I’ll be traveling tomorrow, so the post will be late. Just a small disruption to the schedule. Stay tuned!
Morgana Martin, the Magicvintagespy
Monthly Archives: April 2013
TWO WONDERFUL MEN’S SHORT-SLEEVED SHIRTS – TRUE VINTAGE 1970’S RETRO
TWO WONDERFUL MEN’S SHORT-SLEEVED SHIRTS – TRUE VINTAGE 1970’S & RETRO
I LOVE these shirts! Of course, I can’t wear them (WAY too big), but I couldn’t resist anyway. The photo doesn’t show you the details well, so I’ll describe. Let’s start with the true vintage shirt on the right.
This one was made in Hawaii in the 1960’s or ’70’s. Beautiful heavy 100% cotton fabric that is so characteristic of true vintage garments made there before about 1975. Since that time, the fabric usually isn’t so nice, nor the construction. My apologies to Hawaiian clothing-makers if there are exceptions.
The prints on these materials are also superb – nice designs and astounding colors. The label and the buttons used are also good clues as to the age of the shirt.
The shirt on the left is retro – probably 1980’s – but it is such a nice reproduction of a 1950’s to early 1960’s men’s shirt that I decided to pick it up. Really nice retro-style fabric that sets it apart. I can’t identify anything about the maker on-line and I’m not sure if the buttons are original or not, but I like it anyway.
So, you see that some of my decisions to buy are gut-level decisions, but they are good decisions. I’ve said good-bye to old experiences of sometimes getting home and saying to myself “Oh, darn, I probably goofed here – I’ll have to give this one away or try to re-sell it”. That was a downer, a drag and a bother.
But, with persistence, experience and growing know-how I finally became . . . . . . . . . .
MORGANA MARTIN, THE MAGICVINTAGESPY
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TRUE VINTAGE (?) 1980’S (?) TIGER PRINT SHIRT JACKET BY ABS
LOVELY TRUE VINTAGE EARLY 1960’S DAY DRESS FOR SPRING AND SUMMER
TRUE VINTAGE 1960s – 1970s PATIO HOSTESS GOWN
TRUE VINTAGE 1970S ELEGANT DINNER-DANCE-DATE DRESS
TRUE VINTAGE EARLY 1950s SILK DINNER – DANCE – COCKTAIL DRESS
QUESTIONS FOR ME LEFT AS COMMENTS
Hi, everybody. Going back over a comment list, I saw several questions (and remarks that I would like to say Thank You for). I’m not a techie and can’t find any way of responding to you without using my personal e-mail address. I’d prefer not to do that for security reasons. Some people I have responded to by replying to a comment on their own blog pages.
If you have a blog and I can go there to answer you, please leave the address. I’d be happy to! If you LIKE a post, or start to follow me I can find you, too, as I’ll be notified of that. Sorry if this seems impersonal – it just seems wise to follow these guidelines in the cyber-world.
A couple of your questions had to do with blogging. As I said, I am not a techie but I have found it easy to set up my blog with WordPress. There are limits to what you can do, depending on whether you wish to invest any money in the process. In terms of back-up of your material in the case of hacking – there may not be any. One thing you can do is to buy a plug-in back-up stick and save everything daily. That way, you’d have it on the back-up in case of a glitch.
Hope that helps. I’ll see about other ways of enabling comments on the blog page. Thanks for writing!
Morgana
Magicvintagespy 