Vintage Look- 1950's Blue Seersucker

 Okay, I look like a vampire in these pictures! I had been sick with a summer cold and lost what tiny bit of color I might have had. Say going from simply pale to a pasty glue color...But what does it matter if you get to wear a cheerful dress? This little 50's shirtdress does the trick to cheer one up. Look at those sweet little cuffed sleeves that come up into a v at the top of my (bulging) biceps. 

I was trying for an artful looking pouf of curls at the back, but it looks like a small, scary animal trying to munch on my head. Ha! I could only hope to give it my cold for its efforts!

 My shoes are ones I got off of eBay in an attempt to have some lovely blue shoes to wear with what seems to be my main color of choice for clothing. They turned out a bit big, but that's better than small, right? Makes me think of the movie, Steel Magnolias, where Dolly Parton says something like, "I wear a size seven, but an eight feels so nice that I buy a nine." ;)

 Here is April playing the part of Cinderella. Sorry, Sugar, if they are too big for me you'll never get them to stay on your pretty little paws.

 I've wore these to the Spoon to work and they are actually comfortable, if a bit clompy. The hair clip is made from an vintage broken earring. The monogram is one I found in the jewelry section of Hobby Lobby and put on a simple cuff necklace for when I'm feeling very Southern, ya'll.

 The dress is a sheer seersucker with carved mother of pearl buttons.

 It has the loveliest sheen in the light.

Do you remember me telling you about Great-great Aunt Jessie here? Well, she didn't just leave me gloves. When she passed I was about 5, and I got all of her slips to play in. That may sound odd and unexciting if you think about modern slips. But vintage slips came in every color of the rainbow, and she had them all. They were my elegant dresses that I would prance about in, wearing her heels, and gloves, and hats. Every little girl that came over wanted to dig in my dress-up clothes! When I got older, moma gave my dress up clothes to a little girl down the dirt road. Now grown I have missed those slips...

But my Grandma Tommy left me some lovely ones- navy, red, black, with beautiful laces. Then I was digging in the attic after a leak. I haven't told you about that?! I'll have to sometime. And I found a tote full of things I didn't remember. I had moma come over and we went through some amazing things that my grandma must have given me and I tucked away for another day. In it were some of Jessie's slips!! Including the baby blue one above that perfectly compliments my dress. Mint green, aqua, turqoiuse, hot pink...I need to do a post on the wonders that came out of the attic! Until then I will just wear them under my dresses and I'll know how very pretty they are. 

And remember, Dear Reader, whether you're on top of the world, or fighting a nasty summer cold that turns you into a shambling vampire-