Vintage Trifari Ads

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:

Vacation Time!

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!

Vintage-a-Day - Day 5

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

Vintage-a-Day - Day 4

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

Vintage-a-Day - Day 3

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

Vintage-a-Day - Day 2

For the majority of today, I worked. Where I work, it's for a university and it's a thing around there to wear our school colors every Friday to show our spirit. Being that I'm all about spirit, I definitely try to do this. Therefore I had to mix gold, silver, black and some kind of real university gear all together and hopefully do that in a cute way! I'd like to think I managed...

Jacket: grey, gold, white plaid(ish) jacket . circa 1980s . thrift store
Necklace: Napier white pearls . circa 1960s . can't remember
Jeans: modern black jeans
Boots: black ankle boots with brass buckles . circa 1980s . thrift store (I think)
Shirt: modern University shirt
Earrings: modern white pearl clusters

Vintage-a-Day - Day 1

Today, a rainy and drizzly 9-to-5, may have only seen one vintage item, but at least it was a cute sweater! (Sorry for the tacky cellphone pictures!)

Sweater: black and cream brick pattern with crocheted shoulders and button neck at back . circa 1980s . thrift store
Rest of outfit: modern, but mostly thrifted 

Worn with dark blue jeans and warm brown riding boots.

Vintage-a-Day!

I have worn and collected vintage clothing, accessories, jewelry and what have you for as long as I can remember. It started out with pieces of my mom's and my grammi's clothing and collections that became mine and my collection grew as I did. It still continues to grow today, although I stopped growing years ago!

At the beginning of the 2012, I decided that I should sell vintage pieces on Etsy because I'm constantly finding lovely things that are too big for me (because I'm practically miniature), things that I don't need in my collection exactly (I mean, how many vintage black purses does one need? Oh wait, I guess there is no limit for that one!), etc. I opened a vintage Etsy shop (www.etsy.com/coriluvintage) and began spending way too many hours surfing the web and looking at other vintage collectors. What I began to notice was that I was impressed at how many of the vintage sellers and collectors out there wear so much of their vintage stuff, so much of the time. Then I got embarrassed that I have a lovely and growing collection and yet there are so many days where I don't wear anything vintage at all! What a slacker!

I started trying to pair down the amount of modern clothing that I have in my closet (slash floor because I have way too much to actually fit in the closet!) in hopes that I would wear more vintage clothing. Of course, it's not always practical to wear entirely vintage outfits, but I certainly wanted to try and bring it back into my day-to-day wardrobe. Today, while walking in the rain, wearing pretty much all modern clothing, I realized that I may not be able to post that I wear vintage outfits every day, but I can certainly try to feature at least one vintage item every day! It may just be my shoes or my scarf or a pair of earrings, but I am challenging myself to adding at least one vintage piece to every day. After all, why have it if it stays buried in my closets, jewelry boxes, drawers and shelves! So here's my challenge: I will try to have at least one item of lovely vintage quality and I will try and post it every day(ish). I'll also do my best to identify what I'm wearing when I post it and where I got it.

And what could possibly be a better way to start than by sharing my vintage outfit from Halloween yesterday? I decided to be Jackie Kennedy (entirely because I wanted to show off my new flowered hat which I bought to go with a dress that I knew I had hanging in my closet!) Here goes:

Dress: pale yellow with white lace . circa 1960s . thrift store
Necklace: pale yellow pop beads . circa 1950s . antique shop
Hat: pale yellow with white flowers, leaves and pearl stamens . circa 1950-60s . consignment shop
Earrings: pale yellow half circles on posts . circa 1980s . thrift store
Button: print out of original JFK presidential button photograph from online . cut and taped to button
Shoes: black with gold button . modern(ish) . thrift store


Not pictured, but definitely part of the outfit.
Coat: long white wool coat lined with satin . circa 1960-70s(?) . costume shop sale
Gloves: handmade cream gloves with hand-beaded flowers . circa 1950s . thrift store
Purse: beaded white purse . circa 1950-60s . estate sale