memories

Her Name was Ollie Belle

by Kit on January 16, 2012

    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 old, and since my Mamma was busy writing and I was alone I [...]

Tagged as: 1950s, apron, black, colored, domestic, help, ironing, memories, north carolina, small town, The Fifties, The Help, the Sixties, Vintage, white

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Fair Weather Friends….or Does a Hoochie Coochie Girl Eat Bar-B-Q?

by Kit on October 21, 2011

  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 when I told him, he asked me if I had ever been to see [...]

Tagged as: 1970s, b-b-q, bar, bar-b-q, barbeque, barbizon, boy, fair, fairgrounds, hoochie coochie, manahattan, memories, midway, sideshow, south, tobacco, Vintage

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Who Is Design Archives

by Kit on May 3, 2011

Welcome to Design Archives first blog post, which will be a wee bit stained and perhaps a teensy bit wrinkled, but all that will get cleaned up and ironed out over time; just like the vintage inventory that is lovingly stocked on racks and shelves and in drawers. This blog will attempt to capture some [...]

Tagged as: archives, childhood, clothes, clothing, design, designer, fashion, germany, Greensboro, memories, reminisce, Shop, textiles, Vintage

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