NorthStar Vintage

Vintage Clothing from Maine

Damn I find good stuff

As my clearout extends to my cyber presence, I’ve been cleaning out the photos hosted on my server, meaning I get to go through thousands of shots from the past few years. It’s tedious, but it’s cool to see some of the things I’ve sold, like:

1930’s Art Deco Print Dress

1950’s Ceil Chapman Silk Jersey Dress

1920’s [...]

Geek tweak

Yes, I was one of the people who joined in the record-breaking download of Firefox 3. To quote Bubbles, from The Trailer Park Boys, “It’s f*cking awesome!”
My favorite tweak, so far, is that I can adjust the colors of jpegs, making them richer, and truer to their original scheme (it always drove me nuts [...]

Tex

really wants to get out.

Beauty in Decay

Maybe it was the two root beer vodka tonics (delicious! at night. the next day? not so delicious) but a sentence in this article in the Sunday New York Times Magazine about Floral Designer Daniel Ost all of a sudden gave me a “theme” to some of the crap in the junk drawer [...]

Best Novelty Print Ever

Like most people who are into vintage clothing, I am a serious sucker for novelty prints. My favorite theme is “the impossible”: Reading dogs; Edwardian women riding motor scooters; fuschia horses; hippos on unicycles….
As much as I love novelty prints, I’ve never met one so cool that I couldn’t bring myself to sell it. Until [...]

Summer Sale!

It’s my annual “I’d rather be riding my motorcycle” summer sale. All my store items are 30% off. Mention this blog and shipping is free.
Shop!
The more you buy, the more time I get to spend with my beloved….

Vintage….music

Every kid in my high school loved Rush. Except me. I figured that if everyone liked them, then I was far too “alternative” to follow the herd.
Getting older can be enlightening. And giving up “the cool” can be a hell of a lot of fun. Because every kid in my high school was [...]

Buy Local

While listing this 60’s pink silk dress, I did some research on the designer, Mary Sachs. According to this site, she opened her first store in 1918, which blossomed into a small chain of stores in the mid-Pennsylvania area, and she was a generous and influential member of the community.
I see a lot of [...]

Profile Picture

Judging from my Dorothy Hamill haircut, it was taken in the summer of 1977.
My sister is wearing a bombshell (for a 7 year old) black velvet 50’s party dress (I shudder to think there was a designer label inside), and the other two girls are in pretty pink floral party dresses.
Me? I chose [...]

Links added

After reading my friend Holly’s latest blog, I was inspired to add a link to her site, and to others.
I have so many talented friends in real life, and online. Here are their links.
If I’ve missed you, please let me know – I am being distracted by my associate as he practices for his [...]

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