Vintage Purses

More scans of my favorite vintage purses from my purse calender.

Wooden box bag, 50's?

Way cool.

This is so delicate and pretty.
Mesh pouch with tassels and appliqued flowers, Greece, mid-19th century.


Awesome vintage 20's Deco bag.
Metallic geometric pochette, France, c. 1925



And this is my favorite of all.
Printed fabric purse with gathered side pockets, 1940's.


Enjoy!

If Only I Had Known

Seems that teens in Florida who are the beneficiaries of the states awesome abstinence only sex ed program think that smoking pot can keep one from getting pregnant.

If only I had known, all those years of rubbers and the pill, all a waste when you realize that I could have smoked reefer instead.

Some also believe that drinking a cap full of bleach (seriously? I would think shooting up your vag would work better....NOT) will take care of the HIV and a shot of Mountain Dew (cause we know it will kill anything) can also keep you from getting preggers.

Thank goodness the FL. state leg has used the studies information to pass a more comprehensive sex ed program.

I wonder if they also read the study that found out that tons of girls are having ass sex with their boyfriends because technically it means they are still virgins (and didn't mean their boyfriend was gay) while not breaking that "saving it for marriage" pledge they took in church to make their parents happy.
(just in case here is a site where you can get your own "purity ring".....awesome.)

You Can't Save Them All, Part 2

UPDATE: Go Here!

As I have said before one of the hardest parts of selling and collecting vintage clothing is knowing that there are just some garments that cannot be saved. This vintage 50's Lilli Diamond wiggle dress and swing coat is one such item.



How fabulous is this?

I bought this knowing I cannot save it. There is a red dye transfer stain on both the dress and swing coat. So sad.

I'll be keeping this for my own personal collection of fab but flawed vintage designer garments.

Top Chef

Tonight on Top Chef the teams had to create a course based on their favorite movies.
OMG, I was screaming The Thin Man, The Thin Man.
No one choose it of course, what a great course you could make based on all the liquor.
There is a liquor course in a six course meal, right?

If not there should be.

But really you could make some kind of awesome sauce with gin (or drink lots of gin and get sauced) and serve it with a dry martini.
Or two.

Just a reminder why The Thin Man (besides all of the fabulous vintage 30's and 40's clothes Myrna Loy wears) is awesome:


and yes, I want that cute Australian or Stephanie to win.

VLV Blog Tag

It is Wed. and besides being my 45th (Jesus, can you believe it?) birthday, it is also time for Blog Tag with eVintage Society. This week we are doing the Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly look.

FAVORITE ROCKABILLY LOOK PIECE IN YOUR INVENTORY?
This totally hot Shannon Rodgers sun dress.

DO YOU WEAR THE ROCKABILLY LOOK AT ALL?
In my imagination I am.....

CRUCIAL ROCKABILLY VINTAGE ACCESSORY FOR GIRLS?
A pair of rockin' Springolators.

PERSONAL STYLE. SANDY OR RIZZO?
Rizzo baby, Sandy was a wuss.

I wish I had been that hot in high school......

AGE OLD QUESTION….ELVIS OR THE BEATLES?
Elvis, was there ever a doubt?

I'm tagging Kitsch-y-Cool Vintage next!

Republicans....Like eBay in a Way

"The EBay model is very Republican in its essence -- it's about making a small number of rules and getting out of the way while not overtaxing the community," she said. -- Meg Whitman, March 2008

Well since eBay is totally fucked up I'd have to agree with ole Meg there.

Monty Python LOLcat

Via I Can Has Cheeze Burgers.

Estate Sale Finds

I had a cool sale weekend.
Got a great set of vintage tumblers, aqua blue with with rubber swirls and still has the original holder.
Then I found some vintage purses, a sexy cocktail apron (very swanky over a black chiffon cocktail dress and with a martini in hand) and a great pair of vintage sun glasses.
Along with a few great dress (black again, all I buy is black) and vintage shoes.
Here are a few pictures of my finds.

eVintage Blog Tag, COLOR!

I was tagged by Ang over at eVintage.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR?

Aqua/Turquoise

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE BRIGHTLY COLOURED PIECE IN YOUR INVENTORY?

This 50's/60's Adele Simpson suit. I love the bright blue mixed with the lighter blue daisy print.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE WAY TO ADD COLOUR TO AN OUTFIT?
I wear mostly black and use my earrings, pins and scarves to add color.

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOUR TO WEAR?
I hate to admit it, but black, I love wearing black.

WHAT COLOUR ARE YOU WEARING RIGHT NOW?
A black sleeping tee and pink flannel capris...still in my jammies.

WHAT COLOURS DO YOU DECORATE WITH?
It is a mix of 50's turquoise, black, tans and reds.

Its time to brighten up! Let's pass this over to Carol at Life of a Jersey Girl.

Kim's Da' Bomb

Because she is the funniest woman I know who sells vintage that I have never met in real life but know online and dude, we are tight.
She now has a blog so you can also delight in her.
The Girl Can't Help It....
Oy, and Vey, I think Kim copyrighted that.


Oh, and another funny blog started by Lisa with Kim, Elisa and I as contributors.
Fabricated Lives

Whats for Dinner This Week

Tonight it was BBQ; pulled beef sandwiches, coleslaw and BBQ Beans from a local BBQ joint.*
Then:
Wed- Hurry Curry Chicken
Thurs- Burritos
Friday- Chicken Patty Sandwiches with Fries
Sat- Big Chef Salads

I've got a big magnetic calender that I fill out for the month with meals.
It had gotten to the point where all we were eating was pasta....by the time I began thinking about dinner at 3 or 4 pm it was to late to do much else. Plus I would decide on something and go look for the freaking ingredients and there was always at least one item missing.
Now I can make out the grocery list for Mr. Goddess based on what I plan on cooking.

Dinner around here, while maybe not like at the Cleaver's, at least does not look like the Bundy's anymore.
Though I do still wear my skin tight leopard carpi's with stilettos while cooking and smoking....it's how I roll.

*Just so you know I do not buy take home very often, but today was the day we spent in purgatory at the DMV getting a new DL for me and a Arkansas ID for the boy so he can become gainfully employed (yea!) at WalMart pushing carts.
Not a bad job for a 16 yr old.
We left around noon, got home around 4:30pm.
Yes, I need a drink.
Too many things went wrong, but suffice it to say that in Arkansas you can't use BOTH your Birth Certificate and SS Card as ID since they are both considered primary ID's and one must have a secondary ID.
None on the list did we have.
So I had to go fill out a piece of paper declaring The Boy was who I said he was ( I guess I could have brought any urchin in with me and declared he was my kid) and get it notarized...then get back in line.
Oy, and Vey!
Then with ID in hand he went to the bank to take some of his own money out of his account, but we were given the wrong information earlier and my hubby has to fill something out giving The Boy permission to sign on the account because he is a minor.
Jesus Tapdancing Christ on a Stick.
Long story short, nice lady at bank let Mr. Goddess OK over the phone and The Boy with money in hand got to go to WalMart and buy the video game (some Pinata game where you grow them then kill them, I think...which really sounds awesome in a sick way to me) that was the WHOLE point of the WHOLE damn trip to Benton in the 1st place.
THAT is why we ate take home today.

Back to Basketball

Easter dinner to the tunes of Sinatra is over and it is back to basketball....
Some of the feast:
Raspberry Cranberry Jello, I loves it.

What's Cooking; Easter Edition

Spiral Cut Honey Ham
Broccoli Casserole
Deviled Eggs
Cranberry/Raspberry Jello
Fake Taters (the boy does not believe in eating "real food" ie the boccoli and the eggs, he will be making said taters himself since I will have busted my ass making said "real food" all day)
Rolls
Coconut Creme Pie (out of a box, I exhausted)

Pics later!

What did you have?

Oh, and candy.
Those Orange 3 Musketeers?
Delish!

What You Should Be Watching

Of all the things on TV, Bill Moyers Journal is one show that
you should be watching each and every week.

This week Bill discussed Body Of War with it's creators Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro. Body of War is a documentary about Thomas Young an Iraq War veteran who was wounded in the war and is now an anti-war activist along with his wife and mother.
From the transcript:

Five years ago this week, President Bush invaded Iraq because, we were told, Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was plotting with Al Quaeda terrorists to attack America. We were told the war would be quick and tidy - and that grateful Iraqis would welcome their liberators with flowers in the streets.

Well, now the war is into its sixth year. We're spending over ten billion dollars a month, with the long-range cost reckoned in trillions. For Iraqis and for American soldiers and their families, the human toll is even harder to calculate -- numbers alone don't do it: 4,000 soldiers dead, nearly 30,000 wounded. But numbers aren't personal; the only way truly to understand the human cost of this war is to know someone who is bearing it. Someone like Tomas Young.

You can read the transcript here and also view the whole episode.
While you are there also watch Buying The War an in-depth review of the behavior of the press leading up the the beginning of the war. FOX, CNN and the mainstreet media are complaisant in their lack of serious reporting on the crap the administration was feeding the American public and helped beat the drums of patriotism so loud that any dissenters were branded anti-American.

Don't forget your flag pin folks least you be called a traitor by Faux news and you friendly Republican neighbors.

In case you've forgotten the press is supposed to be skeptical of what comes out of the White House, not cheerleaders....that is why we have the First Amendment :

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

EASTER

Good Friday

Vintage Shoe Tag

I've been tagged by Couture Allure Vintage of the eVintage Society. This week we're all about shoes!

(ya'll know how I feel about tagging games, right? see me playing anyway?)

1) SHOW US YOUR FAVORITE PAIR OF SHOES IN YOUR INVENTORY.

Well they are no longer in my inventory, but this pair or Dior's are about the most scrupmtous pair of shoes I've ever seen I love just looking at them and hated (even though the cash was nice) to see them sell.

2) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE STYLE OF VINTAGE SHOE TO SELL?

40's platforms and peeptoes, the quirkier the better.

3) FAVORITE VINTAGE SHOE TO WEAR?

IF I did not have the widest feet known to mankind these would be what I love to wear:

and I am desperate to find anything, even new like these in 9WWWWW!

I have this feeling that somewhere there is a shoe store that sells old lady orthopedic shoes and they have just that style!

4) FAVORITE PAIR YOU OWN?

See #3.

If I had a good amount of cash, I would settle for either of these great wedges from Remix shoes. I know, I know they are not vintage, but it is probably as good as a gal with feet like mine is going to get.

Now let's move on to Carol at Dandelion Vintage Tag, you're it!

How Did I Miss This?

Today's Vintage magazine.
Online and in a hard copy delivered to your mailbox.
Cool.

Also, over on Liana's Paperdoll Blog she has created
a dress for her doll based on this 40's chiffon dress that
I could not save.
Now that is very cool.

What You Should Be Watching

Just in case you have HBO you need to spend some time watching John Adams.
Compelling, inspiring and just plain entertaining.
The cast is perfect, the acting spot on (with actual quazi-British accents and not modern American ones), the steadfast and enduring love between the Adams is apparent....throw in a few HottieMcHoties in the form of Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock and you've got damn good TV.
I'll admit I was moved to tears more then once during the first two episodes.
It is an awesome and sobering story how our country was formed and during this election cycle it would be quite beneficial to be reminded again what a gift (a flawed gift to be sure, but a gift none the less) we were given by these brave people who were willing to sacrifice fortune and life in the pursuit of liberty.
Paul Giamatti as Adams is a happy surprise and Laura Linney's Abigail is brilliant. THIS is how history should be imparted and once again HBO shows how well TV can be done.
It will be airing for the next 6 weeks.

Vintage Montgomery Ward Catalog, 1954

Look what came in the mail today.
Bought it off ebay on a whim since I have yet to find a fashion catalog in all my estate sale visits. I put it down to paper, heat, humidity, lake of AC and that most folks just do not keep catalogs.
It is the Montgomery Ward Midsummer Sales Book, 1954.
Of course there is a good amount of vintage fashions in it for the whole family, but there is furniture and appliances and bikes and pretty much anything you would find in one now.
Seriously cool.
That is the cover above and if you click on it you will get a bigger image that should allow you to read the copy.
Just an excerpt:

"You'll present a pretty picture in this graceful Princess Dress made in "Texlin," a crisp, finely woven, Rayon that is washable and resists wrinkles. The style is so young, so flattering-with its high-rise waistline, slim fitting midriff and wonderful rolled gore skirt that ripples into a smart flare. Smart stitch trim outlines empire midriff and deeply curved neckline....."

Pages 2 and 3 have more of the same great Princess cut (seamed?) dresses.

Makes me wish for an un-discovered storage room full of these dresses.
I'll post some more pics later this week!
Enjoy.