Memento Amore

This is what my husband gifted me for Valentine's Day. Or rather I picked out and he payed for, haha. Nothing says I love you more than 14 K and a dead person's hair. I think it's rather romantic, for someone to love someone so much to take a piece of them and memorialize them in such a way to make it possible to always have them with them. 

The hubs is very aware that he will be expected to do this with me in the event of my death, but just between you and I think he'll be kicking the bucket first and my dreams of becoming jewelry when I die will never be realized, sigh.  I guess we're just going to have to wait and see, hopefully for a REALLY long time.   Happy Valentine's Day everyone!

NOTE: A memento mori is not a mourning ring, BUT a mourning ring could be considered a memento mori.  The difference being memento mori's were not made to mourn any specific person, but as a reminder that you will die.  Mourning rings were made to commemorate a person who has died and as a subsequent result becomes a reminder of ones mortality.

You Really Shouldn't Have




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For me for Christmas please?!?  Though 1500 issues of the original covers and magazines would be better, but I will compromise and settle for issues from the first half of the century if you are seriously thinking of going that route for me.

No Autographs Please!

Did I mention that I am in a movie? The above poster represents what I am doing this weekend. I will be attending the premier of Club 27, a film short I participated in (I'm the one in yellow) over the summer and also provided vintage clothing for.  It is part of Project Twenty1's Philadelphia Film & Animation Festival . I've only seen clips, so I am really excited to see it in it's entirety. 

 Also this momma gets to dress up!  I had to raid the stock room for something to wear but had no problem with shoes, even though I never go anywhere worthy or practical for heels I have quite the whore-ish shoe collection. Doesn't everybody? Everyone should have at least one pair of whore shoes, it's a happy maker.

So if you are in or near Philadelphia this weekend why not attend the screening?  Show your support for independent filmmaking. What you need to know:

Club 27 Premier

Saturday, October 1 · 1:00pm - 3:00pm @

 

The International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

PRICE: $10

The Church of Vintage Roadshow

Arts, Music & Antiques Festival


It's been a very busy week! Took an impromptu vacation with the family over Labor Day weekend, which was nice considering the hurricane, flooding and other natural disasters that occured the week prior. Didn't want to come back, but eventually we had to face the repair work and clean up that we had been avoided for almost a week while away. Plus I had to start getting ready for the Arts,Music & Antiques Festival on Sunday, September 11th.




I don't normally do things like this, it's not really great for the clothing - people can be rough, weather can be unpredictable. But I've been getting stir crazy and I thought maybe a couple of sacrificial lambs might be worth it;) Not to say if I see anyone manhandling the vintage I won't do anything, on the contrary...if any brutality towards vintage occurs in my booth I will upcycle the deviant a new A-hole. Just call me the vintage vigilante.




Hope to see some of you there...tent pitching party 8am!



Name Dropping

 

So since Etsy changed their default searches to be based more on relevancy it officially became the end of an era and death to the art and poetry of title writing for listings and potentially disappearing into an ocean of "1950s dresses" in the searches.  So I decided the best way battle shop anonymity and title writing ennui was to throw a few designer names out there in the updates, because in my opinion Diane Von Furstenberg makes a dress pretty relevant. 

Here are a few designer favorites currently in the shop. For additional designer names click here.

1970s DVF wrap dress

1950s Givenchy sweater

1970s Malcolm Starr

1960s Mary Quant skirt

1980s "punk label" Betsey Johnson Dress

An American Girl Wannabe

I really want her shoes, actually I'll take the whole look thank you...sigh.

Imgaes courtesy of  RUTH ORKIN Photo Archives

HORNY: A Children's Story

                                                  

Buying vintage always creates an opportunity to find unusual and one of a kind pieces.  Also weird and offbeat things as well.  Was going through my office the other day and came across this book:

The main character's name is "Queen Horny", just thought that needed to be added in too.  Not exactly "Jane kisses Dick" from those bastards of grammer Dick and Jane, but it's a keeper.   I think I do not need to elaborate I have the emotional maturity of a 12 yr. old boy, but for further amusement I have listed below a few more titles of vintage children's book that speaks to the 6th grader in all of us, let the snickering begin:

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Seems something really queer was going on with marine life during the 1950s and 1960s;)  But sometime during the 1990s Opo lost his gayness, now the book is just titled, "Opo the Dolphin"....poor Opo.

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And lastly, not exactly vintage but needed to be included because this was the mother of all double entendres when I was in 6th grade:

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