Everything

Thought I would share this wonderful video I discovered, pairing Fred & Ginger with Canadian crooner Michael Buble's song, Everything.  May it be a mid-week perk up!

Cranberry Dressing

Hope my American blog friends enjoyed their Thanksgiving dindins!  Cranberry goes well with more than turkey, y'know.  To whit, I think the cranberry details at the neck and sleeves of this 20s silk dress work rather well.  Gobble, gobble!

1920s dress: Dear Golden

30s crocheted purse: etsy

1960s-does-20s shoes: etsy

A River Runs Through It, II

Here are couple of stills of Jessie Burns from A River Runs Through It, including a peek at the lovely ensemble that inspired my last outfit and a dreamy deco knit ensemble!

A River Runs Through It

Inspired by the Montgomery Ward ladies in the last post, as well as 20s women's clothing I spied on the character Jessie Burns during a recent re-viewing of the movie A River Runs Through It, I cobbled together a little outfit post. Shoes, hat, and tie are vintage; sweater from the Gap ages ago, and skirt from Puttin' on the Ritz!

Baby, It's Cold Outside

I was planning to post more L.A pics, but right now, my mind is on cold weather vintage garb, so here are some images from a 1925 Montgomery Ward catalogue that I've been eyeing.

La La Land

Hello, dear bloggers!  Sorry I've been scarce. Just got back from a FANTASTIC jaunt to Los Angeles.  I have tons of pictures to post of my various adventures, but for now, here's a quick pic of me in my current favourite 1930s dress. I'm posing next to the Elliott Smith Memorial Wall (I am a diehard Smith fan, so this was a special moment for me). Awesome!

The Artist

On the subject of vintage-y films, I've been hearing great things about The Artist.  Take a peek!  

Gatsby Garb

Ever since first hearing of the upcoming Baz Luhrmann filmic adaptation of The Great Gatsby (in 3D, no less!), I've been trolling the internet for some costume sneaks.  After all, Fitzgerald did take pains to describe the clothing of his characters and fashion has symbolic function in the novel.  My eagerness to see how the costumers would approach the 20s clothing mentioned in the book paid off the other day when I finally found a couple of snaps showing Toby MacGuire (Nick Carraway) and Leo Di Caprio (Gatsby) in their Gatsby garb--well, almost. I take it Toby's sneakers won't appear in the final cut!  Anyway, I can't wait to see what the ladies will be wearing, esp. Josephine Baker.

"Recovering himself in a minute [Gatsby] opened for us two hulking patent cabinets which held his massed suits and dressing-gowns and ties, and his shirts, piled like bricks in stacks a dozen high.
“I’ve got a man in England who buys me clothes. He sends over a selection of things at the beginning of each season, spring and fall.”
He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray. While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher — shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue. Suddenly, with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.
“They’re such beautiful shirts,” she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. “It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such — such beautiful shirts before.”