Showing posts with label vintage levis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage levis. Show all posts

Monday, November 24, 2014

Fall into Autumn Lookbook with vintage Levis, Pendleton and

wooly plaids, Harris Tweeds, more Pendleton, and all the vintage things that funkoma loves.

Vintage Pendleton, worn vintage Levi 501 jeans, leather boots, a red bandana and a vintage fedora. And the funkomavintage car of choice, a vintage Volvo 122.
Toss on some Ray Bans, or a pair of vintage black frame glasses and you have a classic and cool look for men. Vintage is timeless, quality, and we're always happy to present a great collection for fall and winter.

We shot this Lookbook on location in the Napa Valley with palm trees, maples, oaks, Monterey pines, and an mellow pastoral vibe rather than the cliche Grapevines, grapevines, grapevines. Grapevines will appear in some of our upcoming Lookbooks shot on location - but for now, let's see a different side of the valley, from the perspective of a native Napan, a native Californian.



A vintage Levis corduroy vest with acrylic sherpa faux fur is layered over a vintage red and black buffalo check jacket, edged with leather and leather elbow patches.



as the sun sets




A navy and black plaid Pendleton jacket.




A vintage 60s bronze wool fedora, vintage Ray Ban sunglasses, and a red plaid Pendleton 49er jacket, paired with a stripe polo shirt, a chambray shirt, Levis and brown work boots.

Most of the men's vintage clothes are at the website. clicky here.

Other vintage men's shirts and jackets, are in the Etsy shop. 



Vintage green plaid Pendleton shirt.




When the weather turn colder, here's a pea green windowpane Pendleton vintage 60s overcoat. It's a shorter length, giving it amazingly cool style!




Worn underneath the Pendleton coat is a 60s Nordic print fuzzy acrylic zip front sweater.
Layers are the best way to stay warm, and mixing and matching or unmatching pattern and color is the key to great vintage style that doesn't look like a costume.



A classic red and black plaid wool hunting jacket is key for a great vintage men's wardrobe.
funkomavintage, the website.



If you are new to funkomavintage or have shopped with us for years, you know how much we have always loved vintage Harris Tweed.
We get so happy when we find those rare Harris Tweed patterns that are not produced anymore. We always stock the classics too, in blue, brown and gray herringbone fleck tweed.



Vintage Pendleton plaid shirts, and a much-needed Pendleton Indian Blanket sweater.



Napa palm trees, the famous native oak, and autumn light.



Looking west towards the Pacific Ocean and the curdled clouds, and an autumn sunset.



Loaded up and ready to head home for cocktail hour, the vintage Volvo takes a last look towards the setting sun.


Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Everything I love about vintage Levis denim

I shoulda had Lynn Downey's job. I've been a fangirl of Levis since I was a wee girl. I knew right off that Levis were better than other jeans when I was kid. I spent my childhood climbing oak trees to chase swallowtail butterflies, walking along Hopper Creek all the way thru the culvert under Hwy 29, and hanging out at Yountville School to swing on the big metal rings.

When my Levis got too short, I'd cut them off to knee length.
The beautiful blue color, the particular fading and copper! I love copper. Other silly girls love gold. Not me. Copper.
and the orange or yellow stitches. Opposites on the color wheel for excellent artistic contrast, but not too much, just enough. 

this pair of vintage 501 Levis Big E jeans, has a lot of fading, damage and holes...... just how I love them!



 Lots of wear and fading, lots of worn-in holes, and a lot of patching going on.
it's what we did. no need to give up on a perfectly good pair of Levis.

here they are ... in our Etsy shop..

oops, the buttonhole got a little patch too!





and of course, a bit of embroidery....





hems are taken out, and Look! the beautiful blue color........




a true blue love affair....



well Levis are a San Francisco company, and our blue jeans were invented in San Francisco, and Jefferson Airplane, yup. San Francisco.

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Tan and Refreshed

Nearly 3 months ago funkomavintage moved its worldwide hq to its dreamville location. We're in the Wine country, not the Whine country.....
California! summertime... all the time!



And this, my friends, is what California looks like all the damn time.
We're dancing fools.
We're dressed in the hippest clothes.
California is a planet that only circles in the same orbit as the Planet Earth, but I'm here to testify, that California is a planet. All by itself.
The same sun shines on us all, the same moon is in the same sky, but California goes round and round and round on its own journey.

so, where were blue denim jeans invented?? California.
Where was surfing a pop phenomenon? California.
Skateboard culture? California.
Movie stars, Swimming pools, California is the place you wanna be.




What is the California look? Levis, cut-off jeans, plaid shirts, wide stripe t shirts and t shirts with anything and everything printed on them.

Sandals, flip-flops, and sunglasses.
Kinda like this!

funkomavintage is back to selling the West Coast cool stuff......  here in our etsy store, and here at our website.

Vintage Levis, t shirts, vintage boots and all manner of Western Americana.







Saturday, November 23, 2013

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.