Kitsch-y-Cool Vintage in Charlotte has expanded their menswear line! Now you can find even more of your favorite western shirts, novelty 70's tees, sweaters, suit jackets, Hawaiian shirts, Bowling shirts, disco shirts, guayaberas, cowboy boots, and everything else kitschy and cool...and of course it's all Vintage!
Kitsch-y-Cool is gettin' ready for our next buying expedition, so check back to see what goodies we find and what we're bringin' in next! Remember fresh vintage come to Kitsch-y-Cool Vintage in Charlotte each and every Friday!
Just in time for Fall! Our latest haul of Vintage Cowboy Boots are coming to our Charlotte location this week - sizes range from mens 6 1/2 - 12, priced from $38-$78. Here's a quick sneak peek of what we've found!
I have always been fascinated by old magazines and booklets - especially ones that feature fashion articles. For a Vintage lover like me, it's a great way to research clothing and accessories through the years, and for dating clothing you are unsure about.
So I thought I would share some of these articles and advertisements that I find while researching! This week I found a couple of ads from a December, 1968 issue of Life Magazine:
From a major V&A exhibition to the look of Mad Men's leading ladies, Grace Kelly is everywhere this year.
Cool, chic, untouchable - the Kelly style is timeless
The chemistry of being a movie star is about maintaining the perfect temperature. From the screen, you need to radiate enough heat to keep the audience's pulses racing, to invite a little fantasy, yet maintain enough coolness to remind them that a fantasy is all it is. Too much heat and they think you're cheap; too little and they don't look long enough to care. The trick is to look approachable without being available.
Yet so closely do we identify Kelly with her 50s glory days that it is almost shocking to see her in a ruffle-edged 1972 gown by Marc Bohan for Christian Dior. Her 11-film career lasted only five years, from 1951 to her wedding, so her enduring image is set firmly in the white-gloved 50s, before the certainties of those days began to unravel. The ice-blue satin gown and pearl-drop earrings she wore when she won an Oscar (for The Country Girl) in 1955 are as much the finery of another era. (Incidentally, she had worn the dress at the film's premiere the previous year; she wore it again on the cover of Life the month after. How times change.)
Almost more iconic, though, than the pearls and satin is the casual Grace: the capri pants, headscarf and sunglasses she wore in 1955's To Catch A Thief, and the Pringle twinsets she wore on honeymoon with Hermès scarves. Clare Waight Keller, the current designer at Pringle, says Kelly's beauty "suddenly made this classic combination highly fashionable and desirable". The twinset has been an icon of the Pringle brand ever since. The chic, casual, Riviera style was a perfect marriage of the lean, spare aesthetic of upper-class American style with French chic. It was while filming To Catch A Thief that Kelly and Head decamped to Paris for a shopping trip, ending up in Hermès "like two girls in an ice-cream shop", as Head put it, and a love affair with another brand was born.
Kelly is everywhere this year. The new Salvatore Ferragamo campaign draws on the atmosphere of To Catch A Thief, featuring the car used in the film; the hair, colours and gloves, channelled through Mad Men's Betty Draper, are filtering on to a high-street consciousness.
• If you happen to find yourself in London, make sure you visit: Grace Kelly: Style Icon at the V&A in London from 17 April to 26 September
Signature "V" tunic with fab fishnets!
Wild prints - so typical of the designer and the era.
Love the side-button coat and alligator handbag the best! 
Signature "V" tunic with fab fishnets!
Wild prints - so typical of the designer and the era.
Love the side-button coat and alligator handbag the best! 
Lovin' the thigh high black patent boots. Any of these dresses would look great today - 
Fancypants - made of paper, but soft as silk! Why don't they still make these! No more packing underwear for a long vacation, then bringing dirty underwear back home to launder. Just toss them out!
