fun finds

Just half of the cool stuff I've thrifted over the past two weeks. A 50s/60s sleeveless shirtwaist dress, a 60s/70s nightgown, a 60s swimsuit/romper, and a late 50s/60s formal juniors dress. So sad that last one is so small; it's the perfect spring dress!
Up next: leather and denim. I'm much less of a cowboy than I seem, haha :)

see, the life i've had can make a good man bad

Like a kid on Christmas morning, as soon as I woke up this past Thursday I had one thing in mind; Lula issue 10! Considering my infatuation with this publication, I'm surprised I haven't gone searching earlier, as I knew that it came out about a month ago (at least overseas). I guess it's for the best, because when I finally did make it to my Border's bookstore and ran over to the "foreign magazine" rack, there it was waiting for me! No disappointed waiting this time around!
My copy has Lime Chiffon on the cover; I wouldn't have minded Strawberry Shortcake herself, but this girl is pretty as well.
This issue doesn't have quite as many articles/photographs that appeal to me as the past few have, but I did appreciate the bit about Shelley Duval, my eyelash envy crush (second to that of my friend Jen, who has to best eyelashes even without eye makeup) and there were plenty of interesting articles in there that kept me entertained all day. I could hardly believe, when I went to stack my copy in with my past copies, that this is the sixth issue of Lula I have read; three whole years have gone by since I first picked up a copy and fell in love!
Happy fifth birthday, Lula! <3

As if getting my coveted copy of Lula wasn't great enough, I also managed to drag my poor mother out to the Salvation Army today, and found some really fantastic stuff to add to my wardrobe.

First up, a vintage Sears red gingham shirt. I love this color gingham, especially with rolled up indigo blue jeans. Summer, are you here yet?

Next up is this 50s/60s shirtwaist dress in a nice goldenrod color. It's usually hard to find this style and time period dress in good condition at my salvation army, but I must have been on a lucky streak today. Look at that collar, it's pretty awesome!

Next, keeping with my spring coat hunting, I grabbed this nearly pristine military style fishing jacket. This isn't vintage, but I was in the market for a military style jacket, and was going to cave and buy this one from J Crew, but I feel like the $10 price tag on this jacket beats the hell out of the $158 one on that. Plus it's the perfect color green, and has great little details, like tough little zippers and pockets, and plaid trim around the inside seaming.

Last but not least, I finally found a nice little jean jacket to go with summery dresses and skirts! I've been searching for just the right fit and wash jacket for what seems like years, and today I thought to look in the kid's section and there it was among bedazzled coats and teeny little dresses. Bonus: it's vintage 70s/80s, and fits like a glove. I think my closet is completed as far as spring jackets are concerned! (Now all I need are the perfect vintage leather platform clogs and I'll be golden!)

This might be the last post for a while; less than a month left of classes and my freshman year of college is over! Holy crap! Needless to say, this is crunch time, and I'm booked up to my ears in classes/work/sports until after May 15. Wish me luck, hopefully be talking to you sooner rather than later!

blue jean baby

How's this for keeping up with the blog? Three posts in the last week! Ha!
Well, as you may have noticed, blue is currently my favorite color, and as i mentioned in my last post, I've found a new appreciation for denim. So this post is dedicated to the blue things I found last time I went to salvation army with my mom.


First up is this awesome vintage 60s(?) trench/rain coat made by Misty Harbor, "a division of Jonathan Logan," that is perfect for spring. As soon as I fished this out from between sketchy flasher-trenches and some really odd, over-priced fur coats I instantly thought of Rhiannon, who has been talking about finding the perfect spring trench for ages now. I think I have found mine! It has contrast top stitching, is the perfect length, and has the cutest buttons and pockets without looking too contrived. Plus I was in serious need of a raincoat with all the rain we've been getting lately.
Next up is two button downs; I've been practically living in the lower one for the past few weeks. I've been on the lookout for chambray shirts for the past few months, and luckily I've found two that are perfect! The top one fits closer to the body and is good for tucking into high waisted jeans/skirts, and the bottom one is incredibly soft and easy and looks pretty wild my my great-aunt's vintage sequined vest. I'm loving these right now!

I grabbed this denim dress the other day at salvation army, and fell in love with the collar. Doesn't it look familiar? I swear I've seen another dress with the same exact collar in some spring collection, but I have no idea where. I cut it shorter as it was awkwardly ankle length, maybe a little too short because now I can't hem it (oops), but I'm crossing mt fingers that the edge won't fray!

And lastly I wanted to show off my (growing) 70s jean collection! I have six pairs now, five of which were thrifted and one bought off of eBay (from Australia, no less!). The only pair that fits me is the ebayed pair, but I'm thinking of selling the rest...that is, if anyone actually reads this and would be interested in owning 70s high waisted denim! Anyone out there? Hello?

Oh, and before I forget, my first post was this time last year, right after Easter! How weird is that? A whole year has gone by! I can hardly believe, when I look back on the past twelve months, how much I have changed. I feel like I'm a bit more mature, and my tastes have definitely changed, but what do you think? Am I totally the same? Totally different? Let me know what you'd want to see more/less of! (less text probably, haha)

'til next time :)

i want your style

Damn ,I want everything she's got!
chambray shirt: check
high waist perfectly belted trousers: check
sweet combo of socks and tall ass clog/sandals: check check check

some girls have all the luck...
(photo cred The Sartorialist via Lulu Letty)

wishes

I'm alive! Ha! Weeks literally fly by when you are incredibly busy and living for the weekends-I think I'm in serious need of a real break. We were off for spring break a few weeks ago but I ended up going to sunny Florida for a training trip for rowing. This was not exactly a relaxing vacation; we were up at 6 every morning and trained twice a day, about 6 hours every day. Crazy! But also an incredibly fun and interesting experience.

In the meantime, I've been running ragged catching up on work, getting up too early and going to bed too late, and just trying to find time to chill out! I have hardly even thrifted once in the past month, never mind having time to dress decently! I literally live i the same gross sports clothes all week-except for Thursdays, my only day to wear normal clothes. I shouldn't be complaining, at least I am doing what I want to be doing, but I miss having my old life a bit.

OK, end rant, now that spring has arrived (YAY!) I've been thinking a lot about what I want to be wearing come real warm weather and no more threats of snow. Hence, I've made a compilation of wants/needs for the season, some real and some imaginary. Check it!

*high waist jeans in black from American Apparel, no matter what season I always wear pants, and I've been wondering if I could pull off these high waisted ones or not. I'm weirdly disproportionate from top to bottom, but I really do love the way high waisted pants look. I want to try these on in store before committing anyway

*chambray and jeans in general. I thrifted an awesome men's over sized chambray shirt a few weeks ago and brought it to Florida, wearing it on the beach as a cover up and with shorts as a comfy alternative to sweatshirts that always seem to be in heavy rotation. Such a great fabric! I also recently bought some 70's high waist jeans (shipped all the way from austrailia!) and I want to try wearing them around, and I'm also intrigued by the denim-on-denim look (not, however, the way my father rocks it. I mean like how Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie in The Runaways rocks it in one scene; totally killed it with some of her wardrobe! MAkes me love the 70's so much more).

*very high platform sandals. I really like the Swedish Hasbeens that everyone seems to be talking about lately, but they are a bit outside of my budget. I'm also craving a higher platform, and have scoured the Internet with no luck searching for genuine 70s platforms. I'll keep trying though!

*handmade, light and airy dresses. I need the simplicity of a dress when I'm rushed to class/work/dinner, and cannot wait until I don't need any thought of tights! I recently purchased the Built by Wendy Dresses sewing book, and after I'm done with school I want to tackle at least one of the projects. Warmer weather come soon!

*high waisted swimsuits. I'm a big fan f vintage-styled swimsuits, and this one from urban outfitters/anthropologie is beautiful, but I would totally settle for this or this, from urban outfitters and hayden-harnett. I really wan tot try a high-waisted swimsit out this year!

it began between bookshelves

I know I am terribly behind with updates, and I have a whole bunch of things to share about what I've been doing and getting and seeing, but I wanted to share wit you something I made from a while back, in December in fact, for my English final project. We were assigned a 7-8 page paper on anything we wanted to write about, either a creative piece or an essay, on the themes for the semester. I chose to write a story, and I bound it up in a little book and drew in illustrations to go with it. I was pretty pleased with how it came out, although the writing wasn't necessarily my best, and I thought you might want to take a look? Sorry the scans are shoddy, I didn't want to unsew the binding and lazily scanned it in. hopefully I'll get around to scanning the text in too, just to see what you think!

(p.s. I hand-stitched some of the details, like the stars in the cover, the hearts on the tights, and the girl's tears. Oh, and I borrowed the names Hannah and Landon because I love them so much! The story isn't a very happy one though, so I don't think it has much to do with with either of them)

has it really been this long?

I really need to get myself in gear and remember to post; I was entirely unaware that it has been an entire month since I last let you all know I am alive and well! Can you believe it? I made a promise to update more and I keep taking these extended breaks...I need to get myself together here!
Forgive me for the long silence, I just seem to forget that time flies so quickly! I have lots of new and exciting things to share over here, tons of thrifting and little trips and films I saw and future plans I made, but right now I actually have to get my ass in gear and write some reports for work that I have put off for nearly two weeks (!!!). You see, I am just a terrible procrastinator, someone should really yell at me daily to make sure I get everything done that needs to be.
I will make a tentative promise that I will post a large collection of the finds of the past month come next weekend, but if I don't then I guess yell at me? Send me hate mail? Wait a bit more?
I don't ask too much, do I? ;)

don't think twice, it's alright

OK, so I guess spring is sort of getting into my head. All I've been thinking of is blues and whites and light gray, although It's frigid out in dear old Connecticut. I think I've been influenced most by the sweetest little look books that come out about this time of year, and I'm not complaining! I was able to sneak a mini day trip to Manhattan on Friday with my mom, and I think I can safely say that I can find my way around now, with little use of a map! Very exciting, haha. Well I dragged her to two stores, Anthropologie and Urban outfitters, with the intention of hunting down that blue dress in the above photograph and a pair of flats, and managed to limit myself to getting only 4 things, 3 of which were on super sale ( and no, they didn't have what I wanted in store, darn). Savvy shopper right here. Although I managed to get two impractical summery blouses (including that Pins and Needles one above, at a discount too, from Urban; so adorable and soft). I got home and ordered the dress online since it's been in my head for weeks; I'm a sucker for a sweet back detail. If it's as nice in real life I think I'll just live in it for the rest of the semester! I also have another two blouses that I got today at Anthropologie near my school; I got a 15% off coupon and wanted to get something special for my birthday. I'll show those off in a separate post though; they deserve their own spotlight!
Off to do some homework...I hate being in school, haha