Favorite Label Friday Nov 9 2012

I have a bad bad habit of buying things...just for the label. I spend my days looking at things and 99.99% have a label somewhere on them.....clothes have a label in the neckline, the zipper area, the waistband, the side seam...a lamp might have a stamp on the bottom, a piece of furniture a stamp like a woodburning in the drawer, the back or on the bottom.

some of the ones are things I've sold, things I own, things I have for sale....and every Friday except Holidays....I'm here to entertain and bring a smile! 

Just like any artist that designs a cute dress, a fancy blouse, or a rugged pair of pants or shoes or boots, a lamp, a piece of furniture.....the person that designs the labels often get CraZy ! or not.
Many labels are perfunctory...here's the facts ma'am....Others...well...Take a look!

This Junior Look label with flirty eyes !! is the kind that will make me open my wallet...
this is on a cute little decorated sweater from the late 50s or early 60s. It probably had a matching dress made of the black and white herringbone wool.
It's made of woven satin.
Cute !!

See, isn't that cute? I'd sure love to see the dress .... if it's still available, it's in this section of my shop

Here's the ubiquitous NIKE label. A Nike label can tell you a lot...this label with the Swoosh, and the slanted Nike, all say early 80s.
Nike sport shoes....here they are...if still available.

Here's a pair of 60s ACME cowboy boots. The ACME is stamped on the pull. Acme used woven cloth labels until sometime in the late 60s to early 70s when they went to ink stamps in the boots...and...as production had to speed up, and then moved to Mexico, or China or where-ever...and left the USA, so did the artful labels.

Here's a pair of 50s Acme boots. Notice that the cloth label is the pull !  And that is why we call this style, among other names, Cloth Pull Boots. simple, eh?

Bass fringe loafers are a sweet delight with the labels. Printed in the bottom of the shoe, in ink, is the name, the style and other important info. ..like Made in USA.
Hooray.  Simple and maybe kinda boring....

But wait, it gets better. 

 Sewn inside is woven satin tape....on some pairs...

See ! It's navy blue with forest green.  That's a hint...that color scheme was very popular in the 80s...and Bass still put all kinds of neat details in these always awesome preppy shoes.

Here's a very sweet hand-knitted sweater, probably purchased at the Hotel gift shop or clothing store  inside the Hotel, when a lady or a husband visited Hong Kong.
Look....

Mrs. Gladys Chang knit this sweater, and there's her address so you can order more once you return to the States.

Look down, What's on yer feet?

Fancy shoes, casual shoes, LL Bean boots, work boots, fashion boots.....ankle boots, otk boots, knee high boots, boat shoes,  cowboy boots, leather boots, suede boots.....wingtip shoes,  vintage Nike, vintage Converse....deck shoes, tennis shoes, work shoes and work...and not so work...

It's the wooly time of year....

Small, local, and creative. That defines funkomavintage. We're a small business and we have no desire to be big...
We're local...here we are. Based in the NW, we consider our home base to be the West coast.
Creative? oh Yes! collectively funkomavinage has been wearing and decorating and driving VINTAGE...for more than 90 years!
Fresh in the shop right now! because we add about 20 - 40 items a week....so this is a tiny tiny sample at funkomavintage.....I have 156 things lined up for November...and oh, yes, the Party Dresses! OH MY !!!


 Betsey Johnson paperdoll top, Navy crested blazer,
50s Brown wool and silk tweed Suit....

Ethnic ombre cape, snowflake sweater, Missoni-style glitter sweater.

Rainbow tweed 50s skirt, Purple velvet blazer,  Turquoise wool jacket .

Navy wool 60s drop waist dress, Green sweater dress and matching sweater, Navy check day dress, Fall windswept dress, 40s green rayon crazy print dress

Wild bright neon green party dress, autumn print challis maxi dress, forest green Provincial rose dress.

We love sturdy well-built vintage.....we don't like cheap crap from WalMart...That's why we have been wearing and providing vintage for so long.....it's made of real ingredients. We have never understood why people buy new crap that falls apart within a few days, a few washings, a few wearings...and cheap furniture...plastic cars.......ugh!
here's what .....thatyountvillegirl...... is up to again....handmade Harris Tweed tote bags are being sewn up right now...and will be listed very soon. Working on new designs that incorporate lace, or corduroy, linen, canvas or leather....
Here's some of our blog posts about Harris Tweed quality...and why we love it so much.......

A few of our past projects.....

I make this under the label thatyountvillegirl......and here is where it starts........I find Harris Tweed jackets, and I cut them apart and add vintage fabrics for the lining, vintage lace, vintage corduroy, recycled leather, recycled buttons....OH YES...  This project has all the things I love about living vintage. I take a quality item, I make it into something cute, something useful, something that will make your life a bit more fun! And quality. And local. And small.....it doesn't get much smaller than 2 people running funkomavintage.

The next set of Harris Tweed bags will have differences.....big zippers, buckles, more pockets, different sizes, different looks....