Jul 31 2009
Peta Pledger :: Lucky Diamonds
Australian Peta Pledger creates lovely one offs and single runs based on patterns from the 50’s. I love this black floral strapless “Lucky Diamonds Dress” (and those sandals!) You can find Peta’s stylings here or over at her Etsy shop.
Jun 26 2009
eBay :: Cotton Floral Mini
Ahh, the good old 70’s. The Jackson 5 and avacado kitchens. (I’m still living with an avacado colored wall oven and dishwasher!) This floral mini dress is so cool and retro. Available here from bestofrb for only $18. See many more here….
Apr 21 2009
I just found this Fringe Forever purse over at ModCloth. for all of you who love fringe like I do. I also love that ModCloth was started by Susan Gregg-Koger when she was only 17 and now only seven years later ModCloth has over 300,000 customers a month. Susan spends her days traveling all over the world, looking for new designers and shopping for the business. Her husband, who has his MBA in entrepreneurship. holds down the business/web end of ModCloth. As someone who’s always thinking about starting an online vintage store, I think ModCloth is the model store. Check it out!
Nov 21 2008
The high point of my week: a belted chocolate-brown leather jacket with zippers at the cuffs for only $8! This jacket along with a few other “vintage finds” inspired me to take a look and see what my fellow fashion bloggers are doing with their vintage shops.
Jun 09 2008
Oh! The Visa Swap sounds like so much fun! You can trade in your old favorite designer and high street clothing and receive a Visa Swap card loaded with points relative to what you donate. Then take your card to No. 1 Piazza at Covent Garden and pick out some new vintage designer items. This is the second year for the Visa Swap and it all happens during June and July. All items which have not been swapped by the end of the event will be donated to charity.
And who’s the face for Visa Swap 2008? Our own Lindsay Lohan, of course. Who knew she was a fan of vintage? Read the Daily Mail piece here.
May 21 2008
I was poking around the web looking for vintage clothing and found todays New York Times article about Foley + Corinna (thanks to a post on Hooti Couture). What an inspiration! I love to hear about multi-million dollar businesses that started out at the kitchen table.
With the help of a friend who could manage a needle and thread, Ms. Foley made more skirts and put them on a table at the old flea market on Avenue of the Americas in Chelsea. The first day, she made $2,000. The kitchen became a factory. “My kids were sitting there eating pizza in a sea of organza,” she said….In many regards, the story of how Ms. Foley and Ms. Corinna turned a flea-market friendship into a fashion company that now has $20 million in annual retail sales is uncommon. Neither one knew much about the mechanics of design or, for that matter, business. They have never been prominently profiled in Vogue or Elle, nor have they sought the Bryant Park runways. But Ms. Corinna has an eye for vintage fashion, and Ms. Foley is intuitive about how to make new versions of those styles for modern women. (Read the rest of the article here.)
So I was doubly lucky because just the other day I was talking to my mother and we were trying to remember the name of a book I lent her a couple of years ago about Vintage Clothing and there it was right in front of me – Alligators, Old Mink & New Money: One Woman’s Adventures in Vintage Clothing
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