Doe Deere Blogazine is proud to announce a collaboration with ModCloth, an online source of affordable vintage and unique clothing & accessories! Here’s your chance to win an accessory grab bag, containing:
- Lolita Hearts
- Pink peacock earrings
- Flower necklace
- dainty lace gloves (precious!)
To be entered, tell us in comments about your favorite vintage find & how you obtained it. (For example, mine would be this blue coat I found in a vintage shop in Sacramento, CA.) Winner will be picked randomly the night of Sunday, March 22nd!
P.S. You can purchase these items (and more) directly from their website.
Ooh! Mine would definitely have to be this purple dress… I thriftered it in my home-town at a charity shop and I wear it quite a lot!
My favorite vintage find is a light green floral babydoll dress that I found at an estate sale. I paid only two dollars for it and I wear it all of the time. Haha. : D
A $3 hot pink ballet dress with black lace that I wore to my high school prom!
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my favorite thrift store/vintage find was my graduation dress. it’s a pretty yellow and green floral fifties swing dress with a white ribbon around the waist. i love it because i wore white round toe heels and white wrist-length gloves. my math teacher thought it was hilarious, but i’ve never felt prettier in my life!
Ooh! My favorite is this 80′s black dress, it’s black and knee length and poofs out, and it’s got a huge bow in the back! I love it! I only paid five dollars for it at Goodwill!
I wish I had a good picture of it, though :(
The best thing I ever found was a long white nightgown at the Salvation Army. It had lace and frills, with fake-pearl plastic buttons. And it was good for multiple Halloweens.
With bedhead and green face paint, I was Regan from The Exorcist. With a mess of black eye shadow and creative body bending, I was the girl from The Grudge/The Ring.
And, my most favorite, was when I had an acorn necklace and got to be Wendy — I even had a Peter Pan in my best friend, Tilly!
My favorite vintage find was a great big blue trunk, like this. My friend and I, who are moving in together, thought it would be perfect for the house. It was such a good price, and in such good condition, that we not only went on a 20 minute search for a bank machine to get money out, we carried it the hour plus walk back to where we live. The walk home included a ferry ride and cutting through the heart of our city’s downtown on a saturday night. We got a lot of dead body jokes.
Mine is my silly little 8′s style swatch watch. The funky looking ones with all the designs on them. Back when I was in 8th grade my teacher asigned all of us to do a project on any time period. I was a HUGE 80′s fan so I jumped all over it. I bought the Swatch Watch off of ebay just to have something REAL from the 80′s. Wth everything else I brought, the teacher told me in her 4 years of doing the project she had never had someone do so well on it and put so much in to it as I did. :3
this is my “matón”. I love it. It´s a typical clothess from Madrid (Spain). This one is hand made and owned my Great-grandmother.
my favourite vintage find is a dress i got from my mother. it’s a in great condition has cute short puff sleeves. i’m so glad she saved some of her clothes from her teens, & that she was about the same size then as i am now!
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/gunnm/2768209087/in/set-72157606763387412/
My favorite vintage find is a GIGANTIC, sequined pink Bag. I found it in Mebourne on a flea market and it looked so lonley that I just HAD to take it. It only costed 3 Dollars anyway=) So since I´m back in Germany, where everyone has brown and black bags for school, I feel very revolutionary=)
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My favorite is this navy-blue dress with a nautical star over the heart– it gives me SUCH an hourglass figure. I feel like a pin-up-girl-tattoo on a sailor’s arm when I wear it, which sounds a bit ridiculous, but I really enjoy it.
I was browsing ebay, actually, and I found a lovely pair of vintage, 1920′s beaded rope necklaces. Someone had bought them at an Estate sale, and now I am the proud owner! :)
My favorite vintage item would have to be these old china dishes from a friend’s mother who passed away. They are over 100 years old and in perfect condition. I can only imagine how long she held on to these.. keeping them nicely tucked away so they would not be scratched or damaged. My mother wanted to sell them but it would be unfair to do so, since they obviously meant so much to the woman who previously owned them.
My favourite vintage find is my lovely pair of black patent leather Gucci shoes with a tiny golden Gucci logo on the front. They are from the 70′s! My great-aunt gave them to me since she didn’t wear them anymore. She had only worn them 5 times! They are lovely and I wear them a lot :)
Probably this skirt http://www.flickr.com/photos/afeitar/2924389727/in/set-72157602914725177/
I need to wear it lots more really! It was only £10
Mine was my 21st Birthday present from my Mum – it was shortly after Yves Saint Laurent had died, and we found this vintage costume YSL necklace in little jewellary shop near where we live.
It fulfils all my greatest desires for a necklace, and indeed for my life – it’s giant, gold and shiny! Also it was a nice way to comemorate my birthday and his death.
My favorite vintage find is my most recent one. It’s this giraffe brooch (http://img22.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pingiraffes.jpg)– I was lusting over it in a quaint little hole-in-the-wall stall but it certainly wasn’t cheap, I didn’t have any cash on me (the store didn’t accept credit cards), and my friend said it wasn’t worth the price. We walked away in the rain and I went back the next day but it was gone. I’ve always loved giraffes, so I almost cried. And then the next day I got it in the mail because my friend had gone back right after to get it for me… aww! :)
Mine would definately have to be my bright red lacey bloomers. They’re absolutely amazing! I snagged them at a clothing show in Toronto for only $5! Pure love.
My absolute favorite vintage find is an little boy’s tee shirt from the 70s. It’s bright red and has a bright yellow lightning bolt (from the Flash comics) across the chest. It’s so cheery.
OMG!
Its kinda hard to decide what my most favorite is!
But I would defiantly have to say that it would be the red sequined dress.
I was really crazy. I actually think that someone took a black slip dress and sewed all the sequins on.
It really is a shame that I left it on a bus in the bag of recently purchased clothing.
I didn’t even get to wear it or take and wicked pictures.
Its been two years an Im still morning my loss.
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I obtained a 70s red velvet dress with a victorian-like high colllar with lace from a thrift store. this dressed started out as floor length with hideous bell sleeves so i broke out my sewing machine and scissors and made it above the knee length and cute little puffy short sleeves! i ALWAYS get comments on it when in public. :)
i don’t have a picture but it’s for sure a long 60′s maxidress of my mom’s from when she was in college! so comfortable and the print is awesome, green flowers.
I actually have two. I have two 1970s original Laura Ashley dresses that belonged to my mum when she was a student. we were digging the junk out of our attic and came across a trunk full of her old clothing from her university days in the 70s. I immediately picked out two floor length dresses in bright floral cotton, blue and pink. They’re really old from the first store that Laura Ashley ever opened and possibly quite valuable. The funny thing is, they fit me just as well as when my mum wore them.
I have this floral womans muumuu that I bought at a swapmeet for 50cents a few years ago. It’s so old and so big that I just wear it as a dress. I love the flowers, I love how its faded. I can wear it alone, or with leggings, let it flow free and big, or cinch it with a belt. Ive worn it so many times Im surprised it hasnt fallen apart.
Oh, man.. i’ve had so many. But my latest one has to be this 1950′s blue floral cotton dress! It was an ebay find.. Here i am in it pictured with the spaghetti & meatball cupcakes i made that day! ;O) haha
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3545/3322298557_3034305dac_b.jpg
Ohhh, has to be my mum’s old vintage brown leather Coach satchel…I wear it everywhere.
My best vintage finds would have to be My Costume Jewelry. I love going to the flea market and finding new pieces. I started my collection a few years back when the older lady next door passed away and her son told me to take whatever i wanted, so i saw a Jewelry box filled with Costume Jewelry since then i have been in love with them and go in search fro rare unique pieces. I love to dress up and wear then too. Here is a photo of my Magic box, lol as i call it
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0-Yw0qyftPI/SZBrMsG3w5I/AAAAAAAAAek/g8PMjsz3dqA/s1600-h/jewrly+box2.jpg
Mine would probably my pair of lovely white leather boots. I found them at this secondhand store in Antwerp (which is in Belgium ;D) and they were only €20! I have no idea how much that is in dollar, but it ain’t expensive! They were just perfectttt for me (; Take a look!
http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee240/mightyami/CIMG0925-1.jpg
I got this amazing dress at a Salvation Army store for $2! I love it–it makes me feel like Annie!
I’ve never had much luck finding good vintage finds… so I guess I’m going to have to check out Mod Cloth! I did, however, find an original peace sign necklace that belonged to my mother sometime during the early 1970s… but I wasn’t shopping, just cleaning out the barn (sometimes where you find the very best finds) ;-)
My goal right now is to find a nice pair of black Victorian boots.
My favorite vintage find were these green flower earrings. They are bright green and look like a daisy style flower. I got them for .50 and they are totally awesome!!
My fave thrift find would have to be a floor-length silk floral dress. It’s fuschia, yellow, black, white and green and by a label I hadn’t heard of previously – Kimchi & Blue. I bought this great dress last fall therefore it has been too cold to wear it out! I’m dying to get it on this summer.
my absolute favourite vintage find would be this little red dress with a small cream floral pattern and i cut the bottom off and the sleeves and i wear it all the time now and its really flattering i feel like a fifties house wife when i wear it!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/julietbanana/2478559239/
I can’t believe how perfect this sweet light blue dress is for approximating Alice in Wonderland!
Definitely my mothers wedding dress. As my parents had two weddings, one done in traditional Koreans style, and one in “American” style, it is a very casual piece for a wedding. All white lace with a deep v-neck in the back, pretty delicate sleeve caplets and tiered layers that reach the knee.
Absolutely exquisite and I wore it for my high school graduation… and I got it for free!
p.s. Love you Mom!
This insane dress: , which I found at some ghetto salvation army for less than $10! I love it so much!
Green 50′s dress for my graduation. I bought it in Play It Again, Sam. (Finnish vintage shop)
I had been searching for a trenchcoat for about a year, but never found one that was the right size or length. While I was on vacation in Florida, my friend and I went to a consignment store. As we were walking around, something caught my eye. It was a vintage military trenchcoat in dark green! It was the perfect size and long enough to reach my ankles! And only eighteen dollars! I can never wait ’til winter now so that I can wear it.
My best vintage score without a doubt is my vinatge Austrian dirndl. It fits perfectly, and is super flattering to my figure. Best eBay buy ever!
I missed the opportunity to acquire my find. At a flea market, I found this beautiful owl pin. It was gold and about 4 in. tall and 2 in wide with green glass to look like emerald buttons. I fell in love, when to tell the hubs and when I came back, it was gone and I forever remember the woman who stole it from me… old hag!
Nice competition again!
Mine is definately this cocktail dress I bought in the cutest little vintage store in Amsterdam. It’s called Laura dolls and it sells all sorts of vintage dresses from cocktail to wedding!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Marsupilamia/verkoop015.jpg
It’s very glamorous with the balloon skirt and the tight corset with the glitter. And I really like the little bow!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v202/Marsupilamia/verkoop017.jpg
I have many favourites, but if I have to choose one it’s this dress: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanni/2299712245/in/set-72057594068001539 I don’t have any photos that do it justice yet but it’s the most amazing dress ever. All brocade and mink fur and it fits like it was made for me. It looks so very royal. I bought it on ebay and paid a lot (a lot for me anyway) because I just had to have it.
A funny thing about it. It’s obviously tailor made or home sewn, but when I showed it at my livejournal someone replied that they have the exact same dress, except with different fur (she showed a picture and it’s definitely the same cut and fabric, although mine looks better I think ;P). So not only were two identical dresses made, probably by the same person, that still survive today, but the other dress belongs to someone who just happened to read my livejournal. Strange!
(Those gloves are perfect!)
Brown snakeskin boots. Way back from the 60s. Amazing.
My absolute most favorite vintage find was a pair of white go-go boots that I found in my mom’s old closet at my grandmother’s house when I was younger. They were already 20+ years old when I found them, and I wore them dang near constantly for a few years until they finally gave out. I miss them.
HAHA wow my psychic abilities can freak me out sometime I was actually looking at that site last night and thought, “Doe Deere would love this!” xD
Mines would be a 50′s dress I found in a local charity shop. (Unfortunately, I don’t have any pics!) It’s gorgeous with a really flattering shape. Of course, I never get any chances to wear it, considering I’m only 14, lol. I just love it and love to wear it in the house. Even if it never gets to see outside.
I lovvvve my vintage shoes
I have 42/9.5 and I have a problem with finfing shoes, these days the make my size but back in the day I had large feet I think because I didn’t find any pair of old vintage shoes. Only old men shoes! But than one day I saw this beautiful pair, they were size 42/9.5 and I bought them right a way. Unfortuntley they are gone! But I adore vintage clothes!
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