THE PERFECT JEANS | JESSICA DE RUITER

Photos via: Jean Stories When it comes to the perfect jeans, stylist Jessica de Ruiter and I are on the same page: a bit of a high-rise, cr...

The Quilt of A Thousand Vintage Fabrics

This past Christmas, I received a lovely gift from my mother. She won at auction, a few weeks before, a beautiful hand-made, hand-tied quilt...

My Utterly Ridiculous Pierrot Clown Costume - Halloween 2013

Well, I might have been stitching up to the last day, but I did finish my utterly ridiculously Pierrot clown costume.  Here it is, in all it...

Vintage Halloween: Pierrot the Adorably Sad Clown

I seldom make costumes for Halloween, or even ever dress up, but this year I'm going out dancing with a friend, and I need, well, someth...

Edwardian Beaded Shoes

Manchester, 1900, Austrian The pinnacle of footwear styling in the Edwardian period was The Beaded Shoe.  Nothing is quite so lovely, so spa...

Glorious 1930s Vintage Shoes

from Etsy seller Simplicityisbliss The 1930s is one of my favorite periods for footwear.  Everything is just so darn snazzy! Perforated leat...

Kodachrome Beauties

August 1942. Via I have a bit of an obsession with old photography, and I particularly love pretty much anything cross-processed.  I've ...