Sizzling Summer

Summer Dethrose shop update! More to come this weekend!! 

 1940s Read Between the Lines Summer Suit ~ Xsmall

 1940s Wild Safari Day Dress ~ Xs/S

 1940s Dorna Gordon Striped Dress ~ Small

 1950s Jean Durrell Lace Party Dress ~ Xs/S

 1950s Dance in the Clouds Party Dress ~ Xsmall

 1940s Blue Plaid Day Dress ~ Med-Large

 1940s Mending Fences Day Dress ~ Med-Large

1940s Feather in my Cap

1930s Green Garden Silk Dress ~ Medium 

Oh! If you are in the Chicago area this Sunday, be sure to come visit me at The Vintage Bazaar!!

The Vintage Bazaar is now MONTHLY

at the Aragon Ballroom, 1106 W. Lawrence Ave. in Uptown just east of the Red Line Lawrence CTA station

Second Sundays in the summertime, 12pm-5pm

150+ vendors of vintage decor, housewares, furniture, clothing, jewelry, and accessories, plus beer, cocktails, local food, and DJ entertainment from CHIRP, classic haircuts and straight razor shaves from Joe's Barbershop.

FREE historical tours of the Aragon Ballroom, conducted by local history buff Albert Walavich, will depart every half hour from the Aragon lobby, 1pm-5pm.

Summer, 2012 dates:

June 10
July 8
August 12
September 9

Apply to be a vendor at any of our upcoming shows.

Admission is $5. Kids under 12 free.

Get directions to the Aragon via Google maps

Fantastically Bazaar...

This weekend was the February Vintage Bazaar and not to mention, one of the best weekends I have had in a while! I kicked off this weekend with hanging out with friends, new and old. Dancing, vintage shopping, and so much laughter. Those are the best weekends am I right?!

The Vintage Bazaar was a great success as usual. Full of fantastic vendors, food, and music provided by Chirp Radio. I look forward to the Bazaar every time, not only for the shopping but I get to meet so many awesome people! My favorite is when readers of the blog, past etsy customers or facebook followers come and shop and I can meet them in person! So rewarding. 

My friends Merl & Andrea stopped by to visit and take some photos of the weekend. All the following photos are by Merl. 

 My Booth.

 

 Checking out a happy customer!

Andrea looking through the racks of vintage.

 

 Laughing as usual:)

 Haley, Andrea and Myself.

 

Andrea, Myself, Merl & Kat. Love my ladies:)

Needless to say, it was a splendid way to spend the weekend! I will be posting later this week about my awesome purchases from the weekend. I wish I could have covered more and taken photos of all the other booths but I rarely got to leave mine!

For more coverage on the Bazaar, visit the following sites: 

Thriftaholic

The Vintage Bazaar

Chicago Looks

photo via Chicago Looks

Winter Pop

This month is the year anniversary of making Dethrose Vintage a full-time endeavor. It was a super scary transition and had talked myself out of doing it several times. I always had a full-time salary job over the past 10 years. Sure, I had positions I enjoyed doing but there was always something missing and routine set it. I became way too comfortable having a "career" I only felt so so about. So I finally turned down a great promotion and transfer at my last job that would have landed me in Sunny California. I declined and said it's now or never, I jumped and took the risk of becoming a proprietress of Dethrose Vintage:) 

Of course there are added pressures and you work extra hard at keeping it all a float but the payoff is huge. Last weekend and this weekend have been great example of that payoff. Doing what I love and being surrounded by the awesome people who love it just as much, to an obsessive degree:) Not only do I focus on my website but I do about 3 pop-up shops a month here in Chicago. The pop-up shops are what keep me going.  Running around finding awesome things for the shop and then meeting the shoppers and putting together outfits. Meeting other vendors, sharing stories of the hunt, crazy hoarder estates and exchanging tips for buying, cleaning, etc...

This weekend we're all in Highwood, IL throwing a Holiday Pop-Up! One of my fav gals, Jen from JenStyle Chic Vintage and I decided to share a booth. I have to say our booth sounds like a slumber party with all the laughing, Jen & I have very, ahem, enthusiastic laughs:)

 

Our room is a little tight to take large photos but here is a taste of the display. 

 A suitcase full of goodies!

 I love Jen's dress, brocade teal with rich brown fur cuffs!

 Wedding dressing...

 Mr. Modern right across from us...

 Come into our booth and get this rad Fur with a super cool leather Saddle Bag!

 Ok, the red coat on the left is my dream purchase...maybe someone sweet will put this under my Xmas tree;)

 The front of the space we're in.

 Jen and Lisa (One Half of Bunny's Trunk Show) being adorable! I have posted many of my purchases from both these lovely ladies!

Here I am on the way to set up rocking my favorite new thrift find, a pair of Mink Earmuffs! Literally the warmest accessory ever! And no, my lashes are NOT fake. A woman asked me where I get my lashes...I told her from my parents...and Chanel mascara...

Ok, so this has nothing to do with my post but hey it's the Holidays and everyone is posting pics of their trees. So here's mine:)

Hope you are having a fun Holiday-tastic weekend:) 

Thrifting, Decorating and Pop-Up Shops!

The past month has been a long one. Not only for how many showcases there have been, but I have had several changes around me. I totaled my car in September, so there was the stress of getting a new car...ok, so getting the car was a relief. I am still suffering from the accident, no worries I'm sure I'll be fine, just headaches and dizziness. Then a few odd gigs here and there, I'll let you in on more later about those. Then the photo shoot for my upcoming look book and changes to Dethrose Vintage, don't worry I'm not going anywhere:) And finally there was a impromptu re-do of my apt...that was the most fun and the biggest stress reliever! Here is a sneak peek of the sitting room, sorry for the blurry photos they are from my phone.

 I am in love with this 1960's dream:) More to show you later!

Before having my vintage shows I usually go hunting for some goodies to bring to all of you. Now I don't usually thrift in the city but every once in awhile I'll stop in my favorite spots. I invited my friend Leilani from The Thriftaholic to come. With coffee in hand, we ventured out and boy did we have a blast!

 A Karen coat for Karyn?? Nope...if only it would of been cute! I did however come across a 40's Dutch pinstripe dress from Denmark with Karyn printed on the tag. That did make it's way into my closet.

 Leilani and I came across this lovely stallion of fashion handbag...it did NOT come home with us...

 And the end result...

 I couldn't stop laughing in the photo below because we came across these weird boxing glove looking socks...yes...they are SOCKS!!! Hilarious.

 And here is the outcome of my purchases and finds for the week! The displays set up quite nicely, now most of its all gone, it's time to go hunt for more!

 So many dresses to add to Dethrose Vintage this week! Are you excited?!

 I have been finding the best accessories lately!

 The accessories and displays, notice the needle point Cat handbag! It sold in two seconds!

 The ladies running the Modern Vintage show were sweet enough to put me in the running for best dressed. So this was one of the dresses I wore for the weekend. Again, sorry for the terrible photo, I was very, very sick this weekend. Ugh, terrible slouching!

60's Cotton Gauze Dress ~ Thrifted

Tights & Shoes ~ Anthropologie