NorthStar Vintage

Vintage Clothing from Maine

Vintage Bulletin

Thank you to Carol at Dandelion Vintage for the mention in last week’s Vintage Bulletin about this 1960’s black sequinned cocktail dress:

The Haps

In between hunting down great vintage, listing on eBay and etsy, taking photos, shipping out packages, and learning CSS as I redesign my website (that last one is taking a while), I’ve also been:
^Meeting (and by meeting I mean having beer with): Patrick Corrigan, who is designing a new logo for me.^Entertaining: houseguests^Reading: [...]

Yum

The catty gay icing on the deliciously fluffy Project Runway cake
Project Rungay

Tex

Wants in. (taken while i was photographing clothing to list online. it’s not like i got out a camera to photograph the poor bastard while he was dangling off the screen – i already had it in hand!)

I’m biased

But early advertising for BMW motorcycles is the coolest. Love that teutonic Deco industrial look!

Black Sex Jumpsuit

I want:
From the James Brown Auction.
Say it again! Black Sex Jumpsuit.

Reading is sexy!

Though I’m impressed with her beauty, I’m even more impressed by the fact that she got through Ulysses!
Via Reading is Sexy (some photos NSFW)

I love him.

Hand made wooden Kewpie plant holder? ash tray? peanut dish?
From a yard sale in Western Maine.
The look on his face cracks me up – as if someone just pinched his little bottom.

Oh Canada

Some of my favorite things are from Canada – including many of my best buyers.
A few other cool things from the North:
Trailer Park Boys: (warning – bad language and drug use)

My associate does an eerily good imitation of Bubbles. I even bought him a pair of thick large framed glasses and chase him around [...]