This lovely weekend included some time searching out some wonderful fur pieces (more on them later, I think!) and some time with some amazing vintage yachts (such a hard life!) This weekend in Seattle, and apparently every Father's Day weekend, there is a classic yacht show on the waterfront that's free to attend. (I love free events!) I happened upon this show on a Friday lunchtime walk and had to take my camera back with me over the weekend. Here are just a few of my favorite pictures:
The boats ranged from 1922 until 1981 (the latest actually being a repro of an older boat).
Vintage yacht, Americana and wicker? I may have just swooned a little!
The ship's wheel of a 1922 corporate yacht.
Just for fun, here's the rest of that particular boat:
There are more photos from this little exhibition on the CoriLuVintage Facebook so check them out!
I want to start by apologizing for not being here in quite a long while. Spent the last few month moving and then getting settled in a new routine in the big city! Lucky me, I finally moved back to Seattle! I have a lovely new job in marketing and graphic design and I'm working harder than ever on CoriLuVintage! I'm actually making ever more of a point to include vintage in my every day life, I just haven't been very good about including time to blog. So, I'm sorry. Either way, I'm back and I want to show you what I've been up to! Let's start by me taking just a minute to tell you about my new place.
I now have a very Mad Men, vintage 1962 apartment in Seattle and I love every single inch of it. It was built the same year at the Space Needle, has a white brick fireplace and is just such a heart throb in my life. I even have more room to add some of my lovely vintage pieces that have been in storage for a while and I'm very pleased to be seeing them every day. More on all those later though, we'll take a tour some day.
I'm doing a little restructuring of the blog and I want you to know that it will now be about vintage in many aspects of life, not just clothing. I want to show off the many vintage loves I have, so here goes...
Before we get too far into outfits (or even begin!) let's work on something that's just fun! My favorite brand of vintage jewelry (although I'm not very picky at all when it comes to vintage jewelry) is Trifari. It has a few different version of the logos, but normally it uses their T with a crown on top. They made quite lovely jewelry and I have collected a good grouping of pieces over the years. Over my vacation, I found an antique store that had several vintage advertisements from Trifari. And, lucky us, we get to see them still today! You can pull them up a bit bigger to see better too. So here goes:
I took a bit of a vacation for the Thanksgiving holiday with family and now I'm back! I have several outfits to post about from before and during my vacation. I also have some other vintage goodies to post that I think you'll all just love! Now that that's said, let's get to it! One outfit at a time!
It's just another Manic Monday! To cheer up my Monday, I decided to wear one of the pieces that started my love of vintage clothing in the very beginning; a skirt that my Grammi made in the early 1950's, before my mom was even born. This skirt has a twin, made of practically the same fabric (only in a different color scheme) and has seen many things. Luckily enough my Grammi, my mom and I are all on the tiny side and therefore all three of us have worn this skirt. This skirt has seen times in many high school and colleges classes, at many different jobs, and in many different eras. It's twin, of course, has also been around thourghout all of this and someday I'm sure I'll share it as well. For now, here is the salmon-colored, plaid, wool skirt.
Necklace: gold chain with pearl dangles . circa 1970s . thrift store
Sweater: modern cream turtleneck
Skirt: salmon, brown, cream & green plaid wool skirt . circa early 1950s . made by my Grammi
Tights: funny modern brown with random pattern
Boots: modern brown faux suede
Sunday fun-day! My relaxing Sunday was filled with coffee, shopping and time with good friends! And what a better place to wear a vintage blouse than out to coffee? (Unless you spill coffee a lot, which I don't normally, so I was golden! haha) The rest of my outfit was simply modern jeans and boots, so I figured I would focus on the vintage blouse today as I'm pretty sure it's the first time I've worn this emerald beauty!
Blouse: emerald green, luxurious blouse with pleated front . circa 1970-80s . thrift store
Belt: navy blue leather with gold/brass buckle . circa 1980s . thrift store
Jeans: modern navy blue jeans
Boots: modern, warm brown boots
A Saturday in Fall? It was definitely time for jeans and a vintage sweater! This is a sweet little sweater that I believe was my mom's at one point. (Our collections have mixed for so long that now there is a very blurry line as to what was hers and what I have added....she can't even remember sometimes!) This sweater has a perfectly crocheted collar with pearls and a pearl clasp at the back of the neck. It's a lovely mauve color and very feminine. I wore my vintage pearl screw-back earrings to match the collar. My flared and jeans were modern additions to the outfit.
Sweater: crocheted mauve with pearl and cream collar . circa ? . possibly was my mom's?
Earrings: large screw-back pearls . circa 1940s? . thrift store or antique shop (too many shops that day!)
Jeans: modern dark blue with flared legs
