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Not every vintage fashionista has the time to page through thousands of eBay listings. But now you don’t have to!
Instead, just sneak a peek at my weekly eBay Roundup of Top Vintage Clothing Finds.
An eclectic mix of designer and non-designer vintage clothing, accessories and jewelry, these are pieces that have caught my discerning eye for their uniqueness, their contemporary feel or their highly collectible nature.
As…
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March 8, 2010 by
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From Karl Lagerfeld’s Russian matryoshka doll wristlet to Kenzo’s Russian-inspired fall ad campaign, it’s no surprise that Marie Claire named the Russian Look as one of this season’s Top Ten Trends. Of course, this isn’t the first time fashionistas have channeled Russian dolls, gypsies and empresses with fur, embellishment and velvet. Just take a look at today’s VPOD.
This three-piece ensemble is from the Yves Saint Laurent Russian…
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My driver’s license might say otherwise but I’m a gal who plans to stay in her 30s forever! Her 30s vintage clothing, that is.
I love fashions from the 1930s because clothes were feminine by day and ultra-glamorous at night. Though it was the time of the Great Depression, it also saw the rise of The Golden Age of Hollywood with starlets like Marlene Dietrich,…
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The Commerce Department released preliminary GDP figures today for the fourth quarter 2008 and–gulp!–it was the greatest decline in more than 26 years. In layman terms, that means that we fashionistas will be minding our pocketbooks for a while. We won’t stop shopping altogether, of course, but we will probably pay a little more attention to quality, choose classics over trends, and look for items…
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In one interview, Pauline Trigere talked about how she could have been an architect or even a surgeon, but that she didn’t think she would have enjoyed anything but designing collection after collection. And oh her collections! She began her business in 1942 and officially retired when she was 85 with work that has been compared to that of Balenciaga and Vionnet.
Fabric was both inspiration…
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Any way you measure Pauline Trigere’s career–from the age of 10, when she first started using a sewing machine, or a few years later when she made her first dress, or from 1942 when she started her own house–you end up with over 50 years of fabulous design. An avid collector of turtles, a traditional Chinese symbol of longevity, she herself lived a long creative…
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