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This darling dress and matching jacket were acquired this summer from one woman’s collection of vintage from the 1960s and early 1970s. Someone suggested to her mother that the baby she was carrying should be named Bette as the Mother’s last name was Davis. So in 1933 Bette Davis was born.
Eventually she married Victor Norman [...]
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Vintage 1940s Wedding Dress Suit by Nathalie Nicoli is available for sale over on Etsy. I thought I’d stash extra pictures of it here. You’ll find larger, zoomable images in the listing on Etsy. Fascinating dress suit in baby blue faille is lined in a dusty rose taffeta complete with accordion pleated hem hidden under [...]
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So my doctor moved to a new office in a completely different part of town even further from my home. I like to combine errands on driving days so I stopped at the dry cleaner to drop off some of the clothing I recently bought from the estate of Bette Davis (b. 1933, blog to [...]
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This little gem is available over on Etsy. I have had this delicately folded in a drawer for nearly a decade and felt compelled to let it be seen. So I now offer it to the brides of today as the something old for their impending nuptials.
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This 1950s embroidered cotton lawn dress is available for sale on Etsy. I found it in a local antique mall while out running errands one day. It was missing a zipper and had some other flaws that I repaired all documented in the listing.
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Miss Patty of Romper Room left the show in 1959 to get married here in Portland, Oregon. Find more details about this dress on it's Etsy listing.
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In the week after Christmas and prior to New Year's Eve in 1963 a woman, now named Karen Springer was married in her hometown of Aurora, Illinois. The local paper told tale of the event inside of a Catholic Church in which a girl in her early 20s, holding a nosegay of roses with small tufts of tulle and flowing ribbons stood wearing a crown like tulle veil
