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Shoe happiness

I have a fatal attraction to brown shoes. I blame it on Marlene Dietrich.  She advised wearing shoes the same colour as your legs to make your legs look longer, and since my legs are basically brown, I’m seriously into brown shoes. Brown shoes are also more historical and vintage appropriate than black shoes, at least for my favourite periods. These are my two latest brown shoe acquisitions. The first pair is a modern shoe, by Neo of Spain.  They are super comfortable, and delightfully vintage in aesthetic.  I need more 1930s inspired dresses to wear with them! I found them on sale right after I passed a personal milestone – they were my reward for the milestone. My second shoe acquisition is a pair of 1970s Clarks, made in England.  They make my feet look tiny.  I found them at my favourite thrift shop. While they are 1970s, they also look perfectly 1930s.  I definitely see where my spring 2010 wardrobe is heading!

Oh to have been there: a vintage Cine-Kodak Eight camera bag

This is my latest fun aquisition It’s a vintage Cine-Kodak Eight camera bag. I have no idea what the camera is like, but I love the bag. It has stickers from hotels that the owner visited on a tour around the world! Los Angeles, Boston, Paris, Tokyo, all from the days when you got beautiful hotel stickers. *swoon* I want to go to all those places! And get hotel stickers… But I would like to keep the mod cons and my internet please. I’m torn between keeping the bag pristine, keeping the bag and using it as a handbag, and selling the bag on to fund business expansions, knowing that a sacrifice now will enable more pogey bait later on.