My name is Anissa. I run an online vintage clothing boutique called Night Owl Vintage. I adore bright colors, vintage clothing, pyrex, flea markets, photography (especially polaroid), french toast and my fiance.
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Here is a preview of what I will be adding to the shop today! Links will be added as items appear in the shop.
1960′s Bobbie Brooks Day Dress
1950′s Peach Lace Wiggle Dress and Jacket
1960′s Bohemian Bell Sleeve Gown
These new items are in the shop as well as 30% off all sale items.
Vintage 1970s Jonathan Logan Black Halter Disco Jumpsuit
Vintage 1960s Hawaiian Maxi Dress
Vintage 1970s Hand Painted Drape Dress
Gold Chain Cocktail Clutch & Brown Patchwork Frame Purse
Also, 30% off all items in the SALE section!
This lovely vintage Lilly Pulitzer skirt from the 1960′s is now available in the shop. The cotton tulip skirt, known as The Lilly, is in one of her famous pink and green prints. It has an adorable tulip shaped pocket on the back and a scalloped hem.
Below you’ll find some of my favorite vintage ads and photos of Lilly Pulitzer herself and some of her beautiful work.
bottom images via A Diary Of Lovely
This Pyrex ad from a 1960 issue of Ladies Home Journal features five gorgeous pieces. From left to right: Green Wheat Promotional Space Saver Casserole with Cradle (as seen on the Campbell’s table on Mad Men),Honeymoon Carafe, Meadow Decorator Casserole, Salad Bowl Promotional with Glitter-Flecked Serving Tongs and Bluebelle Divided Serving Dish.
The world Hollywood movies projected in the mid-to late 1920s and throughout the 1930s was of lavish, glamorous rooms with sharply defined geometric designs. These movies were inhabited by the likes of Jean Harlow in clinging white satin or Ginger Rogers shedding the fanciful feathers of a ball gown as she danced across a vast black-marble floor and came down what seemed like hundreds of spiraling steps on Fred Astaire’s tuxedoed arm.
Movie star homes of that period often reflected the images on the screen. Magazines published photographs of the grandest of them, among which was the mansion of Hollywood’s top art director, Cedric Gibbons, and his exotic actress wife, Dolores Del Rio. Handsome enough to have been a movie star, Gibbons was head of the art department at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. No other art director so greatly imposed his own taste upon the films he designed. We now call it Art Déco, but it was known then as Art Moderne.
One cannot talk about the Art Déco years of the silver screen without including the masterful works of Richard Day (The Dark Angel), William Cameron Menzies (The Thief of Bagdad), Merrill Pye, Anton Grot, Ben Carré, Charles D. Hall and Hans Dreier (who won three Academy Awards—one for 1950’s Sunset Boulevard—in a career that spanned three decades).
When glorious Technicolor gained popularity in the late 1930s, the silver screen came to an end. With the advent of color, Art Déco style slowly went out of fashion, to be revived only in period films or pastiches of the era.
There are many explanations of how Americans survived the Depression—the prevailing one being that they were sustained by their great fortitude and their belief in government. But there is credence to the theory that the innovative art directors of the period are at least in some way responsible. Re-viewing those movies on a classic-movie channel can, in fact, still carry one away to a beautiful world of shimmering silver and clouds of white.
source: Architectural Digest
