You are my world.....

when you click that Buy button, you are placing your trust in me....to send you something awesome!
I take this responsibility quite seriously. Neat clothes, groovy shoes and boots, well-made handmade goods, home decor with charm......all these things are important to me.......

Because I offer it....I believe it has the right stuff to make a great addition to your life....
and when you send me a picture of you wearing it.......I get a big thrill knowing I brought some happiness to your day as you spend it with your kids, that you look like a beautiful bride, that a part of your Halloween costume is just right !  A pair of boots, a warm jacket, a pretty dress.... I fully believe, if it's good, Let's use it again!

I've sold vintage suits to grooms, plenty of crinolines and corsets, handmade totes and bags too. Prom dresses to seniors in high school, pretty party dresses to gals to wear to their high school reunions. Thanks for shopping and trusting funkomavintage with your dreams.  You are my world.

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Here's a vintage Hawaiian dress I sold to a bridesmaid, for a wedding that is cheery and easy for a bride's attendants to both look lovely and to buy an affordable dress that can be worn again and again....

This vintage 60s Pomare Hawaiian dress in bright orange and pink is on the lovely lady, 4th from the right...there's a gal half-hidden by the guy in the green shirt. All those dresses are just gorgeous!

look at the rainbow of Hawaiian dresses! this is such a charming wedding....

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A 70s  tshirt with those fuzzy iron-on letters....made a perfect First Father's Day Present.....look at that cute baby!

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This pair of vintage super cool silver roller skates, made the day for this Roller Derby babe!

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Oh boy....another wedding.  This happy couple is having a super pretty day, as she is in her 60s bell sleeve lace mini dress!




Just perfect! it's a classic pixie dress, ala Mia Farrow...

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more pretty lace, but this time a vintage pair white lace and leather boots....
Curvy cute and sheer, supple white boots lace up the front and are so romantic.

Stitches and perforations add a Victorian feel...
Perfect fairytale boots....
Princess or Queen...
Pirate or fairy elf..........yeah, that describes them!

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So in love with these boots....and they went to a great new home!





I titled them.....
"Forest girl vintage leather lace up Steampunk boots"

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 This lovely vintage shirt dress....sure looks like it found the perfect new home.  Kristin read "Charming and Sunny, this light as air blue plaid 60s shirtwaist day dress......is ready for some warm days....." and jumped in. She bought another dress in this same order.
She had an Etsy shop making adorable pet tags. I bought one for my cute doggie, but she's now retired from this venture.

Here she is with her son.
So cute!

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Another cute vintage dress....made of charming coral, gray and white floral stripe with a touch of turquoise.... Cutest in every way...
Peter Pan collar is piped.....Big white buttons up the front,...

 


That looks like a super fun party......bunny ears, bubbles and stick on mustaches....

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Here's one of my handmade classic pocket squares in a vintage indigo blue denim with selvedge as an accent. When you wanna put something in that pocket up on your jacket....think of this. And Glenn did! 
Thanks! 

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Oh, A Pretty Dress !

a great pleasure that often comes with choosing from the flotsam and jetsam of life, from the uncountable objects of enterprise is.....
offering for sale a lovely dress or 2 or 100...
and when someone finds one I have for sale, and buys it, and then loves it so much, they want to wear it immediately and then....they send me a picture...
well, That just makes my day!

(I still love everyone who buys something from me, because without you, dearest buyer, I am nothing...well, that is a bit dramatic, but you understand)
Recently 2 gals bought spring frocks and sent me pics.

I'm late getting to this but I am so happy to have met Ang over the internet, courtesy of etsy. She's from the Bay Area (yeah!) and she bought this stunningly beautiful dress from me.

This is an 80s dress that is inspired by the New Look of Dior's late 40s collection. Dior used yards and yards of fabric because he could, after years of WWII wartime restrictions on fabric and style of fashions.




So not only does this dress have yards of fabric, it has one of the most beautiful fabrics ever designed. It was done by Karin Stevens. It was for sale as yardage in addition to being used for dresses and home accessories. I run into this dress 3 or 4 times a year, and I often see picture frames and pillows with snippets of it.
It has pink and burgundy peonies, and periwinkle wisteria. Rare, I tell you since I am a horder and treasure-hunter of dreamily beauteous floral prints.

Another pleasure I have is to find a fun day dress...you know, the kind of dress that doesn't go to big formal events...the kind of dress for the daily grind or marketing, errand-running, and perhaps a toddler playdate or PTA meeting. It's the kind of dress that bridges the gap between jeans and tshirt and a dinner date.



Here's darling Kristin and her date for the day, wearing a comfy cotton late 50s/early 60s day dress. In Kristin's other life besides being a mom (I presume) to an adorable little boy, she makes funky cute pet tags. I shall be going to her etsy shop and purchasing one...when she returns from the madness of remodeling her home. (I fully understand that..I just moved and I'm putting stuff away)

Her shop is Pure Panache Pets. Please join her email list so you'll know right away when she returns. All I can say is, that her prices are great and the tags are uniquely cute.
Click her feedback link to see her Sold tags, and then just drool !


Here's the Tacoma part of this post !
I moved my storage of special vintage to the shop, I'm sorting and pricing, and creating new displays, and we'll likely be closed until Wednesday May 20....and of course I am stupidly excited about the opening day of Tacoma's Farmer's Market...Broadway edition on Thursday May 21st.
I'll have plants and pots and other gardeny type things for sale on that day...like tote bags made of vintage fabric and birdhouses, plant shelves and decor...to bring the outside world inside or heck, leave it all out...because, 'round these parts, we don't get enough of the beautiful world outside our homes and offices....
I'm working on moving my newest old stuff out to the sales floor...and in a day or 2 I'll start publishing my garden column. Some of you know I used to have an organic farm, published a garden column, and sold at the Gig Harbor Farmer's Market in the early 90s.
Thanks for loving funkoma vintage...and making the trek down our street, even though the City of Tacoma has done everything in its power to kill all the businesses on our block.