Black Dresses
[Archive gallery] An essential staple of every good wardrobe – The black dress…
NC Home T Shirts, or, What color, what size?
In my 12 years of retail, I have never had anything sell so successfully. Taking orders all day long!!! Are you from NC? Sport your state….
Do you remember any of these? Inventory past……
My sister Lucy just calls me “Kitdashion”…(my name is Kit, in case you didn’t know) which I think might be slanderous…..those poor Kardashian ladies…..to have to follow in my footsteps…
Her Name was Ollie Belle
Have you see The Help? I read the book and saw the movie, so when Octavia Spencer won her Golden Globe and brought the house to tears I remembered a day when I was little. I was probably 4 years …
The Turquoise Kitchen Didn’t Make Her Betty Crocker
He closed the door to her home, she closed the door to her heart. It sounds like a country music two stepping tune but it was more like a one step tango. She taught dance and after she danced her …
Christmas 1934
As Bob Dylan said, the Times They Are A Changin, and I mean this in the nicest sort of way. As a historian of sorts, a scavenger, an urban archeologist, a hunter and gatherer of remnants and particles of the …
Fair Weather Friends….or Does a Hoochie Coochie Girl Eat Bar-B-Q?
I hadn’t thought about them in 10 years or so. I was sitting on a stool in a swanky Manhattan bar in the late 1970s, chatting up a young textile executive wannabe. He asked me where I grew up and …
The Best Things in Life are Free
The Ink Spots the Best Things in Life Are Free (please enjoy their music while you read this post) I was thinking back to one of the most unusual estates that I ever had the pleasure of investigating and i …
SEPT 1 IS THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY
Design Archives opened on Sept 1, 2001. I can’t believe it, but I have survived for ten years! There have been a couple of moves, which is major for a vintage store because there are tons and tons of inventory …
Gertrude and the bob
Her name was Gertrude and she was born in 1899. She came of age just as women were given the right to vote and she lost a young boyfriend to the war in Europe. The Twenties Came in with …