You’re going to need a purse.

How about this cute little vintage velvet clutch purse?

Perfect for dressing up with a cute little skirt & kitten heels or dressing down with a t-shirt

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vintage velvet clutch purse

This is a set of “Bamboo” earrings by designer Kenneth Jay Lane.

I would definitely wear this vintage buckle bracelet by Elizabeth Cole!

I love the vintage styling of this patent leather & ivory “Bean” clutch by Jalda.

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jewelery from Shop Language

There’s the “Benna” in pink.

The very aptly-named “Cute Bar” in black.

These “Flower Power” ballets flats also come in pink leather.  I think these in ivory would be lovely for a casual afternoon wedding!

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new shoes from Clarks

Seeing as I don’t actually wear neckties, I’m going to use it store my porcelain flowers.  It’s lovely to have a special place to store significant jewelery.

So where do you store your special treasures?

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vintage “french ivory” necktie box

My Nana couldn’t find the pin.  She looked all over her house.  My aunt looked all over her house.  My parents even looked all over Nana’s house.

And no pin.

“Oh well” I thought, I’m sure I can find more.  So I started building up my own collection of porcelain flowers to wear.

And then, Nana found the pin!  So I now have enough flowers to wear in my hair, as well as share with my bridesmaids.

It’s a little unusual to wear brooches in your hair, but I love the way they look – just be careful & don’t poke yourself!

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vintage pins as hair accessories

I wanted to share my floral brooches with my friends, and decided on this look:

Because I want to remain friends with my bridesmaids after my wedding, I felt it was better to give everyone as much choice as possible!  So… we’re also going with this as well:

Chocolate brown dresses with blue or green shawls & cool-toned vintage porcelain pins.  Unique & very feminine!  Oh no, I still need to figure out the rest of the jewelery for my girls

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ideas for weddings

These are five pins from my own collection, mostly treasures I found on eBay.  I’ve paid anywhere from $1 to… um, too much for the one in the top centre

I’ve got a plan for these… but you’ll have to wait for tomorrow!

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vintage porcelain pins

Details…
Silvertone chain link bracelet with double heart logo plaque and lipgloss underneath.

Did you know…
“Bracelet popularity dates back to the Roman times and continues today.

And this particular design might be traced back to Victorian times.

“The jewelry of the Victorian era expressed sentiment, and bracelets were no exception. Bracelets would contain lockets or charms with pictures or hair of a loved one, and engravings were common.

And in this case… lip gloss!

Source

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Juicy Couture Lip Gloss Bracelet

1. The earliest heels can be traced back to the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. I don’t really want to think about it, but the heels were used by Egyptian butchers to raise them above the carnage. How do we know this?? Murals have been found on temple walls. So we know who to thank now don’t we.

2. In the mid 1500s, Catherine de Medici decided that she wanted to be tall and willowy and commissioned a cobbler to fashion her a pair of shoes that would do just that. And at the time, no one was about to question her motives. An interesting lady was Catherine de Medici. While some might think that she was incredibly ruthless, the life that was forced upon her was tragic.

3. I also found a little infor about a shoe called chopines, popular among women in Italy, Spain and France, that could elevate them by up to 24 inches. A Venetian lady wearing chopines needed two servants to help her in and out of a gondola. It’s no wonder. There are times when I’m nervous about the height of some of my heels, but then again, I don’t have servants at my beck and call.

4. It was also fashionable for the weathy to have tiny feet and this was often brought about during the early childhood years. It must have been extremely painful, but the children of this class were forced to wear shoes to prevent their feet from growing. So you had a generation or so of women with disfigured feet that would be stuffed into shoes that had nothing to do with comfort.

5. “The needle-sharp heel called the stiletto, from the Italian word for “dagger,” appeared in the postwar years of the early 1950s. After the war and years of Rosie the Riveter masculine dress, fashion turned feminine; the focus turned to babymaking. Technology contributed a steel core allowing for a thin heel that lifted the shoe up like a skyscraper (previous heels, made of wood, could break). Voilà! The beautiful, dangerous stiletto stepped out. I didn’t know that stiletto was the Italian word for dagger, but having seen a few extreme versions, I guess the name is fitting!

At the moment I am sitting at my desk with barefeet and as gorgeous as some heels are these days, my feet are thanking me.

Boobs, Boys, and High Heels: Or How to Get Dressed in Just Under Six Hours

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5 things I didn’t know about high heels

Checking out the fashion department of museums is a fascinating way to spend an afternoon. It’s amazing to actually look at pieces that another human being wore… what seems like about a zillion years ago! You can’t help but wonder what the woman carrying the bag or wearing the particular pair of shoes on view must have been like.

Source: The Ladies’ Room Reader Revisited. Alicia Alvrez

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Historical… Shoes