Vintage Look- Great Granny's 1960's dress set

This is not a favorite outfit, but it is very special non-the-less. This dress and jacket were worn by my great-granny. They are from the late 60's, and very much the style I remember her wearing when I was small, usually with an enormous brooch of some sort.

Here is a dog-o-rama, and as I am bent down you can clearly see the headpiece that my hubby calls the "Princess Leia Buns". If you have ever seen Star Wars you know what I mean. It is a rather odd little thing, but I still like it. It is a wired headband with two round knots on each side, studded with pearls. But I do have to admit, they look a lot like mismatched buns!

Here it is with the jacket. The sleeves of the jacket are trimmed with little bows.

While the dress has a bow at the neckline that is accented with rhinestones.

I am wearing some cute little leather cut-out shoes that I found at Goodwill. Anytime I find behemoth-sized shoes there, it is a tiny miracle.

And here's a close-up, along with some of Great Aunt Jessie's gloves.

But there is the really neat story behind this outfit. My pop's family never got rid of anything. You name it, it is still in the family. In fact, my step-great-grandmother had an attic filled with amazing treasures, along with boxes of every single plastic pill bottle they ever got medicine in, each carefully wrapped in newspaper. Yeah. My hubby came home after helping to clear the attic and, with very wide and shell shocked eyes, made me promise to never become a hoarder of that magnitude. I promised, but I may have had my fingers crossed. Which brings me to MY attic. Sugar, there are things up there that I don't even know about. Case in point, my Grandma Tommy would often give me boxes of old things that she did not know what to do with, but couldn't bear to just toss. When the boys were tiny I didn't always even have the time to open the things and dig through. I would simply tuck away for another day. And lest you mistake, she did not give junk. Grandma has been passed for years, and just last year I found this tote. I gave myself a hernia getting it down the stairs, and when I opened it I was so flabbergasted that I had to call moma to come over. Inside there was everything from Victorian blouses, to 30's aprons, a 1940's headwrap, Granny's 60's outifit, all the way to 80's legwarmers. And gorgeous slips in every color known. Moma and I just dug things out and stared.

Every little bit of clothing that Grandma didn't know what to do with had found its way into the tote. How exciting is that?! And I have worn, or plan to wear so much of it. See the little 50's belt of tan, green, and white sticking up? It goes perfectly with one of my dresses. That little black scrap with yellow edges I am pointing to? That's an adorable egg apron that is now in my cupboard. It was like Christmas come years and years late instead of early.

So, this little outfit is a tad funky for me. Not crazy about the pattern or the polyester. But it is still so wonderful to me. Worn by one of my favorite people, and saved by another. Dear Reader, how can you get much better than that?