I can't believe it, but I've missed two whole weeks in a row of Salvo Wednesdays! The first one was intentional. I'd just had my "one to beat" estate sale and I was feeling overwhelmed and overloaded a bit. I took the week off and was feeling better and prepared for the next week.... but my car, alas, was not. It needed a major repair (under warranty, thank the light) so I was without wheels.
It was therefore with some relief that I planned my last Salvo Wednesday of the summer. I headed to two nearby Salvos to get a little extra in. I started at my favorite in Henrietta. Like always at this Salvo, I hit the jewelry first, and came up with nothing. Not one thing. Sigh.
So I moved on to the dresses, which is obviously the most important section to me. This summer I've been finding a lot of vintage for my shop but not much for me personally. This trip fixed that!
Super cute shirt dress with pockets! It is impossible not to be super happy about this!
I love the colors and the print on this dress, and I bought it in hopes that summer will be warmer next year than this year. I hope to wear this lounging in my back yard, sweating, with a dog on my lap. Yes please.
Nothing beats a dress you can wear to school that also has pockets! Even if it does look a tinch like the fabric was modeled after playing cards. I love the color scheme though! Blues and greens are my favorite!
Again, already planning ahead to next year! We're planning to go back to Cape Cod next summer and I can not WAIT to wear this to brunch or to Provincetown or .... I don't care, I just want it to be hot and sunny. I love the print!!
This color combination is killer. I have a love/hate relationship with stripes, so I hope I actually love this as much in practice as I do in theory. I have a tendency to buy stripes and then never ever wear them, and they wind up in an Ann-me-down pile without ever having seen the light of day. I think that will not be the case with this one... but then, I always think that, or I wouldn't buy them in the first place!
I'd like to pause here for a second to discuss modern clothing sizes (and vintage ones while we're at it, since they use the same arbitrary numbering system that has no correlation to modern numbering systems). Can we just all agree that these letter and numeric sizing systems are stupid and we should stop using them? The above striped dress is a juniors size S and fits me comfortably. The playing-cards-pattern dress two photos above is a women's size 8 and it is snug. This is idiocy.
Since starting my vintage-reselling activities, I have gotten much more comfortable with determining if an item is going to fit me based on measurements. I am much more likely to buy a vintage item from an Etsy shop based on its measurements (and my own) and have it fit correctly than I am to buy a modern item off a website and have it fit. Modern sizes are a crapshoot at best. And then you have to decide if the sizing is US, UK, women's or junior's, or that completely inexplicable H&M sizing which fits no one. Dear fashion designers, start just measuring your clothes and get everybody on board with that. We can all fit into our clothes and go merrily on our way. End of rant.
Moving on...
I almost bought this one, because the print is amazing, wraps are amazing, and I love Banana Republic. However, despite this being a size small, it was really weirdly loose in the armpits and it felt weird. Plus, there were these:
Nobody wants ornamental, random brass buttons. Sorry, BR.
I found a couple of vintage items too (pictured at the end) so I felt really good about this trip! I decided to go to the last area Salvo that I hadn't been to yet this summer. Sometimes I find a ton at this store, sometimes I find almost nothing. I was lucky to find a few things that made the trip worthwhile, but not an overwhelming amount. Perfect!
I found just one thing for me, but it was a really good thing!
This is a swim coverup. I love its asymmetry, and I love the little tie at the front skirt hem. And obviously I love the tropical floral pattern and the color scheme! Yes!
I really made out with 70s stuff for my shop! Most of this is from that era, with the exception of the green dress in the middle (60s) and the pink dress next to it (early 80s). If the green skirt with the pink belt had been my size, I would never have parted with it. But it and all the rest will be coming to my Etsy shop in the near future!
And that's it for the summer, friends! I'll see you again after the next Wednesday on a school vacation!
So I moved on to the dresses, which is obviously the most important section to me. This summer I've been finding a lot of vintage for my shop but not much for me personally. This trip fixed that!
Super cute shirt dress with pockets! It is impossible not to be super happy about this!
I love the colors and the print on this dress, and I bought it in hopes that summer will be warmer next year than this year. I hope to wear this lounging in my back yard, sweating, with a dog on my lap. Yes please.
Nothing beats a dress you can wear to school that also has pockets! Even if it does look a tinch like the fabric was modeled after playing cards. I love the color scheme though! Blues and greens are my favorite!
Again, already planning ahead to next year! We're planning to go back to Cape Cod next summer and I can not WAIT to wear this to brunch or to Provincetown or .... I don't care, I just want it to be hot and sunny. I love the print!!
This color combination is killer. I have a love/hate relationship with stripes, so I hope I actually love this as much in practice as I do in theory. I have a tendency to buy stripes and then never ever wear them, and they wind up in an Ann-me-down pile without ever having seen the light of day. I think that will not be the case with this one... but then, I always think that, or I wouldn't buy them in the first place!
I'd like to pause here for a second to discuss modern clothing sizes (and vintage ones while we're at it, since they use the same arbitrary numbering system that has no correlation to modern numbering systems). Can we just all agree that these letter and numeric sizing systems are stupid and we should stop using them? The above striped dress is a juniors size S and fits me comfortably. The playing-cards-pattern dress two photos above is a women's size 8 and it is snug. This is idiocy.
Since starting my vintage-reselling activities, I have gotten much more comfortable with determining if an item is going to fit me based on measurements. I am much more likely to buy a vintage item from an Etsy shop based on its measurements (and my own) and have it fit correctly than I am to buy a modern item off a website and have it fit. Modern sizes are a crapshoot at best. And then you have to decide if the sizing is US, UK, women's or junior's, or that completely inexplicable H&M sizing which fits no one. Dear fashion designers, start just measuring your clothes and get everybody on board with that. We can all fit into our clothes and go merrily on our way. End of rant.
Moving on...
I almost bought this one, because the print is amazing, wraps are amazing, and I love Banana Republic. However, despite this being a size small, it was really weirdly loose in the armpits and it felt weird. Plus, there were these:
Nobody wants ornamental, random brass buttons. Sorry, BR.
I found a couple of vintage items too (pictured at the end) so I felt really good about this trip! I decided to go to the last area Salvo that I hadn't been to yet this summer. Sometimes I find a ton at this store, sometimes I find almost nothing. I was lucky to find a few things that made the trip worthwhile, but not an overwhelming amount. Perfect!
I found just one thing for me, but it was a really good thing!
This is a swim coverup. I love its asymmetry, and I love the little tie at the front skirt hem. And obviously I love the tropical floral pattern and the color scheme! Yes!
I really made out with 70s stuff for my shop! Most of this is from that era, with the exception of the green dress in the middle (60s) and the pink dress next to it (early 80s). If the green skirt with the pink belt had been my size, I would never have parted with it. But it and all the rest will be coming to my Etsy shop in the near future!
And that's it for the summer, friends! I'll see you again after the next Wednesday on a school vacation!
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