Vintage Hat Friday! And lotsa house kit pics this weekend!

And modern house kit enthusiasts I have good news- the Amish have installed the cladding, the last large doors on the south side, so tomorrow I will be taking LOTS of house kit pictures now that the exterior is finished!!!!
Copeland : Swing On Sally
My friend Leah (who is now a naturopath in Portland) and I were in our teens, shopping at the local thrift store (Fan Thrift) when we spied a PAIR of dresses with matching jackets for two dollars! Back then we thought that was expensive but could not resist getting matching vintage outfits- which, years later, we wore swing dancing, then to cocktail parties...
The hat is another local find, and the gloves were purchased at an estate sale.
The cocktail shaker is a family item from the 1920s, I mean, hey, it's Friday and five o'clock somewhere, right?
So c'mon out and Vote Fer Me, Swing On Sally!
Amy: Navy Nightingale

This hat was purchased on the very last day of an estate sale, haggled for and acquired in a moment of “well, it’s a hat. I’m sure I can use it…for Vintage Hat Friday!” It came with a lovely rhinestone brooch attached, and while I thought in the dim interior lighting it was black, it turned out to be Navy Blue.
Well now. I have plenty of uses for a black hat, but only one for navy. This dress. It’s a lovely wrap dress I purchased from my hometown CHKD thrift store in high school. It is elegant, slimming, and a disaster on a windy day *ahem* Ah, those wrap dresses. I don’t know how women wore these out of the house and maintained their dignity, but I know I chickened out and brought a suit to wear out the door today so I would not suffer misfortune at the hands of a capricious cross-breeze.
Labels: Vintage Hat Friday
14 Comments:
Amy looks wonderful today! What a classy girl.
Copeland...love the entire flippin outfit! the hat rocks, but the gloves and the dog w/his mouth wide open...u rock!
my vote goes to you Copeland a/k/a Nurse Ratchet LOL
this week goes to amy, sigh, Cope, we need to bring up your game
Well, Copeland, you have your normal funk going on, which has it's appeal...but like some many other V.H.F.'s, I'm a classicist at heart, so Amie wins the day!
PS - You really need to install a voting widget...it would make this whole voting thing easier!!!
An exNavy vote for Amy.
Forgive me Copeland, but my vote goes to Amy again this week. She's on a roll, and I can't seem to get the image of a windblown Amy, a la Marliyn Monroe in The 7 Year Itch out of my mind. I think she may have minipulated me with her text again, She is a sly one!
Brooches make me giggle. It's a very silly word. I'm with Amy on this one.
Drat you all!!!!
Er except for Tara. : )
copelands :)
Why is Khan yawning?
Why is Khan yawning?
Amy has the class and gets my vote!
I'm going with Amy this time - very Navy girl ^.^
My vote to Amy! How you be so classy?
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