best find EVER

let me start at the very beginning...

i have been craving some real kick ass 70s style platforms for a while now. around here, its not something you come across at your local thrift store all too often. however, when thrifting i always make sure to check out the shoe section...as i check out every other section.. just to see what i may stumble across that day. always with some platforms on my mind. maybe ill turned the corner, and sitting there will be some wonderful wonderful things to strap onto my feel for less than $20. of and its a thursday so practically everything is half off, and so are they. wow what luck! what an amazing find! so fuckin lucky!!!!!



but im just describing a dream to you. this has not happened for me. nor do i expect if to. now, like i have said time and time again. i am cheep. i am the definition of a thrifty shopper. i dont know why, i dont really know where it comes from..but i hate spending a lot of money, let alone a lot of money on one thing. so i shop at thrift stores. 1. because i love vintage, and i can find it here. 2. the hunt and the search and going shopping without really expecting what to find, not knowing what ill see. and how so many times ill end up in line at the register with something i never expected to to get, didnt even realize i was into the look. but its just what was there. ya know? theres no trend, theres no stock. you dont go looking for your size. it finds you...
but im getting off track here.



oh yea, back to being a penny pincher, and 3. its cheep. so loving and wanting to wear and sell vintage, this can be kinda hard. since the going rate for pretty dresses from decades past is how much i want to spend on an arm full of things. found in a place where sometimes i come across things just like this. and its better, so much better because i found it here. surrounded by over sized tee shirts and mens underwear.
ahh, but still im getting off track. this isn't where i want to go with this post, what im trying to talk about it platforms..and this dream i have of them happening upon me at one of my local spots. so recently i have been really saving my money, and i am doing pretty good so i was going to treat myself to some platforms on etsy. they were $99....wayyyyyy more than i would normally spend on any one thing..but i thought, hey, if its really this hard to find something this good for cheep, and this is the kind of price im gonna have to pay for it..god damn, fine! ill do it then. i dont know, the more i thought about it the more it sounded like a good idea...so i contacted the girl and was going to purchase them, but she already sort of reserved them for someone else. darn! but she would let me know if they didnt follow through (i was getting paid on thursday and told her i could purchase then)
so thursday came and went, she said she would let me know friday, but it was pretty 100% they were mine! but then i went to brimfield...



well now, THANK GOD! courtney said to me, maybe you will find something better at brimfield, and yes i did! sorry, im just really excited about this story. its fate man. its the shoes finding me, like how i hoped they would in my dreams...just with a higher price tag. but wait, they were only $60.. and a zillion times better than the ones i was going to get on etsy. and since i was already planing on spending so much, this was a lot less so so sweet.



they also came with the original box, with a receipt inside! bought at morse (i guess a department store??) in springfield, mass. on april 19th 1974. i love it. its just too good. and the lady i bought them from was real sweet, we talked a bit about vintage and such. i was walking on air after that. oh and it was at the end of our day there. and it was huge man, this place. so much stuff. we had to skip a lot of tents and whole sections. what if we skipped this one? i could have easily passed this one my had i not been looking carefully enough.




so these shoes are totally bitchin. i wore them out dancing the next night to a place called the basement. lots of doo wop music and really great stuff for dancing. they held up well! hurt a little bit walking far, but as far sand standing and dancing my buns off, they were great. they do need a little love. some leather conditioning, some reinforcement on the strap buckle and area. maybe some sanding and staining if all the scuffs start to bother me. gotta bring a few pairs of shoes to my cobbler actually. but they are amazing. so thats my story about my shoes. i really do hope to wear them a lot. i know they aren't the usual thing you see these days. but i like to think they are.

brimfield finds, and a few recent thrifting purchases.

i found some really amazing things in massachusetts this past weekend. and many of them i got for about $5 too! i think i mayt have bought the only things that were that cheep though. most clothing booths had things priced around $25 and up. and like i said in the previous post..these are not bad prices for vintage. $25 is rather good actually. on the cheeper scale of things. but i shop at local thrift stores and salvation armys where i hope not to spend more than $5 on something...so im sorry i just cant help myself on trying to save a buck here or there. im a real penny pincher.. but i take pride in this! i mean, look at all the cool things i got!..


i may end up selling this one..bur it fits pretty well and i like to get one of two good uses out of it first before i pass it on.


ahhh, this one if maybe my favorite dress i found. also $5, it was all bunched up in a discarded $5 bin... why i dont know..its in nearly perfect condition aside from some hanger fading and a hole here nd there. maybe in need of some steeming. but i think its from the 40s and i love it to death!


this one i ended up changing into after we took a little gyro break. it got much warmer out that we expected and i had on thick tights, a long sleeve button down, a denim jacket..just way too much. this was the perfect thing to switch to. and i got so many compliments later on it. and i just said " thank you! i got it here actually!"


hahah, these pants are great! i dont have anything like this..and idk if i would normally wear them, but they are just too good. and i have been in a real 70s vibe lately and i think they will fit just fine into my summer wardrobe. especially with these great platforms i got! im going to make a separate post all together about them after this one. they are the shoes of my dreams!!


this blouse i got as well. so beautiful! the colors are just perfect. and i have really been trying to build up my blouse collection. i have so many skirts and i feel like i always just wear tee shirts with them or something. i got a few more on this trip, but didnt get the chance to snap some shots of them.
the skirt i thrifted at salvo last week. i love it to death! the colors of the blouse go perfect with it.

now these next two dresses i got at the salvation army on monday. there was a 1/2 off sale on long dresses and i think i got like four. when i went up to pay, i think the cashier misunderstood the sale and thought all dresses were 99 cents.... so thats what i got these for!! amazing right?!?!


this one is just too good to be true! i love coming across real vintage at my local thrift stores. its few and far between sometimes, and finding something as chic and amazing as this, and then getting it for just a dollar. well now, its just too good to be true. the vintage gods were smiling upon me that day.


this one needs a bit of love. the previous owner cut the sleeves off. which is okay, but the hem was left unfinished and its a little large, so i just need to work on it a bit. but i love the fabric, and really comfy and light and i can see this being a really great dress for me this summer after a bit of tweaking.
okay so thats just about it. stay tuned for a post about my bitchin new platforms. they needed a post all their own!

Brimfirld massachusetts antique fair

this past weekend i took a lone 3 hour drive up to palmer massachusetts to see my friends chris and courtney. iv known them for quite some time, years actually, but have only met them once before pretty recently. ali and i came across courtneys photography a few years back, a d have been inspired by her since. and then recently they came to new work, invited us to go to a show with them, and we hit it off just like we knew we would.
so a few weeks later when the brimfield antique show was going to be going on we all got invited up to go with, and spend the weekend at their really lovely house with their three silly dogs, two great cats, and even two bunnies! turns out i was the only one able to go so i took the trek alone.
i cant even begin to explain how amazing brimfield was. it was huge. huger than huge. and just when you thought you had seen it all, there was more. way more. we spent six hours walking up and down the road it was on, making our way back into the fields, picking and choosing tents to go too based on a quick glance, and then hoping we didnt just pass up something amazing. but i mean, you were surrounded by amazing things. anything you could ever imagine having to do with antique and vintage and pre used and loved, it was here.
personally, i was on the look out for clothes. there was quite a bit of it too. most of it over priced..or ya know, those vintage prices. but im looking for cheep. i planed on being able to spend quite a bit, but i like to get the most bang for my buck. iv always been that way and i just cant bring myself to spend $25 on each thing i get. not that thats a bad price for vintage, its rather good actually...but i shop at thrift stores where most things are $2...so i have a problem. luckily we came across a few sellers who had very cheep prices and i left with 3 shopping bags full of lovely things.
i wish i got the chance to take some more photos, these ones dont really do it justice..but some sellers didnt want you taking pictures of their things..and i was too busy searching around and sweater to death to take out m camera every time i was something amazing...which was around every turn practically.


love that straw one with the black bow. price tag was a bit too high though

soooo many hats. man i dug and dug. and i only ended up getting one hat! which i find crazy cause iv been in such a hat faze lately. and i dont think i even got the chance to take a picture of it. but its nice

me, happy as a clam in the most amazing tent ever. beautiful beautiful things. so many sheer bias dresses in every beautiful pastel floral you could thing of. i just wanted to live and die in that tent. maybe hang around till the closing of the week, see how much she wanted for all her beautiful things then. maybe by that point i could actually afford something!








all from the tent of my dreams..

ha thought this was funny..

this lady stopped me from taking photos, she had some lovely things.

heres just two shots i got of courtney and chris' place i wanted to take more cause it was such an amazing house. it used to be a horse barn, and it was beautiful. a huge field out back, lovely gardens all around. their house decorated perfectly. i just felt strange taking a million shots of their home. but take my word for it, it was lovely!




these next ones are all by courtney. i was so excited to model for her. it was just kinda of nonchalant as we had a nice picnic and explored. but it was great since i have been looking at her photography for so long to finally be a part of it. and i sure hope its not the last time!






i cant wait to go back. brimfield is happening around in july, and once more in september i think. so i definitely need to make another trip up there. if not for searching for great finds, then for visiting some great friends and beautiful mountains.

etsy update

so i have spent the last few days really updating my etsy. i now have 80 listings for sale so please go check it out! lots of new hats, shoes and jewelry. as well as a new SALE section thats chock full! plenty of things for anyone, especially on a budget. and i also have two whole bags of clothes i need to add, but im waiting for the wind to die down before i can take photos of it! heres a little peak at what i have going on in the shop. click here to see the rest!