Category Archives: Suits

VPOD: Vintage 1950s Don Loper Suit and The Vintage Fashion Expo


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I’m like a kid at Christmas this time of year.  Not because I’m happy about the crazy early-bird retailers who are already hauling out the wrapping paper and ornaments and other holiday goodies, but because I wait with the same eager expectation for The Vintage Fashion Expo that I once waited for Santa.

Certainly the opportunity to traipse through the huge venue and ogle the goods…

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VPOD: Vintage Floral Dress Suit


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Well, ladies, she’s gone and done it again!

As reported at HuffingtonPost, our FLOTUS, Michelle Obama, resurrected two wardrobe items for public appearances this week including a floral-print Moschino suit first sported in 2009  and a black-and-gray Jonathan Saunders dress from Fall 2008 that she also wore to Sargent Shriver’s funeral this past January.

What’s interesting to me is that this is somehow news.

After all, don’t all…

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eBAY ROUNDUP of Vintage Clothing Finds


vintage 1940s print dressvintage 1960s scalloped lace mini dressvintage oscar de la renta mod dressvintage valentino boutique suit

vintage panetta ringvintage leonard mod print dressvintage silk turquoise beaded dress suitmbellished leather belt

vintage knit cape coatvintage lanz sex and the city tulip sundressvintage claude montana lamb suede jacketvintage emma domb tulle prom dress

vintage mary mcfadden quilted jacketvintage ossie clark wrap dressvintage alfred shaheen sarong halter dressvintage valentino dragonfly necklace

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Vintage 1930s/1940s Art Deco Print Dress (its-vintage-darling) | Vintage 1970s Scalloped Lace Mini Dress (meat-market) | Vintage Oscar de la Renta Bright Print Dress (claireinc*) | Vintage 1970s Valentino Boutique Suit (linda*s***stuff) | Vintage Panetta Ring (timetwister) | Vintage 1960s Leonard Print Dress (blackolive666436h) | Vintage 1960s Silk Beaded Dress Suit ( stargirls80) | Vintage 1980s Embellished…

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VPOD: Vintage Yves Saint Laurent Music Print Suit


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The first examples of musical notations were found on clay tablets in Mesopotamia around 1800 BC and music’s come quite a long way since then. I’m sure the ancients who carved those tablets could never have imagined someone like Lady Gaga playing their notes! But whether you can tell an octave from a clef doesn’t really matter because, as I was reminded by the Kiki…

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VPOD: Vintage 1950s Chanel Coat Suit


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vintage 1950s Chanel coat suit

It used to be that when little girls learned their ABCs, they identified simple one-syllable words like ant, boat and coat. Not anymore! Seems the fashion bug is catching girls at younger and younger ages so that many teen girls today can now correctly pronounce (and spell!) Alaia, Balenciaga and, of course, Chanel–the Holy Grail.

While little girls might have once dreamed of castles and princes who…

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