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vintage shopping!

2009-09-05T22:42:00.009-04:00

this velvet YSL beret is perfect for this fall, i've been seeing velvet EVERYWHERE and tassels are eternally cool.
http://www.dressingvintage.com/vintage-womens/accessories/hats/3032-ysl-beret-tassel.html
(there's another hat on this site that i'm living and dying for but i'm not showing it til i can afford it! hahah)

schiaparelli royal crown straw hat! this is a totally great surreal hat, it has a really unique shape. model needs to do up her hair a bit! check out her excellent etsy shop:
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7897315

i brought a bunch of metallic high-tech fabric by schoeller back from utah, but i have no idea what it does or what it's for... silver hat. obviously!
http://cgi.ebay.com/SILVER-METALLIC-TURBAN-VTG-60s-TIERED-TOQUE-HAT-VEIL_W0QQitemZ250489091063QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVintage_Men_s_Women_s_Accessories?hash=item3a525033f7&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14#ht_6752wt_917

this one is just a steal, where else can you get a multicolored draped turban for $6.50 shipped?
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27216554

mmmmmmmustard painted plaid! please buy this!!!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=27222165

this is so wonderful and avant-garde, and my favorite color pallette of rotting things and fungus. mmm!
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=22587712
another shop with a ton of wonderful hats, by the way

this is one of 2 i ended up buying assembling this post.... along with hand-carved mother of pearl buckles and some 1940s vintage plastic buttons shaped like cowboy hats! i'm having a very surrealist/schiaparelli moment, i hope my humanities teacher appreciates it.

sporty girls

2009-08-16T10:55:00.002-04:00

a smattering of more marker drawings, i did these before the project OR competition to show I could do sporty stuff... for michael kors? the outdoor people mostly just thought they were funny.

prismas and the slightest bit of colored pencil!

salt lake city!

2009-07-26T15:05:00.003-04:00

i landed friday from my 5-day trip to salt lake city, where i was attending the national outdoor retailer convention. all the outdoor suppliers were there, meeting with vendors and checking out new product.

mmm stainless airport bathroom... this bag came back home stuffed with fabric to the size of a beachball.

big ol' ugly things on the horizon

swanky old people suite (with no fridge, wtf?)

if i could pare down my own closet like this... haha yeah right.

at the convention, i was representing the apparel design department for FSU in the Project OR competition. we had 48 hours to complete a prototype outdoor garment, using the newest high tech materials from the show sponsors, as well as what we could source on our own from the floor. you can check out the episodes here, they're kind of cute even if the music gets annoying!

here's my women's insulated, light-weight wind shirt!

the mood board and the fabric/component specifics. the design went through a ton of changes from the original, but i did stick with the same fabric. there were a lot of things to learn about making garments in this industry, like there are hardly ever buttons used.

the main body is "warrior silk" by brookside fabric, which is currently being used to make track suits for training for the marines and the army. there's also thermal regulating fabric by outlast for the shoulder inserts and the pocket linings, organic cotton trim, recycled polyester zips from ykk, and it's insulated with 3m thinsulate.

the core is fully lined and quilted in thinsulate, with a pattern to flatter the female form. the sides are open and belted, to be blousy. the trim on the belt, as well as the neck edge, glows in the dark!

now here's the picture of me with some of the show organizers... and my winning design! this means i get to go back to utah again in january for the winter OR show, to network and help out with round 4 of project OR.

one last one... now i'm back in tallahassee and resuming staying out way too late and extreme debauchery. i'm getting really inspired to make high-tech clothes to aide in said extreme debauchery... reflective and glow in the dark cycling caps, rad looking windbreakers, maybe even some compactable swimsuits so everybody quits swimming in their underwear... nahhhhh. what a life!

drawings inspired by ponyo!

2009-07-09T19:50:00.002-04:00

hayao miyazaki's most recent movie, ponyo on the cliff, is FINALLY getting officially released in the US august 14! i've been watching a bootleggedly translated copy of this movie for A YEAR NOW, thanks... here are the drawings i did inspired by it for some of my classes. they're from like a year ago, but still good. enjoy!

not the best editing job, but i just uninstalled photoshop to send my computer back so i had to edit them in iphoto boooooo.
i'm gearing up for my trip to salt lake city to represent FSU at the national outdoor retailer convention... woo! so that means finally getting some drawings online. now i can put my illustrations on the back of my adorable tiny business cards, courtesy of moo.com! this also means you can expect to see a bit of work over the next few days as i get my portfolio together.

appreciating woven tags

2009-07-01T11:23:00.006-04:00

inspired by this post: design in thread on notcot, i decided to photo some of my favorite woven tags in my closet

i love this little lace dress, A Topaz Original. couldn't find much info about the brand, but there are quite a few vintage stores selling similar (read:nicer!) dresses than the one i have...
i bet she doesn't put her foot through the lace every time she wears it.

Beeline Fashions were like the Avon lady of home clothes buying, or more like a Pleasure Party? ew. maybe it will be like my Halston and i'll bring it back from the dead when i'm a famous american sportswear designer.

speaking of great american design, this sweater was sold at one of the first department stores in the US. too bad those aussies ran it out of business in the late 80s... we need more neon yellow mohair and nylon sweaters!

like a lot of department store clothes, this has their tag sewn in over the original designer, GYN LES. lots of other beaded sweaters and such are available from this brand online. i'm amazed at the easy availability of pieces from a brand that's got to be 40 years old, it's like how i own multiple pieces from Garay.

from the opposite end of the east coast, this little dress is from Shifts Internationale of Miami. they seemed to specialize in screenprinted dresses, mine has warnings "not to rub" the print, which is bright poppies with tiny little SI's hidden among them it... si! a lot of the prints and trims are really similar to things i've seen by lily pulitzer, but i think the fabric is cheaper. hence how you're not allowed to... rub it.

the west coast now... i've always loved this dress from alex colman of california. they were one of the first, if not the first, american brand to work directly with japan in their production, and all of their printed fabric was custom. guess that explains my reptile print day dress, with the delicate hand-picked gathers at the waist and corded trim! colman was one of the first californian designers to bring the laid-back west coast look nationwide. pretty rad, dude.

another california clothier, Anjac Fashion, still has clothes coming out of it's original building, if not under the same label. there seem to be links for Dorman Fashion, Ada's Fashion, among others. the building really seems to be the focus, as it's on a major street in LA and was the site of a huge garment worker's strike in the 1930s.

Miss Oops!, another CA label, just included since it was in the post that inspired this one... i think mine is a newer example. (nice stain, right?) i don't know that they've made clothes since the 80s, but it seems like now there's a brand called Miss Oops! that makes silly fashion accessories like butt crack covers and single-use adhesive underwear.

just from a division of pendleton... one of the oldest fabric makers in the country. too bad mine's a diffusion made of imported fabric, kind of strays from what they're known for, don't you think??

after that disappointment, save the best for last! jackie o's main man, black silk, goodwill, THREE DOLLARS... you're jealous. right? right. anyway, oleg, time for a new website! it ain't '96 anymore, this isn't geocities.

a last note: if you buy a lot of vintage like i do, you've probably found International Ladies Garment Worker's Union tags in a lot of things. for an ebay page, this is actually pretty helpful for dating clothes with IGLWU tags

well, i'm off to ~~ruin~~ wear some vintage to work today, i'm in that mood!

crafty wishes

2008-12-07T00:12:00.004-05:00

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5133712
a custom 2001:a space odyssey themed bracelet with the monolith

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=34399
custom 13mm single flared plugs in aqua/turquoise (with black and white) sea floor design
or cartoon style green eyeballs
or avacado halves (clear glass for the pit on one half!)

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5714742
custom 13mm single flared plugs that look like artichokes
ie: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14464514

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5575958
jawbone necklace with small jaw and multiple chains, goldtone

any vintage silver pendants shaped like hands, the creepier, the better

ponyo on the cliff

2008-10-06T21:51:00.002-04:00

miyazaki is a genius, but was there ever a doubt?

just you wait for my take on it.