Dorothea's is FAB!

Dorothea's is happy to be working with FAB.COM once again on a week long sale! Started last night, nearly 100 pieces of never before seen vintage from Dorothea's.

1970s black silk Yves St Laurent jacket...

80s red and white polka dot party dress by Victor Costa...

60s gold and black glam feather jacket...

70s Alfred Shaheen bell sleeve dress...

70s marbled leather handbag....

60s handpainted wood artists's palette brooch and earrings....

Pics are all clicky links, head on over to grab stuff up...only lasts til this coming Monday!

~Ang

Are you Fab?

Dorothea's is having a pop up sale on the (relatively) new FAB.COM! You have to be a member to shop but it's free and easy, click the link to the site to get to my invite page and sign up. You'll get daily emails for their pop up shops so you'll know right when ours starts! Things move SUPER fast, so be sure to check right away....lots of things never seen before on the site and many piece from the site as well, all discounted 20% off. Lots of other cool stuff both new and vintage from other dealers too! So excited to be working with them!

trompe l'oh no you didn't

Moschino Cheap & Chic, pre-Fall 2012.

Hermes 1952, designed by Herbert Sondheim.

Herbie wins.

~Ang

halter necks and bias cuts

A book review! Just received a copy of Maria Costantino's book, "Fashions of a Decade:the 1930s" for the holidays and decided to share some here with you. So more of a pictorial review than written. With pieces from the 1930s what more do you need?

"Style and Home", Germany, 1932....

Dress by Jean Patou of Paris...

Styles for men from "Simpson's Magazine", 1938.....

Patriotic styles by House of Jaeger.....

1939..tightly belted waists, wide brim hats....

Morning and afternoon wear...

Lucille of Paris, 1932.....

1933 mid calf length....

Lingerie in modern textiles....

Artificial crepes for the new "cinema frock"....

1935 beach wear in Krepe-Tex from Charnaux....

Winter 1935, low backs, bias cut gowns....

Elsa Schiaparelli's "Tear Dress" with cape, 1938....

Schiaparelli 1936....

Mainbocher, 1939.....

Motoring and sportswear, 1938...use of suede, leather and tweed...

Panty girdles in Lastex by Kestos Company of America, ideal for clingy bias cuts....

A lovely book chock full of info and eye candy!

~Ang

Waist Not

Perhaps one of the most underappreciated pieces in the vintage closet is the shirtwaist dress. Seen as too casual, too pedestrian to appeal to the vintage afficianado seeking more glamorous designer pieces, the shirtwaist often languishes in the boutique or website waiting for someone with a keen eye and imagination to see it for what it really can be.....

Easy to make (if you can sew?), patterns abundant? Check. (Piccy link to a great resource for patterns!).

Easy to wear? Check.

Easy care? Coming traditionally in cottons or jersey nylons....check again. Easy to accessories, both retro and modern? Check check.

In summery or autumnal hues, these dresses can be worn in warm or cool weather...easily accented or layered seasonally. Now quit passing these beauties by!

~Ang

Pinteresting!

Finally got on the bandwagon and checked out Pinterest....fully addicted already! Come see my boards, ranging from deco style, color themes, decor, food, photography, fashion and of course loads of vintage! Follow me so I can check out your pins!

Come play!

~Ang

Happy Birthday, Mr. Dior!

And thank YOU for the New Look!

~Ang

It's Two, Two....

Two coats in one! 1960s faux fur leopard print coat....

Reverses to jet black wool with leopard print wedding ring collar and cuffs! On the site now.

Pics are linky! Still plenty of cold days left in the season here (and cold weather always comes back!).

~Ang

Top Ten!

Giddy over this article in DEPARTURES MAGAZINE listing the top 10 vintage boutiques in the world, including Dorothea's Closet! A superb WRITE UP about the appeal of vintage to the fashion savvy and it's place in the sartorial conversation, with a few quotes from your truly!

To be mentioned at all is amazing, but in such stellar company!....LE MONDE du VOYAGE of Paris , ZOLA'S EVERYDAY VINTAGE in Dallas, TREASURE ISLAND in Naples, FL, COLLETTE in Southhampton, NY, TIME AFTER TIME in Chapel Hill, NC, GRANDMA TAKES A TRIP of Sydney, Australia, RELLIK of London, CORACHAN y DELGADO in Madrid, Spain & VICENTE GANESHA of Ibiza, Spain. Tip of the hat to you all and a big thanks to Departures Magazine!

Dorothea's Meets Bauble Bar!

In case you don't follow us on facebook, or on twitter OR on tumblr, the big news around here is Bauble Bar! A website devoted to modern accessories (yay!) presented in chic collections making it easy to pull together the look-of-the-moment. And what's more modern right now than mixing vintage with contemporary fashion? Just nothing! Dorothea's was thrilled to provide the very vintage apparell you see on Bauble Bar's site setting off their weekly collections as they travel back in time to the 20s, 40s, 50s and 60s. So far they've presented 1920s and 1940s with 2 more decades and collections to come. Go see and get your jewelry fix at Bauble Bar, and and Bauble Bar on tumblr!

stacks

a quick hello! just had a superb buy of 40s to 60s dresses in great prints and silhouettes...prepping and shooting frantically!

~Ang

new york, new york

congrats new york!!

now get busy planning those weddings! (ps, go vintage, it's not only fabulous but eco-friendly!)

seven!

Thrilled to make number 7 in LULU'S VINTAGE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS for 2011! It's always fun to win stuff, even more so to be a part of Lulu's lovely blog in company of such fine vintage sellers and websites. Vintage!!

Dyakuju!

~Ang

the breaks

I'm bad enough at keeping up with the blog on a good day, but these days are not so good. So heads up...the power that be behind Dorothea's is broken. I broke both bones in my lower left leg May 11, requiring surgery to insert (hammer, actually) a rod into the tibia...a cast, walker, the whole 9. I have help at my shop 3 days a week and a lovely assistant learning how to locate things to ship (and do the shipping!). Things are getting smoother by the day and the bones are healing as best they can, requiring much rest and consistent physical therapy in the hopes that one day soon I *will* walk again. Meanwhile, things will appear a little slower on the website and a few things may be screwy from those days spent on (lovely, lovely) pain meds....but all will be ok in the end. I'm still able to do buys and have some wonderful things coming up! Meanwhile, I'll be on a search for a very glamorous vintage cane to use by mid-summer!

~Ang