PATIO DRESS PANACHE

I love it when Luminous Lady Vintage customers send me photos of themselves in a dress they've purchased and then made their own with great accessories and style. Here is Biddy looking glorious, wearing a vintage 50's pink patio dress in the "Mexican play-dress influenced style" of the 40's & 50's. She is at the Maverick Festival in England. 

Sarah in the original Luminous Lady Vintage listing.

50's.

Portland Oregon 2: Xtabay

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We continued our journey through vintage Portland with a visit to another great vintage shop on the east side of Portland: Xtabay.

The shop has a unique style, and all its displays are very elegant.

Gold and white tones abound and cloths and accessories are displayed elegantly.

As is so typically the case in Portland sales staff are knowledgeable and helpful. 

After a lovely day of shopping we stepped out of Xtabay into one of Portland's more charming neighborhoods in search of dinner.  No problem ....... so many good restaurants in the neighborhood.

---- David

Portland, Oregon 1: Simply Vintage

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If there is a vintage clothing capitol in this world of ours, I will guess it is Portland, Oregon. What can you say about a city that prides itself on off-beat style.

Weird or not, Portlandians love and wear vintage, and cool vintage shops are scattered around the city. I thought I'd share a series of posts about vintage shops we visited on a recent winter excursion to Portland.

Simply Vintage * BOUTIQUE

Simply Vintage is also one of my favorite stores on etsy, (so what's a little competition, we can spread the love ;-) along with Fab Gabs, both located  in vintage central on planet Earth in Portlandia!

Sarah, who works here (not Sarah the owner) being charming in her 'oh so very cute' sweater & celluloid brooch. 

Treasures galore! I bought a fabulous green art glass bead 50's necklace, so yum yum!

Learning from Sarah that they do all the fashion shoots for etsy here in the store, so it does triple duty as a storefront, storage and photo & listing studio. Very practical, rather than just renting storage space here in the city, where space is money. This is a dream of mine, but there really isn't a market for high end vintage in La Grande, we are too far off the beaten vintage path. Boo hoo.

I'm always drawn to the boudoir section, it's just so girly all that satin and lace. I have so much lingerie already that I've purchased over the last 5 years to list on my 'romantic vintage' etsy store luminousladyvintage, that I could open a third store on etsy. 

Well worth a stop to shop!

OWNER; SARAH DEATON-ZAAYER
@stutterinmama.facebook,com/SimplyVintageBoutique
3640 SE Belmont Street
Portland Oregon 97214
(503)888-0961

Questing for Vintage Treasure in Utah

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Sometimes we take Red Red Robin, our retro trailer, out on our vintage treasure quests. The month of May found us at a campground in Utah.

Down the road we found a great antique store in the town of Brigham City.

The store had pretty much everything you might want. Care for an antique commode?

Or a Victorian stereoscope?

Perhaps a hot antique racing car is more to your taste?

The Porche was certainly my idea of pastry, and I gave some thought to draining our savings account to buy it at the bargain price of only $18,000. But it would not fit in the back of our car, so no sale.

Unfortunately no cloths either, so we headed back to Red Red Robin to rest our tired feet, and have a bit of a snack. 

I guess Kayla was more tired than I thought, because she doesn't usually feed popcorn to the floor.

From Perry we pressed on into south central Utah, headed for Moab, when oooops .... problems with Red Red Robin's tires, and we pulled off in the tiny town of Helper. While I fiddled with the tires, Kayla ran across the street to an antique store where she discovered the most amazing cloths from the 1930s and 1940s.  

Just as she was settling in to a major buying adventure I ran in and began to drag her out. "If we don't get 10 miles down the road to Price in the next 45 minutes we are going to have a flat tire here in the middle of the Utah high desert. We have to leave now to get to the tire store before it closes." I did not even have my camera at hand because this was so serious. I could see what was on Kayla's mind: "Oh no, shopping vs flat tire!!!"  A difficult choice for her, but not for me. She was barely started into some serious collecting when we shoved off. Sigh, sigh.  Well leaving such a treasure trove is better than being stranded on the side of the highway with a flat tire.  Well, Kayla thoutht "Maybe it is."

Well that is vintage treasure questing some times. X marks the spot, you start to dig and the fates blow you away.  To return?

---- David

Fashion Trivia
David and I are creating a new backdrop for Bee Beautiful Vintage & Luminous Lady Vintage for tomorrows fashion shoot of women's suits, coats and some really fun dresses What do you think?(besides the fact that its lucky we aren't modeling ;-) How about this new look as an antidote to that boring white screen in BBV?  

That is original 1940's Hollywood Regency tropical floral fabric. 

The Hollywood Glam 1940's tropical floral panels were purchased from an amazing shop on etsy
Kimberly Z...Textiles With A Past  Look See fabrics here

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