Favorite Vintage Photos

It's been awhile, but I have been more active on facebook with vintage posts at Oso Victoria Vintage I thought it would be nice to share some of my favorite photos I found, see what you think.

Evening dress by Pierre Balmain from 1957.

Blue-grey silk faille day dress with appliqué, embroidery and beading. Label: "Mme. Chamas, 66 rue des Petits Champs, Paris, France," c. 1890, Kent State University Museum. love D'Artagnan. 

The Fashion Museum announce that 'Royal Women' open on 3 February 2018! This ‘family tree’ exhibition will feature the clothes worn by Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret http://ht.ly/vzB 

If this dress was blue it would be a mermaid dress. It is a reproduction of a 1920-30s dress.

1921 America Dress by Harry Collins, worn by Mrs. Francis P. Garvan (Mabel Brady) Peach silk chiffon with turquoise, chartreuse, and pink silk ribbon and metallic trim

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Little Lee of Hollywood worn by Ginger Lee.

1967 bold colors

Prom dress....cocktail gown....evening dress....love the 1960s https://www.etsy.com/listing/399361941/blue-prom-dress-vintage-60s-dress

That's it for now. I hope you enjoy browsing all these fashion from the different eras. More to come so be sure to follow my blog at OsoVictoria.com or find me on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/OsoVictoria/ for the lastest vintage fashion peeks.

Finding Vintage Fashion

Some of my favorite recent vintage finds

1950s black and white cotton fitted dress with full skirt www.etsy.com/listing/518270769

I found this lovely black and white 50s dress at the Gleaners. The Gleaner Thrift Store is a non-profit whose volunteers go out and glean food from the trees and gardens in the local area. I live in Southern Oregon so produce is very abundant  from spring to Fall. Harry and David's is a local company that grow fancy apples and pears in the valley for their gift boxes.

Now-a-days the gleaners also glean food from the local grocery chains and share with other food bank non-profits. The Gleaner Thift Store is one of those crazy stores that have great prices and a very scattered hodge-podge of goods. Although, I noticed in the last few weeks they are getting a bit more tidy in appearance, but so far the prices have still been great.

Are you always searching for the most beautiful and unique clothing that makes your heart jump and gives a jingly thrill. Yes, the trill of the hunt, stalking the stores, estate sales, and those posted yard sale - this way - signs.

Oh ah, and knowing what a long day it has been, but just one more stop, one more, and all day it has been a bust, other than a few okay nothing spectacular finds, but still a find none the less, just so the entire day is not lost chasing the elusive gold.

This is my now new technique for finding those lovelies...I do a craigslist search for garage sales and put vintage in the search bar, once it brings up all the vintage to offer at these sales I look through and see if any of them have clothing, usually they are for vintage collectibles, but every once and a while clothing will come up. I find that estate sale are the best because these are usually from homes of older folks that have hung onto their stuff and are now willing to part ways with their luscious belongings that they have been collecting for years, lucky for us.

white aurora borelis large pin www.etsy.com/listing/189375874

Sometimes when I am out driving for errands I'll pass a yard sale sign and check them out, you can kind of judge by a quick drive by if they may have anything of value worth stopping for, sometimes not and that is a bummer, stopping, getting out walking over not finding anything walking back to the car empty handed. I occasionally will stop at thrift stores because you never know just what they may hold. My favorite thrift stores are the ones in very small towns that are not all gussied up like a boutique, but are a hodge-podge of finds. and then there are the antique and collectible shops. I do like to check these out on occasion, because they do carry what I look for and sometimes I can get some very nice dresses for not to to much, sometimes. Here some more of my favorite recent finds...

1960s pink peignoir set by Kayser ~ sold ~ from an estate sale and shipped to Austria

I scored several 1970s maxi dresses and jumpsuit at the same estate sale as the peignoir.
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So, now that the weather is warming up here in the northern hemispere it is time to get out there a go for the hunt and find those gems. Best of luck! And, come back here and share your favs.

Vintage for Black History Month and Every Month

This dress is from Saint Laurent's "African" collection, his first to look beyond Western fashion. Stylized African motifs and patterns are used to evoke traditional tribal clothing and jewelry. Although inspired by African design, the intricate beading and embroidery were accomplished using materials and techniques typical of couture embellishment.

Yves Saint Laurent evening dress, 1967 from the Musum of Fit

(L) Patrick Kelly 'Ghanian kente cloth' ensemble, spring 1988 / (R) Stella Jean dress of Burkino Faso wax prints, fall 2015

“I’m keen to discover fabrics that people think are produced in a particular location and show them it’s actually a different story altogether,” said designer Stella Jean. Wax prints are often referred to as African fabrics, but in fact are appropriated from African culture and made in Holland. This dress with sharp Italian tailoring incorporates wax prints Jean commissioned from African artisans in Burkina Faso.

(L) Patrick Kelly 'Ghanian kente cloth' ensemble, spring 1988 / (R) Stella Jean dress of Burkino Faso wax prints, fall 2015

Donyale Luna (born Peggy Ann Freeman), model and actress the first African-American Cover Girl and is also considered one of the first Black supermodels. She was the 1st African American model to appear on the cover of British Vogue.

Donyale Luna

Donyale Luna

Donyale Luna

Peggy Dillard-Toone was the second African American woman to appear on the cover of Vogue (Beverly Johnson was the first “Black” woman on the cover. Donyale Luna never identified herself as “black” so many people stripped her of that honor.)

Peggy Dillard-Toone

Another vintage 1960s African American fashion model.

Stunning Vintage Photos Show the Beauty of African-American Women from between 40s via vintage everyday.

Sisters in Skirts 1950’s [Donated by the Earl McCann Collection] ©WaheedPhotoArchive, 2011

Love these skirts!

Helen Williams, a vision in yellow.

Helen Williams

Beautiful Nina Mae McKinney (June 13, 1912 – May 3, 1967) Dubbed "The Black Garbo" in Europe, she was one of the first African-American film stars.

Nina Mae McKinney

 I hope you enjoyed these lovely photos of just a few of the beautiful women and fashions from the past.

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Harper's Bazzar January 1950 Fashions

Since I was out and about yesterday, I decided it was a good time to stop at my local university library and scan some more vintage fashion. It is always a challenge to find parking where I can spend more than 30 min. Fridays work best because that is when most classes don't meet, so yea, I was able to find parking fairly close to the library and spent several hours scanning.

I look for fashion that appeals to me and has a unique quality, as Nina Garcia would say "..we've seen this before..." 

So I'll be posting some of those with the exception of  the swimsuit ads from Coles, Catalina, Jantzen and Sea Mold that I'll save for this summer in the northern hemisphere. 

For beautiful drape and fine texture Enka Rayon in an exotic spaced print on a soft malleable crepe short dinner dress by Joseph Whitehead is good theatre against a background of palms - equally effective for summer in cooler climes.

Lots if details in this silk shantung dress sprinkled with three-cornered embroidered white dots from Henri Bendel at $125.

Two silk dresses..it's the pleated skirt or deep batwing sleeves for your New Year wardrobe from Henry Rosenfeld, on left comes in green, copper, turquoise, toast; on right green, toast, red, turquoise $17.95 each.

Is there a favorite and a particular detail that is appealing? Let me know in the comments below, thanks I am always interested in what others think of these designs, good or bad.

Harper's Bazaar 1939 Evening Gowns

I scanned these photos from Sept 15th 1939 Harper's Bazaar magazine a year ago and set them aside, can you do that on a computer? The first image is a yellow satin embroidered silver gown the second is a pale pink with silver brocade both from Mainbocher's.

Aren't these two lovely and so elegant, definately would call it dressing for a dinner party or perhaps a night to the theatre or opera.

Sea Fever by Joan Collins Vogue 1957

This is a cute outfit with a sea nautical theme, perfect for summer!

Love the side buttons on the skirt and the polka dot blouse is adorable!

The ad says ~ Sea-fever, spring-fever when you spy these slightly nautical separates by Joan Collins. White-dotted blouse of Silcoona, a soft new acetate. $6.95. Sweet and narrow skirt of Cape Cod rayon $7.95. Both, Folker Fabrics. Blue, shrimp or navy. Sizes 5 to 15. Lard & Taylor, New York, Marshell Field & Company, Chicago, J.W. Robinson, Los Angeles.

I am thinking shrimp is red. I think any of these color would look great, although I am not sure I would go all red with the blouse and skirt. On me that would be to much red because I am a summer color,but the red skirt and a white blouse would work just fine.

What color would you prefer?

Fashion Wonder In Exciting New Fabrics Vogue 1957 Style

From the Vogue 1957magazine is this advertisment for Dan River dresses made from Dan River fabrics.

Cottons that don't wrinkle and I am assuming dry pretty quickly, that is truely carefree, I'll take one of each, thank you!

This dress just matches the color scheme, but is not part of the ad.

Love the evening gown and brocade coat, just beautiful!

Here is another photo from the magazine that matches in color tones with the two above.

I really like this car coat, that loose boxy shape and corduroy fabric and of course the color! Remember bench seat? I think they only come in trucks these days.

Do you have a favorite color scheme in the clothing you wear? That would probably indicate what season you are, Spring, Summer, Fall or Winter or a combination of these season.

Some Lovely Vintage Dresses and Collectibles Recently Listed

Want to see the new listing of  vintage dresses in my Etsy shop at Oso Victoria. These dresses vary from the 50s to the 80s and go from party wear to day and country picnic wear, all are worn to have fun and enjoy the day weither you are out for the evening dining and dancing or staying home and relaxing with a good book.  Styling and doing it with fashion is fun! 

Also, included are a few collectibles in my collectible and home decor shop at Camron D. These items are great for a party, camping, or the home hobbiest. 

Like what you see, leave a comment for your favorite, I love hearing from all my readers, also be sure to be a google follower, I would love to follow you back, thanks so much!

Vintage 1960s Hawaiian Kiyomi maxi dress in pink floral cotton size xxs $45

Vintage 1980s blue check empire waist cotton day dress country, size medium $22

Vintage 1950s Jr Theme floral chiffon full skirt fitted bodice party dress size medium or vintage Jr. 11 $150

Vintage 1960s aqua-turquoise party dress with silver thread brocade roses size medium $85

Vintage 1960 lavender blue mod sheath dress size med-lg $48

 Vintage 1960s Plastic Mod Flower Power Serving Tray $14

Vintage Solid Copper Moscow Mule Mugs by West Bend set of 7 $105

Set of 8 Vintage Libbey Gold Leaf Drinking Glasses on Frosted Glass $28

Vintage 1980s Muscongus Bay Lobster Smack Boat Kit $14

Some these lovies are perfect for a 'Mad Man' theme and all are wonderful to enjoy! Thanks for looking and please comment and share your favs, thanks!