A Book By It's Cover

One of my favorite things to do around the holidays is walk around downtown and visit the shops, I never miss the used bookstores where I always find some great gifts for the readers on my list. Recently, I found Sometimes a Great Novel, an Etsy shop that is pretty much the online equivalent of one of my favorite brick and mortar bookstores. Aren't these book covers just the coolest?

Vintage Sweaters Ago - go

 



It's been a bit swamped here with all sorts of things. Opera, pre-Christmas, photography sessions, prep work. So I 'm just going to showcase the new sweaters we put up this month on Past Perfect Vintage. It has turned quite wintry here, and my vintage sweaters and 49ers are doing a great job of keeping me warm. I highly recommend the stylish bargain vintage sweaters can  be, especially the

Etsy Update: Cozy Sweaters

Snowflake Sweater /// Rocky Mountain Sweater

Captain Sweater Coat  /// Candy Cane Sweater

Etsy Update: Winter Skirts

Collegiate Mini Skirt /// Autumnal Plaid Skirt 

In Through the Window Skirt /// Night Skies Skirt 

Etsy Update: Ebony & Ivory

Climbing Vines Dress /// Onyx Lace Dress

Ivory Brocade Suit /// Midnight Velvet Dress

Gussied Up | A shop update

vintage 1950s Aria de Capo dress

vintage 1950s Solfeggio party dress

vintage 1960s La Naissance cocktail dress 

vintage 1950s Musikalische party dress

vintage 1950s Dream Beyond Time dress

vintage 1930s Unicode dress 

 vintage 1920s At the Savoy dress

vintage 1960s Suzy Perette dress

vintage 1970s Cutaway wool jacket

vintage 1950s Midnight Clear skirt

1960s gray rabbit beret | 1950s rhinestone bow necklace | vintage Hotamis bag

1960s Silver Lining kitten heels |  1930s Silver Belles heels 

 vintage 1930s Million Dollar Baby wool coat

vintage 1940s Fond Farewell wool coat

vintage 1940s Sojourner wool coat

vintage 1960s Crushed Cranberries coat 

vintage 1930s Hi-Ho wool coat

vintage 1940s Moonlight Skate wool coat

It's time to get gussied up! The holiday parties will be starting soon and I can promise you, the shop is just going to get prettier and prettier. So here's the first of some festive, fancy and fantastic shop updates that will carry through NYE!

All of these pieces are in the SHOP now - and the titles are linked, as always. 

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Although we technically have a few more weeks of fall left on the calender, the weather officially turned to winter this morning when we awoke to an ever-growing layer of snow.  While I'm surprising OK with this, I'm also still enjoying this moody fall lookbook from Need Supply Co.  That site continues to be one of my favorite places to virtual window shop.  They always have something that tempts me to hit the "buy" button.

The Princess Coat | a preview

I've a confession to make; I've been holding out on you - all you vintage princess coat lovers. Because, how can I, a consummate lover of vintage princess bring myself to part with such lovely winter specimens, even when they aren't my size? The answer is, I haven't; but that's all about to change. For the 2012 holiday season I'm setting my personal affinity aside and stocking the shop with 1930s-1950s princess coats - so, be sure to let Santa know...

Look for all of these in the SHOP this week!

Wren Resort

If I had a fancy holiday party to go to this year (which I don't think I do), I'd definitely consider donning one of the little party dresses from Wren's Resort collection.  Somehow the collection is making me like things I usually wouldn't;  like gold metallic and pink floral shininess, navy to-the-ankle lace and even the neon yellow paired with navy (or on its own) is somehow working for me. 

CYBER MONDAY SALE!

CYBER MONDAY SALE, only this time the discount is 30% off! 

Midnight Monday - 11pm Monday night, EST.  | SHOP HERE

✶ sale does not apply to reserved or layaway items ✶ 

L'ecole des femmes

Far away lived a girl from a French town of Deauville.  She loved poetry, paper, Earl Grey tea and the sweetness of the rain.  But something happened to her when she left her apartment... (read the rest)

SHOP SALE!

Enjoy 25% off the entire shop | Thursday 11/22 - Monday 11/26

SHOP HERE

✶ sale does not apply to reserved or layaway items ✶ 

Etsy Update: Winter Coats

Blanket Stripe Wool Coat /// Glacier Ice Wool Coat 

Fawn Fur Collar Pea Coat /// Latte Wool Pea Coat

Etsy Update: Cozy Knits

Mayan Belted Cardigan /// Bird of Prey Sweater 

Equestrian Sweater /// Patchwork Sweater

Etsy Update: Skirts

Jewel Stripe Skirt /// Buffalo Check Skirt 

Slate Plaid Skirt /// Herringbone Skirt

Designers,Designers

 



How do you feel about designer labels?  I must admit when I started collecting vintage clothing, I specialized in fashions of the 1920s and back, so designer labels weren't a factor for me. The labeled clothing of the those early eras is rather sparse here in the Upper South, and I didn't run into names like Worth, Vignon, Poiret, or Doucet. I did find an 1880s Worth right after I had

Datter

I'm sure I've probably mentioned this fact somewhere here before, but I am not much of a jewelry wearer.  I've been wearing the same pair of little gold hoop Jennifer Meyer earrings for about ten years.  I never take them out and honestly forget that I'm even wearing them most of the time.  I'll don an occasional necklace or bracelet but that's about it.  Lately my necklace of choice has been the Watchful Eye necklace from Datter Industries. I love how dainty the pieces are without being cutesy.  That's a tough thing to balance. 

cocktail hour

sources here & here 

The season of the cocktail hour fast is approaching so here's just a little inspiration and whistle-wetting from my 1950s & 1960s Pinterest boards.

Expect some great things to hit the Dear Golden shop next week!

It Suits November

 

 

The weather has finally turned consistently cold enough for a fire in the wood stove, for wool jackets, for breaking out my wool 49er collection, for gloves and even my newly acquired 1950s grey eyelash wool fit n' flare dress coat. Good times! So to celebrate the change in seasons, let's look at our recent suits, jackets and coats. We are doing our best at Past Perfect Vintage to get

Monday shop update

 1930s Pequenas Flores dress | 1960s Romagna silk dress

1930s Butterscotch Ganache dress

1960s Obelisque dress | 1950s Tunneymede dress

 vintage Hot Mustard sweater | vintage Diamond Time cardigan 

1970s Etienne Aigner boots | 1980s Scarlet wedges | 1970s Oxblood bag

1950s Fact Check wool suit

1960s Little Black Velvet dress | 1960s Motorik wool coat 

1950s Baker's Dozen coat | 1960s Cashmere & Mink coat

A SHOP update & all descriptions are linked. 

Moroccan Kilim Boots

I'm not sure where it came from since it's sort out outside my normal range of what I wear, but I've been newly obsessed with finding the perfect pair of Moroccan style kilim boots.  I've been living in a pair of black skinny jeans and a denim shirt and while I have no desire to wear much of anything else these day, I think a pair of these boots would make that combination a little less boring. 

It's difficult since the very nature of the boots makes them one of a kind and I'm scare to order a pair not knowing exactly what I'll get.  If the thought had dawned on me sooner, I could have visited the Kiboots store when we were in Amsterdam.  Instead, I've been stalking Bohemia site in hopes of snagging a pair of the Oujda style in my size. 

Holiday 2012 | a dress mini-preview

It's the quiet before the storm - the days before Thanksgiving. The holidays seem far enough off still, but somehow also right around the corner. So instead of a full holiday preview I have for you a little mini-preview of what will be trickling into the shop between the end of November and New Year's Eve. The best part? I still have lots of dresses to photograph, so in a sense, this is just the beginning of the pretty that's about to happen at Dear Golden!

Animaux

all images & credits for images found here

Every now and again it just needs to happen, I need to do a blog post that has nothing to do with vintage and is just a bunch of heart-wrechingly cute animals. I had a fairly trying week & that usually means I will be taking some time decompressing with my Pinterest animal board. Maybe you're the same way and if so, this post is for you, if not, well, don't worry, I'll be posting some pretty fabulous vintage here come the weekend. 

House of Rolande

House of Rolande

Mme. Rolande operated from at least 1920 - 1927. There was US press coverage as early as 1920, when John Wanamaker announced that Chanel and Rolande models could be seen at his Philadelphia store. That Rolande is mentioned in the same context as Chanel is telling. Mme. Rolande moved her house several times - first at 16 Rue Vignon in 1920, then 394 Rue Saint Honore by

Fancy That | a shop update

1950s Skip a Beat dress | 1950s White Tie dress

1960s Light Fantastic dress | 1950s New Theory dress

 1950s Best & Co. suit 

1950s En Plein Air blouse | 1940s Bright Garnet jacket

1960s By the Book shift dress

1930s Quick Millions dress | 1930s Deco Nights dress

 1960s Leopard coat | 1960s Twelve Days dress

1950s Moonage Dress dress | 1940s Butter Rum dress

1960s La Reina cameo | 1930s D'Oro bolero 

1960s Reign Supreme dress

 1960s Nuestra coat | 1960s Lil' Mousie brooch | vintage leather moto boots

vintage slouchy silk blouse | 1970s Buttercream boots

1970s Harakumi platforms | 1960s Kiltie oxfords

1960s Shoreditch oxfords | 1940s Preston heels

1950s You Send Me wedding gown

The fancy is starting to trickle in...the holiday season is just around the corner as are the vintage dresses that come along with it! The SHOP has had a big update in the past few days with a color palette I'm sort of enamored with at the moment. 

✩ DESCRIPTIONS ARE LINKED ✩