NorthStar Vintage

Vintage Clothing from Maine

And another thing

My hunky Mountie pillow, featuring my second favorite Canadian after Geddy Lee, has been featured in an Etsy Treasury!
Thank you to Maggie at Denisebrain

Apologies

If you’re being inundated with repeat Blog, Facebook, and Twitter postings. I am relocating to a sexy new Wordpress blog and changing all my feeds.
This is still a work in progress, but, enjoy. I’m quite smitten with Wordpress these days.

Just a reminder

The NorthStar Vintage 35% off sale ends on January 3! Click on the Lion & Butterfly dress to check out the sale.

Portland Picnic

Mr. NSV and I went to the Portland Picnic last weekend to buy Christmas presents from local indy craftsfolk.Bad dea, in retrospect, because all we wanted to do was buy for ourselves.A few of the things I didn’t buy:Purses from Boomchick-a-boom

Pottery from Patti Aggi Ceramics:

 Earrings from Fayandrada:

Sweet weed box (and anything) from Strong Arm [...]

Bad Taste

I love the saying, “Her taste is in her mouth.”
With my affection for bizarro lawn art, spooky head art, and 70’s motorcycle helmets, some would probably say that about me.  But I like to think I’m just eclectic.
However, I don’t think eclectic explains my ardor for this 1970’s black satin roller disco jacket with a [...]

Something to think about

The Politics of Vintage
Including the questions:

Is wearing a fashion from an oppressive time period indeed a symbol of that oppression?
Is there such a thing as “reclaiming” these fashions so that they are symbols of power rather than domination?
Should we only make patterns from the eras that were the least oppressive to women?
If wiggle skirts and [...]

Happy Holidays

We’ve assembled the aluminum tree (sadly the color wheel does not work), put on the vintage ornaments (there was some red wine involved, so we did lost a few), and propped up Scary Santa in the Bertoia chair.

The Stig showed his appreciation by trying to eat the tree.

 
He was really into it for a minute, [...]

Let’s try this again.

Apparently my previous sale only lasted for one day.
So I’ve extended it until January, and deepened the discount to 35%.
Click on the 1940’s lavender silk Art Deco dress (now 35% off) to go to the sale:

Christmas doesn’t have to be scary.

30% off all eBay store items!

Sparkly (and some not so sparkly) things

Holiday clothes for women and men. Click on the photos to go to the auctions, or click HERE to see all my items.

 
50’s Hourglass Rhinestone Studded Sheath

 
50’s Red Satin Beaded Party Dress (XXS)

Amazing Vintage 60’s Dress – COVERED with irridescent sequins and silver beads.

And for the guys:

60’s Black Cashmere Overcoat XL
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