Good Karma...Buy Vintage...Bad Sarah Jessica Parker

Well, Sarah Jessica Parker has a new fashion line! Yippee....It's called Bitten...and I hope it comes back to bite her in the butt....Why???
Because the only possible way to produce new clothing to sell for under 19.99 per item is to use sweatshops around the globe.

And...Right There...is another reason to buy vintage clothes.....Many items were made in Union shops where workers had a way to organize for fair wages and safety....remember Norma Rae?


When you buy something already made you are not exploiting a new worker...and you're saving energy and materials today...

We can't change the past.....but we can change the future!
Want to know what you can do and get some more information? Yes!

Below is a small example of well-known companies that use underpaid and exploited labor around the world...Here is where America's labor union factory jobs went:
http://www.coopamerica.org/programs/rs/profile.cfm?id=24
Labor

In April 2001, Nicaraguan court ordered Chentex, a Taiwanese-owned maquila that was making jeans for Kohl's, J.C. Penney, Kmart, and Wal-Mart to rehire nine illegally fired union leaders. Chentex had been targeted by the National Labor Committee for its union-busting activity, while workers earned just 18 cents for each $24 pair of pants they sewed.

-- U.S. Labor Education in the Americas Project
Source URL: www.usleap.org/Maquilas/PastMaquilaCampaigns.html#nica

Go here for more information:
coopamerica
corporation information
how Chinese sweatshops skirt the law

Harborside Skunks In Love In Tacoma?

Oh sure....we know 70s shirts were often silly....wild prints, odd florals or tiny calicos and refashioned urban scenes, cracked Old Master paintings, Disney cartoon characters inserted into photo-realistic pictures.....
Here's one I have now.....and lucky you ....it's for sale in my ebay store.
At first glance....just a print of ships and boats in the harbor....but look closer..green skunks...painting art....giving flowers! what is going on? I don't know...but somehow, I can't help but think of Tacoma's waterfront...and in honor of Third Thursdays ART WALK today......I offer to the universe....this!

Why So Skinny ?

Ok so I'm sitting here in a 70s poly shirt...and they are skinny thru the shoulders...thank goodness they are knit! I have broad shoulders but I love the color and breezy/silliness of those 70s shirts!!!!



If you were there...or if you are wearing 60s and 70s vintage clothes.....you know they are slim thru the shoulders and everywhere else...

this might explain something......
"[Biba founder Barbara] Hulanicki found her niche designing clothing for the postwar, protein-deprived young women who were growing girls when rations dictated the size of their suppers."
click the Fashionista.com link for more...and a link to The Telegraph for the full article.

Oh yeah....Love that shirt ?? click it to go to funkoma vintage on ebay....

Drinky Crow... as art...and motion......

funkoma vintage has always been a big fan of Drinky Crow...appearing in Maakies cartoon strip.....we've adopted the "dialogue"...
dook dook dook....and use drinky crow as an affectionate knickname for anyone we see that maybe has had a wee bit of too much of the "Liquid Funmaker"......
so I have mixed feelings about the strip becoming a TV show....I don't have cable....but I guess I can watch on my computer...ha ha!

here's an article in the New York Times!

I love the back story because I love it when an artist.....an Art School graduate... makes a living from....art!
And Tony Millionaire is gonna make some big Coin!
the mixed feelings come from the weird idea that it is so esoteric....only a few thousand people, heretofore, prolly knew about it and refer to it in conversation.....so...the Crow is out of the Bag, well, no, the Crow is in the Bag.....but is out......and coming to a paper and/or a screen near you!

from gawker.com

funkoma vintage has pals and friends all over the globe...because the funky is fun.....well, one of my New York City pals, yes, that New York City.....is The Fashionista of the lively ....
Diary Of A Mad Fashionista blog
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buy here...see Bucky.......
(well, I must say it was Bucky the Wonder Dog, that pushed me over the edge...thou who loves a tiny dog who will tolerate tiny hats always impresses me!)

She, the Mad Fashionista, has a well-informed and adamant opinion about Clavicles ...yes, those collarbones things that are hanging out all over ....the new sex spot, apparently.....She...was quoted in the New York Times, fitting to print a quote from our esteemed colleague ....The Mad Fashionista.....Go Now to her blog....and fill your weekly quota of SMART-writing .......sadly in as short supply these days as a politician who subscribes to the belief that rising tides lift all boats........

Oh Amelia....

I love flying....it makes me dizzy....I haven't flown much in my life but I have always thought, in my dotage, I would take up flying lessons....
So how delighted was I when Joni Mitchell released Amelia......


I keep a beat-up caramel leather jacket in my wardrobe at all times, and a few long silk scarves, and tall brown leather boots.....I mean, you know, just in case I must pilot a plane....

In 1932, Amelia became the first woman to pilot a plane across the Atlantic.
Amelia Earhart is of the 20s...surely one of the top 3 of My Favorite Eras In Which I Wish I Had Lived....say that fast 5 times....
My bedtime read right now is Beryl Markham's West With The Night, her 1939 memoir of her time in Africa in the Edwardian era as a child and into her adulthood as an Aviatrix...In 1936 she flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean from London to a crash landing in Newfoundland.
....Such juicy details of her and Amelia.... a topic I'll come back to again and again.....
Vintage? Yes...Fashion was influenced by flying women....how bold of them to Fly! They captured attention then and they surely capture mine now.....
Amelia...it was only a false alarm....
clicky here for a Style.com Slideshow

See Some Shops...while waiting for funkoma vintage.

I am a voyeur...I like to watch...which is a real handy personality attribute to have if you are an artist ...or writer...or nosy...or curious .....and I am all of the above. From Stylebubble is this loverly treat of shops around the world...and I'm all about looking at shops right now since I am designing one...the accomodating mr. has been doing most of the work down there/up there while I am slaving at home....

Above is a picture of a shop sign in NYC, taken by the eponymous ms. bubble.....clicky here for the groovenest post today.....
See them here!

Yes, I make up words to suit my mood...I should publish a Tress-tion-ary for translation purposes.....