George Clooney's Eyes

One of the best things that happens in my day, is an order from you, my beloved funkomavintage fans. Without you, I'd have to get a job, and I am the world's worst job-holder. I'd be the worst waitress....I'd carry your food to the table in my pockets.  As a secretary, I'd be like April Ludgate....personable, cheery, fun and maddeningly bad at actually being much help to you.... unless by help... you mean, eating B-B-Q potato chips and drinking martinis.....and of course, sourcing vintage and styling clothing, sets and photos....  I actually have found what I'm good at ;-)

....and now....George Clooney.... appearing in The Monuments Men

as a young'en! Do you remember him on The Roseanne Show?

And today........

Why is George Clooney here??? Because, ladies and germs, we sell to the stars! We focus on rather, odd, rather, classic, rather ....vintage vintage vintage, so it would not come as a surprise that we would have a pair of 40s - 50s gold frame Ray Ban Aviator Sunglasses.....like this..... in fact, this is the exact pair that we sold.....

this here's the nose pads...... that now rest on George Clooney's nose........

These glasses were bought in March 2013, by John who was on the costume team for The Monuments Men  when they were filming last summer in Germany.
for reals!
We had to FedEx them to the Berlin set....and well.... here they are on George Clooney's face... they appear at :45 in from the beginning.







In this second trailer, George is wearing them at 1:17.





Is George still wearing these glasses?

Probably not.......but maybe!

 pic

a word about Ray Ban Aviators.... The Aviator glasses, invented by Bausch and Lomb, at the request of the US military, became the fabled Ray Ban Aviator glasses. This pair does not have the gaudy logo on the lens.....this is the original, that make you look so awesome!
 that's how I described them in my listing....

 pic of Hitler and Goering


The Monuments Men movie and book, is all about the Nazi looting of the art of Europe. 
How did this happen? The looting of Europe's art treasures? Hitler wanted the art, so that the Nazi's could destroy them....to destroy the art, the cultural artifacts.  As the book and the movie makes very clear, destroying a cultures artifacts, its art, its craft , its songs, its traditions...... and you will destroy the culture.
This is old news and new news.

America systematically set out to destroy the Natives. They stole their land, they destroyed them with alcohol, they infected them on purpose with disease, they murdered them in massacres, they stole their children to "re-educate" them in "schools", where thousands died.

When the Bush Administration invaded Iraq in 2003, when he lied to make up a story to get our troops to Iraq, and then Afghanistan, the object was to take control of the oil, to set up military bases, since America is an Empire, and to send a message to the Soviet Union, Russia....
What did the Bush Administration, and the military leaders of the Iraq war do to save the art of Iraq, in Baghdad? The art of the first major civilization outside of Africa, in the history of the world....Nothing. Absolutely Nothing.
The art stolen from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, numbered almost 14,000 separate objects that were stolen, so that makes it the biggest museum theft in history!!

Did the Bush Administration and the Pentagon not know about WWII? Had never heard of the Nazi's? Did not know about the special project in WWII, the Monuments Men, and Women?
Hard to believe, eh?
The Bush Administration and the Pentagon DID know and were advised and warned about the theft of art and human artifacts, but did nothing. 

 all pics are from either wikipedia, or IMDB.

Over all, bib pants are having a moment

Overalls, they come, they go, and right now they are the coolest pants to wear.....

vintage 1933 advertisement for Lee Overalls made of Jelt denim, from ArcaniumAntiques.

bib overalls 70s vintage stationery set... the original text. ha. from TwoDogVintage

a sew it yourself, monkey doll, in blue overalls. so neat, even monkeys wanna wear 'em! from sayitisntsew

you can even wear overalls for rather formal occasions, or at least while doing homework at the library. this cute vintage photo is from girlcatdesign


In ancient times, pre-Egyptian and for centuries after, it appears from art that wearing a length of fabric around your "bathing suit" area, or wearing a piece of fabric like a skirt or a kilt, was the way to dress.... add a tunic, some gold jewelry and lots of eyeliner....... and you have the 80s!

Soon after the days of Greek and Roman togas and tunic, stockings made of bias cut fabric, or simply fabric, was wrapped around the legs, and worn as leggings or stockings.

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/1530 – 1569)

Pants, those things that have legs that you step into seem to have appeared on the peasant class first. Which makes sense, since they work for a living and tunics and togas are just not very helpful.
For centuries, "pants" were just big bloomers or tight things that clung to the royal "jewels" and thighs, much like bicycle shorts.  They were called breeches, and look a lot like "man-pris".

There are many great works of art that show that men wore shorty pants and silk knee high socks or thigh high hosiery with silly little shoes. But, no pants.

 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II of Austria and his wife Maria (1528-1603) of Spain


But Pants, as we recognize them today, with long ankle-length tubes that fasten at the waist, were called "slops" and appeared in about the 1700s. Working class types wore them but the rich classes still wore little shorts and ladies socks to prance around court and palace, and parties.
The Regency period, the time of  Jane Austen, (1811-20), was when pants longer than your manly knees, finally became accepted among the frivolous rich.  

The famous fella, Beau Brummel, (1778  1840), really dressed up all the time! Tailored coats, ankle-length trousers instead of breeches and stockings, fine tailored linen shirts with  ruffles, fancy pants and elaborate cravats, which became our modern men's tie.... and his outrageous yet, tailored by comparison, fashion caught on and didn't subside until the Victorian era when sensible dark wool became the rage. (yawn).

 Pants, were known as trousers, and slowly from the early 1800s on, gradually lengthened from the knee to the ankle.
Of course aprons have been worn for centuries to cover working clothes..... about 1850 or so,   pants, or trousers, were sewn together with a short apron on top, attached to the waist of the trousers, to make our modern overalls.

Meant to be worn over a shirt and pants, overalls were cut large and roomy.

Railroad workers, called gandy dancers,  in a 1933 ad, wearing overalls proudly Union Made, in a 44 hour work week!

 Here is a young gent, about 1915, with a cowboy cuff, overalls over his trousers and vest and shirt, with deep rolled cuffs.

White denim overalls were usually worn by painters, stripes for railroad workers, and the blue denim kind, are associated with farmers, workers, the hobo and other non-rich folks. 
Trousers, that had a buckle adjustment at the back waist and a front opening, a fly, were called Waist overalls.... and had buttons or metal studs to attach suspenders, or braces to hold them up. Belts were worn to keep your trousers from falling down, but suspenders were quite popular until after WWII.

The bib overalls straps go from the back waist, over the shoulders, to button on the front bib. About 1875, metal buckles appear on factory-made overalls. They have a slide mechanism to adjust the length from shoulder to crotch.

Herb Ritts' famous photograph of Mick Jagger in overalls.

a whole blog about BIB OVERALLS!! we are not making this up.  

An elephant in overalls and more! 

the 20s Overalls revolt!! 
A revolt against the high cost of living, started the fad of overalls clubs, lunch-basket clubs, and the wearing of old clothes to protest high costs. Southern USA, middle class people suddenly decided protest was the way to get government attention, after watching the working class protest for centuries.
Middle class men and women wore "working class" clothing such as jeans, overalls and simple dresses made of gingham and muslin. They went shopping, out to dine, got married, and generally lived their lives in overalls and such. It was a short-lived fad, ending and beginning in 1920 though, and prices continued to go up. Oh well.

What does funkomavintage have right now? Pay Day overalls, Big Mac denim railroad coats, lots of denim.... Union Made, hickory stripes, white denim, and painted-up blue denim. 

Harris Tweed, Vintage Denim, Overalls...Pendleton.

Woolrich.... vintage military, vintage cowboy boots, LL Bean boots.... vintage Filson, vintage Bauer down...... vintage Black Bear........lots and I mean lots.....of way-cool vintage is gonna be listed ...

vintage denim, vintage military sweatpants..... Can't Bust 'Em overalls......... Penney's Ranchcraft, Maverick denim

vintage arrows, a bow in need of that string..... old Red Wing boots, patched vintage denim.......

Vintage --- Sears Pilgrim cotton flannel robe, Harris Tweed fleck jacket and 2 Harris Tweed Herringbone jackets, a Joe Namath photo realistic disco shirt, a ladies vintage Pendleton 49er...or maybe it's a Western Star,  a fleece REI pullover ......... WWII HBT fatigues ....

hippie stuff and denim stuff... Redline Levis, Lee riders with selvedge.... Big E Levi jacket...
Pay Day, Big Mac, Super Big Mac, Carhartt,

vintage denim Levis, denim shorts, denim overalls........ blanket lined denim Wrangler jacket.......

vintage LL Bean boots....

 vintage Converse, vintage Cowboy boots.......
my mind is boggling.....

Cleaning it out.....

Currently plowing through about 50 years of stuff......because funkomavintage worldwide hdqtrs is moving..... so magazines, old notes, moldy Christmas cards, and greasy refrigerator magnets are on their way to the garbage can or the Goodwill......
 Weeeeee!
I have kept this tear from a magazine featuring Denise Carbonell. why? because she wrote on her walls, and was a NYC fashion designer, just like me!
from May 1989, Metropolitan Home magazine ( I probably stole it from a doctor's office)
I never been to no NYC ....but I am a fashion designer, and I have written lots of poems and drawn birds and trees on my walls........long before decals, my friend.
I like what Denise designed, and I am a fashion designer too.....I'm not famous, much.  anyhooo. MetalandThread is what Denise is up to these days........ Denise has an etsy store and now she designs way cool jewelry. I hope she is still writing on her walls.........