VERY dangerous for a gal like me who is trying to watch her waistline....although, it IS just once a week so maybe not too dangerous...... Anyway, if you are in the Boston area on a Sunday, SOWA is a "must visit" event. If you are local it just might become a regular haunt! <a href="http://www.sowavintagemarket.com/" target="_blank">For info visit their website</a>. Now, enjoy the pictures!</div>
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One of my favorite booths, a team of two dealers offer painted refinished vintage furniture along with lovely crystal and exotic live plants</div>
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Endless selection of vintage clothing and accessories, I did not photograph any of the racks of pretty dresses but rest assured there are plenty! </div>
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Wiley (left) and his brother/assistant (AKA the Atari Guys) win the prize for cutest dealers plus they specialize in old original video games, how cool is that!</div>
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Hope you can make it, toodles for now!</div>Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-61194883036860221252012-03-17T08:22:00.075-07:002012-03-17T11:21:19.054-07:00The Beauty is in the Details<div align="left">The other day I posted a wonderful 1950s novelty skirt to my <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">website</span>. It has this huge appliqued pocket watch on it which got me to thinking about the fabulous detail work I come across in the vintage market. Embroidery, bead work, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">trapunto</span>, hand painting, applique... today's fashion market is nearly devoid of these wonderful methods. I grant you there is still a penchant, in modern ready-to-wear, for beads and sequins but as a rule you have have to go to couture level (or at the very least a very high end market) to find decorative detail that is equal to much of what is easily found in Vintage.<br /><br />Some of the older details were done by hand... others by machine but either way they added time to the construction of the garment and time adds cost. In the past it was common for even the budget labels to attempt some kind of unique textile adornment. Today the industry relies heavily on print rather than intricate surface detail for added design interest. This blog is a pictorial tribute to the treasure trove of embellishment that is yet one more reason to be in love with Vintage!<br /><br />Enjoy!<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SAx0mFx1Fqk/T2TKcwNgs6I/AAAAAAAAAbM/2CaCvKG88Eo/s1600/ClockSkirtDet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 190px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720920021994091426" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SAx0mFx1Fqk/T2TKcwNgs6I/AAAAAAAAAbM/2CaCvKG88Eo/s320/ClockSkirtDet.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-43nV2kv00PI/T2TKR8kSLjI/AAAAAAAAAbA/t37VlVd-nVA/s1600/ClockSkirt.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 273px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720919836332273202" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-43nV2kv00PI/T2TKR8kSLjI/AAAAAAAAAbA/t37VlVd-nVA/s320/ClockSkirt.jpg" /></a><br />Pocket watch, <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">appliqued</span> felt skirt from the 1950s<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B3a-_zTxpVM/T2TK9hdCBeI/AAAAAAAAAbw/Ej2PoClOHik/s1600/DetBlogBeadCoatdet2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 271px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720920584968340962" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B3a-_zTxpVM/T2TK9hdCBeI/AAAAAAAAAbw/Ej2PoClOHik/s320/DetBlogBeadCoatdet2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JhQo3Nlfqzk/T2TK2hEaapI/AAAAAAAAAbk/eM5d5yluVlM/s1600/DetBlogBeadCoatdet1.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720920464605997714" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JhQo3Nlfqzk/T2TK2hEaapI/AAAAAAAAAbk/eM5d5yluVlM/s320/DetBlogBeadCoatdet1.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wl7-2y5RUmM/T2TKuSNprnI/AAAAAAAAAbY/CBN-bSzy4h8/s1600/DetBlogBeadCoat.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 193px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720920323179261554" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wl7-2y5RUmM/T2TKuSNprnI/AAAAAAAAAbY/CBN-bSzy4h8/s320/DetBlogBeadCoat.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><br /><div align="left">Gorgeous beaded details on an early 1970s <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_3" class="blsp-spelling-error">alaskine</span> evening coat.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><br /><div align="left"><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c_vReIPV2dc/T2TLbJObqWI/AAAAAAAAAcI/9SH7_WC3wLU/s1600/DetBlogEmbrShirtFront.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 201px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720921093860731234" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-c_vReIPV2dc/T2TLbJObqWI/AAAAAAAAAcI/9SH7_WC3wLU/s320/DetBlogEmbrShirtFront.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V248c47n9iI/T2TLTRCOq8I/AAAAAAAAAb8/vP9nocZmdDE/s1600/DetBlogEmbrShirtBack.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 211px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720920958518078402" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V248c47n9iI/T2TLTRCOq8I/AAAAAAAAAb8/vP9nocZmdDE/s320/DetBlogEmbrShirtBack.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center">Quirky top from a 1970s pant suit with machine embroidery. </div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-85QZrngUwq8/T2TMq931x4I/AAAAAAAAAcs/leRmc5uypa4/s1600/DetBlogGoldStuddet2.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 218px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720922465202718594" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-85QZrngUwq8/T2TMq931x4I/AAAAAAAAAcs/leRmc5uypa4/s320/DetBlogGoldStuddet2.jpg" /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="center"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ztcrix3xbqA/T2TMjrOS60I/AAAAAAAAAcg/OSiIShj9wLw/s1600/DetBlogGoldStuddet1.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 279px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720922339937545026" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Ztcrix3xbqA/T2TMjrOS60I/AAAAAAAAAcg/OSiIShj9wLw/s320/DetBlogGoldStuddet1.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XlhABownQMc/T2TMcYd01GI/AAAAAAAAAcU/oO7_HWCm2oU/s1600/DetBlogGoldStud.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 206px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720922214643324002" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XlhABownQMc/T2TMcYd01GI/AAAAAAAAAcU/oO7_HWCm2oU/s320/DetBlogGoldStud.jpg" /></a><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p align="left">1970s double knit wool dress with brass studs.<br /><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HtqxaIarir4/T2TNIkQ3I1I/AAAAAAAAAdE/e8-VZmyRxCs/s1600/DetBlogJuteDet.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 151px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720922973724418898" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HtqxaIarir4/T2TNIkQ3I1I/AAAAAAAAAdE/e8-VZmyRxCs/s320/DetBlogJuteDet.jpg" /></a><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 144px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720922877972912178" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HttOo3n9F1E/T2TNC_j7GDI/AAAAAAAAAc4/-54iRTGld1Y/s320/DetBlogJute.jpg" /> Jute detail on the hem of a 1960s wool crepe dress.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h7Dl8BmxITo/T2TOykgiU1I/AAAAAAAAAdo/34B_UKbIJQs/s1600/DetBlogPepiSignature.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 273px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720924794856297298" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h7Dl8BmxITo/T2TOykgiU1I/AAAAAAAAAdo/34B_UKbIJQs/s320/DetBlogPepiSignature.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ytZWP9_5rXs/T2TOr6V1zzI/AAAAAAAAAdc/N7frCroHJz4/s1600/DetBlogPepiroosterdet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 196px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720924680457932594" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ytZWP9_5rXs/T2TOr6V1zzI/AAAAAAAAAdc/N7frCroHJz4/s320/DetBlogPepiroosterdet.jpg" /></a><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C6JrRdPglXU/T2TOja7fmvI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/5PVz3_Lb3KI/s1600/DetBlogPepi.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 152px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720924534586972914" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-C6JrRdPglXU/T2TOja7fmvI/AAAAAAAAAdQ/5PVz3_Lb3KI/s320/DetBlogPepi.jpg" /></a><br />Whimsical 1960s hand painted dress from Greece, signed Pepi.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VQCnLmG23Nc/T2TPWqLKVxI/AAAAAAAAAeA/fSKJYV9cRYI/s1600/DetBlogRibbonEmbdet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 306px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720925414852548370" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VQCnLmG23Nc/T2TPWqLKVxI/AAAAAAAAAeA/fSKJYV9cRYI/s320/DetBlogRibbonEmbdet.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QtwEIN29P_w/T2TPPk60-EI/AAAAAAAAAd0/hhrSHz3Z4To/s1600/DetBlogRibbonEmb.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 163px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720925293182777410" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QtwEIN29P_w/T2TPPk60-EI/AAAAAAAAAd0/hhrSHz3Z4To/s320/DetBlogRibbonEmb.jpg" /></a><br />Ribbon embroidery and applied rhinestones make this simple <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_4" class="blsp-spelling-error">alaskine</span> dress special.<br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BFO2n61DVOg/T2TQimLRRAI/AAAAAAAAAeY/KW3LPKYegO4/s1600/DetBlogShirreddressdet.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720926719449318402" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BFO2n61DVOg/T2TQimLRRAI/AAAAAAAAAeY/KW3LPKYegO4/s320/DetBlogShirreddressdet.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YffL7UO1knc/T2TQalvgHwI/AAAAAAAAAeM/yAeWWBmFrDU/s1600/DetBlogShirreddress.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 191px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720926581893897986" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YffL7UO1knc/T2TQalvgHwI/AAAAAAAAAeM/yAeWWBmFrDU/s320/DetBlogShirreddress.jpg" /></a><br />A late 50s - early 60s confection in shirred chiffon and inset lace.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bGJpKyJb1nY/T2TRD4bigbI/AAAAAAAAAew/c8jzRnUUxWg/s1600/DetBlogTambourvestdet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 250px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720927291285078450" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bGJpKyJb1nY/T2TRD4bigbI/AAAAAAAAAew/c8jzRnUUxWg/s320/DetBlogTambourvestdet.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RfEwGJCBPcs/T2TQ6_vE_kI/AAAAAAAAAek/wKnmiVqNf4Q/s1600/DetBlogTambourvest.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 220px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720927138627255874" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RfEwGJCBPcs/T2TQ6_vE_kI/AAAAAAAAAek/wKnmiVqNf4Q/s320/DetBlogTambourvest.jpg" /></a><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p>Painstaking, hand done <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_5" class="blsp-spelling-error">Tambour</span> embroidery with beads and rhinestones on a red wool vest. Most likely made in India in the 1960s-70s for the western market. It came with a matching maxi skirt. </p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9SLE-1pTfRY/T2TR4ZmLTKI/AAAAAAAAAfI/_GF6h3v9E-c/s1600/DetBlogtKoosdet.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720928193541262498" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9SLE-1pTfRY/T2TR4ZmLTKI/AAAAAAAAAfI/_GF6h3v9E-c/s320/DetBlogtKoosdet.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GboYeQwGRs4/T2TRxw5t1MI/AAAAAAAAAe8/FezA2A-nCS4/s1600/DetBlogtKoos.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720928079538148546" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GboYeQwGRs4/T2TRxw5t1MI/AAAAAAAAAe8/FezA2A-nCS4/s320/DetBlogtKoos.jpg" /></a><br /></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><span id="SPELLING_ERROR_6" class="blsp-spelling-error"></span></p><br /><p><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Koos</span> van den <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_7" class="blsp-spelling-error">akker</span>, wool challis dress with marvelous applique work. </p><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gUCHKPcz5ww/T2TTBd3Ip_I/AAAAAAAAAfg/sE383oFmTdc/s1600/DetBlogtrapuntodet.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720929448816584690" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gUCHKPcz5ww/T2TTBd3Ip_I/AAAAAAAAAfg/sE383oFmTdc/s320/DetBlogtrapuntodet.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1q6KNUpL1Bo/T2TS2GFKMmI/AAAAAAAAAfU/4SNYsby8HqE/s1600/DetBlogtrapunto.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 181px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720929253454393954" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1q6KNUpL1Bo/T2TS2GFKMmI/AAAAAAAAAfU/4SNYsby8HqE/s320/DetBlogtrapunto.jpg" /></a><br />Slipper satin dress from the 1950s with <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_8" class="blsp-spelling-error">trapunto</span> work at the hem.<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VSiU4PO5Chw/T2TTikcWSRI/AAAAAAAAAgE/4_wS3NyK8Po/s1600/DetBlogYellowAppPocketdet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720930017518962962" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-VSiU4PO5Chw/T2TTikcWSRI/AAAAAAAAAgE/4_wS3NyK8Po/s320/DetBlogYellowAppPocketdet.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--d9hhcwNceo/T2TTbaPuAhI/AAAAAAAAAf4/ykxizMUY22I/s1600/DetBlogYellowAppdet.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 250px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720929894522552850" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--d9hhcwNceo/T2TTbaPuAhI/AAAAAAAAAf4/ykxizMUY22I/s320/DetBlogYellowAppdet.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMnf5CZ-FrM/T2TTVXkmgQI/AAAAAAAAAfs/aEunjzFEPkE/s1600/DetBlogYellowApp.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 139px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720929790725619970" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZMnf5CZ-FrM/T2TTVXkmgQI/AAAAAAAAAfs/aEunjzFEPkE/s320/DetBlogYellowApp.jpg" /></a><br />Felt applique with embroidered highlights on a bright yellow linen maxi dress from the late 1960s.Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-88104589725244738902012-01-14T07:56:00.001-08:002012-01-14T08:31:07.739-08:00The Color of Vintage<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dknvc2ZZKtA/TxGmZBZkk_I/AAAAAAAAAUE/iV_znisZVGg/s1600/colorblogBrochureCover.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 227px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dknvc2ZZKtA/TxGmZBZkk_I/AAAAAAAAAUE/iV_znisZVGg/s320/colorblogBrochureCover.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697517952403018738" border="0" /></a><br /><br />One of my most prized pieces of fashion ephemera is an early 1930s brochure, put out by the Holeproof Hosiery Co. of New York. The brochure is entitled Hosiery and Costume Colors, Spring and Summer 1932. The purpose of the booklet was promotional, serving to instruct merchants, sales personnel and customers in the “correct use of hosiery colors”. Given that most hosiery colors from the 1930s were less than exciting (generally some shade of tan or beige) the Holeproof Hosiery, marketing team really out did themselves with this one. Instead of focusing on the hose itself they filled the book with gorgeous fashion illustrations and coordinated textile swatches featuring the color trends of the day. Every aspect of an ensemble was featured including, of course, the proper stocking choice.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W6QB3Qu8x8Q/TxGopj31BJI/AAAAAAAAAUc/X2octvHHzYk/s1600/colorblog30swatches.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W6QB3Qu8x8Q/TxGopj31BJI/AAAAAAAAAUc/X2octvHHzYk/s400/colorblog30swatches.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697520435557893266" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Material swatches above, illustrations below, from a Spring/Summer 1932 Hosiery Brochure, featuring the seasons color trends</span><br /><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xGOPwX_o9YU/TxGphHI22MI/AAAAAAAAAUo/EA1Sib7c2Ko/s1600/colorblog30sillos.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 355px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xGOPwX_o9YU/TxGphHI22MI/AAAAAAAAAUo/EA1Sib7c2Ko/s400/colorblog30sillos.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697521389917362370" /></a><br /><br />As I perused the booklet it struck me how very important color trend is and has been, to the world of fashion so I began looking through some old fashion periodicals for references. I have the good fortune to posses a handful of original issues of L’art de la Mode (a monthly fashion journal, published from 1882-1896) and in the beginning of each there is a page devoted to the latest fashion sightings complete with detailed color descriptions. The February 1888 issue reports that <span style="font-weight:bold;">“among new shades of color are Cordova, a lovely pale golden shade of terra cotta, deerskin, old oak, antique blue with a tinge of green in it, a peculiar pink for evening called heart of the tea rose, a dark blue gray called osage, and malatesta, a warm russet brown”</span> for evening there were wraps of <span style="font-weight:bold;">“watered velvet in dark Indian red or the favorite gobelin blue shades”</span> and for the more conservative woman <span style="font-weight:bold;">“Ladylike and elegant costumes…in neutral shades of dove, old silver beige and also in pale olive and heliotrope.”</span><br />I could just envision this lovely palette…done in elegant woolens, promenading a snowy city park …. or rustling silk taffeta bathed in the glow of a towering candle arbor or rich velvets at the opera.<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c1DTfo9hXhg/TxGnWaa_eYI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/WieplhJQc2A/s1600/colorblogModePics.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c1DTfo9hXhg/TxGnWaa_eYI/AAAAAAAAAUQ/WieplhJQc2A/s400/colorblogModePics.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697519007091882370" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Color Fashion Plates L'art de la Mode Feb.1888</span><br /><br />Descriptions of fashion shades have always been concocted with poetic license, but in my opinion, nothing rivals the whimsical heights of color wordsmithing like the mid 20th century. Some of my favorite examples come from textile and fashion ads from the 1940s and 50s. Although I’m not always exactly sure what colors the magazine copy is describing they certainly sound pretty. Petunia blue, coffee frost, star pink, jazz red, horizon green, moonbeam beige, licorice black…. and the list goes on.<br /><br />Often a magazine itself will take the lead and rather than merely report what is being shown they will declare their own picks for the season. In 1955 Glamour themed their March issue around a choice of five colors for the Spring season… Amber, Hyacinth, Red, Yellow and Blue. They deemed these shades “Glamour Colors” explaining that <span style="font-weight:bold;">“These five Glamour Colors, from pale tints to deep tones cover fashion…and are abundantly explained on page after page in this issue”</span> Readers were instructed on how to wear them and mix them, and encouraged to seek them out at their favorite stores. Many of the issues advertisers keyed their ads to Glamour’s chosen palette. I have no idea if their campaign had much influence on what was worn that Spring but it was an interesting angle for sure. <br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pHFKzH1-VPw/TxGp9qzC_-I/AAAAAAAAAU0/RcBpXJtX-lM/s1600/colorblogGlamourColors.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pHFKzH1-VPw/TxGp9qzC_-I/AAAAAAAAAU0/RcBpXJtX-lM/s320/colorblogGlamourColors.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697521880525897698" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">Glamour Magazine's choice for Spring Colors, March 1955</span><br /><br />Today the garment industry is just as focused on color trends and forecasts as they ever were. I sell to a number of textile and fashion designers and I love hearing them converse over a piece of vintage that catches their interest. Often times the discussion will be around color and I’ve sold many an item just because it was an unusual shade or had an interesting combination of colors in the print. One of the most important reasons people wear vintage is because they can find something that stands out from the ready to wear, du jour and a big part of that uniqueness has to do with the signature colors from the many eras and genres represented. Before this latest obsession of mine, I think I underestimated how integral color is to the appeal of vintage fashion. Not any more :)<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iCQRdluzJXI/TxGqv8qVWNI/AAAAAAAAAVA/bYTe0FeSR0U/s1600/colorblogFavoritePattern.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iCQRdluzJXI/TxGqv8qVWNI/AAAAAAAAAVA/bYTe0FeSR0U/s320/colorblogFavoritePattern.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697522744314648786" /></a><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">From my own collection, a favorite Rayon print dress from the 1940s, note the electric play of vibrant pink against the green, just beautiful!</span>Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-64986498688135718332011-06-16T15:53:00.000-07:002011-06-28T16:51:42.653-07:00A Muse on Creative Headwear for Women<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eFO9_fc_sig/TfqgAnxNaqI/AAAAAAAAAS4/wA93fHML858/s1600/hatblog.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 298px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618979417633942178" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-eFO9_fc_sig/TfqgAnxNaqI/AAAAAAAAAS4/wA93fHML858/s320/hatblog.jpg" /></a>When I heard the announcement for the Royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton I got a little excited. I don't pay much attention to the world of the paparazzi, so it wasn't the event itself that peaked my interest, it was more of a hat thing. You see women tend to wear them to important functions in England. Although it is not protocol, it is tradition. An event of this proportion was sure to inspire fantastic millinery work and THAT is what had me excited.<br /><br />As the date neared, the news wires were buzzing over the royal nuptial preparations. The wedding took place before a world audience with all of the expected pomp and circumstance. The ceremony was flawless, the couple lovely and the attendees perfectly mannered, no surprises there. However, I'm not sure anyone was quite prepared for some of the astonishing head wear that was spotted in the audience of aristocrats. Personally, I was thrilled. One amazing creation after another....a cascade of sculpted curlicues, a sweeping brim arched over a fanciful whimsie, festive colors, surreal flora and haughty plumes. The show stopper by far, was a scrolling architectural <a href="http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-05-22/news/29592513_1_royal-wedding-hat-fantastic-charities-ebay">number worn by Princess Beatrice</a> and created by <a href="http://www.philiptreacy.co.uk/">Phillip Treacy</a>.<br />After the wedding, Beatrices hat was auctioned off and fetched a whopping $132,000 which was donated to charity. I was impressed with them all and expected there would be a strong response in the press and on the fashion blogs. I knew the more conservative crowd would probably view such adventurous design as unattractive and perhaps even inappropriate but I was surprised at the level of attack. Snide comments and banal insults flooded the gossip columns and blogs. Even the sunny yellow color of the queens tasteful chapeau came under fire. I was truly taken aback at the lack of imagination that these critics possessed until I reminded myself that extravagant and artistic headwear has been evoking strong reaction for centuries.<br /><br />I decided to explore this further and learned some fascinating things that I would like to share. Please keep in mind, this is not a costume history lesson, it's a meandering muse through time. Each country and era had it's own complex range of styles and customs, I'm just stopping at some of the highlights. Having said that lets begin with the Middle Ages....<br /><br />Proper decorum over most of Europe, dictated that a married women cover her head and conceal her hair. Early on nets were worn beneath simple veils that draped under the chin (think of a nuns wimple). Cloth bands were used to secure the veil to the head. For those of noble class these bands were sometimes ornamented and embellished as a sign of status. The simple fabric band became wider and was eventually stiffened to form a pill box shape, this piece came to be called a torque or toque. Those of privilege favored coronets of precious materials and flowers. The headdress began to morph into elaborate shapes and by the 15th century women’s headwear had become very intricate and quite exaggerated. There was great variety in style, from wired hoods (coifs) and even turbans but the hennin, a cone shaped or steeple headdress, is what we associate most with that period in history. The single cone hennin often had a sheer veil draped from the tip and ranged in height from 6 inches up to to three feet(!) depending on the societal position of the wearer. There were divided hennins that looked like horns and truncated hennins as well. Other styles of headdress used the hennin as a base and added wired forms and padded rolls along with embellished hair nets, my favorite is a heart shaped wonder portrayed in the illustration below. Some of these structures were terribly heavy and obviously uncomfortable to wear, some were cut high on the forehead requiring the wearer to shave and pluck the hairline. The more elaborate styles were worn by the upper class and were neither functional nor practical, they were simply exotic objects of fashion and to this day their images in painting and manuscript are a delight to behold.<br /><br /><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LOyzuDC72nc/TfqLubTbMpI/AAAAAAAAASA/40bYAa1twec/s1600/hatconehennin.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 275px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618957114817589906" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LOyzuDC72nc/TfqLubTbMpI/AAAAAAAAASA/40bYAa1twec/s320/hatconehennin.jpg" /></a><strong> <em>The hennin from a 15th Century painting and an illustrated rendition of a royal woman in padded headress </em><br /><br /></strong>By the 16th century towering headwear was falling out of fashion as women were allowed to show more and more of their hair and interest turned to elaborate hairstyles. Small hats, veils and pretty lace caps were popular. In my research I found an amusing tidbit on Wikipedia that is testimony to the fact that the fashion critic has been with us for some time. It seems that towards the latter part of the 16th century some of the women’s hats borrowed their styling from those worn by men. Apparently even this whisper of cross dressing was too much for some. Puritan evangelist Philip Stubbes was most disapproving and condemned the practice in his book Anatomie of Abuses (1583).<br /><br />Head coverings remained relatively subdued during the 17th century. Hoods, scarves and veils were dominant and the trend for masculine styled hats, adorned with oversized plumes, continued. However the tendency towards the fantastic was not be constrained. In the 1680s the Fontage made it's debut. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HrLf-OHUlrg/TfqMLxtG5oI/AAAAAAAAASI/8XeyweI7Jjg/s1600/hatfontage.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 220px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618957619047097986" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HrLf-OHUlrg/TfqMLxtG5oI/AAAAAAAAASI/8XeyweI7Jjg/s320/hatfontage.jpg" /></a><em> <strong>The Fontage- A wired lace headress from the latter 1600s</strong></em><strong><br /></strong><br /><br /><br /><p>The Fontage evolved from the exquisite handmade lace veils worn by ladies of court. It began as a wired lace headdress that was created in sections or tiers which was incorporated into an elaborately curled hairdo atop the head. It started out small but soon began to grow. At it's peak in the 1690s this lacey confection had reached grand heights of 16" or more. Once again, completely impractical but lovely to look at. According to the book <strong>Costume and Fashion</strong> by James Laver, the Fontage remained in style for over twenty years despite stern disapproval from the moralists of the day who considered it an "incitement to pride". Towards the early 18th century it's popularity was on the wane but within a few decades the penchant for astounding headdress was destined to return.<br /><br />By the 18th century the requirement that married women cover their hair was long past and the vogue for artistic hairstyles was in full swing. High powdered pompadours and curls took the place of the Fontage. In the 1760s a huge collapsible bonnet called the Calash was invented as a protective covering. The Calash was an amazing feat of engineering. Hoops of arched whale bone or steel were joined by shirred fabric and could be opened and closed with a cord.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w2VCqNi-WXA/TfqQxScqEQI/AAAAAAAAASQ/h2XI7VShg7c/s1600/hatcalash2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 220px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618962661538140418" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w2VCqNi-WXA/TfqQxScqEQI/AAAAAAAAASQ/h2XI7VShg7c/s320/hatcalash2.jpg" /></a><em><strong> Photos of two actual Calash bonnets and a satirical illustration with exaggerated example (1780 by Carrington Bowles) Bonnet photos generously supplied by Deborah Burke of </strong></em><a href="http://www.antiquedress.com/"><em><strong>Antiquedress.com</strong></em></a><strong><em><br /></em><br /></strong>Around 1770 extreme hairstyling took on a life of it's own with Marie Antoinette at the lead. The more "simple" styles were done with padded rolls of hair piled on the head and festooned with notions and decorative items. However, the Royals and high gentry took the fad to outrageous levels. Their hair was brushed over wire structures, built up with horse hair and false curls then plastered and powdered with all manner of noxious substances. This coiffure then served as a base for fanciful objects and themed props. According to the book <strong>Dressing the Part</strong> by Fairfax P. Walkup, the final product could reach 72" high! He goes on to describe some of the more infamous creations including "a frigate in full sail atop monstrous waves of powdered hair" (La Belle Paule) and an English rendition that included "a lighted cookstove equipped with pots and pans!"<br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 230px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618962976927514146" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vUN5h5aXU-U/TfqRDpXV_iI/AAAAAAAAASY/uW6mJdgGuOs/s320/hatantoinettesatire.jpg" /> <strong><em>Satirical drawing aimed at the wildly embellished pompadour headresses worn by court society</em><br /></strong><br />Satire and caricature came swift on the heels of this monumental mode du jour. <strong>Dressing the Part</strong> (pg. 227) quotes this poem from the time.<br /><br /><em>"When he views your tresses thin,<br />Touched by some French Friseur,<br />Horsehair hemp and wool within<br />Garnished with a diamond skiver;<br />When he scents the mingled steam<br />Which your plastered head is rich in,<br />Lard and meal and clotted cream,<br />Can he love a walking kitchen?"<br /></em><br />(ouch!)<br /><br />I admit that this was fashion in the extreme and an undeniable provocation for criticism, but you cannot deny what fun it must have been to witness the bizarre splendor of it all. As with all trends of frivolity, the amusement soon faded and interest began to wane. In 1789 the French Revolution snuffed all such extravagance and an era was ended.<br /><br />For the first half of the 1800s caps, turbans and bonnets were the toppers of choice for women. One bonnet of note, the Poke bonnet, presented in a variety of styles often with oversized proportions which fueled the satirists of the day.<br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KZPUrZYxSuw/TfqVTr0Bo6I/AAAAAAAAASw/fDa8tD9LPAc/s1600/hatpokebonnet2.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 220px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618967650509104034" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KZPUrZYxSuw/TfqVTr0Bo6I/AAAAAAAAASw/fDa8tD9LPAc/s320/hatpokebonnet2.jpg" /></a><em> <strong>French fashion plate of the Poke bonnet and a satirical illustration<br /></strong></em><br />Over the last decades of the Century, bonnets lost favor to fashion hats. Aside from a run of exceedingly high crowns and beak shaped brims I didn't see much else that strayed too far outside the days realm of moderation.<br /><br />The debut of the 20th Century brought back a craze for a padded pompadours. Big hair meant big hats, really big hats with wide brims and sometimes high crowns. Oversized forms require oversized trim and milliners went wild. There was a frenzy for exotic plumes and at times entire birds were used as decoration. Swaths of chiffon and clouds of net engulfed crowns and brim. Poufs and bows of wide ribbon...Flowers fruits and leaves... Milliners had been using feathers since the days of Marie Antoinette, but towards the latter part of the 1800s demand was out of control. Techniques for harvesting bird skins, wings and feathers were indescribably cruel and sparked outrage from animal lovers. In 1886 the American Ornithologist Union released an estimate that five million North American birds were being slaughtered yearly for the millinery trade. Rare species were the most costly and were worn as symbols of status. In 1896 two Boston women, Mrs. August Hemenway and Miss Mina Hall vowed to boycott bird hats and were joined by a number of their society friends (this was the beginning of the Massachusetts Audubon Society). In 1900 the Lacey act was adopted in the US to try and prohibit interstate trade of protected animals. The Weeks-McLean act was passed in 1913 prohibiting feather imports and the sale of selected species of birds. Although these efforts helped, the style continued for a few more years both in the States and Europe making poaching a lucrative business.<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n1Nn71aS4yU/TfqRci22X-I/AAAAAAAAASg/HmRHD276UTU/s1600/hatdilineatorJan1901.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 226px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618963404677341154" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n1Nn71aS4yU/TfqRci22X-I/AAAAAAAAASg/HmRHD276UTU/s320/hatdilineatorJan1901.jpg" /></a><em> <strong>1901 fashion illustration from the Delineator featuring oversized hats decorated with whole birds<br /><br /></strong></em>Hats styles went through a drastic makeover in the 1920s. The bobbed hairdo became the rage and headwear began to shrink (along with hemlines). By the end of the decade brims were nearly non existent and crowns became nothing more than scull hugging cloches, a dramatic change in a very short space of time. The 1920s experienced a style and culture revolution that shattered convention and started a roller coaster of change. 20th century fashion innovations came and went with lightning speed and so did trends in headwear, creating fertile ground for the fashion critic. During the later 30s and into the 40s surreal pillboxes perched at impossible angles (the most famous is Elsa Schiaparelli's <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/stephen-jones-my-20-favourite-hats-1607023.html?action=Gallery&ino=9">shoe hat</a>). The platter hat of the late 40s-50s hovered eerily over the brow. The sixties saw space age bubble toques and oversized blossoms in mutated colors. Then in the later 1960s it all came to a crashing halt. For the most part women stopped wearing hats, sure there were a few loyal hold outs but the blow to the millinery business was devastating.<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OHxXI3cGWqM/TfqR6Beoe2I/AAAAAAAAASo/cA2eFRcbTLE/s1600/hatFlowerBucketnMore.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 220px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5618963911113472866" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OHxXI3cGWqM/TfqR6Beoe2I/AAAAAAAAASo/cA2eFRcbTLE/s320/hatFlowerBucketnMore.jpg" /></a><br /><em><strong>Thank you again to </strong></em><a href="http://www.antiquedress.com/"><em><strong>Antiquedress.com</strong></em></a><strong><em> for photos of the platter hat and the winged tilt hat. The pink bucket hat with giant flowers is from my own website :)</em><br /></strong><br />In my opinion the demise of hats left the world of fashion a lot less fun. How wonderful it was to see this forgotten art revived in force at the royal wedding. How refreshing that creativity was given full reign. I applaud the bravery and adventurous spirit of both the creators and the wearers of those marvelous hats and I hope that artistic headwear will one day again be an important part of fashion.<br /><br />Click <a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2068553,00.html">here</a> to see some of the Royal Wedding Hats.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p></div>Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-28728967983168531982011-04-01T10:02:00.000-07:002011-04-01T11:02:11.045-07:00In Celebration of the Simple House Dress<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3yNPkUA9RTU/TZYKC97o1KI/AAAAAAAAARE/pw7smjr8_vA/s1600/housedressTeensLabel.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 261px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590667033527768226" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3yNPkUA9RTU/TZYKC97o1KI/AAAAAAAAARE/pw7smjr8_vA/s320/housedressTeensLabel.jpg" /></a> High end vintage dresses are far and away the stars of the market. There are books and blogs galore celebrating the work of famous couturiers and celebrity designers. I love fine vintage fashion and I spend a great deal of time reading those blogs and books but, like many hard core vintage devotees, I am also intrigued by everyday fashions from past years. I get just as excited flipping through an old Sears catalogue as I do a vintage Vogue magazine and I really have a soft spot for vintage house dresses. Imagine, living in a time, when women, rarely if ever wore pants let alone jeans. It wasn't so long ago. Before the 1970s the majority of women wore dresses almost all the time. So imagine again, you are a homemaker, running after children, scrubbing the floors, hanging the laundry... always in a dress. <br /><p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BjtMAQksfIc/TZYKpEExNpI/AAAAAAAAARM/-oASZY8kqZI/s1600/HousedressBlog1900s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 213px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590667688011708050" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BjtMAQksfIc/TZYKpEExNpI/AAAAAAAAARM/-oASZY8kqZI/s320/HousedressBlog1900s.jpg" /></a> <strong><em>Early 1900s Cotton house dress, imagine scrubbing the floor in this</em></strong> </p><br /><p>For most of her life my maternal grandmother flat out refused to put on a pair of pants. Hard working and soft spoken this woman raised eight children, tended chickens and a huge garden and even went fishing (she loved to fish)... all of these things in a dress. She was no different than the majority of women from her time. Thats the way it was. According to the 1956 book <strong>Dress Smartly</strong> by Mildred Graves Ryan "<em>clothes for housework should be practical and functional. They should allow for feedom of movement, with nicely fitted looseness placed across the shoulders and in the sleeves. Skirts should be full enough to allow one to walk quickly and with ease, but they should not be so wide or so long that a person is liable to catch a heel in the hem and fall as a result. Loose or dangling decoration, wide sleeves or big pockets which could be caught on a nail handle or a saucepan should not be worn</em>" Ms Ryan also stated that a nicely fitted pair of slacks or overalls could be worn while gardening but "<em>if your figure looks badly in slacks, you should refrain from wearing them</em>". Old advertisements for house dresses often stressed easy care fabrics and thrifty prices but they also emphasized style. I am often amazed at the lovely details to be found on old house dresses. Novelty pockets, dainty ruffles, piped edgings and rick rack trim to name a few. Cheerful prints in pretty colors were most popular. The preferred fabric tended to be cotton or some sort of cotton blend. During WWll cotton was in short supply so manufacturers turned to rayon. However, the rayon house dress was less sturdy and harder to care for so after the war, the market reverted back to cotton. In the 1950s homemakers welcomed the new cotton polyester blends because they hardly wrinkled and were so easy to press. By the 1960s cotton poly blends made up a good share of the market. </p><br /><p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BWjNLmMwgTM/TZYMaAOpe8I/AAAAAAAAARk/wa2q3SGGfmg/s1600/HousedressBlog60s70s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590669628304620482" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BWjNLmMwgTM/TZYMaAOpe8I/AAAAAAAAARk/wa2q3SGGfmg/s320/HousedressBlog60s70s.jpg" /></a> <strong>Easy care and wrinkle resitant, Cotton Polyester blends</strong></p><br /><p>Overwhelming evidence indicates that a bonafide house dress should open in the front. Wrap dresses closed with with fabric ties and the rest with buttons or zippers. A pretty little house frock from the 1940 Fall Montgomery Ward catalogue brags about their zipper front feature "no ties to tie, no buttons to button!" Anything to make Moms day a little easier. Styles in house dresses changed slowly especially from the late 30s up to the mid 1950s. They are often found without labels which makes precise dating difficult. Often times manufacturers used the same dress pattern over a number of seasons. They might change up the fabric prints and small details for the next run but essentially it was the same dress. <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pM3iUx1Yr7s/TZYL-ELRC7I/AAAAAAAAARc/oXahHXDtWQc/s1600/HousedressBlog30s40s50s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590669148327840690" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pM3iUx1Yr7s/TZYL-ELRC7I/AAAAAAAAARc/oXahHXDtWQc/s320/HousedressBlog30s40s50s.jpg" /></a> Although I don't have numbers to back me up, reason tells me that many millions of house dresses must have been manufactured over the years. Yet, I definately find more dressy garments on the secondary market. I'm sure that most house dresses were worn to a frazzle and mended til they couldn't be mended anymore. A "good dress" on the other hand, would have been used just occasionally and it cost a lot more so it had a better chance of being stored away. When I find an old house dress I feel like I have found a special treasure. I think about the woman that wore it and what she might have been like. Did she sing to the radio when she made the evening dinner? Did she have children... grandchildren? For some reason I never think these things when I come across a fancy party dress or an elegant gown. I appreciate their beauty but that's all. An old house dress, for me, represents a real person in time and history. Someone like me who had good days and bad and did their best with the life they had. <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aQ7He710Pdk/TZYNyYj-AMI/AAAAAAAAARs/fwqftHaVhNc/s1600/housedress1920s.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 162px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5590671146664984770" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aQ7He710Pdk/TZYNyYj-AMI/AAAAAAAAARs/fwqftHaVhNc/s320/housedress1920s.jpg" /></a> <strong><em>A rare example of a late 1920s housedress in unworn condition, polished cotton with dropped waist and ties in back</em></strong> </p>Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-29287445080685050092011-02-28T13:22:00.000-08:002011-03-01T06:30:44.516-08:00Ruth Saltz Handbag Designer - A True Pioneer<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q6zOjAbuUJk/TWwTMH5fKtI/AAAAAAAAAQk/aXQmAYQiaa8/s1600/SaltzPhoto.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 262px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578855137404725970" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Q6zOjAbuUJk/TWwTMH5fKtI/AAAAAAAAAQk/aXQmAYQiaa8/s320/SaltzPhoto.jpg" /></a><br /><em>Ruth Saltz Photo provided by Marcella Saltz</em><br /><br />I have been curious about the story behind Ruth Saltz handbags ever since I found my first example in a vintage shop many years ago. It was an oversized, fold over clutch in the yummiest shade of red. I could tell right away that the quality was superior. The leather was soft and supple and the interesting closure was as well made as a piece of jewelry. I was not a big fan of envelope style bags at the time. They just didn't seem a practical choice for a working mother of three. My typical handbag was more the size of a duffle bag (OK slight exaggeration), but I really fell in love with this one so I bought it anyway. At some point, in a fit of closet-purging, I decided to put it up on my website and sad for me, it sold. That was nearly a decade ago and I still kick myself.<br /><br />Since then I have come across many Ruth Saltz handbags (although that long lost clutch remains my favorite) and they are always beautifully made and designed. Even if you don't recognize the name I'm sure most of you are familiar with her work. You know those iconic 1970’s and 80’s handbags with the long chain handles and cougar head ornament? THAT’S Ruth Saltz. Oh, and those flat clutches with the leather rose, she designed those as well. As I mentioned, I've always wondered who the talent was behind these wonderful bags so imagine my delight when daughter Marcella Saltz agreed to an interview about her mother!<br /><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cTIK8OSeOfI/TWwTtgjMV1I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/NvNSs-rrdOc/s1600/Saltzrosebag.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 178px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578855710957786962" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cTIK8OSeOfI/TWwTtgjMV1I/AAAAAAAAAQ0/NvNSs-rrdOc/s320/Saltzrosebag.jpg" /></a><br /><em>Left to right clockwise... Ruth Saltz rose clutch...handy pockets and handsome details on a bone leather bag...signature lining</em><br /><br />Our first contact was via e-mail. We introduced ourselves, I sent her a list of questions and she promised to send back her answers.... standard procedure for an online interview. A follow up phone conversation was planned for the weekend. I had no idea how fascinating that phone call would be! Marcella was warm and funny and had a delightful enthusiasm about her. It appears the apple did not fall far from the tree...<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B0dPAp6rqMg/TWwTVai7HKI/AAAAAAAAAQs/G4wQGRKdqFI/s1600/Saberbag.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 265px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578855297029184674" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-B0dPAp6rqMg/TWwTVai7HKI/AAAAAAAAAQs/G4wQGRKdqFI/s320/Saberbag.jpg" /></a><br /><em>Saber Handbag from the Early 1960s Designed by Ruth Saltz. Note the Pretty Toile Lining.</em><br /><br />I asked Marcella for a bit of history on her mother. Ruth was a painter before she started designing handbags in the late 1950s. Her husband, Sam Saltz owned Saber Handbags an accessory company based in New York. Sam asked his artist wife, Ruth, to help design the showroom and to give advice on color and new direction for the new collection. Ruth had great design talent and became the creative force behind the company. Throughout the late 50’s and 1960’s Ruth and Sam Saltz were a successful team and pillars of the Accessory industry. Her artistic nature lead her to rebel against the smooth and somewhat boring frame handbag of that day. A lover of color and texture, she experimented with soft supple leathers, suede and exotic skins like ostrich, rhinoceros and turtle. Alligators were a protected species at the time, so Ruth went to Italy to work with leather tannery’s where they custom created fine leathers and suedes for the company including embossed leather that closely resembled alligator and crocodile. She was a forerunner in her industry, creating ever new avenues of design with texture, color and finishes. I would give my eye tooth to see the turquoise alligator embossed handbag that her daughter, Marcella described to me!<br /><br />Ruth was also a champion of practicality. She understood the need for convenient compartments and easy access in a handbag and was the first to extend the inside zippered compartments from each side to the bottom of the bag. Besides all the handy compartments, Some of her bags even had convenient outside change purses that were attached with chain and fit into their own pockets. She was a great fan of the shoulder strap and in the 1960s she was a pioneer of unisex handbags as well as a handbag made exclusively for Men. Quoted from the Aug. 8, 1968 edition of the Times-News Hendesronville, N.C. <em>"...men are starting to carry handbags. This latest fashion for men had it's start around Fathers Day...when a couple of handbag manufacturers ventured into purses for men." the article went on to say, "Ruth Saltz at Saber handbags uses whipcords and unpolished leathers in her "Gentry" and "Now Voyager" styles"</em>. Just a little aside here... it's obvious the writer of this article did not know much about the designer herself because Ruth Saltz disliked the word purse referring to a handbag. I can't imagine what she thought of someone calling a mans bag a purse! Marcella quotes her Mom as saying <em>“the word purse relates to something you put change into inside your handbag”.</em> She educated the public and the buyers and insisted they use the word HANDBAG.<br /><br />Ruth was always loved and admired in the fashion industry. According to her daughter everyone adored her. Marcella wrote <em>"Ruth was a warm, loving and generous person and a source of great delight to all who knew her. She was a force to be reckoned with, always ahead of the curve".</em> In the early 1970s Ruth and Sam Saltz created the label Ruth Saltz Designs, which remained successful until the company closed in the late 80”s. Through out her design career Ruth continued to be innovative and fashion forward. She created the first signature lining, with an all over "autograph" print.<br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IcWuE7kzNNI/TWwUJu8KO5I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/nwWc0D5cgMM/s1600/SaltzCougarBag.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 232px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5578856195856939922" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IcWuE7kzNNI/TWwUJu8KO5I/AAAAAAAAAQ8/nwWc0D5cgMM/s320/SaltzCougarBag.jpg" /></a><br /><em>Marcella..."Throughout the seasons and the years the cougar bag came in many designs and elements and I guess you could say her signature ornament."</em><br /><em>The handsome cougar head adornment was a functional pull to open and close the handbag.</em><br /><br />I asked Marcella to tell me where her mother found her inspiration. Without hesitation Marcella said her mother loved the water and could sit for hours watching the ocean. She loved to be with family and friends. Entertaining was her joy <em>"At the drop of a suggestion she would throw together a fabulous dinner party".</em> She continued to be passionate about painting and was devoted to her family and good friends. Marcella said <em>"Her designs came from her heart and her love of life each handbag collection was filled with love and imagination.....my mother most definately took pleasure in all her moments"</em><br /><br />When I set out to write this blog I suspected Ruth Saltz must have been a remarkable person, but I had no idea... Her creative genius continues to influence the handbag industry and her designs continue to be echoed in the work of contemporary designers today. I am indebted to her daughter Marcella for sharing so generously and please stay tuned because there is a future "Saltz" blog in the works. You see Marcella is a prominent jewelry and accessory designer and she has promised to share on her own intriguing career, highlighting the wild and wonderful accessories world in the 1980s!<br /><br /><br /><br />MelodyTangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-51618480099844351902011-01-24T08:40:00.000-08:002011-01-24T08:59:54.774-08:00The Infamous Red Dress<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TT2tu7WAVjI/AAAAAAAAAQY/sTjlfVz-jxs/s1600/RedDressBlog.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 258px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TT2tu7WAVjI/AAAAAAAAAQY/sTjlfVz-jxs/s320/RedDressBlog.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565795736215377458" /></a><br /><br /><br />Valentines day is just around the corner...for one brief day Cupid will cast his spell and Romance will reign queen. It is a day for sentimental cards of hearts and lace, decadent chocolates in gaudy boxes and sweet smelling roses. A day for innocent flirtation or passionate declarations and certainly a day to be daring. Red is the traditional color of romance and passion and it's the color of Valentines day. So... I decided to pay tribute by posting a collection of red vintage dress on my website. This got me to thinking. What is it about a red dress? Why have fashion ads and articles consistently described the red dress as bold or saucy or even racy (for decades mind you). It's seldom the style that elicits this response. A little 1950s party dress in powder blue might be termed sweet or darling but the same exact dress in red suddenly becomes daring. How curious. Why I wondered?<br /><br />I decided to look into this and did you know that a study was released just last October by two researchers at the University of Rochester which concluded that the color red absolutely enhances men's attraction to women? You can <a href="http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3268">read about it here</a> but the gist of it is this... hands down, no doubt about it men seem to have a primal attraction to a woman wearing red. There were some really interesting finds like the fact that men estimated they would be willing to spend more on a date with the women they saw wearing red (wow, who knew?). Anyway, it appears that the infamy of the red dress now has a bonafide base in human psychology.<br /><br />Given all this you would think the red dress market would have always been a booming one. Not so. Ask any vintage dealer and they will tell you just how difficult it is to find them. Flip through your vintage magazines and you will see that there are precious few examples to be found. Again, I began to wonder why. Then I remembered a story an older friend of mine told me. She was a teen in the 1950s and was looking for a prom dress. She fell in love with a frothy number in crimson and rushed home to tell her mother. Imagine how taken aback she must have been when her mother adamantly refused to allow her to buy the dress. When pressed for a reason all her mom would say was "only fast girls wear red dresses". Yes, Dior said it was his lucky color and Valentino was famous for his scarlet gowns but back in the day, it appears, the red dress was reserved for only the most daring and confident of women.<br /><br />Best to you all and Happy Valentines Day!!<br />Melody<br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TT2tjNblAXI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/_AZH8s-ee9E/s1600/RedDressBlog2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TT2tjNblAXI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/_AZH8s-ee9E/s320/RedDressBlog2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565795534912160114" /></a>Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-44455409958444493662010-12-22T08:47:00.000-08:002010-12-22T10:34:07.524-08:00A Very Vintage Holiday Season to you!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJC45yeouI/AAAAAAAAAPU/l-sralg0e78/s1600/XmaswaxTree.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 245px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553574835853894370" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJC45yeouI/AAAAAAAAAPU/l-sralg0e78/s320/XmaswaxTree.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />I adore the Holiday Season. All the holidays..... it's wonderful that there are so many different celebrations that take place, all the world over....festivals of light, days of thanksgiving, the birth of a new year... Christmas is my personal favorite. Besides having been a magical part of my childhood it is also a reminder to me that hope, love and peace are the greatest gifts mankind can ever wish for.<br /><br />I love everything Christmas and being a vintage kind of gal, it's no wonder the nostalgia that permeates this season touches something deep inside of me. I'm a complete sucker for the old movies (Miracle on 34th Street STILL brings a lump to my throat). I love traditional food, especially old family recipes that take time to prepare AND I am addicted to vintage Christmas decor.<br /><br />I began collecting Christmas memorabilia when I was just a teenager. My Mom was an antique dealer so we went to a lot of yard sales. My first find was a box of never used, 1950s Christmas cards that could be used as tree ornaments. They were utterly charming! Colorful gingerbread men, singing angels, snowmen, wreaths and lanterns and of course Jolly old Santa! I was SO hooked!<br /><br />I never became a serious collector and I must confess I never really spent any time researching my finds. Rarity and value were never the point for me. Mostly I just picked up things that struck my fancy. Angels and elves, interesting ornaments, figurines...I treasure them all, from my silly plastic Snoopy with reindeer horns to my one and only Victorian glass bird.<br /><br />It's been a while since I've taken the time to blog. Time just gets away... but today I decided to put everything down and take a few pictures so I could share some of my favorite vintage Christmas pieces and to wish you all the very best during this beautiful season.<br /><br />Melody<br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJDbtaZalI/AAAAAAAAAP0/XB7Ua5W32Xs/s1600/XmaswaxSantaSled.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 262px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553575433827084882" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJDbtaZalI/AAAAAAAAAP0/XB7Ua5W32Xs/s320/XmaswaxSantaSled.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJDWKDrjTI/AAAAAAAAAPs/FgM8jzm9-6k/s1600/XmaswaxSantaGauzeAngel.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 241px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553575338437217586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJDWKDrjTI/AAAAAAAAAPs/FgM8jzm9-6k/s320/XmaswaxSantaGauzeAngel.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJDMy382hI/AAAAAAAAAPk/6xVtROatelc/s1600/XmaswaxDeer.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 319px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553575177595181586" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJDMy382hI/AAAAAAAAAPk/6xVtROatelc/s320/XmaswaxDeer.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJDFxRJ3iI/AAAAAAAAAPc/YiM2XMZaJ24/s1600/XmaswaxSantaAngels.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553575056904936994" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJDFxRJ3iI/AAAAAAAAAPc/YiM2XMZaJ24/s320/XmaswaxSantaAngels.jpg" /></a><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJEafQOG3I/AAAAAAAAAQE/9LzWyW1-3hY/s1600/XmaswaxTreeClose.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJEafQOG3I/AAAAAAAAAQE/9LzWyW1-3hY/s320/XmaswaxTreeClose.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553576512358062962" /></a><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJET1zjBMI/AAAAAAAAAP8/dkzpgnGMCqU/s1600/XmasSnoopy.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TRJET1zjBMI/AAAAAAAAAP8/dkzpgnGMCqU/s320/XmasSnoopy.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5553576398152729794" /></a>Tangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-28959003817521896582010-12-08T08:42:00.001-08:002010-12-08T08:48:02.996-08:00Vintage Fashion Guild News!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TP-2ahvPKyI/AAAAAAAAAPM/vBP6r5XfetQ/s1600/VFGnewsletter.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 233px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548353832793090850" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TP-2ahvPKyI/AAAAAAAAAPM/vBP6r5XfetQ/s320/VFGnewsletter.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><strong>Illustration above from the exhibition - "Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles County Museum of Art."<br /></strong><br />If you are already familiar with the online website The <a href="http://vintagefashionguild.org/">Vintage Fashion Guild</a> you know what an amazing resource it is. If not you simply MUST check them out. The website features a public forum where you can ask the experts just about any question regarding vintage and where you can share your passion for past fashions. They also have an amazing labels resource section with pictures and a brief history of hundreds of vintage fashion labels. There are articles and workshops and for eye candy, a seasonal parade of vintage fashions. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better they debuted their new <a href="http://vintagefashionguild.blogspot.com/2010/12/hot-off-cyber-press.html">Newsletter</a>!<br /><br />I joined the Guild a few years ago and it has been such a joy to be a member. If you are drawn to the world of fashion and love vintage I highly recommend you hop over there this very minute :)<br /><br />Best to all, MelodyTangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9182711297384912276.post-71835041885137057412010-11-01T08:36:00.000-07:002010-11-01T09:56:52.086-07:00SOWA Vintage Market! A little vintage heaven in Boston!<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TM7v7E5VjqI/AAAAAAAAAO8/tlylJ9HZ-no/s1600/SowaforBlog.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4uvEgz1vHGk/TM7v7E5VjqI/AAAAAAAAAO8/tlylJ9HZ-no/s320/SowaforBlog.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5534624790290468514" /></a><br /><br /><br />Funky Fun and Fabulous! Vintage (for both home and wardrobe) has come to the South End of Boston by way of a Sunday Open Market and it appears there has been a standing ovation.<br /><br />The <a href="http://sowavintagemarket.com/">SOWA Vintage Market</a> has been operating on Sundays since the end of May and was scheduled to close for the season this past Halloween weekend. Since the day it opened locals and out of town visitors have been flocking to the large retro-fit warehouse on Harrison Ave. to shop and browse booth after booth filled with everything vintage (including the kitchen sink). The owners are selective about their vendors so standards are high yet prices are surprisingly affordable. As a result, the market has become overwhelmingly popular. It's no wonder the dealers and customers began lobbying for extending the season weeks ago AND they have been heard! Owners Stephanie Pernice and John Warren have decided to add another three weeks to the schedule Hooray!<br /><br />How do I know all of this? I'm one of the Vintage clothing dealers and I couldn't be happier. SOWA has become one of my favorite venues. The customers are fantastic and not just because they shop. Bob and I meet all kinds of interesting people from every walk of life and I should also mention the place is pet friendly, how great is that?<br /><br />So if you are in the Boston area over any of the next three Sundays ( Nov. 7th, 14th and 21st) come over to the SOWA Vintage Market and check it out. I'll be in my usual spot at the Albany St. end of the building :)<br /><br />For directions and info on free parking click <a href="http://sowavintagemarket.com/directions/">here</a>. I sure do hope you can come but if you can't don't worry SOWA will be back in May!<br /><br />MelodyTangerine Boutiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06393065206042917508noreply@blogger.com1