Hats off to New York Fashion Week

A little nod to New York Fashion Week via this vintage hatbox found at the Yellow Brick Store in Carmel, CA.  There, a cluster of resale shops offer an amazing array of 'trash and treasure' from the local gentry.  Worth a peek shoppers!

Happy Vintage Hunting,
Marjorie

French School Fashion 1924

 

Vintage French Dept. Store Catalogue



Bonne Chance Enfants!

Marjorie

Chloe in Pearls

Perhaps you were expecting another "fashionista", named Chloe.  But this model, with attitude, is "Chloe" the adorable pug of our Australian friends Ian and Cathy Sutton.  

Although she was the runt of her litter, this in no way has inhibited her pesonality, status, presence or influence in the Sutton family.  She is quite social, and her many interests include: outings to the local villages of Mt. Martha and Mt. Eliza, with stops at the pet shop and hairdresser for special treats; catching up on her beauty sleep in a lap; snuggling with the family under a doona; amusing herself with her numerous toys, or just lying in her basket with a view out to the world beyond.

Here, Chloe is modeling a strand of pearls especially created for her by Cathy, who is a Australian jewelry designer (You can find her at CLS Design www.cathysuttonjewellery.com.au).

It is amusing to find that the Victorians also enjoyed adorning their dogs.

 Some 19th c. Victorian Die-cut Scraps

Don't they all look marvelous, Darling?
Marjorie

A Scent to Savor

An Antique Perfume Card for Rêve d'Or, L.T. Piver, Paris from my paper ephemera collection.  Piver, an ancient French perfume house has been "perfuming the whole world" - from the Court of Louis XVI through the present day.  Though my card was printed long ago, notes of orange blossom, tea roses, geraniums, vetiver, heliotrope and hints of sandalwood still linger.

What is your favorite scent or perfume?

Savoring this Fragrant Season,

Marjorie   

Summer By the Lake - Part Two

 More Photographic Souvenirs from that long ago Summer By the Lake, Circa 1913.

Bon Voyage Friends, Marjorie

P.S.  These photographic postcards, as well as those in my previous posting were rescued from a stack at a local charity shop.  I believe the location is near Long Point Vermont, on Lake Champlain.

Ode to the Red, White and Blue

 Red, White and Blue, our love to you,

Every year we all renew,

And passers by will hear us cry,

Hurrah! hurrah! for the Fourth of July!

Poem by Laura Rountree Smith

Happy July 4, 2012, Marjorie

Summer By the Lake - Part One

Photographic souvenirs from a long ago summer encampment by the Lake, circa 1913. 

Happy summer days to all the campers out there.

Marjorie