Make your own Vintage Style!!

Coming today - loads of vintage dress fabric, linens, and accessories!
Can't find that vintage look that really fits you and your personality? Consider making your own! Here's some easy steps to get started!

1) Pick some fabric -
Fab Fabrics for creating your own vintage styles - classic calicos, shirting, moires, and even some sequined pieces!
2) Find the perfect vintage pattern for your vintage style - we've got HUNDREDS!
3) Add on some glitz, lace trim, fancy buttons - whatever to make it your own! We've even got vintage zippers in all sorts of colors!
4) Don't know how to sew - we've got gobs of vintage How-To books and sewing booklets to help teach you the basics.
5) When all else fails - get someone else to sew it for you!

Pretty soon - we may see you on Project Runway!
Here's a video we found to get you started - just for laughs!


Visit Kitsch-y-Cool Vintage to see the above items in person!
800+ sq ft located inside Sleepy Poet Antique Mall 4450 South Blvd, Charlotte NC, 704-529-6369. Open 7 days a week!
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¡Oh Guayabera!

Admit it - you've seen them around everywhere; on celebs, at the market, and even on old Uncle Giovanni... but no matter who wears them, guayaberas look cool, and we've got 'em at Kitsch-y-Cool Vintage in Charlotte!


What is a guayabera (pronounced “gway-ah-bear-ah”)? Characterized by its embroidered panels and four front pockets... Mexican wedding shirt, Mexican shirt, Cuban wedding shirt, Cuban shirt, barber shop shirt, Havana shirt, or cigar shirt? Whatever you know them as, the origin of the garment is heavily disputed.


A "spin" on the shirt's origins states that Mexicans emulated the trend from Cuban tourists who visited Mexico. However, it was during the trade routes through the Caribbean that the Mexican shirts got to Cuba and were taken to the Philippines by the Spanish and the evolution of the intricate embroidery started. In 2010 it even became the Official Shirt of Cuba.1


Below is 19^th century Cuban poet, Juan Cristobal Napoles Fajardo (AKA, El Cucalambé) 1829 – 1862, poem written about guayabera's. The poet's meaning is much deeper and much more pure than just being “cool.” The peom praises the shirt as a symbol of Cuba – and mentions heroic men who shed blood in battle over independence from Spain.

Oh Guayabera! Shirt
of happy buttons,
four pockets, coolness,
of brave cane and breeze.
You went warrior like mambisa (member of the Army of Liberation)
with more than one bloody button
during the heroic uprising,
and for that the flag
is something of a guayabera
that dresses the gallant of the wind.

Espirituana invader,
You began your invasion
and between Júcaro and Morón
they called you La Trochana.
It wanted you Camagüeyana
the noble and brave Camagüey
until the end, since the Cape
of San Antonio a Maisí,
Cuba isn’t dressed without you,
fresh wave of the Yayabo. (River where the espirituanos lived and harvested guayaba fruit.)

Enjoy this video of guayabera shirt maker to the "stars": Ramon Puig the king of the guayaberas.

1. source wikipedia
Visit Kitsch-y-Cool Vintage to see the above items in person!
800+ sq ft Located inside Sleepy Poet Antique Mall 4450 South Blvd, Charlotte NC, 704-529-6369. Open 7 days a week!
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Owls, Owls, and more Owls!

Coming in today, lots of owls to give your home that groovy 70's look!

Dress up yourself too with vintage owl necklaces, pins, and we've even found some kitschy repro owl rings to match!!

How popular were owls in the 70's? Here are 2 of the most played commercials of the decade...

750+ Jewelry Pieces coming today!!

After a solid 3 day Netflix marathon, we've FINALLY have all the jewelry inventoried from our latest excursion to the MidWest and South Texas.
Here's just a quick peek as we loaded everything to take to The Poet!

We loaded up on everything from vintage 50's earrings and multi-strand necklaces to 1980's colorful earrings and beaded necklaces - and YES that is a Michael Jackson ring, and we've got 6 of 'em!

Our tribute to Jack Lalanne

Coming this week -we're remembering the Godfather of Fitness Jack Lalanne!Everyone needs a good jumpsuit! Whether you're working on cars, gardening, or working out like Jack Lalanne, jumpsuits are making a comeback - and this week we've got 'em for guys and gals!

Here are 3 examples of worker jumpsuits for the guys - white denim, blue ticking stripe, and chambray.

and for the gals - we love this 1970's pantsuit look that is so hot right now!!But if you're not the DIY type, check out these Fresh Vintage options coming this week!