I've Been Holding Out on You.

Not on purpose.  I've just been busy.  I've been finding pretty vintage gems, lots of them, all around town and in other nearby places.  Sometimes I find things that make me quit breathing for a minute, like kind of a thrift apnea, and this is one of those things...

 Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.  I'll find any excuse to wear party dresses.  This baby needs a little love- there's some dry-rotted stitching that needs to be reseamed, and a split in the silk, but it's nothing my conservation and restoration training can't fix.  Just LOOK at all the polkadotty pleaty dupioni goodness!

I'm in love.  And as if the front wasn't cute enough, with it's wrapped bustline and pencil silhouette, the back will kill you.  There's a full skirt behind that B.  Technically, that makes it the skirt equivalent of a mullet.  Maybe I've just seen too many mullets lately.  It's like a bustle, 50s style.  That's better.

I'm mesmerized by how the pleating from the bust wraps around to the back, and the bow ties it together all so nicely (figuratively, not literally).  I plan on wearing this baby into the ground until it disintegrates on my body, and lifting the pattern from it sooner or later along the way.

So there's another little taste of what I've been finding, but there's more still.  I think next week might be lingerie week...  anyone down for some vintage lingerie deliciousness?