Gloves: Part 1 – The Basics

I love wearing gloves. My favorite pictures of my mother have her dressed in coordinating outfits, with purse, gloves and shoes, all in complimentary shades. This was in the sixties, basically the last gasp for the glove. Before the twenties, there was not an hour of the day that ladies were not expected to wear…

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Vintage Fashion: Hatpins

For years my mother wore a large brimmed sun hat out in the garden affixed with a hat pin.  She had dozens of hats made of every conceivable type of material and she had many hatpins to match.  In my twenties I began wearing hats often, so my mother gave me a couple hatpins.  That began a very…

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