Back To School With a Skirt From Girl in a Whirl

This post is perhaps a month late, as September not October is naturally the traditional back to school month.  However, in the flurry of beginning another year of teaching, I am a high school special ed teacher, I haven’t had much time to blog. Even though I am 20  plus years past school age and…

A Simple Dress for Late Summer

Summer such a beautiful, and fleeting, season.  Particularly when you get to those late summer day’s at the end of August and the start of September, when the vacations are wrapping up and Autumn is just waiting in the wings. My newest dress from my dear friend Krystle is just the perfect end of summer…

Casual Vintage Style for Summer Bike Riding

A month ago my husband and I got a lovely treat:     A tandem bike! My husband is a bike obsessive who commutes by bike daily and owns 4 bicycles so when he heard that Rivendell bicycle works was making a limited release of tandem bikes he signed us up for one.  We had…

A Breezy Summer Dress Inspired By a Breezy Summer Film

The late 50’s and early 60’s was a great period for youth culture and film.  Though the term teenager first appeared in written form in 1930’s, hypehnated back then as teen-ager.   It did not reach wide spread use until the 1950’s, ushering in a whole new consumer class, young people with their own tastes…

Forgotten Fifties Hats, The Cooky Cutter Hat

Five years ago when I first got really into dressing in vintage style every day I was drawn to the 1930’s for two reasons, my love of the Astaire and Rogers films, and my fascination with hats.  There is no denying it the 1930’s was a brilliant decade for hats, and I loved wearing mine.…

1950’s Square Dance Dress

One of my favorite things about 1950’s fashion are the western looks:         Fringe, pom-poms, ric-rac, boots and hats, I love it all and of course the kitschier the better.  I particularly love mid-century square dancing dresses. The full skirts, flounces and kitschy trims are everything I love about fun 50s fashion.…

Dream a Little Dream Mid Century Summer Sleepwear

  One of my favorite songs is the Everly Brother’s classic All I have To Do is Dream.  The sweet lyrics and soft vocals always put me in mind of two of my favorite mid century clothing items.  Peignors  floaty night dresses with matching robes, and baby doll pajamas, loose fitting pj tops with matching romper…

Nobody Here But Us Chicken’s A 1950’s Novelty Print Post By Kate Kitsch

The 1950’s was such a great decade for illustration: sunny, warm images with a wonderful sense of fun and innocence and plenty of them are of farms.   The image above is from a Dick and Jane school reader circle 1951.  Dick and Jane are visiting their Grand Parent’s on their farm.  I love the…