Olive green double-breasted suit, '30s tartan necktie, '30s Van Heusen detachable collar, '30s collar pin, green '40s striped socks, oxblood wingtips, Paris double-grip garters, 1926 Illinois Rockliffe wristwatch, linen pocket handkerchief (four points showing) and 1942 Stetson Playboy fedora with mode edge and 1-inch ribbon.

I love e-bay. Couldn't dress without it!                   

                     I'll take up the once a week challenge.  I mainly work from home, so it tends to be work clothes for painting, etc.  However, I'm really trying to at least dress retro, if not all "vintage," when I go out.                   

                     I'm a mix of vintage and retro today as usual.  Black wool twinset, pink tweed pencil skirt, pink and white polkadot scarf, nude fully-fashioned stockings, and black peep-toe shoes.  I'm already way past the one day a week retro stage.                    

                     sailor jerry belt buckle(stewed screwed and tattooed), confederate flag belt, perfecto jacket, white shirt blue jeans and black garrisons.  not really vintage but gettin there                   

                     What a great idea.  I have to admit that my retro dressing has slipped lately.  I used to dress 50's every day, but I have lost a lot of weight so half my stuff doesn't fit anymore. :cry:   It's hard to find vintage clothes in a medium size, everything seems to be an extreme of really big or really small.
Also, I work in a boutique, so I get tempted by modern clothes at a discount. :twisted:   But the colder weather definitely brings out my urge for cardigans and wool, etc.  My birthday's coming up, so maybe I can charm some new vintage things out of my guy!  I've really been working on his clothes too, and he got his first insult the other day at work.  A co-worker told him that "the 50's called and they want their clothes back!"  Ah,  the price of being well dressed and groomed these days!                   

                     Ah, the wisecrack from the all-black clad moderniste. Somewhere, we have a thread on dealing with such yabboes. One tack: feign ignorance of the joke. "The 50s called? What do you mean? I don't get it." This puts the person who made the remark on the defensive every time, since they want to score a point, not be exposed as having just delivered a lame insult. ("Forget it" is the likely response.) Another is to just to have some pat answers on tap:

Q: "Where did you get that hat?"
A: "The warden gave it to me when I got pardoned for capping some smartass."

Q: "Don't you know it's the 21st Century."
A: (While pointedly breaking eye contact to examine the other person from head to toe) "No, I couldn't tell."

Q: Any general crack about the retro clothes.
A: Focus on the ugliest thing the other person has on, and ask questions with the best mock sincerity you can muster.                   

                     Of course, the all-black clad smart-aleck makes me think "the '80s called..."                   

                     You're making grown men swoon, you know.                   

                     Ohh everyone sounds so glamorous!

I was told yesterday that I had a British Audrey Hepburn look about me and then later on in the day another girl enthused that I looked just like a Barbie doll- now I was hoping she meant the original 50s Barbies.... :wink: Anyhow that was a nice day for complements.

I generally wear a retro style, but not often vintage for the reason I can't always find things I like, so thats why I'm sewing like mad at the moment- but has anyone else noticed the dissappearance of Bettericks Retro patterns? I wanted to make their 40s coat this Winter but it has dissappeared!  8O

Well I'm not wearing anything dead special today- black pencil skirt and a purple striped cardigan buttoned up over a little black tshirt for warmth. However, the devil is in the details- as I am all matched up with little earings with purple details and a black ribbon tying up my ponytail, my black kitten heel shoes and my black and cream doctors handbag- oh and nude stockings- no bare legs for me- brrrrrr! Oh I do like matching accessories.                   

                     Ohh look at those dresses- so cute!

I know if I look far and wide I can find patterns- I got this great pattern for 4 different 40s blouses and for once it was my size- great I thought- no need for adjusting patterns!! How wrong was I!!- four alterations later it still isn't finished and now its no longer the weather to wear it as it is a lightweight summer blouse! Its being put to one side as I work on my Halloween costume, adjust one of my evening dresses and think about making a two peice beach dress and all by the end of the month *sigh* However, a gal must soldier on and claim all hours of the day as hers!

You're sounding very dapper today Mr Zootsuitcoot- can I sit on your desk and take a letter?                   

                     Actually, the vintage stuff is almost all jewelry and accessories. The suits, jackets, trousers, and shoes are all new. That's the good thing about being a guy into retro: You can pull off the look with just the accessories!

And now for that letter ladies (Comfortable? Good);

"Messrs. Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger and McCormick: Re yours of the 5th inst. at hand and contents noted. Has come to our attention that an opportunity re: disposal of your consignment of Egyptian Onyx hush-flush Deluxe fixtures has arisen in U.K. All similar fixtures mysteriously vanished from men's facilities of Metropolitan Police, and Scotland Yard informs that they have nothing to go on. Must act fast. Tea times threatened. Contact Lord Catsmeat Potter Pirbright, O.B.E., Blandings, Shropshire."

You may go shoe shopping now ladies. Take what you need from petty cash.                   

                     You know Susie QT, Zootsuitcoot is a great boss. He lets me take 2 hour lunch breaks, gives me spending money for my shoes, doesn't mind me filing my nails at the desk, doesn't mind that I can't make coffee...

I don't think it has anything to do with the fact that I sit on his knee everynow and then, although you never can tell with these gents......