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1930s La Femme Chez Elle magazines are très chic!
http://www.swingfashionista.com/2012/03/1930s-la-femme-chez-elle-magazines-are-tres-chic/
Wonderful vintage French magazine " La Femme Chez Elle" March 1932, 33 pages in French. Contains fashion plates, sewing ideas, knitting and crochet patterns, home advice and some lovely ads. Cover could even be framed as a print.
✩ Condition: Excellent. Paper yellowing through age on the...
This stunning dress is from my personal collection and has been a favourite since I found it back in 1999. A stunning buttercup yellow soft, flowing crepe dress with the most amazingly precisely pleated detail I have ever seen on the bodice. It has both horizontal and vertical pleats and both...
Beautiful 1940s light blue lace dress with light pink satin edging to the neckline finished with a grosgrain pink bow. The satin has also been used as a feature to finish some of the hems on the inside of garment at the waist and at the side metal Talon zipper opening. The dress must be worn...
What a wonderfuly rare woolen and linen dress this is! Selling it on because it was sized incorrectly when I purchased and and never fit me sadly. The pink flowers are made from the same fabric as the bodice (a pink, linen with a raised pattern) and embroidered onto the jacket and across the...
Nice LD! I used to do this a lot on the 90s. It's more of a paint dye right? Hopefully the quality is way better now. It tended to scrape off back then. They look great btw and yes, its great when you love a shoe but can't get the colour you want.
Here is a really great article on dyeing from Nicole Jenkins, the owner of Circa Vintage in Sydney. It's from her bog and is very informative. Thanks Nicole!
The perils of vintage: dyeing
After years of selling on ebay, I have finally opened my own Etsy store; Violet's Vintage Emporium.
I will have items from the 1920s to the 60s mainly.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/VioletsEmporium?ref=seller_info
It lingered into the early 30s as well and can be seen in a lot of costume jewellery form that time. Scarabs, blue, gold and red enamelled items...hung around for quite a while.
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