This is such a sweet video from The Innocence Mission. The styling is so lovely in this video (the singer is wearing a 1930s style feedsack dress) and it reminds me of a Sally Mann photograph.
Yellow ribbon as belt – I think this was tied around something I got from etsy!
Black patterned stockings
Yellow road stripe heels
I look pretty wholesome and sweet, save for the black, pointed nails! It’s so very windy outside today! All of my wind chimes woke me up this morning! I love these garters! I bought them from an etsy store that only had one thing for sale, EVER, and it was this pair! They are hand-painted little flapper girl faces. She’s perfect: reddish hair, blue eyes and red lips! I’ve emailed the company several times to see if they were going to make more but I’ve never gotten a reply. Etsy is like that sometimes! There was a band playing at my house until 3 am so I’m a bit tired. It was difficult to sleep.
Have a nice Sunday, everyone! I hope it’s sunny where you are.
Maroon silk scarf as headband – Arles, France while I was an exchange student at 18
Falling apart 1920s dress (crepe?) – present for my last birthday
Black lace slip
1940s gold locket (I finally put pictures inside!)
Black geometric tights
Maroon flocked platforms – Melissa Store, B.H., Brazil
If I wait too long in the morning to take my daily outfit photo, the Texas sun is too bright and makes me squint! Even though we’re only a bit over halfway through January, today already feels and smells like spring! Oh, how I love friends who give the most thoughtful gifts. This dress is from the incredible Angel as birthday present this past August. I must document every single time I wear it! It’s like a ghost – I fear it will not last very long! There is the most incredible colour of yellowy/cream that only comes about through decades and decades of aging: sheets of music, aging chiffon, handwritten notes. I never want to soak/wash this dress because I don’t want to lose this color! Here is another time I wore this dress, last September. The earrings belonged to my Great Grandmother who came to NYC from Poland before the Depression. I remember looking through my mother’s jewelry box when I was young and finding these earrings. My mother used the earrings to tell me about my Great Grandmother and how she never learned to read because her school house burned when she was in the 1st grade and it was never rebuilt; how she left Poland at age 20 and never saw her parents again; how she opened up her own grocery store during the Depression and ran a boarding house and made pies every night, how she could do complicated math in her head. The locket was a gift from my mother, but she did not include a photo! Last night, I was looking through piles of old photographs that I’ve gotten from estate sales and I noticed a photo of two women standing in front of an old house. Now, if you’ve ever tried to put a photo in a locket, you’ll remember that it’s quite difficult to find a photo that is small enough to put in the frame! Photos I’m sure will be small enough turn out to be gigantic and comic peeking out from the gold frame. This photo, however, was taken far enough away to where I can frame the two women and still have some space around them.
The woman on the left: dark patterned dress, dark stockings, white heels, shorter, hair parted in middle, holding a bag or stole or case in her left hand. The woman on the right: short cropped bob with waves, light dress, white strappy shoes, she’s a bit overweight, she’s taller than the woman on the left.
The other side of the locket is a piece of a printed handkerchief. I like fabrics or teeth or hair in lockets.
Red corduroy bow – snipped off one of my Hello Kitty plush dolls and affixed to a pincurl clip
Red Scarf – Thrifted in Lawerence, KS
Red leather gloves – estate sale, Eugene, OR
Black jacket with Red/Yellow/Blue flecked Tweed Details – Buffalo Exchange, ATX
1930s dress with Primary color daisy details – Buffalo Exchange, ATX
Red knee high socks – URBN
Black Patent Shoes – Target
It was actually raining really hard when I took this photo! Like I’ve said before… I LOVE MATCHY MATCHY!
Just the small bits of primary colored tweed that compliment the dress make this outfit very successful in my eyes Here are my little bows! I scalped my Hello Kitty plush and now she looks SO much like Dear Daniel with no bow!
I stitched one single pronged pin curl clip to the back of each bow, so I can slip it on when I feel like channeling Hello Kitty.
I don’t know why my face read as sullen here, I had a fantastic day at work that involved jumping into a pile of stuffed animals and smothering my co-worker with a stuffed pink dolphin. I’ve never been one for primary colors. Primary colors are not very often shown together in contemporary wear, and they carry the same connotations for me as when I wear navy/red/white. That is, when I wear those colors I feel like I’m dressing up to be patriotic or as a flag of some sort. The primary colors are childish and basic, which was always a bad thing in my mind… until this dress.
I very nearly did not buy this dress because I thought, “Ew, primary colors…that will never get worn.” There was also a 1/2 foot rip in the back of the dress. BUT I got it for half off (so, $8 total!), and I sewed it up the very same night I got it and it wears beautifully. The lace around the color was once black (my guess) but it has faded into a brown/purple. I love the little splotch daisy print and it gives me an excuse to wear all of my yellow accessories at the same time. Now if only I hadn’t sold my 1960s road stripe yellow bicycle last summer…
1930s style yellow blouse with Peter Pan collar with white Scottie Dog print – F21
Vintage Navy shorts (I replaced the anchor buttons with pink buttons)
RemixVintage shoes
When I lived in the Pacific NW, I could buy Navy pants at almost every vintage store, but I’ve never seen any in the south!
Suggestions for wearing 13 button Navy Pants:
- Change out the standard issue buttons with colorful ones
- Cut them off and hem them into shorts
- Replace the back tie with a colorful ribbon
- They gather dust/lint, so be sure to have a lint roller handy
- The number one rule: Don’t wear your sailor pants out drinking. You will not make it in time if you are drunkenly fumbling with the buttons.
As always, sailor pants are perfect for a 1930s chorus girl kind of look.
Green vintage dress with Pennsylvania Dutch-ish pattern – $7 at Nobody’s Baby, Eugene, OR
Yellow poppy pinned in hair – from a craft store
Yellow and white gingham bows made into earrings – did that meself!
Black knit socks
Yellow shoes – Buffalo Exchange
Today is my third day of using Jojoba Oil on my hair and face and I’m really liking the results! I mix a few drops in with my moisturizer at night and my skin looks lovely in the morning. I’ve also been eating one coconut for breakfast in a smoothie, and I’m sure that has something to do with it as well!
This is a dress that has stuck with me for many years (and many mendings). When I first bought it, I had nearly no green items in my collection and I was really excited because I was mostly wearing a lot of black! Here is a photo of me in 2006 shortly after I’d gotten the dress:
When I first began documenting my daily outfit posts, I would do the “detatched sideways glance” in nearly every photo. I’ve tried to shift myself off of it, because it looks quite silly, doesn’t it?
It’s hot and there’s lots of bees around, so while sweeping some off my window sills, I thought, “Why not dress as a bee today?” I’m going to a flapper party tonight so I’m working on my chorus girl poses. I love the cartoonish proportions of this headband and it always makes people smile and remark when I wear it, which is always a very good reason to keep on wearing it! This headband inspiration is totally nicked from Chantel aka November West from some of the cutie poppy headbands that she wears. She looks just like the cover of some 1920s songbooks I have!
Yellow Poppy headband – made by me
Yellow American Apparel shirt – I wish they still made this style
Black beaded necklace
Black overalls – Buffalo Exchange (originally from Urban Outfitters)
Black Tstraps – Buffalo Exchange
Cat playing a violin on the Moon Shopping bag – Japanese Import
Butterscotch Yellow
Banana Yellow
Dandelion
Canary Yellow
Sunshine Yellow
There was a band playing at my house until 3 am so I’m a bit tired. It was difficult to sleep.
