New coat.

"Hi. I'm Solanah, and I'm a coataholic."

Everyone: "Hi Solanah."

Its red, cashmere, and has a bow. You would have done the same.

Engagement pictures (The real ones).

Here are our engagement photos, taken by my Mother in law to be . I'm really glad we chose to go with black and white outfits, this dress is a vintage one my aunt wore when she and her now husband went on their first date. It's so cute, I always seem to pull it out for pictures. Sam decided to go with all black, topped off with a vintage fedora. What a fella.

The weather outside is frightful...

Its been snowing all week, which means the world stops around here. I wasn't able to go thrifting at all so I'm a little lacking on items for the shop, but that's given me a reason to get all the mending done and even make things, like another bustle skirt I've been working on. I've been enchanted be a 1930s coat at work, so in order to consider buying it I've been going through my own coat closets and seeing what I can part with. So far I sold one, and have two others up for sale in my shop. But loving this coat has made me look closer to 1930s fashions. Flipping through the 1930s Sears Catalogue book I can see just how amazing these outfits were. The waistlines and hemlines are in a love hate relationship the entire decade, moving closer together and farther apart with each year. The detail not only on dresses, but on the sleeves of the dresses is what amazes me most.
I pulled out a beautiful 1930s two piece dress my friend gave to me that was her grandmothers, and mended a bit of the smocking on the sleeve. This dress is silk and the only flaw it had in 80 years was some stitches loose. I've bought new shirts that barley last a week. As I told a friend recently, these sleeves have more character in them than an entire modern formal gown. Simply stunning. I plan on wearing it to my families brunch on Christmas Eve, and attempting on finger waving my hair. We'll just see how that goes...

Coat-Estate sale. My first vintage purchase years ago.

Hat-Goodwill.

Gloves-Discovery shop.

Wish list

A far fetched wish list.

Reproduction 1920s shoes from Re-Mix. Soooooo cute.


Cashmere silk tights from Walford. As if Cahmere wasn't enough, they added silk for that added "I'm never taking these off" feel.


A skirt from necessityisthemother.


Some cashmere slippers from J.Crew

Snow day

Winter is here, there is snow on the ground, and I am forced to switch my bird hat for a fur one. With pom-poms no less. Collecting wool skirts all year and tights to prepare for the colder months has been a success, today instead of my usual winter wear (Jeans) I put on some cotton tights, my green 1950s wool skirt and newly repaired boots. Warm as a bunny.

Jacket-Forever 21
Skirt and scarf-Goodwill
Hat and mittens-The Urban Eccentric

Here are some photos of the windows this week.

Couch

Found this couch at the bins with matching love seat. Coolest couch since that embroidered one Anthropologie had a few years back.

O christmas tree.

So I've been really excited to decorate the window at work in Christmas themes. This week I hadn't planned anything in advance so I was a little unprepared when I got to work, just brought a few ornaments, some wrapping paper, and a little vintage raindeer I bought for $1.50 at the Discovery shop. When in these type of situations I think of what I would do if I could to anything at all with whatever I want. And a Christmas tree dress came to mind. Why not find a full green dress and decorate it like a Christmas tree? I found this perfect green 1970s dress and layered it in three full petticoats and just wrapped a string of lights around it with ornaments hanging here and there. Then I wrapped some hatboxes and glass blocks in wrapping paper and finished them off with silk scarves and silk flowers. A little merchandise here and there, and voila!