Let's hear it for the boys...

the things guys like... 

Old cars, old trucks, and pie!

Pie...see! mmmm fresh from the oven.  here is a delicious!! Peach Pie recipe from Smitten Kitchen....

 and what to wear while rolling the dough...and sprinkling the cinnamon..... maybe this...

Work apron....   Full denim bib apron, handmade of indigo blue cotton denim with pockets on the front and long ties.
perfectly useful in the kitchen, the wood shop or just making stuff.

I make these one at a time, by request, and I take extra time on the bib. It has a work-intensive detail around the top edges...I finish the edge with a facing, and make tough ties...I don't use cheap flimsy twill ties! you pay a bit more, but you get a higher quality sturdy apron.

handmade goods at our etsy store
handmade goods at our website   and a few things over at our Zibbet shop

handmade Waxed canvas tote
Vintage waxed canvas is paired with a vintage nail bag and is remade into a sturdy tote bag. It's a reclaimed rustic design that will work for men or women.

Reusing a waxed cotton tent, it's combined with a Mississippi lumberyard nail bag featuring a very old truck. Free Delivery!

  and a few things over at our Zibbet shop
old license plate is now a clock...

handmade goods at our etsy store
handmade goods at our website   and a few things over at our Zibbet shop
Handmade leather bracelets...
Men's black leather cuff bracelet with either rusty vintage key and metal plate, or a 30s vintage buckle.
Each handmade and unique cuff bracelet is made of sturdy recycled black leather with a hand sewn assemblage of different things attached with vintage button thread.

 The leather is recycled from vintage jackets, hand cut and then the vintage key, or anchor charm, or old hardware is securely sewn on.
Each of the boho bracelets is handmade, and each one is different. You can decide which one you want. Great for the ladies too!
handmade goods at our etsy store
handmade goods at our website   and a few things over at our Zibbet shop 

handmade goods at our etsy store
handmade goods at our website We love to make jewelry of vintage charms, some shiny, some with timeworn patina...
We handmade this collection in the little studio from things collected along the way.

 they're at our Etsy store, and on our website too!

wow! 
handmade goods at our etsy store
handmade goods at our website  

Made from an authentic USN Eagle insignia....   handmade goods at our website  

 

Random cowboys and cowgirls

The West. and the myths there of.  The edge of this continent is a place called California...it is a state of mind, and not a bad state to be in.....
....just some Western pics, mostly of cowboys, and cowgirls, and time to jump on your horse. I am sad all the time that I only have my saddle, and my boots, and I don't have a horse right now.

But I will always have a dog.

yup, that's Betty White rolling in the hay as a proto-hipster....

My 40s - 50s Frye's Rancher Boots......



A vintage 60s cowboy shirt, of blue and green wool plaid.......
mmm snappy!  




A Cowgirl and her singing prairie dog.... yup, cowgirls love their dogs.....

Miller Rodeo shirts...... 20s - 30s...

vintage Levis.......you know how funkomavintage feels about vintage Levis......

Vintage 30s - 40s boots by Miller....

Vintage 40s cowgirl shirts...look at those shoulder pads......

mmm....more vintage Levis !!! 

A Roy Rogers set made and designed by Nudie!

Perfect for men or women, this is an amazing vintage 30s cowboy shirt. Made of coral and camel rayon and wool fabric, it has detailed embroidery of cactus, flowers and leaves. Deep pointed collar denotes a vintage 30s or very early 40s shirt.

**Fresh in the funkomavintage website....is this amazing amazing vintage 30s Cowboy or Cowgirl Western shirt.........

It has curved Western yokes,smiley pockets, or arrowhead pockets as they are sometimes called. The embroidery is in jadeite green, leafy green and coral. 

Mogambo on a Safari

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I have always been fascinated by Africa...the myth, I suppose.  The vast plains, the animals....a herd of giraffes, a herd of elephant, a flock of flamingos.... just walking and flying about as common as a crow in the city.


 One of my favorite movies to watch but not listen to, until the Africans appear, is 1953's Mogambo, The costumes are by Helen Rose. It takes place in Africa, and stars Ava Gardner, and Grace Kelly. I know! And some guy named Clark Gable. Directed by John Ford, it has a sappy love story, yawn, but it has all the stuff... Africa, canvas tents, simple wood furniture, Africans....

Lions............

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Helen Rose died on November 9, 1985, in Palm Springs, and she spent most of her movie-designing career at MGM (Rawr!!! the big lion) (Africa!) The movie studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Born in 1904, she moved to LA in 1929, just in time for the Big Crash.

Helen won two Academy Awards for Best Costume Design, in 1952 and in 1955. She was nominated eight more times! She designed the wedding dress for Grace Kelly when she married Prince Rainier in 1956.
 She also designed for Elizabeth Taylor in Father of the Bride and for her in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I know!

Never has so little fabric said so much.........

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Helen also designed Taylor's wedding dress when she married Nicky Hilton. But back to Africa. I love the clothes that white people wore to explore Africa. Khaki, leather boots, big hats, big guns with wood and metal, and always those fantastic Jeeps, and Land Rovers. What fun!

The safari shirt was a real thing and was first designed by Willis & Geiger. A safari shirt is legendary.  Willis and Geiger invented the safari jacket, and it was Real Stuff. And then rich people who care nothing about quality, and only care about money, money and more money ruined that company. Willis and Geiger, according to wikipedia: "In 1902 Ben Willis developed clothing for his Arctic explorations and founded Willis & Geiger Outfitters. Roald Amundsen, Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Jacqueline Cochran, Sir Edmund Hillary, the Flying Tigers and other legends of the 20th century."

 
 

 In the movie Mogambo, we get to see a lot of safari garb...big pockets, epaulets, sleeve tabs to button up rolled up cuffs, and details meant to be practical and wear well in a hot climate.
Helen used tawny tones for most of the clothes in the movie....khaki, for sure, but she used a lot of olive green cotton, and leather, and when it was time for dancing and drinking, she put the ladies in soft silk. Ava Gardner wore white silk, in a dress very much like the 1958 white dress worn by  La Liz in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.  Grace Kelly wore pink and baby blue, since she was the good wife, while Ava was a more tomboy-temptress.

typical safari detail......

simple khaki cotton with a way cool suitcase....and pearls and an.....ankle bracelet!

khaki, canvas, cotton, leather, silk scarf........look at Grace's pants...and those......boots...

simple sturdy shoes, or no shoes....

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Mogambo ain't no Shakespeare, but I can get carried away with a gorgeous setting (It was shot on location in Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and French Equatorial Africa.) and ravishing clothes, beautiful people to stare at....

What do we need to travel Africa or Akron Ohio.........Leather boots, khaki, silk blouses, vintage suitcases and a traveling cocktail set .......

Vintage Red Wing boots....made in the USA   and here too

 Filson Tin Pants, vintage. Might As Well Have The Best.

 Vintage Leather Boots.  yes. Frye. Vintage Frye Boots. Tall Leather boots, Very tall leather boots!










I'll return with another visual delight.... Out of Africa, the story of early women aviators in movies, and finally, a movie about Hemingway.