Vintage Apparel Devotee Gifts

'I have to go to the bathroom.'

Demure lady with gloves

"I'm sure you'll grow into it, darling."

"Oh to be young and in love and wear things cut on the bias."

The Elliot Ness monster.

High Riders of the Old West

"I'm just saying, maybe we wouldn't need the swords if we didn't wear these clothes."

The wind catches Congressman Blowviatt's jerkin.

"Of course, lots of women are just going bare-headed."

'My old Nehru suit! And in a pocket there's still a bottle of aftershave lotion from the glove box of my '55 Nash Rambler.'

The Return Of The Minipants

1950's.

Lovers in toile de jouy

I want to hold your hand

"Darling, do you ever worry that we're becoming some sort of Merchant-Ivory production?"

"I don't care what it was or how hard it was to kill. It makes me look fat."

The Grecian Bend - Women's Fashion

'It's a chinstache. They were popular in the 1800's, but now they're coming back.'

"Personally, I'd recommend something a little less formal for being run out of town."

Rita Hayworth caricature

Family Portrait Abuse.

"You don't think you're bringing that mustache in here do you?!"

Old fashioned Christmas shopping

An opera singer

"I think I found the perfect time of year to sell my old clothes!"

"I predict that men's fashions will remain relatively stable throughout the next century and a half, whereas women's will evolve continuously, and with the speed and illogic of a juiced-up tribe of rampaging Darwinian monkeys."

'They did a great job in restoring all the 19th century details, but this confounded dress code...'

John Bull dressed in the French fashionable clothing of 1799

Josephine Baker

Men talking about the boots of the period

"Roger, give me the shirt … it’s time."

Men see an old lady in a round hat from the back and think she is a pretty young lady.

"It was our grandmother's wedding dress—we had her exhumed so you could wear it."

Lady visiting the 1862 International Exhibition fands that the omnibuses ruin her crinolines

"Imogene is just back from an extended trip through the Navajo country."