Summer Giveaway | Win a Gift Card to Shop Adore Vintage

We've joined forces with The Vintage Mama for a spur of the moment Summer Giveaway! Enter to win a $25 GIFT CERTIFICATE at our shop Adore Vintage. Details reposted below from The Vintage Mama's Blog.

Win a fabulous $25 gift certificate to shop Adore Vintage. All you have to do is pop on over to her shop, browse through her fab finds and comment here on your favorite item and where you would wear it . Here are 2 of my faves:

Want an extra entry? Tweet this contest, follow me on twitter and/or follow Adore Vintage on twitter! Winner will be randomly selected (via Alfalfa picking a name out of a fedora) and will be announced here on Thursday July 22.

Here are the specifics again:

• Visit Adore Vintage and pick a favorite item


• Leave a comment here on which item you picked and where you would wear it to


• For additional chances follow me and/or Adore Vintage on twitter (make sure you send us a tweet with the hashtag #winvintage)


• You can tweet this contest (again make sure you mention @TheVintageMama or @AdoreVintageCom AND use the hashtag #winvintage)


• Contest will close Wednesday, July 21st midnight Pacific time.


• Winner will be randomly selected and notified by email and posted on this blog on Thursday July 22nd.

Good luck!

An Interview With Lily Elsie, London's Most Celebrated Beauty of the Edwardian Times

I know it was just a month ago that I first posted about Lily Elsie, but I find her so beautiful that I had to do another post so soon!


Lily Elsie (LE): They called me Little Elsie.

Spencer Edwards (SE): It may be supposed, then, that you commenced your professional career when quite a child?

LE: That was so. I sang ballads. Some friends were flattering enough to call me the infant Patti.

SE: And you took to the stage, I suppose, as the duck takes to water?

LE: Well, I played in the pantomime Red Riding Hood [at the Queen's Theatre, Manchester, Christmas 1896] when I was only eleven years of age, and, subsequently, I went to the [music] halls. My first regular engagement for theatrical work was a tour of M'Kenna's Firtation [a farce by E. Selden, first produced at the Opera House, Coventry, 1 August 1892].

SE: A natural sequence, I see. First the flirtation, then regular 'engagements,' and now the honeymoon - A Chinese Honeymoon.

LE: You may put it that way if you like (laughing sweetly).

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Lily Elsie with her toy terrier dog.
LE: There, mamma, that's what I should like to do when I'm a woman!' Of course, there was an indignant chorus of the 'hush' sort, and the wonder was that I was not led out and taken home in disgrace. - (Lily proclaiming to her Mama that she wants to be an actress at the age of 8)

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These are just snippets from an interview with Lily Elsie. (Credits and links to follow)

Credits: G. Spencer Edwards, The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, London, Saturday, 28 May 1904. { Full Interview }

The Vintage Home: Decorating Inspirations From A French Farmhouse

I am so in love with this old stone house, can I just move in for the summer, please? I love the rustic & primitive charms and all of the bleached linens. These photos are from a farmhouse near the the small village of Lussan. You can find many more photos at Living Inside (Italian)

Why do we no longer unexpectedly dance in coffee shops a la Jean-Luc Godard?

I adore this sort of dancing. It's silly and simple and you feel as if you could just jump right in and snappity snap get into the groove of things.

My all time favorite dance scene of course is Audrey Hepburn in "Funny Face" when she is in the "Beatnik" bar in Paris. Oh, Audrey, how I love thee!