Old Fashioned Pretty

Love the darling little shoes with bobby socks…

Well, a Jaguar E-Type is at the top of my dream car list, but if that might be a little out of my league, maybe this one isn’t. One day I will own this car! Volkswagen calls it, simply, the Type 14. It was marketed from 1955 to 1974.  I prefer the coupe, to the convertible. I love the two-tone… maybe the mint green, with the cream top. Or Tiffany blue?

I love falsies with a bit of a kitten kick at the outer edges.

Photograph by Loomis Dean in Paris, 1957.

I usually don’t like to double up with SwingFashionista.com but I just HAVE to re-blog some images from Elisa Palomino’s Fall 2010 RTW collection, that Jo posted.  Who is Elisa Palomino? Though her own label is a new thing, she’s no newcomer to the fashion scene.  She has been the designer behind Moschino’s Cheap & Chic collections, and the head of the John Galliano studio, during which time she also worked for Dior. She was studio director at Cavalli and is now the Vice-president of Design at Diane Von Furstenberg. Serious credentials! She’s also a 1920s style enthusiast and a collector of vintage Japanese kimonos, as you can see.  Elisa is the lady with the long, straight black hair in a few of these pics…

I like big open spaces. I’d gladly live in a warehouse, especially if it looked like this…

Cynthia Rowley bicycles: $550 on the left and $900 for the tandem on the right.