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  • Are you a woman who wears vintage to work? Are you in a position of leadership? I want to hear from you! I’m looking for women who work in some kind of professional realm with others who aren’t necessarily into vintage (solo entrepreneurs I love you but looking for something slightly different here). If you’d be willing to answer a few questions for an upcoming piece, send an email to thevintagebosslady@gmail.com with the subject line Vintage Boss. There might be a special coupon code in it for you when I launch my Spring collection 😉 Suit by Eisenberg Originals, photographed by Gene Fenn for Mademoiselle, February 1946 // #wearvintage #1940sfashion #vintagebosslady
  • This is the #ootd of a person trying to find a balance between vintage, modern and the fact that rain boots are required every day this week. Artist vest, tomato scarf and dolman duster from @revellecollection, vintage #1940s blouse by Sorrel from @thriftyvintagekitten (see previous post for 1948 ad) // #vintagestyle #winterinLA #layering
  • Sorrel Shirts of Hollywood was an endeavor founded by Samuel L. & Ruth Cohen, siblings who grew up in Colorado in a family that made hats at their Capital Cap Factory. In the early 1930s, Samuel and Ruth moved to Los Angeles to enter the lucrative California sportswear market, and started SRL Manufacturing (a combination of their initials), making specialty blouses and “mannish” shirts through the late 1940s. They retailed for about $3-7 each (about $30-70 today, give or take), but featured expensive-looking details like rows of fine stitching around the wide cuffs that matched a pocket. This one is advertised in 1948 as “America’s Finest Mannish Shirt.” Sidenote—the term “mannish” shirt goes back to at least the 1910s, when women began to prefer tailored shirts to frilly “waists,” as blouses were then called. Ad from The Californian, May 1948. // #vintagead #vintagelabel #1940s #fashionhistory
  • I love this example of a wartime ensemble made of interchangeable separates by B.H. Wragge, 1942. “3-way Wine and White — Wine wool fleece top coat. White suit of rayon twill, with a paisley blouse. White dress of rayon gabardine. Wear wine coat and wine beret with every outfit on this page.” Vogue, December 15, 1942 // #vintagepalette #1940sfashion
  • Today’s outfit is in honor of Patricia Geraghty Falligant, who managed the showroom for Claire McCardell at Townley before moving to Texas and working for Neiman Marcus where she worked to desegretate the sales team. Patricia died this week at the age of 90. Claire McCardell dress from @bluefennel with McCardell swing coat from @livingthreads, belt from @house_of_edgertor // #ootd #truevintageootd #vintagestyle #clairemccardell #1950sfashion
  • I know Christmas is over, but I still love a great red coat. Photo by Karen Radkai, 1953. // #karenradkai #1950sfashion
  • “A coat that says it’s plaid in no uncertain colours; that does daily service but not dully—brilliantly. By H.&D., about $80… This is what we mean about brilliant dressing being as easy as the dull kind—is it any harder to reach for a brilliant plaid than for a dull one? You’ll get tired of it sooner? Which wearies you quicker—the book that’s exciting, or the book that’s humdrum? In this issue: only the plaidest plaids admitted. We think thundering plaids make thundering good sense.” Photo by Frances McLaughlin, 1953. // #1950sfashion #francesmclaughlingill
  • First outfit of the new year and it’s kind of a vaguely 70s vaguely dystopian future but also sort of Jedi kind of thing? I’m way into layering on these rainy (!) days and this wool vest by @laurenwinter.co keeps me v cozy. Dolman duster by @revellecollection, plus vintage 70s turtleneck. // #ootd #vintagestyle #shopsmall
  • Very slowly coming back to life after a long holiday break 🌱

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