Sunday – picnic at the Pope Mansion, replete with vintage cars, great music, and wonderful costumes to oggle. The Lake Tahoe Gatsby is a lovely, miniature-version of the Oakland Gatsby. It’s a…
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How to Make a Quick and Easy 1920s Bathing Suit
In honor of the delightful 1920s events we’ve had this Summer, including the Lake Tahoe Gatsby coming up this weekend, I want to share with you a fun little project you can…
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1920s Fun at the Ehrman Mansion, Sugarpine Point, Lake Tahoe
On Saturday, four Great Basin Costumers “invaded,” as we do, the Sugarpine Living History Day, a mildly 1900-1930s event held at the old Ehrman Mansion on West Shore at Tahoe. We went…
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Pretty New Vintage Things to Admire …
Two new items for your consideration, now available in my Etsy shop: A beautiful, handmade Edwardian reticule. The first is an Edwardian reticule. This little purse is truly amazing, and in absolutely…
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How to Take and Make 1920s-style Costume Photos
Last time, I posted a number of lovely 1920s portraits and asked you to take a look and be inspired, so that in this post I can show you how you can…
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1920s Photo Inspiration – Portraits of Pretty Pretty Ladies
This one is lighted with artificial lights from 2 directions – shot on a black backdrop, a persian rug, and with a cool chair. This is a good shot to show off…
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Vintage Black 1960s Dress
Gratuitous outfit post, to distract you while I feverishly work on the red polonaise, to be worn this weekend (eeek! it has no sleeves!) Also, this is one of my favorite dresses…
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Vintage Patterns in the Boutique
Just as a quick aside, I’ve started listing my recent vintage pattern haul in the Boutique on Etsy. I have quite a few to list – 20 or 30 – mostly from…
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Vintage 12-in-12 and a Great Many New Old Patterns
Yesterday was a glorious day: I got my hands on 43 vintage dress patterns from the 1950s and early 60s. All of them are fab, some more my style than others, and…
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New Vintage Hat Finds
I love hats, didn’t you know? I picked up three gorgeous vintage hats last weekend, for the Boutique on Etsy. The hardest thing about this “job,” this acquiring of vintage hats for…
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Vintage Summer Dress – Yellow Dots and Lollipops
Okay, so really this has *nothing* to do with lollipops, except a vague idea that lollipops and fluffy girly dresses go together….? Anyway. Butterick 6582 The other night I thought, “hey, I…
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Bits and Bobs … and Life After Those Shoes
So what the heck do I post about after all that craziness with the Georgiana shoes? Life’s returning to normal, but I’m still quite excited: We met the 100 shoe order minimum…
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New Vintage Goodness in The Boutique
Last weekend’s trip to Sacramento Towne brought back quite a few very lovely vintage items for the American Duchess Boutique on Etsy. Among them were two great hats, vintage kid and doeskin…
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Three New Old Hats for Vintage Fun and Hattitude
I’ve listed three “new” hats in the American Duchess Boutique on Etsy, for your consideration. These are three of my favorites, especially the grey fur felt one, with the recently liberated red…
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Porcelain Dogs, Silver Pheasants, Salt & Peppers – Vintage Lovelies New in the Boutique
I went antiquing today, and came back with a few lovely things I’d like to share with you. These are all listed in the American Duchess Boutique on Etsy (click here). Tweet…
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Magazine Treasures of 1916
Recently I lucked into the acquisition of real honest-to-goodness primary source material, courtesy of an old friend of mine from high school, Corinne. Her dear mother was getting rid of a large…
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A Few of my Favorite [Vintage] Things … in Ye Merry Old Etsy Shoppe
I’ve finally gotten to the cleaning, the polishing, the brushing, the matting, and the photographing of a handful of new vintage products that are now listed in the American Duchess Boutique on…
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It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad Christmas!
Myself and Mom, in front of the family Christmas Tree. Before I post about the fantabulous costume-related gifts the wonderful people in my life got me for Christmas, I will report on…
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Have a Holly Jolly Christmas! (etc.)
Well folks, as you travel off to various parts of the world, or stay just where you are, here’s wishing you a Merry Christmas or Happy Hanukkah! Photo from MyVintageVogue
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Tiniest and Sneekiest Peek – 1960s Mad Christmas Dress
Okay, I was going to keep this secret until Christmas, but I’ll give a peek. It’s not the best picture in the world – will have to wait for Christmas to take…
