Tuesday 30 October 2012

knit collar sisters

The detail on two very very cool 1950s dresses with knit collars that will be in the SHOP tomorrow!

Update: the dresses are in the shop now!

1950s Rubicon dress 
1950s Minor Secrets dress

1930s French Fashions



From Modes et Travaux in the 1930s, some French fashion illustrations.
I am not sure how these differ from American fashion in the 1930s, but I would love to know... 

Maryam Nassir Zadeh

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photos from mnzstore.com

This post could easily be titled "Beautiful Clothes I Could Never Afford".  Even if I could afford them, I don't think I'd want to spend $800 on a dress.  Regardless, they are beautiful clothes, and that's why they've landed here.  That cape is just the shade of mustard that I've been looking for all fall.  I would like to have a coat (or cape as the case may be) in just that color. 

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Sunday 28 October 2012

Patternity

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I decided to eschew all patterned tights a few years ago when I deemed myself officially too old to pull them off.  They are always a bit too cutesy for this gal's legs.  But then I discovered Patternity and their limited edition of hand screened tights printed in geometric shapes and I'm having to seriously reconsider my commitment to solid color tights.  I'm especially crazy about the Totem print.  Now, are they better in Bauhaus red or Bauhaus yellow? 

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dimanche | a shop update


All is in the SHOP!
TITLES ARE LINKED - ALWAYS!

Saturday 27 October 2012

Pink peeks


I love the judicious use of pale pink in Hilary Robertson's Brooklyn brownstone. I'm pretty much in love with the entire space in general, the bones of building being stuff dreams are made of. 

Robertson, an interior stylist (duh) has also recently opened a shop in Brooklyn called Mrs. Robertson

Wednesday 24 October 2012

In the Navy

Perhaps more friendly than the little black dress, navy is one of my personal favorite of dress colors. 
These four dresses will be in the shop very soon.

Tuesday 23 October 2012

Fair Isle

Named after a tiny island north of Scotland, Fair Isle is a style of knitting with very traditional Fair Isle patterns normally having no more than two or three consecutive stitches of any given color. 

A perennial favorite that will never go out of style.  These four wool Fair Isle sweaters will be in the shop in soon!

New York City

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Over the weekend Tom and I slipped away quietly to enjoy a couple of utterly perfect autumn days in New York City.  A friend generously lent us a 36th floor apartment in Chelsea so we had an amazing view of the Empire State Building from the rooftop garden for sunrise.  We wandered the streets of Manhattan, stopping in galleries, bookstores and restaurants whenever we fancied, rested in Central Park, did lots of window shopping and enjoyed one of the last beautiful weekends of fall.