Hi guys, I just wanted to post a quick note with an important tip to make Etsy’s new SEARCH ADS more effective. If you have been searching on Etsy, you will have noticed that Search Ads will co...
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is my all-time favorite movie. This absolutely incredible surreal, dreamy masterpiece by director Jaromil Jires was made in 1970s and is considered to be part of the s...
As promised, here is the follow up to my post on fabulous ladies’ hats of the 1930s and 1940s. Here are links to a few of the most beautiful vintage hats from that era currently available on E...
I’ve recently been enjoying looking at photos of beautiful vintage hats, some of which are pretty wacky. Today I’ll be posting pictures of hats from the 1930s and 1940s that I’ve f...
with apologies to Fairyfolk on Etsy Two things to discuss today. 1. You guys, it’s still summer. Why does everyone seem to think that it’s fall? Magazines and catalogs are doing their ...
I have a handful of beautiful new summer dresses coming to the shop in lovely shades of pastel pink, blue, and purple. Right now I have to go practice for the Moon Pie show tomorrow, but here’s...
This is my first foray into making a dress without a purchased pattern. Instead, I used the “block” method to make my own pattern for the bodice, according to the process explained in thi...
Harlequin Skirt I made this skirt out of fabric from a grab bag I got for $3.99 at a thrift store. I love the wild Harlequin colors of the big checks so much! I made it out of the bottom half ...
Big Purple House This is the second house I am featuring in my little tour of some of my favorite houses in DC. I call it the Big Purple House. It is located on Rock Creek Church Road near the Petw...
the dress I made! As I mentioned the other day, I have made two more dresses since the first homemade dress I posted about, and this is the first of those! I made it from a vintage 1950s pattern too,...
First piece of news: there is a 15% off everything SALE currently going on in the shop! Now through the 4th of July! vintage sundress from Violet Folklore! I also wanted to show off the totally adora...
I have so much stuff that I have to photograph and get into the shop, and all I managed to photograph this weekend was a few of the things I bought at the estate sales I went to in the past two weeks...
This weekend I went to several estate sales as usual, and at one of them I found several antique song sheets. As I discussed earlier, when it comes to estate sale shopping, antique sheet music is my ...
Varnum St NW, Washington DC I sometimes like to make a trip just to look at the outside of certain cool old houses I really like, here and there around the city. I am going to start taking pictures o...
The Young Girls of Rochefort roundup That pair of hot pink 1960s vintage shoes that I found last week and posted about here are featured in the design blog Design*Sponge in a post about a 1967 Frenc...
dress made by me from a 1950s vintage pattern I decided to make myself a 1950s style summer dress because I couldn’t afford to buy a real one and I had some beautiful fabric that I got from an ...
coming soon to Rags and Feathers Vintage! Today I was driving home from some errands and not far from my house I saw two ladies sitting at a table in front of a house having a little yard sale. As I ...
Tulip Waist Belt by elehandmade on Etsy, $185 I’ve been a vegetarian for 13 years but I’m somewhat embarassed to admit that I never really paid much attention to “the leather...
Baksts costume design for an Odalisque from "Scheherezade" This is the sequel to the post entitled “Thoughts on Fashion, Craft and Art,” and the first part of a series I am plan...
the winner of the Rags and Feathers Vintage $25 credit giveaway is Jel! Congratulations! Thanks to everyone who entered and everyone who reads my blog. Stay tuned for another giveaway in about a mo...
Hi everyone, it’s time for my second monthly giveaway here on the Rags and Feathers Vintage: “My Antique Love” blog! I’m going to try to do a giveaway every month to reward al...
Bakst, Erte, Versace I think I have a somewhat odd relationship with fashion in that when I get dressed, I am usually not really thinking about making myself look nice or pretty or “hot.”...
Click any photo to view the Etsy listing! Dusty Rose Romantic 1970s Maxi Dress Lovely Dusky Pink 1980s Calico Dress Sexy Wine Red 1970s Maxi Dress Red Calico 1970s Vintage Western Shirt Yellow 1970s ...
Over the weekend I went to McCrillis Gardens, a public garden in Maryland near where my parents live, with my mother and grandmother. It is filled with huge rhododendron bushes and azaleas. This is w...
I spent the weekend in Philadelphia because my band, Moon Pie had a show there and while we were there I got a TON of stuff for the shop. I had learned about the Sazz Vintage Wholesale Warehouse via...
I’ve been very busy today taking care of my little doggy who just had surgery, so I didn’t even notice that this 1970s – themed treasury by coolranchstudio featuring a shirt from my...
Child & Child Tiara, ca. 1900 One of the the things I like to do online is look at pictures of ridiculously extravagant antique jewelry. As a general rule, these are not things I would really wa...
I am running really low on money right now so I was planning on not doing any more buying for the shop for a while, but when I read about this estate sale in my EstateSales.Net customized antique dor...
Yesterday I went over to my parents’ house for Easter brunch and wore one of my favorite vintage dresses from the 1950s. I got it last summer at an amazing vintage shop by the beach in Nags Hea...
Tiny Snake Tonight when I was walking my dog with my boyfriend I found this tiny snake slithering around on the sidewalk. Here’s a picture of it slithering around on the lap of my calico Gunne ...
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