Vintage Perfume Bottles

This lovely perfume bottle is only $24.99 at StayingVintage on Etsy

Vintage and antique perfume bottles are a lovely little blast from yesterday's past. Collectors love to assemble tiny collections of these great fashion trinkets.  Prices range from fantastic, to the half paycheck.

$195.00 and you can get bottle in original box at LemonIceBoxPie

There are even collector's clubs about perfume bottles.  Collectors should check online before offing an old perfume bottle, even if it isn't fancy it could be valuable. What if you have a bottle cracked but the stopper is in good shape? Often times the glass stoppers are often lost, chipped, or misplaced and sometimes people will buy a less than perfect bottle just to obtain the stopper.

Evening in Paris Perfume at $15.00 at Etsy shop debincijewelry

So what is it about empty perfume bottles being so alluring? Perhaps it's the romance of yesteryear, the smell of days gone by. Some still retain a small hint of their former lives. We are taken back to a time of the vintage fashion scene that makes us wonder. Who wore this and when?  If we only knew.

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Vintage Dresses Indie Fashion YordanCo

YordanCo Ciao Bella Dress! My favorite!

I just found this great new vintage clothing website, YordanCo!  They  sell these lovely  vintage, indie, and romantic style dresses. Soon they will be adding other apparel if they haven't already. I have to say, I'm all for the dresses. This company is out of Miami, Florida, and was created by Rachel Yordan, while still a college student with a passion for style and good taste.   This lovely boutique combines class and romance!

YordanCo has a size guide and hands on customer service.  The boutique has a Marilynesque style to it. Lovely enough that you can pull off today at a social gathering, party or special event on the town.  You have to check out  YordanCo Vintage-Romantic Dresses!  or Connect with YordanCo on Facebook!

Vintage Clothing at AnnieRose Vintage

$65 someone buy me this, quick!

Annie Rose Vintage has a great style all her own. She finds the chic and hip bohemian style vintage clothing and sometimes adorns it with her own touch.  She says, "Upcycled and Vintage Clothing with a tattered shabby bohemian twist."  Lynn's beautiful eco-friendly vintage finds are often embellished, refashioned and upcycled for you!Check out some of these finds from this seller's Etsy shop!

$115, would look great with khaki colored leggings and boots, stay comfortable but look so dressed up!

Lynn is from Dickinson, Texas and her southern belle style shows in these lovely creations.  I would be privileged to wear one of her items. They are couture all their own and her items sell rather quickly making them a hot commodity. In fact no sooner did I post up a dress on the Etsy Recycler's Guild site last week did it sell out of her store.

$62 and so worth it this tunic top dress.

Lynn pushes the envelope on design. In fact I think if she entered one of those "American's Next Top Designer" shows she could win.  She envisions something for clothing like no other designer. You really need to tell anyone you know who loves vintage clothing or one of a kind pretty dresses, jackets, or blouses.  Not all clothing does she upcycle, some vintage she finds are just lovely on their own!

Ga Ga for her clothing.

Vintage pink sweater, $28

I should also mention that she makes these cute little pouches that are sold in her other shop, Brico Jewelry Designs where she makes goregeous necklaces, pins to embellish your clothing. I just adore these handbag - tote- pouches!  Here is one:

 

$29 at BricoJewelryDesign and so worth it. LOVE IT.

Connect with her on Etsy at AnnieRose Vintage.
On Facebook.
On Pinterest.
Check out her Jewelry Shop!

Gainsboro Studio Alberta Photographer Get the Model Look

Source: Uploaded by user via Joan on Pinterest

We never talk vintage cars, do we? I came across this on Pinterest (Joan Bateman's boards) and a slew of other cool photos to boot, some with models in vintage style settings and some with just everyday people looking so fabulous that I had to post a few here. I just love the photography work of Gainsboro Studio. I'm all for individual style, but I was thinking if you want to get a cool black dress like the kind above, how about these to turn some heads:

Shop ChiffonLounge vintage clothing on Etsy.

Shop at Vamp Vintage Wear on Etsy for this black dress! 

How about some WayfarerVintage shoes?

Source: modelmayhem.com via Joan on Pinterest

Now if you want this so-cool model mayhem style, you are going to have to get Joan to help you at Gainsboro Studio. If you are in or around Alberta, Canada you should see what Joan can do for you. She photographs weddings, babies, model shots, special days, family photos, you name it. I can't say enough about her work. Invest in yourself, you are worth it.

Gainsboro Studio Contact Information:
Street and Mailing Address 377 4th St. S.E. Medicine Hat, Alberta Canada T1A 0K4
Phone: (403) 526-3054 Fax: (403) 529-1047

Vintage Clothing Time: Meet Vagabondia Vintage

$45 so cute Raggedy Ann and Andy Tote

Brace yourself for vintage clothing galore.  I don't know what I love more, the styles and selection that Vagabondia Vintage selects, or the way their photos are so fun!  Check this one out, this old Raggedy Ann and Andy doll case has been giving new life. What a great way to repurpose old doll cases, into functional and fabulous handbags. Can you imagine donning this number and walking up the street in your Sunday best? I just love it!

Such a cute dress! $32 teal polka dot mini!

This is the workings of sylvia Karcz who is always on the hunt for some super fabulous vintage clothing in her Etsy shop! This 1980's teal dress says, fun, frolic, and must have! Now I want to mention that some vintage clothing shops focus on one era or speciality, but not VagabondiaVintage, they have everything from 1980's to 1890's victorian!  That's right, I was in shock to see this:

Victorian Bodice/Blouse $110 super cool!

I've seen Victorian ads but not really seen a lot of Victorian blouses in such ornate and lovely condition. Where does she find these things?  If you are into vintage skirts, vintage shirts, vintage clothing, vintage pants, vintage blouses, vintage dresses, this is the place to go.


Check them out today!
VagabondiaVintage website or on Etsy!

Vixen Vintage Viva La Fashionista Diva

Move over Dita Von Teese, (yes I love you, you are the queen diva, but still)...

Source: vixenvintage.blogspot.com via Casey on Pinterest

..I just adore this Fashionista ..........Viva La Solanah.... the best thing out of Washington State (besides Pearl Jam and damn good coffee, but who's counting?) Just like we have the real Hollywood Housewives exposed, we now have the real Vixen-of-Vintage.  Ahhh, yes, I truly adore her VixenVintage blog and her take on glamorous retro fashion.

Source: vixenvintage.blogspot.com via Tracel on Pinterest

She is just so darn cute and full of vintage spunk. Such a young soul with a deep and growing appreciation of all-things-vintage-fashion. For she makes that which is old now new again and oh so hip and desirable! Her followers watch her every step and want to dress like her, she makes vintage fashion so cool.  I think she has a Marilynesque power about her that if she donned a potato sack others would follow.  She even gives away her top secrets on showing people how to make her 1940's hairdo's . ( She takes it a step further with real rag curls here!)

Source: vixenvintage.blogspot.com via Laura on Pinterest

 

Perhaps the best thing about her is she is so au naturale. You can't duplicate that with any Hollywood fashion model or paid performer. No nipping and tucking and Hollywood botoxing here.... sure one may argue Solanah is young but she's also REAL. So happy doing what she does. Wearing clothes she loves!  Therefore her photos come out so darn beautiful and radiate normality! Her natural beauty captured in every shot. Perhaps that's why we can't get enough of her!

Source: vixenvintage.blogspot.com via Cindy on Pinterest

 

Her website is full of curiosities and untold stories of the past that one can explore via her photographs. I reminisce of how it would have been to live back in the day...oh so lovely. Is this what my now-passed grandmother once looked like in her hey-dey? Born in the 1920's she told me just how fun her life was from the 1940's to 1950's. A time when women radiated such natural beauty as the sun.... mixed with a certain class and sophistication when dressing.  They had a reason for getting out of bed and doing their hair, and having their lipstick just right....looking their Sunday best every day of the week....what happened to us?  I'm here in my favorite fuzzy pajamas with hair undone and makeup missing.  Sign, I'm so glad she keeps the dream alive. ♥

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