So What's Up with That?

well I am almost always in black......gray.....dark green.....navy....purple.......The Jewel Tones......The Dark Jewel Tones....
I know I'll always feel dark.....still.
So what's at work here....it's been brewing for a year or so....
is a slight shift in color and texture.
I always loved velvet, velvet, velvet and lace. And Leather.

and, being of A Dame of a Certain Age, I know I want to wear things that are simpler in style and fabric, and color.
and sepia, gray, cream, oyster, ivory.......
and black...

Some women want to keep with the multicolors....
the big prints...
the ooky pastels.....
And that's fine for them.

A closer look. The owl pin was a xmas gift. I love the autumn colors, the sparkly, and the fact that it has worn paint....Patina.

And I'm tired of looking at my burlap jacket that I thrifted in the 80s from the Salvation Army store on 6th (back in the olde days), and never wearing it ....there's a liquor store there now...so that's a pretty good trade.
So, my burlap jacket from the 70s. It has the Campus Casuals label. That's what I wore the other day. and a linen skirt, Espirit label from the 80s. And these chocolate leather otk boots from Ginchybaby on etsy.
Underneath...a simple gray cardigan and gray stripe mitts. Oh yeah, argyle tights in the same brown tones.
a color scheme faded as an old field in late winter......instead of shocks of separate color, my scheme flows neatly into each other........and the texture has spark and interest.
just about, but not quite sophisticated. More fun.



The jacket came with the holes.......and I love that.
I love the contrast between the fact it is a fairly structured jacket with holes..made of burlap. I love the shell buttons. I love the color of the lining. Faded. and torn.
It's the color of junk.







What possessed the Campus Casuals line to make a jacket of burlap? Were they trying to reach the college gal that was hearing the call of social justice, of ending the Vietnam War?
Was she listening to Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell instead of Van Halen and Kiss? A college girl......or a college age girl....she must have had more on her mind that matching her shoes and handbag.

Murder.

In a mild departure from my usual rantings

about Tacoma and neat stuff to wear and neat stuff to do, blah blah blah.......
I just have to say:
I know this isn't a new subject......and that's it. Why oh why are people still doing this? further proof that Idiocracy Is a Documentary.
wtf is wrong with these parents? Turning your child into a Plastic Pageant Monster is a sign of a major distortion of parenting, lack of boundries, self-esteem.....Just the obsession with some weird beauty Ideal.....is bad enough, but doing this to your own child, and thinking this is a good thing?

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soooo.......this is the way it should be I guess.....just Mock them...

Thinkin' Pinkin'

hot pink 50s Vanity Fair slip....on etsy.


I'm winkin'
'cause I know Spring is gonna be here soon because Valentines Day is sooooon......
a selection of things of pink......
on etsy, and in the shop.......
Saturday and Sunday, or available by mail.......


handmade Key to my Heart.....necklace on etsy, or in the shop.....
if it's on etsy...it's at the shop....just ask to see...



Amazing....40s rayon crepe WWII dress......Capri ! side zip, novelty print and full of pink...
on etsy now.


I Heart this dress ! simple babydoll dress has a huge heart applique on the front skirt....
now on etsy....






Felted llama wool purse lined in very very hot pink....in the shop



70s hand made, handstamped and carved and hand painted........sweet little boots....

etsy....
Deceptively sweet...curve-hugging knit suit in pink and white........on etsy




50s silky soft nightgown....on etsy


Soft pink 50s/60s Kayser slip.....with tag still attached......on etsy.





well, this is red.......but I bet it will make someone Blush pink........
glorious Lip Service red vinyl corset dress....M....in the shop.

I Kissed Patti Smith

her show had better come to the nw...or else....road trip.....

Yoko Ono, the Maysles, fashion

threeASFOUR from threeASFOUR on Vimeo.

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.....