I'm leaving to Savannah today for a little over a week to take care of some of my thesis stuff and take some exit exams. I'll be taking a break for a couple weeks to get all my stuff done, in the meantime, here is some vintage eye candy.
Ah, how I love 1930s style so...Click images for larger.
If you are keen on vintage clothing catalogs "juffrouwjo" has scanned in pretty much the entire 1938 Sears & Roebuck spring/summer catalog. Check it out.
So, I mentioned that Donovan and I were working on some new stationery. We in fact came-up with two new ones and are currently working on a few more. The first one is our R.S.V.P. stationery with the RSVP standing for "Royal Society of Venturesome Parcels." If you are more of a letter writer than a package maker, we also have one that says "Royal Society of Venturesome Post." It is a lined stationery and comes with unique side opening kraft envelopes. Oh yes, that is right, instead of the envelope opening being on the long side, it is on the short side. We love this style of envelope.
Our other new stationery is a bit of a silly one that we like to call the Blood Money set. The top of the stationery says "Your Blood Money is Enclosed." Hmmm...perhaps we have some repressed feelings towards certain people. Anyway, this stationery set also comes with the nifty side-opening kraft envelopes and has some wonderful detailing in the header.
Both of these stationery sets are limited editions, when they are gone, they are gone! We hope you like our new additions and will enjoy the other ones we are currently cooking up.
I don't think I've ever posted these. I my have made a link to them a year ago or so, but I think they are worth repeating. Its so hard to find good instructions for hair sets. I have a few Hairdresser magazines from the 40s I have yet to scan. I'll probably get around to doing so at the end of May when I'm done with my thesis review.
Here are two more sets for updos. Click for larger images. The original sizes are printable quality so you can have the instructions in front of you aas you work on your hair. If any gals try these out, I'd love to see the results!
With spring on our heels, I've been looking for new ways to style my hair. I have become absolutely smitten with the use of scarves in vintage hair styling. The Clara Bow look above is great, but it doesn't really suit me. Here are some other pictures I've found with vintage ladies in head scarves that I am going to try out as soon as the weather gets warmer. It seems the key to "dressing it up" is tying the scarf to the side.
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"Mel Chin directs his creative energy toward urgent problems that must be resolved if life on earth is to survive. His artist medium is the land that has become so laden with toxins that it is incapable of sustaining life or generating edible vegetation...Chin revives the polluted field by growing and harvesting special plants that thrive n the heavy metals in the soil. These leaching plants are called 'hyperaccumulators.' At the end of each growth cycle they are incinerated so that the cadmium, zinc, and lead they absorbed can be extracted from their ashes and recycled. With each harvest, more and more toxic metals are removed from the soil, bringing Chin closer to his goal – creating purified earth."
Words: Linda Weintraub, Art on the Edge and Over
Image: Mel Chin, Revival Field
Check out Paraphernalia's new line, the Migration Collection.
From the website: "The Migration Collection is inspired by the desire to travel after the
cabin fever of Winter. It reflects dreams of blue skies, green
landscapes, the smell of the Sea and Halcyon days of adventure."
I'm not sure where I got this photo, but I absolutely love it! The woman's body language is fabulous (and the outfits on the ladies and gentlemen are wonderful).
This image of Lindy Hoppers at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem (circa 1930) is pretty swell too. I little more action in this photo than the one above, but still something about the jitterbug one really catches my attention. More wonderful jazz photos on klbndc's set, All That Jazz.
"A world view in this sense is not something found 'out there,' but is something individuals construct and create. The issue of what beliefs we hold is therefore crucial. For instance, a belief that resistance to the dominant social structure is futile, because the structure is too ruthless or too powerful, will have the effect, if accepted by enough people, of stabilizing the relations of dominance. What we are learning is that for every situation in our lives, there is a thought pattern that both precedes and maintains it, so that our consistent thinking patterns create our experience. People give legitimacy to all social institutions, no matter how powerful those institutions seems to be, and they also have the power to withdraw legitimacy.
Although it may seem as if the individual in today's world has little power, the truth is that only we have the power to transform our situation: there is no one else."
Words: Suzi Gablik, The Re-enchantment of Art.
Image: James Turrell, Skyspaces
Here are some keen green things I've found on Etsy recently:
Eco Friendly Flatware Set from ponyup (many more styles on there too).
Reusable & washable facial pads (for make-up removal, etc.) from antoinette.
Reusable cup cozy (with rolling action to clip to your keychain) from Cup Kozy
I found a funny little pin-up spread with the premise of being able to tell "what a babe is by the way she sits at the lunch counter." I though it was cute, especially because of the vintage inspired outfits series I've done on different "personalities." For those who want to see more than the teaser over to the left, click here . I will warn that is shows bums though, so its probably not proper for the work environment!
This particular spread is from a pin-up collection from Taschen, but I know there are plenty of other books that have a wonderful collection of vintage pin-up spreads. For those who would like to get a steady dose of modern pin-ups with a vintage flair, you should check out Bachelor Pad magazine.
