Valentines Day Red Dress Giveaway

Our friends over at Launderette are putting on a Valentines Day giveaway for this cute vintage-inspired "heartthrob red" Shuffleboard dress:



For your chance to win, simply send your name & an email address to: info@dresslaunderette.com.

The winner will be selected at random and announced next Monday morning (the 8th), just in time to get your requested size in the mail and have you gussied up by the 14th.

Vintage Inspired Lingerie: Hopeless

Can you believe it is already February? This means Valentine's Day is right around the corner. What better way to celebrate than to buy some reaaaaallllly expensive (but lovely) vintage inspired lingerie from the fabulous Melbourne-based shop Hopeless. Maybe you can justify the expense because you'd technically be buying it for your significant other ... but then you get to keep it.





I love the styling in the photos, and how they manage to range from cutesy to sassy to downright burlesque. (For the bustiers and such, go check out their site.

Vintage Finds: La Petite Matches

Oh, estate sales, how i love you. So many times all the little gems in a home get overlooked as people rush in for the bigger ticket items.

Picked up these little Swedish mid-century "La Petite" match boxes the other day. So perfect in their pastel and gold coloring. Each tiny box (just 1 1/2 inches by 1 inch) is filled with hot pink tipped wooden matches. I think even just one of these little boxes would make a wonderful gift to pair with a candle.

Vintage Rip-off - Anthropologie's Reed Shirtdress

It is no secret that lots of clothing these days is vintage inspired, but I was browsing the latest Anthro catalog, only to be quite taken with this little plaid "Reed Shirtdress" (by Moulinette Soeurs) that I swear was stolen straight from the 50's. I even own a vintage version of this dress in similar cut and pattern and hue.



So, anyway. As if you needed any reinforcement ... Anthro says shirtwaist dresses are big for spring! I just say find yourself a cute vintage original (and hem it up if you need it shorter than 50s knee-length fashion).

Secret to the Sartorialist

I'm sure you've seen the clever guide on "How to Get Shot by the Sartorialist," but browsing through some of his shots the other day I noticed another easy equation that kept popping up . . .

+ Blazer
+ Oxfords/Ankle Socks
+ Large Leather Satchel
--------------------------------
= Instant Outfit Perfection


(click to enlarge photo in all its outfit glory)

I love how differently all three of these lovely ladies pulls off a similar look, but each manages to make it look so individual.

(all photos by the Sartorialist)

DIY: Necklace out of Shower Curtain Rings

This seemed like an easy an fun DIY project that you can make using stuff that I usually consider junk at the thrift store:

This:


Equals this:


Check out instructions over at Promise Tangeman Designs.

Vintage Inspiration - Fur

The wonky weather here in SF made us cancel this week's photoshoot (curses!), which means we will have to wait until after we get back from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival to make a long-awaited shop update.

In the meantime, I've been looking around at warm jackets to keep the chilly Utah snow at bay next week. The Sundance film fest always brings lots of people dressed in FUR ... often in really amazingly obnoxious ways, like huge Yeti boots and coats that look more like oversized polar bear costumes than anything.

I think there are a lot of ways to wear fur this season that look a little classier ... I always like a good vintage fur collar on coats, and there are lots of good synthetic furs that are being produced these days so that more little animals don't have to die in the name of fashion.

A few ways to wear fur without looking like a caveman:

Vintage fur collar/shawl (shawl with belt = so cute)

calivintage | this time tomorrow

Vintage fur trimmed coats (apparently pants are optional ; )

thriftwares | sally jane vintage

Short fur jackets

lookbook | uggshopstyle