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No Accounting for Taste

January 14, 2015

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  • 1940s handmade trousers in THE BEST fall color. I’m gutted to let these go but I haven’t looked like this for three years so 🤷🏻‍♀️ Really nice warm cinnamon butternut color in a soft medium weight fabric, could be a cotton or a wool gabardine blend. Side metal zip with one side pocket. These are short and are cute as cropped pants if that’s your thing, or as regular pants if you’re smaller than about 5’2”. [sold]
  • I rarely part with anything in my McCardell collection, but this color doesn’t work for me and it feels like good karma to let some things go 😆 [sold] // #clairemccardell #1950sfashionn
  • [sold] a little f’d but completely fabulous dove grey wool gabardine suit with beautifully dramatic sleeves that belonged to a figure skater who purchased it while on tour with the Skating Vanities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Melva Block (billed as her stage name, Melva Moreno) was “the only girl ever to win two U.S. senior ladies’ figure roller skating championships. She took these honors in 1941 and 1942.” Melva performed with the Skating Vanities from 1945 through 1948. This suit has several moth holes and is missing a button, but look at those SLEEVES. // #1940sfashion
  • I ran out of daylight today but more goodies coming tomorrow! See my stories for details ✨
  • Another fall day! Thrifted 80s shirt, 80s skirt by Patty Woodard, 50s belt by Phelps, Runabout jacket by @revellecollection. William Roche Woodard was born in Missouri in 1883, the son of a conductor on the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad. He moved to Los Angeles around 1911 and worked as a salesman for Marshall Field until he and his wife Blanche established their own garment business, W.R. Woodard & Co. in 1923. They made women’s blouses under the W.R. Woodard label, and in 1940, William’s granddaughter Patricia was born, and along with her, the Patty Woodard label. Patty Woodard and Miss Pat were divisions of W. R. Woodard Co. of Los Angeles, best known for sheer nylon or batiste blouses for women (the Patty Woodard label) and girls (Miss Pat). They focused on blouses from the 1940s into the 1950s, when they introduced a line of separates. Patty Woodard continued to produce California casual separates (like this skirt) and dresses into the 1990s. // #ootd #vintagestyle #1980sfashion
  • It was rainy and cold yesterday and I could not have been happier about it 🌧🍂 Wearing a 1940s corduroy raincoat by Debutogs from @slonevintage, 40s twill jacket by Hobby Togs, 40s rayon slacks, Gentlewoman blouse and wool scarf by @revellecollection, corduroy tote from @deargolden // #ootd #truevintageootd #1940sstyle #vintagestyle
  • We got some rain yesterday and I got to wear my Debutogs raincoat of “cravenetted corduroy” from 1947 🌧 For those keeping track, $25 in 1947 was about $300 in today’s dollar. // #1940sfashion
  • “A fashion world in themselves, these beige-to-burnt umber tones. Mix them within their golden ring… Tweeds, newest worn two at a time; brown, newest as dark golden. Coin-brown jacket, $25; bark-brown skirt, about $15. Deep brown worsted jersey gloves, byt Kay Fuchs, $6.” Photo by John Rawlings for Vogue, August 15, 1949. // #30daysofvintagestyle #vintageinspiration #1940sfashion #vintagepalette
  • Fall color inspiration from Hoffman Woolens, 1946 // #30daysofvintagestyle #1940sfashion

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