Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Check out this cheerful vintage Charles Jourdan bag, made with leather, suede and silk. It’s $265 at Frock. This would definitely liven up an all-black outfit. New Yorkers, take note!
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Monday, May 16, 2011
This vintage Ceil Chapman dress is very delicate, so I rarely wear it. I think yesterday’s brunch was the dress’s first outing since 2008. I was relieved that none of the seams opened this time. (In case they did, I had a tiny sewing kit in my purse.) What Wendy Wore Dress: Silk Ceil Chapman [...]
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
A gorgeous blogger sent me a link to this vintage suit by Jean-Louis Scherrer ages ago, and suddenly the page is popping up in my browser all the time. I take that as a sign that the suit desperately wants to appear on my blog. The ruffle at the bottom kills me! I remember Scherrer [...]
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Sunday, May 8, 2011
Here I am wearing vintage sunglasses in May 2010. And here’s gorgeous blogger Ann of Annimal House this year. I’ve been enjoying Ann’s photos of her amazing vintage wardrobe for a couple of months now, but I had no idea that my checkered shades had helped inspire her blog! Now Ann and I have to [...]
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Monday, February 28, 2011
I overcame last week’s moment of doubt and wore my vintage Patrick Kelly leopard print gown to Vanity Fair’s Oscar Party last night. Not only was I glad to wear the dress again — I feel like I’m not done with it! I want to wear yet again soon. I’m obsessed with this dress. Next [...]
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Y’all know that I love to wear my vintage Patrick Kelly leopard gown for a big event on an annual basis. I got the dress on eBay in April 2008 and opened the package just as I was getting dressed for a Tribeca Film Festival party. Before I put on the Ossie Clark dress I [...]
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Monday, February 21, 2011
I barely thought about fashion during New York Fashion Week because I was distracted by my work on a non-fashion event. But I still got out to support two of my friends. Gorgeous blogger Jennine — the founder of Independent Fashion Bloggers — held her Evolving Influence Fashion Bloggers Conference at MAC & Milk Studios [...]
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010
In the early ’80s, there was a brief fad for vintage-style hobble skirts, which are so narrow that one can only take tiny steps. The term “hobble skirt” was first used in the early 1900s to describe designs by Paul Poiret. (Nowadays, we’d say we were dressing “steampunk.”) I remembered the hobble skirts last Tuesday [...]
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Yesterday’s post on buying high-quality clothes elicited this comment from gorgeous U.K. blogger Sharon Rose: ” … as you know I mainly thrift items and since I’ve been blogging I’ve managed to buy good quality designer and vintage for such low amounts, it really is investment dressing for the future to look at goodwill, charity [...]
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