Doesn’t this tote make you want to book a New England B&B for a weekend of pumpkins, apples, and fall foliage? I found it here at Vintage Virtuosa. I love how the owner, Karen, describes her passion for vintage clothing. Like me, it started in her mother’s closet.  She says -

If I were to define vintage it would be a sip of fine wine from my grandmother’s goblet, the lingering scent of tobacco from my grandfather’s pipe, a favorite family recipe, an old re-run of `I Love Lucy’. If I were to define vintage clothing it would be a dress that dictates trend from a designer or dressmaker who captured a stylistic moment, it would be a signature piece from a retired designer or a unique item that depicts the socioeconomic climate of its era. Vintage can, but does not have to bear a label, it is of a time when getting dressed was an art form and clothes were constructed, not just made, it is a time when we celebrated our bodies and revealed ourselves from the outside in, when women were demure, yet sexy, temperate, yet sensual, coy, yet poised. It is also fun, exciting, playful and outlandish. Vintage is what you make of it and what it makes of you. So come and discover the world of yesterday and see that while it is not brand new it is not yesterday’s news.

This bag also reminds me of one of my favorite children’s books - Susan and the Rain  by Madye Lee Chastain.

Susan Amantha Cottonwood was a little girl who was always good- when
the sun shone,
BUT
When the clouds rolled up in the sky
She began to cry and moan
    and cry and moan
    and cry and moan.
Until one day she went to visit her grandpapa -

Anyway… Susan gets a new raincoat and boots as a present at the end of the book… and the coat is in the very same red plaid as this bag! 

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