Summer at Damn Good Vintage

Quick post.
Great vintage for summer now available at Damn Good Vintage!

Vintage Black and White Gingham Dress

Vintage Ivory Halter Look Dress, Great for a wedding

Vintage 50's Red Atomic Print Sundress

Larger sized sundress with sweater

Sheer 1940's Red, white and black print dress

Cole of California "Egyptian Collection" Bathing Suit

Cute whipped nylon 60's dress

Roses

The rose in my last post has bloomed!
I really like the way the go from very barley pink to darker link and then to a yellow hue.
They got a bit beat up from the rain last night, but still very pretty with a lemony spice fragrance.

Garden Part 2

Blueberries starting to turn...almost ripe!

Butterfly Bush

Newest rose bush is budding out.

Garden Part 1

The garden looks great this year. I've moved the Balloon Flowers and they are very happy.

New plant this year, Rex Begonias.

Wild Smooth Petunia. They are a native plant and just grow wild in the parts of the garden that are just Ivy and Monkey Grass. The summer we moved in I was pleasantly surprised when these popped up in the yard, and while we also have wild roses and all the honeysuckle, these are my favorite.

Baby Coleus

Butterfly Bush has begun to bloom.


Garden Part 2, later this week!

Watch List: Vintage Patterns

This week I decided to watch patterns that have something surprising about them.
The first one, McCall's 3528 is quite adorable and it has directions for making the matching parasol. How wonderful!


This second pattern is dated wrong by the seller, it is actually 1937 or 39, and a great halter bathing suit/playsuit, but do you see that cape? (and can I just say, who does not want a cape to wear with their swimming suit?) You can wear as is, OR, wait for it....a skirt! Clever.

The Mondrian Look of Yves Saint Laurent

Vogue Pattern Fashion News, 1966

Vogue 1556: A marvelous this-moment dress, very young....with high yoke, hem band and sleeve cuffs in perfectly proportioned contrast.


Vogue 1557: The geometrics of Mondrian. Young, bold proportions of black and white-rectangle of color-hemlines ruled-this is the terse, crisp look of young dressing.

The Happy Couple

As of May 21st they have been married 26 years.
Then:
and now:

The Fashion Show

Are you watching The Fashion Show?
It is not as good as Project Runway, but it does have its moments.
Tonight was the "design for real women" challenge complete with all the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth that always occurs when these prima donnnas have to design outside of their comfort zone.
The best part was Danielle and Haven complaining about the size of their models asses.
This from 2 gals who are on the larger side of the scale.
Do they never design for themselves?
Danielle's ass is way bigger then the "real woman" she was complaining about.
sigh
Except she managed to pull her shit together and make a great dress.


I would LOVE to own this dress.
It was perfect for one of us fluffy gals.
Too bad it does not come in plus sizes....oh, and it is over $300.

"Together this coat and dress duo give you a sophisticated alternative to a suit for any occasion. A coat this cool will make you hope for a chill in the air. Oversized snaps, diamond inserts, funky flip-up collar and a bold black belt add attitude to the coat's sleek silhouette. And the dress's classic shape makes it an easy choice to accessorize for day or night. Its boning structure, inner elastic and drop waist flatter the figure and elongate the form while the circle skirt completes the slimming illusion. The dress is 88% polyester, 10% viscose and 2% spandex. The coat is 100% Cotton."

I love that it has boning at the waistline.
Great dress.

P.S. I LOVED the outfit Fern Michaels was wearing tonight.

Only 2 More Days

Just 2 more days and Mr. Goddess will be done with his radiation treatments.
He has done pretty well with them, the side effects have been fairly mild, but I'm sure he will be happy to no longer need to pee with the frequency of a woman who is 9 months pregnant anymore.
Sex would be nice too.

So raise a pint and wish him well.

Watch List: Vintage Pattern

Yummy.
eBay seller Holly Dolly Boutique is "clearing out my stock".
And some stock it is.

Look at this Originator pattern:

She also has this seriously chic McCall's Pauline Trigere evening gown:


and this amazing Vogue Couturier Design pattern, a timeless design:


Well that's it for this week's watch list.

Vintage Fun in the Mail

These cute barrettes came today!

McCalls Style News 1953

More Three Wolf Moon

In this post I brought your attention to the best, most awesome T-shirt of all time.
The Three Wolf Moon shirt offered on Amazon.com.

Now there is a video in honor of this mystical garment:



Warning! Do not watch with liquids in your mouth.

McCalls Style News 1953

Alley Cat's Memorial Day

This is how we all spent the day and it was good.

Memorial Day 2009

Memorial Day Sale

Vintage Balmain

I love this picture from the backstage of a Balmain fashion show in the 50's.
No, not because of the wedding dress, which is lovely, but for the dame in the back in sunglasses with the cig in her hand.


Awesome.....

Time For A LOLcat

Three Wolf Night

Via Pajiba.

This T-shirt is selling like hotcakes over on Amazon.com.
Pretty cheezy, but dude the user comments are a hoot.

"bought this shirt, and instantly old girlfriends started calling me again. The shirt has an amazing pattern, and feels so great on my skin. Nothing brings out the man in me like this wolf shirt"

"You wouldn't believe the tail I pull in this f'n thing. Every male should invest in one."

"came to this site looking for a nice two wolf shirt maybe with one black wolf and one white wolf. Then I saw this three wolf shirt and instantly ordered it. Upon receiving it I put it on. Now my bucket seats look sweet. I hope I can afford to buy another one for the passenger seat before they are sold out. A Trans-Am can't have too many Three Wolf Shirts."

Funny shit.
The best part are the real reviews stuck in between the tails of healing and the dead being brought back to life.

Found Things

This fell out of a vintage pattern when I opened it up to count the pieces.
Jonathan Logan Ad, 1962
Too cute!

RDJ

Squee!
Robert Downey Jr.
Badass!Sherlock Holmes.

I need to fan myself....

Glee

Jesus, "Rehab" done by a show choir.

"Is she gonna diva out after every rehearsal"
"You think this is hard? Try being water boarded, that's hard."
"and I want the agony out of your eyes."
"Your resentment, is....Delicious."
Jane Lynch was just deeee-lish.

I think I might be in love. We'll have to wait till September when Glee returns, but the preview show they had on tonight was just wonderful. Funny, ironic and made the drama club member in me squee with, well...glee.

Color Me A Bad Parent

But I have to ask, why do we respect the wishes of adults, but treat teens as little kids?

(unless they commit a crime and then we want them to act like adults and be treated like adults)

Adults make mistakes, bad decisions that effect their life and the lives of others, but it is teens that we say "oh they don't know what they are doing, they don't understand the consequences".

They have a right to self-determination and the right to fuck up their lives just like adults.

This question came as a result of this story of the 13 year old who wants to forgo chemo for his cancer even though there is a good chance he will be cured.

I think that this 13 yr old has thought long and hard about his treatment and has decided what HE wants, how he wants to live and if it comes to that, how he wants to die. Maybe 13 is too young, I don't know since I do not know this specific kid, but he seems to know what he wants.

Personally I think the "bad decisions" teens make are more an aspect of a lack of information, low expectations and stalker parenting (parents who hover and have made all a kids decisions and never given children any freedom within their lives).

Our society and the way we parent have basically created the circumstances that lends itself to this child/adult that cannot be trusted to make responsible decisions. Teens used to expected to live like adults, make adult decisions and guess what...they did. I understand that some research says that teens brains have not fully developed and unable to see the ramifications of their decisions, but that does not mean that all teens are unable to make life changing decisions.

If my teen had cancer we would look at all the information, talked to Drs. and give him our advice and opinions, but in the end we would RESPECT his RIGHT to refuse chemo if he wanted to and look to alternative cures.
Of course if he did not want to make a decision we would, as his parents, make that decision for him. I would respect his decision the same way I respected my husband's decision to opt for radiation for his cancer instead of surgery or how I would have accepted his decision if he decided not to do anything or if it returns and he says "no more treatments".

I wrote this comment on Daily Kos and of course was then told I was a bad parent and that they need us to make these decisions for them and that my respect of my son was disturbing.

(and seriously, The Boy does some stupid shit, just ask me about him and the Jelly Belly candy dish, he is not perfect, but he has demonstrated a disturbing habit of making choices that are scary in their commonsense and more adult then a lot of adults I know. )

So I responded "then prepare to be disturbed" and went on to let them know that I would respect my son's wishes. I wish I had added that not only did I not insist on helmets, I also let him play in the front yard ALONE (gasp), allowed him to take walks in the woods ALONE (gasp), don't worry about porn on the web (i assume he looks at it), or violent video games (i know he plays those and seems pretty non-violent), we let him drink some wine if he wants in our home, and would not freak out over weed. Not only that, if we lived in a city with a subway and he had wanted to ride alone, at 9years, after much planning I WOULD LET HIM* and if he had a brother and they were fighting in the back of the car I would PUT THEM OUT ON THE STREET** to teach them a lesson.

Like I said, color me a bad parent.

*of course that means you make a number of runs with the kid and educate them. Wow, trusting our kids to not be idiots. Knowledge really is power.

**of course this would be done close to home (maybe a mile or less) on a street with sidewalks and businesses, not out in the middle of nowhere. I would probably just go around the block and then stalk them to see how they handled it. If your children have half a brain and you live in town, they know how to walk home.

EDIT:

I have also been called a coward (on Daily Kos) and told to "grow a pair" and got this awesome strawman argument "And I'm assuming you would be supportive if the little shit decided to be a heroin addict, too ???".

nice.

Vintage Pattern Watch

This week on eBay I am watching:

This Vogue Special Design pattern, the side treatment is scrumptious.



"This week I am featuring a great selection of patterns that belonged to a lady that made all of her own clothes. Some of them are sultry and maybe a little Boho – she lived in a really cool house tucked away on a side street in town – she has recently passed away at the age of 92. Be sure to check all of the patterns out – there are a hundred or so of them and I think I’ll list them 25 or so at a time – to help keep myself straight. They are all 30’s – 40’s – 50’s – mostly Vogue and Vogue Special Designs – with some Butterick and Simplicity. "

From the same seller, Vogue 5256:



Oh just go and look at her listings, there are some snappy designs there.

I'm also watching Vogue Couturier Pattern #890 that was mentioned on Dress A Day.

I love ballgowns with huge ass pockets.

How awesome is this strapless cat suit with swing jacket, Vogue 7439?

Meow....

Oh, and this delish Jo Copland that was just listed.