It's New to You....

Quite a few vintage separates this week ...including a weird and wonderful fringe sweater jacket from the 70s....and quite a few vintage dresses....and oh my! sizes from XS to XL...

60s jacket with fabric roses....

with fringe and crochet balls....a 70s extreme textures thing going on....

Oooh shiny! 70s mini-trench in shiny black nylon....like a windbreaker, but with STYLE !

70s boho pink plaid top...

and Vintage Dresses! are you ready for Spring? Cause it's ready for you!

cutwork halter with BUTTERFLIES !

MOD. dress.

all of these are in the etsy shop, Right Now! well, you know, unless they are sold...wink.

Crazy metallic wild print dress....with rhinestones......cause it just needed a little bit more....

Malia Hawaiian dress........Bright and Happy !

70s calico peasant dress.......

Black silk party dress !!

Rockabilly 50s style Halter dress..........pretty pink flowers !

Vintage Volvo, Vintage Men, Vintage Levi's

It's classic, it's rustic, it's mid-century, it's fancy junk.
And right now...it's Modern Vintage.
funkomavintage  is in shades of red farmhouse patina, golden suede, honey yellow, plaid cotton flannel, desert sunset, indigo blue, summer seashore...and always...old faded Levi's.

A vintage Red plaid 30s 40s Hunting Coat looks great sitting on the back seat of a '65 Volvo, or on you.

60s mustard gold trucker Suede jacket   looks ready to go to work...in a red and blue cotton flannel plaid shirt...like this....

Sears Work Clothing flannel red plaid vintage shirt

hey look....here's the classic trucker jacket! it's a 70s Levi's denim jacket.

Or maybe, you'd prefer a little native flavor, a little Southwestern style with your vintage gold Volvo.

a Vintage deerskin leather frontier style shirt...

Gant Indian blanket cotton button down vintage shirt will do it just fine.

So, maybe a vintage Volvo 144 sedan isn't for you. Maybe you prefer the curvy lines of a vintage Volvo 1963 PV544, in fading summer sky blue.

Well, if that's true....you are definitely a blue denim Levi's Redline jeans guy.
flip the cuffs up...
70s Redline indigo Levi 501 jeans

but don't forget about a pair of 70s 517 indigo blue Boot cut Levi's jeans.....these are the most awesome Levi's worn with cowboy boots....

Cowboy? Western? oh yes. Southwest sunset cotton stripes vintage shirt

What Inspires me today/What I'm working on...

I don't think I will ever tire of dresses/skirts with boots...and really cute sandals.....especially if they have buckles and straps........

A Blue dress for the Alice in you.......on etsy....







A tailcoat of ivory with toile, crochet and shells....and lots of lace......with a blue silk party dress.......
fairytale.........






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and this song was playing last night in the "new" Thriftway...as I was shopping for pie and lotion kleenex for my husband......I sometimes forget that I love Christine McVie

From the reedickylus to the Sublime.....

that about sums up funkomavintage......
mostly I look for stuff that's ....
fun...
classy.....
groovy...
smoooth.......
hip (but not hipster)......

Here's 2 things at the shop for your perusal.....
Saturday and Sunday...

I'm loving this acid wash 80s jacket right now...
because it's fun.....
because it has a bad ass lining.....
I'm a real sucker...for a kick-ass lining.....
Chanel and Schiaparelli always put fun linings in their things.....

Ta Da....a Michael Sloane jacket from the 80s...
In Glorious not-dead-yet Brilliant Acid Wash Blue...

I think I see some suburbanites with their 3D glasses on......now making a big comeback in the 2000's......Look, it's granny with her harlequin eyeglasses.....Is that Frieda Kahlo with Trotsky? nah, that's Lenin.....what's he doing in there?
Well dude we just don't know......
There's a lot more going on in there.....
and now the Sublime........

60s portable Reel to Reel player with its own detachable speakers......
you can move this from the Living room to the Rumpus Room......
Play Mantovanni for the 'rents.......
and then later when your cool cat friends drop by for a cocktail......
slip on the Miles Davis, Bitches Brew.

there's a smaller unit here also........




Also, the gals will love the background music of Martin Denny while having a gab session and tossing back some Gin Rickeys and Cosmopolitans.....or a bit of peach mimosa.....

Sometimes it's the Little Things....

Like vintage jewelry....
We all have basic black...
Denim jeans...
a favorite cardigan or pullover sweater...

Don't be Blah...
Don't be Boring....
Accessorize!

just added to my etsy shop...
Czech glass rainbow fall sunset brooch and earrings....




Moonglow lucite 4 strand vintage necklace and earrings set....in all the colors you love about Autumn !




Squirrel ! but no Moose...





One of the best colors ever invented: Chartreuse! Zinnas or Marigolds, if you like, in a clip-back 60s metal...Fun!



Space Age? Twiggy? Mod? 60s? YES!

Mad About You...

I confess...I don't actually watch Mad Men...(I'm taking a break from TV)
tho I will go rent the DVD collections...they are out aren't they?

I MadMen'd myself...click to go to the AMC website and give yourself an e-makeover......because it's fun to see myself in the corporate world (as if) and in the corporate world in the 60s!

I remember them very well...oh sure I was in elementary school, but I was a precocious kid. The show is shocking in its realistic portrayal of that time period...it's a bit dizzying.
In those years, my older sister Pat was a single mom and a secretary for a construction company...what a come down after being a cheerleader at her San Jose high school, and marrying/divorcing the football star!
but I digress.


I chose an up-do, because I'd wear that at work. A purple dress, tight of course. A pendant necklace, a birdy pin (I have a bird-fetish). My glasses. A Martini. A newspaper. A cigarette. Sign of the times.

So, what is so cool about the early 60s? Honestly, it was probably the last gasp of the idea that All Was Perfect. It was an era before War Was Bad, because WWII was good...defeating the Nazi's was SupahGood!
Feminism hadn't started brainwashing everyone into hating Men. Equality was starting to Speak Up, modeled on Dr. Martin Luther King, et al, and the all things seemed possible, tho not without pain and some agony for the Old Guard (racists/sexists).

Fashion was becoming clean-lined...a lot of the fruffy-ness of the 50s sexpot-babydoll was fading and a cool confidence in simplicity was coming along.
It was a transitional time...a time much like the Obama Years...we are moving to a more modern world...a world of changing values where we want The Good Life, but we want it smarter and moral.

It's no accident that Michelle Obama wears clean-lined clothes...sheaths, simple flats, small precise necklaces...and the suits the President wears...Smooooooove.
Rewearing vintage makes Perfect Sense! I love all eras, but the lines, the handwork and detail still done during the 60s, and the exquisite quality and fun, quirky fabrics, such as silk and fine-textured cotton sateens of 60s clothing really seem to fit the mood of the times....

take a look:





All of these 60s fashions are in my etsy shop, along with a sweet little selection of 60s patterns. All this week and thru Labor Day...I'll be adding more 60s. Mad Men is about working in a corporate office, doing the daily labor ...and looking Good!

It's Red Hot with Cool cocktails........

Not that Red Hot...Erik said, and I agree, since I've been saying this myself for oh....27 years...the way to make money in Tacoma is to sell booze !

Any moron can make a lot of money in Tacoma just by selling you beer...and cocktails...... and if they toss in a limp hot dog...you love it !!!!

OK, to that end...went camping again...the pics are below...I tried to make my tent look like a Bedouin...I need more paisley and sparkle but it's a Good start.
then we bought dozens of oysters ($12.00) fresh from Carl's farm on Marrowstone Island........
see Mark cooking...then we drank many cocktails ($9.00) and ate many oysters....
prices of great dining while camping is because, we cooked and mixed ourselves instead of going to fancy schmancy restaurant...
The sunsets! Sunsets are one of my favorite things that the planet does....

OK, back to work!!
Many things in funkoma vintage are 50% off !!!
the RED X sale goes thru the first week of August, when the bulk of new fall stuff arrives... (there's some new fall stuff out already...)

Cleaned and moved and set up the Cocktail Party.......
Gold velvet furniture...
Gold and Fiberglass lamps...
Fringe dresses, lots of sequins....
Ruffle shirts and dressy jackets for the guys...



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