• Green/Creme vintage scarf with ballerina print – Providence, RI
• Lacy blouse/sweater – from Delia*s. I love this shape but I’m so scared of washing it… mall clothes fall apart so easily!
• Vintage wool sailor pants – cut off
• White lacy tights
• Avocado green shoes from remixvintageshoes.com

Please excuse the skipped post yesterday. I brought my camera out to take my photo and I’d left the battery pack on my desk at home!
Today was very beautiful outside and I bought myself a dozen coral colored roses and a cupcake. Tomorrow I’ll be at Rio Rita with RecSpec! for a Valentine’s Day special. They will be playing music and I will be manning a naughty make-your-own Valentine booth. Come out if you can!

• White ribbon as bow headband
• 1930s white dress with pink stripes and flower baskets
• Pink sweater – Buffalo Exchange, I think.
• Green Belt – Decades Vintage, PDX
• Striped tights – Urbn, I think?
• Pointed shoes I traded Bellwether for a few months ago

• Red Beret – Nobody’s Baby, Eugene, OR
• Deco-y Earrings – URBN
• Vintage White Coat – SVdP, Eugene, OR
• Red Leather Gloves – Estate Sale
• Gold Bee Brooch
• Reproduction Teal dress with lace overlay – Buffalo Exchange
• Teal Knit Sweater Tights – URBN
• Red Socks (underneath)
• Red shiny flats
• Seuss, The Dog wears a red sweater

Tetsie and I went on a long, meandering walk with her dog, a half poodle named Seuss. My daily outfit photo was taken about five hours later than I normally take it, hence the sunshine and shadow!
Tetsie finds a swing in front of a wonderful 1920s bungalow in Hyde Park.
Guess who else lives in Austin? These birds! Are they pheasant? Some kind of chicken? This city girl doesn’t know!
We also saw wild green parrots who have built quite a substantial nest in the spotlight beams above the intramural fields. It’s said that someone let some domesticated birds go a few years ago and they’ve mated and build a little colony. Maybe Texas is similar to their native climate? It was really sweet to hear them peeping and chirping high above our heads while the sun was setting.

• Cloche hat by Yellow Field
• 1940s? brown dress with white smiling leaves
• Buy Me a Whiskey slip from my etsy store
• White socks from sockdreams.com
• Spectator-type shoes from Sechyelles

I cannot get enough of this hat. It’s still not even that hot in Texas but I’m finding excuses to wear it. “Sixty eight degrees?! Better put my hat on!”

This is what the slips I sell on etsy look like when you lift up the hem of your dress… it’s perfect for signaling your order in a loud, crowded bar.
The Ladies’ Society for the Reinstatement of Proper Undergarments is pleased to present Doublespeak’s ultimate tool in flirtation: a coquettish vintage slip with the phrase Buy Me a Whiskey” hand-embroidered on the lacy hem. This item is perfect for the modern lady because it combines the uniqueness of vintage with the functionality of lingerie. It may be worn as an undergarment for the teasing flirt or as a simple dress for the tart. Ladies and gentlemen will melt at the sentimentality, and it’s much more tasteful than sliding one’s number on a cocktail napkin.

Things are about to get crazy for Halloween, so I’m wearing a simple outfit today to make up for all of the madness that I will be wearing in the next week!

• Art Nouveaux(esque) earrings – Urban Outfitters
• Lace Blouse – F21 via Buffalo Exchange
• Rust Gabardine skirt – vintage store in PDX
• Melissa Shoes – Brazil

* White ribbon in hair
* 1950s? navy/white vintage dress with sheer front panel – Nobody’s Baby, Eugene, Oregon
* Mary Jane High Heels – Target

Today’s outfit was rather plain to write about (bow, dress, heels) but I think the color and pattern of this dress is so striking that it doesn’t need to be overpowered with a lot of accessories. Once again, I am matching navy blue and black together! Did you know that most vintage dresses are either black or navy? I learned this from John when I worked in Portland at Decade’s Vintage. I didn’t believe him at first, but then I went to my own closet and examined all of my dresses. I rearranged my closet in ROYGBIV style and sure enough, there were more dresses in the “BIV” part of the  spectrum. I’ve tried since then to make a conscientious choice not to buy navy blue, and I think I feel as if I have more variety because of it. I still have not found suitable navy shoes that are vegan friendly.
This weekend in Austin, Texas was Austin City Limits, so there were a lot of great shows. I saw !!! at Emo’s on Friday. I have been seeing them live since 2002 when they played my small hometown in Arkansas and I’ve managed to see them in almost every major city I’ve ever been to! Friday night was a good show, save for all of the beer that got poured all over my shoes in the crowd.
Yesterday at work I saw Jack White in my store and I had a really funny moment of greeting him really enthusiastically like I would any other customer and then suddenly realizing who he was and then kind of freezing up! He kind of did a double take when he saw me, and I think it might be because I have really similar coloring to his wife, the lovely Karen Elson! I spent the rest of the day arguing with my co-worker about Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose. I loved it, but I like all Loretta Lynn.

I would do this, except I wouldn’t put lipstick on my eyebrows.

Yours till the kitchen sinks,

Amelia

I’m in the shadows waiting for the bus so I can go to Thai Fresh with Miss Allison.

• Red Bandana – had it forever!
• Red sunglasses – H&M, San Francisco
• 1930s wrap dress with scallop border – from Robin via Ebay
• Red strappy sandals with wooden bases

Black and white and polka dots… let’s just wear them every which way?

• White Chrysanthemums in my hair from Whole Foods
• Marie Antoinette heart on cheek
• Black/White Polkadot headband
• Black/White Polkadot bow earrings (made by me)
• Black/White Polkadot dress – Decades vintage in PDX
• White flats

• ( Today was Day 1 of polkadot day at work)

I have one side of my hair in a fingerwave today but my bike ride to work has floofed it up a bit. I’m still using Lottabody Setting lotion in it and mixing it with some Aveda Be Curly products. Also, I’m a chronic hand-writer and don’t remember anything unless it’s written on my left hand!

Outfit for work:

• Hello Kitty cellphone charms as earrings (HK is dressed as Alice in Wonderland)
• 1950s Teal/White cotton print dress – New Bohemia, Austin, Texas
• Vintage Apron – ebay.com
• White Flats – Target
• Violet Crown (Frosty Frock Blythe) wears a mushroom print dress from Acadamybeldam and her stock boots