flower power

No theme at work today! One just didn't get chosen in time, and then I wasn't there the last two days to come up with one.. so I guess i'm taking a break with theme for this week. Wearing a kind of simple outfit today, I have had this little dress for a while, but this is my first time wearing it. It makes me feel like a school girl, so I played on that even more with little sheer ankle socks I got at Target the other day, a sweet floral button up and a flower power brooch!

flares and platforms

Today is my day off, started it right by getting a manicure with my lovely friend Alley before she was off to work. I have been in the mood for matching my nail color to my lipstick these days, a bit inspired by Megan of Mad Men I suppose. So I stuck to this bright coral red type color to match the lipstick I have been wearing most lately. It's a small detail, but it really does get noticed!

Back to my 70s ways today with my outfit. I have said it before, but I'll say it again, I always feel like my style falls comfortably in the 70s. I love most decades of the past and have a real hankering for the 50s and 60s... but when it comes down to it some flares and a pair of platforms will get me every time. Not to mention crop tops! These sweet pants I got from Guvnor's vintage in park slope at the end of last year. It's hard to tell from the horrible indoor photos I take, but they are a forest green and made of this velour type material.. I don't know what you would call it, but they are soft and fuzzy and I love the zippers! Got this cute halter top from work recently, glad it's getting warmer so I can wear it all the time! There is nothing better than the feeling of my now super long hair touching my bare back! Oh and I picked up these sweet Jeffery Campbel platforms at work last week. I haven't ever seen this style before, not that I follow JC stuff too closely, but these I can really dig.

dark and stormy

Todays outfit is a bit out of my usual element.. no color, and pants! I don't know what drove me to dress this way today, maybe these pants. I just got them from work, I don't have too many trouser pants that I feel fit me really well, but I quite like the shape of these and they are really comfortable. Also it is rainy weather again today and so I guess I wasn't up for frilly dresses and the like. This black sheer blouse I thrifted from one of my local haunts on Long Island. This pretty necklace I just got from work too. If it has flowers on it, I want it!

I'm also wearing this trusty side braid again today. Yesterday I had a few questions about the other side, and how I did it. If it was all pulled to one side and such. Well there is a back shot down below and yes, all the hair is smoothed over the one side and braided on the other. Ya just start at the top of your head and gather hair into the braid as ya go down, like any other french braid. super simple!

rain and flowers

Today it is POURING! All last night super loud thunder storm rolling through, something we haven't gotten much of these days. So today for work I wanted to wear something that brought out sunshine and flowers! hah. I got this dress out of a $1 pile of stuff at Brimfield, thats totally my kind of sale! I'll dig through a dirty pile of clothes any day as long as there is promise of something good, and a good deal! I got like 10 things out of that pile, but this is definitely the best I got if ya don't count the cute wiggle dress I found with a rusted zipper!

And today, like yesterday, I'm sporting my good ol' trusty side french braid. Always a good style when you can't quite figure out what to do with your hair, or it maybe needs a good washing and ya don't have time hah. Also get a good amount of compliments, people seem to think it's a good deal harder to do than it actually is. So it's something I like to keep doing, I can show you all sometime!

theme fridays: mad men

So it's back to work and back to theme fridays! This weeks theme is Mad Men, which is cool and all but I had quite a bit of trouble putting something together. I feel like this is a style I wear pretty often, maybe is even most of what my style revolves around for the most part, 50s and 60s vintage. So I decided to go with a dress that I feel would get me ahead in the office, a bum fitting wiggle dress of course! All the guys around the office would love it for sure, i'll give Joan a run for her money!

This is one of my favorite dresses, I got it from Donnaland last summer when I was working for her at Brimfield. The shoes I got at a salvation army out east on long island like two summer ago. The necklace I just got at Brimfield last week, I spent a lot of my time there looking for jewelry to build up my not so existant jewelry collection. I decided I want to start wearing more necklaces and earrings and junk, and I found a whole lot of good stuff up there! And these super pretty cat eye glasses I just got from Donnaland as well! They still have a very mild prescription in them, so they are easy to wear, but not for long if I don't want to mess up my eyes! I plan to get clear lenses put in, or something else if it turns out I need a little help with my vision.. which I feel may be the case these days.

Brimfield madness

Whoa! It sure has been a while since I posted on here! This past week and a half I was away up in Brimfield MA for the Brimfield antique festival! I go up there three times a year to work for Donnaland helping to set up the tent and tear it down at the end of the week. I ment to post while I was there, and even wrote one out to only have my screen turn blue and then lost it all.. so I was kinda over keeping up with blogging while I was up there so I just dropped it till I got back.

But lucky for you I did keep up with my instagram! So here I have the first half of my trip in photos. If you already follow me on instagram, sorry you have to see all these again! If not, well then your in for a treat, Brimfield has some amazing and wild things to offer for everyone. I highly recommend each and every one of you to check it out at some point in your life! Here is the first half of my photos, more to come! And follow me on instragram if you aren't already! @emilyrosetheo

I arrived on Cinco de Mayo so we ended the day with a feast and margaritas! 

Chris and Courtney have three dogs and two cats, here is my favorite Mr. Dibbs

Ready to go off to work for my first day! Lots of lifting and grunt work to do, but ya gotta look cute!

Driving into Brimfield, this is a few days before opening, you can kind of get an idea of how huge it is. Picture the streets filled with people on a weekend day when its open!

Lots of cool stuff to be found here!

Donna is selling some of a mans vintage dress collection. He started collecting in 1956 for his wife, which grew into an amazing collection of around 55,000 mostly never worn party dresses! Quite a sight to see!!

Buttons the cat and two pups Beardsley and Byron guarding the stairs

Some of Courtney's AMAZING hat collection!!

Breakfast at Girl's Grill before work one day. Such a cute Diner!

In mid-set up the night before the big opening day

Some amazing Sears deadstock shoes I picked up on the first day. I am so in love with them!

Pretty patterns I dug out of a $1 pile, always my favorite kind of shopping! 

One of my favorite finds, a 1894 copy of a book of Charles Gibson illustrations!

Working on building up my old photo collection, mostly picked out cute photos of groups of cute girls lookin' cute.

Found out about an awesome accessory from the 60s, The Knee Tickler! Ment to be worn at the hem of your mini skirt. Love it!

I didn't buy any of these, but I did go flower crazy this past week getting a whole butt load of jewelry, most of it decorated in flowers. These brooches are swoon worthy!

A night out in Amherst with the gang for drinks and food

Where there is a photobooth, we will cram into it and take silly photos in a bar full of bros- Sam, Molly, myself and Courtney

Working an early rainy morning at the tent

theme fridays: all floral

This weeks theme I was super excited about! This was one that I put in hat that we draw out of each week. I thought it would be fun to put together an all totally floral outfit. I am definitely going to have to try this again on my own, because I did come up with quite a few combinations. Lets see, the scarf on me head, the floral blouse under all the others, the skirt, the socks AND the flower brooch I all got from Beacon's. This store is taking over my closet! The blue floral button up blouse I got at as estate sale a few years back. It's one of my favorites, really thin and soft and has a cool collar shape. The purple platforms were the first platforms I ever got. I think I got them durring my senior of high school, and I'm really glad I held onto them.
 

dream dress

Last night it rained all night long, and it still ain't so nice out. Why am I telling you this? Well because these curls are on their third day and I don't want anything like a little rain to mess them up! On thursday I had some really nice ones going, but then I finally left the house in some misty weather and they were quickly lost. Rag curls work wonders I'm telling ya, they will last for days if done right. But as soon as there is a bit of moisture in the air, thats the end for these babies.

These curls in particular I put in Saturday night and the last two nights I didn't even re-wrap them. Just brushed them out then wound bits around my finger to remake the curls. I think they are the best ringlets and longest lasting I have done. So it looks like I will be leaving the house with a scarf around my head to help preserve them till I get to work, wish me luck!

Another thing about today is that I really wanted to wear this new dress I got, much better suited for a beautiful sunny day.. but I just couldn't wait. I got it from where else, Beacon's, brought it home with me last night, it's pretty much a dream dress. A beautiful shade of purple, which I don't own too much of, covered in flowers and ruffles and the cut out detail on the bodice is just perfect. And it looks like I have acquired yet another pair of clogs! It's a little hard to tell by these photos but they are a real dark midnight blue. They are sooooo super comfortable and gosh darn beautiful!