arizona

i've been shopping in arizona this week and found some amazing southwestern items! let's thank the desert for beautiful denim and interesting leather. and then let's shop.

so that's where that came from

so, i was watching now and then the other night - guilty pleasure #586 - and i realized something profound.
twenty-something girls (like myself) who grew up watching now and then (and maybe still do watch it) are now dressing much like the girls we idolized or identified with at age 12.
i found myself ogling the outfits of teeny, roberta, and sam, and recognizing parts of their wardrobes from my own. we're even driving the same bikes they did.
check out their keds sneakers, high-waisted cutoff shorts, oversize plaid shirts, etc. and see if you can't totally picture yourself all dolled up that way too!


if this sounds about right to you, head on over to deborah jean vintage and find your inner now and then girl.

artist's block

no new blog posts and no items added to the shop in over a week. i've been completely unmotivated and insecure about everything. thinking i'm not artistic enough to be an artist. bleh.
i bought myself a new camera to coax some photo inspiration.
and today it worked! while i'm still being lazy, now i'm blaming it on this insane heat that has no business ruining my may.
my bestest buddy sunita (a.k.a. america's next next top model) helped me out with a photoshoot today, and i've pimped (ick) the myspace page so that it is now most definitely the coolest place to hang out online.
i'll just tell myself that this little post counts as a blog update and hope that you'll come back again to see if i've written anything worth reading yet.
enjoy the fresh face o' suny and stay tuned for new dresses and skirts and sandals oh my to covet at deborah jean vintage.

take advantage of me, please

i'm a sucker. good news for you!

here's a roundabout story for you with lots of information.

the other day i was reading painfully hip, a local fashion blog that's made it big, hoping to see some mention of my little shop or at least get some inspiration from a photo (which i almost always do on this site). i got all excited about short-shorts and pretty sandals.

then i saw an ad for kitty girl vintage. i never click on ads. i don't know why i clicked on this one. but i got enthralled by all her beautiful, authentic vintage dresses - mostly cocktail dresses - pages and pages of dresses i could spend hours twirling around in. and then....i saw a designer name that looked familiar to me. one of kitty girl's beauties is by anne fogarty, who, according to kitty girl, was a very well known dressmaker in the 50s.

a google search for anne fogarty brings up pictures of beautiful 'new look' dresses and pages of bio on this rather famous and esteemed dressmaker. then i looked in my records and found that i just sold an anne fogarty dress last week. a drop-dead gorgeous, black velvet, v front and back, full skirted (with pockets!) stunner of a dress. so beautiful it had been viewed more than 100 times after a few hours. so amazing and unique that my friends were calling me asking about it - i didn't even know they looked at my shop! so wonderful that it sold in one day even at a whopping asking price of $42. oh yeah, other anne fogarty dresses sell for between $200 and $300. and they're not even as pretty as this one was.

what with this steal of a deal and the one a couple weeks ago where i let a guy have a pair of cherokee sandals for $35 which he's probably already sold on ebay for $200, i think it's safe to say that shopping at deborah jean vintage could lead to your acquisition of incredible, rare, and valuable goods at rock-bottom prices. take advantage of my ignorance now because someday i'm going to know what i have!

also, check out this photostream on flickr (i swear, the internet is so big, i can get lost in it for hours). the photos are great, the style is jealous-making, and the degree of hipness is rather depressing. in a good way. i guess.