The 30s for real vintage style

What is new to funkomavintage? The 30s. Glamour, Depression, the 1930s held all the human drama and the clothes are evocative and always have the most interesting details.

wow, what a beauty is this French silk nightgown. Bias cut, hand-stitched, and appliqued with lots of ecru lace, and look at the bow at the hip, and the asymmetrical hemline. Amazing. Made in Paris France, in the very early 30s with just a hint of the 20s style in the hi-lo hem fashion.
Just listed in the website, clicky funkomavintage.

 Pretty panties, vintage 30s Shell Pink Silk tap Panty is a classic 1930s style lavished with lace along the hem and front of these pink silk tap shorts. They button on the side, and they have a 30" waist. Delightful! Available in funkomavintage's web shop. clicky here.

The woven label in Art Deco style lettering. Cool.

30s Shell Pink Silk tap Panty Vintage 1930s lace pink silk tap shorts buttons 30" waist - See more at: http://funkomavintage.indiemade.com/product/30s-shell-pink-silk-tap-panty-vintage-1930s-lace-pink-silk-tap-shorts-buttons-30-waist-m#sthash.sx8We9II.dpuf

Burgundy, navy blue, and lots of round windows. It was sleek, it was futuristic.
Moody colors, secondary color wheel combos like this tile facade update done in the 30s, here at Fagiani's Bar in Napa. The owners fought with the City of Napa to retain this historical scheme, even though it was a much newer addition to this 1890's building. I'm glad they won, and kept it. It's a relic from my childhood, so I like it. My parents were very good friends with the Fagiani family, and of course, my mom owned a bar, so there was a lot in common here ; - )

Cowboy clothes captured the imagination of folks in the 30s. Images of the beauty of the western United States with deserts, wide open spaces and natural landscapes, and of course, cowboys and Indians, whether true or not, were sold and folks loved it.
Any city slicker can dress like a Westerner and get happy!
Here's a beauty of a 30s rayon cowboy shirt with amazing embroidery, and pearly snaps. Available at the website, clicky here.

For a classic 30s look, a long black rayon lace party dress. This is a cool one to accessorize with lots of jewelry, update with a wide belt and wear it with a short fur jacket, faux or vintage.

It has many elements of 30s style such as a cape collar, a peplum at the waist and a bias cut full dramatic skirt. When you see a wide fluttering collar or a peplum on a modern dress, blouse or suit, it is recalling the 30s drama in fashion.

Cowgirls wouldn't get the Blues if they had these.....

50s inlay cowboy boots.....vintage Acme, with...cloth pulls....

It can all be put into a pretty weird picture by Gus Van Sant...whom I will tap to make a film for me*


slightly on the edge of the jumping off place of cowboy/cowgirl....the girl with the big thumbs....
because it happens mostly in the West...I suppose it can qualify for cowboy-ness...these boots are all Cowboy...a fancy dandy cowboy.....but really is there any other kind? Even in dusty Levis...still....
how much do I adore the cowboy style...All of it !! West coast girl that I am...I went to a party last night...What did she wear?
Levis. Cowboy boots. leather jacket. Laurel Burch earrings and a skeleton key necklace...there were also some stripes involved, and a poppy print vintage silk scarf....

The vintage inlay boots...
of Brown leather....orange and gold feather stitching around the cream and gold inlay designs....short heel with rubber...and leather soles...pegged and stitched...
175.00
not listed yet....but they will be...

*if I live that long........

the vintage Home Decor...

...and just as you have suspected, I have a lot to offer......
here's a sneak peak of what's coming to the etsy store...
and Heads up, soon, on my funkomavintage  website, I'll be offering New. New things I find in my vintage travels....like...Margaret O'Leary sweaters, and all manner of things that aren't vintage...but totally with the funkoma look.....which is?
Which is rustic, classic, heritage, nautical, antique, midcentury, steampunk, romantic...tarnished and tattered....and just generally clever.

1929 cast aluminum The End of The Trail Mission bookends.

Mission style, Arts and Crafts, Craftsman and Prairie style art, architecture and home decor all are influenced by each other , and have a lot of similarities. They all celebrate handmade, handforged, hand-assembled and handcrafted as a political rejection of industrialization.


With the rise of mass production in the middle of the nineteenth century, with the filthy factories and mind-numbing inhuman work conditions that stole families from their rural lives, many philosophers, intellectuals, poets, writers, artists, craftmen, witches and healers decried the blossoming Capitalism.

William Morris, John Ruskin, Rosseau, Oscar Wilde,  Gustav Stickley, Walter Crane, Rosamund Marriott-Watson, the Roycrofters, and so many more challenged the "profit over people" ideology that is Capitalism. They knew that without beauty, without art, without leisure, without respect for the working man and woman, life is banal and brutal.

It is these thinkers that inspired the back to the earth movement of those times, and the bohemians of the 1920s, the union movement, the grow-your-own, the beatniks, and the hippies....
Young people that think they might have invented Handmade, like on etsy, are so funny!
It is those historical bohemians, that coalesced into an identifiable movement almost 200 years ago in reaction to the destruction of the slow and small lives that most humans had led since time began.
The Slow Food, artists lofts, handmade, farmer's markets, buy local, think small, and the support small business ethos began 20 decades ago, and for the same reasons it still resonates and has become popular again, and again.

I could go on for pages and pages...on this era of design and philosophy.....and I think I shall ! It's my favorite ....from the mid-Victorian through the 1970s.....but especially from 1890 to 1939.

Aluminum history...... 
The history of "The End of The Trail"....

 American-born artist James Earle Fraser, sculpted The End of the Trail for the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California.
Placed in the Court of Palms at the entrance to the Expo. Fraser’s statue was a fantastic success and he was awarded the gold medal for sculpture. It entered the public mind and many reproductions, and near-repros followed for decades.

Of course, America's greatest export has always been the romantic Wild West! The Indian's life has been changed forever with the movement west. Long gone were the open ranges and they were relegated to reservations and shipped to cruel city environments.
 

The End of the Trail created a desire for more sculptures to be cast in bronze, but the United States entered into World War I, and bronze became very scarce. Many artifacts from the Exposition, such as plaster sculptures were tossed into a mud pit at Marina Park.

A few years later, the citizens of Tulare County, California, rescued The End of Trail in 1919 and placed it at Mooney Grove Park, near Visalia, California. In 1968 it was finally cast in bronze, and the cast sculpture was placed back in Mooney Grove Park.

The beatnik...

and the Paint By Numbers made in "spare time"....

A Couple and their accessories...

Sometimes a sweater is what I want and then there are times.......
a trim little jacket is it...

Start with a basic navy jacket, a 70s wool blend...because the quality is fabulous, and the dominant style was cropped, nipped waist, and pockets !
yes, these are both listed in my etsy shop.

A cropped style is great on almost all bodies....it doesn't hug the butt like a longer jacket might, or gap over the butt, or cut you off at an unflattering line.....a jacket will only be your new best friend if it fits right.....
this style just skims the hip bones and has panache!





A pearly necklace, a few pearly necklaces would be fab too......a perfect basic to play with....the steampunk queen of romance is only one way to style this.....but it's my favorite.
so I paired it with a white lace dress...which is so sweet
(get out your wedding dress and wear it! kidding.) to start with...

Then I tucked a white millinery rose in the hanky pocket...along with some pink netting from an old hat ....and hung a pair of 50s vintage pink gloves from one pocket.

These brassy buttons have Crowns, and Elephants and Dinosaurs embossed on them....(look!)


Here it is in its plainness........so many things to do! A plaid skirt would look nifty with a white lace blouse...or a print skirt for a feminine look.
Pair it with stripes for even more steampunk Victoriana ...

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And another look from a simple navy jacket....also a 70s one but this one has puffy sleeves. Beware! if you are over 40, it might be too juvenile...or not.

This style is more hunting jacket and the front has nifty pointy hems and I really love the tiny buttons.
I tucked a knit lace doily in the hanky pocket here, and pinned a huge vintage red velvet chrysanthemum on a lower pocket.
For a schoolmarm in the wild west I added an Indian blanket vest. (a rhyme!)
This look would be smashing with a golden brown suede or velvet skirt or dark grey leggings and chunky boots....



It starts with a simple jacket....and the romance, the style, that gives it a fairytale aura is all in the details....
A trim navy jacket is more polished and formal than a sweater...
more "lunch in a fancy restaurant jacket", instead of "brunch on late Sunday with a hangover sweater".