Thursday, September 18, 2008

Vintage Thingies Thursdays






When I was in middle school I fell in love with vintage clothing and almost all things vintage. The summer before my freshman year in high school my mother took me school shopping at some of the finest vintage clothing stores we could find in the Tampa Florida area and we hit pay dirt at one store that was going out of business. I found so many amazing pieces that I was completely outfitted for that school year and at a small price of $100.00. My most treasured prize found that day was a 1950's cocktail dress in perfect condition for $5.00. I loved this dress more than anything and when homecoming came around I was very excited to wear the dress to homecoming. To say I stood out a bit from all of the mermaid and early 90's ball gown type dresses is putting it mildly, but I never felt more beautiful in my whole life. I still have the dress to this day and I hope my daughter who is already showing signs of loving vintage herself will wear the dress. I don't have a wedding dress to pass down to her but I do have a lovingly cared for $5 vintage cocktail dress that feels like magic when wearing it and that I think makes me happy to have saved it!

If you're in the Tampa area one of my favorite vintage clothing stores is still around in Ybor City on 7th st, you can't miss it, if they had a website I would post it but I have been going there since 1988 and the store almost feels like home to me!

16 comments:

  1. That's a fantastic dress! Glad you've been able to keep it with all your moves across the U.S.

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  2. Great dress. My daughter has a vintage dress like that that she wore to a school function. It was really cute.

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  3. WOW....that dress is awesome :)

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  4. Wow! It reminds me of one of Princess Di's dresses.

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  5. I'm sure you look divine in that little black dress. You do still fit in it, don't you? I went to the Dade City, Tampa, Ibor City area one time. It was wonderful, lots of antique stores.

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  6. I really like that dress. My vintage black cocktail dress makes me look like I'm wearing a mumu. I like yours much better.

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  7. What a gorgeous classy dress. :)

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  8. That's a classic; what a great find that you can wear forever. I can see it standing out at a HS dance in the early 90s, though!

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  9. You know I always managed to pull off the vintage thing pretty well but I never really got into some of the styles, just as a personal thing but when I did them I pulled them off. I did a mean Betty Paige look for a while lol

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  10. Are you at MacDill AFB in Tampa? My husband & I grew up in Clearwater. Our families still live in FL. Love running into other military families out in the blogosphere. Thanks for sharing for VTT.

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  11. Thank you to everyone! No we are not at MacDill, but I also grew up in Clearwater Apron Queen, what a small world, I went to Countrsyide High School, my family all lives in the Brandon area now

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  12. hi
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    how was your day?
    i liked your blog
    you are fantastic!!!

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  13. hi
    hello
    how was your day?
    i liked your blog
    you are fantastic!!!

    really nice blog
    fabulous fantastic
    bye
    take care
    see you

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  14. That's gorgeous! How wonderful that it fits. What a find.

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