We have an assortment of Fall Skirts preserved from the 1980s. The fabric is lightweight woven wool -- pleated for maximum swish effect. 🌸🍂
#VintageFallStyle #VintageWool #vintageGeigerSkirts #QualityOverQuantity
Retro Plastic Bangles come in so many fun designs. Which one would you choose to try on?
#retrojewelry #vintagebangles #mahonebay #vintagenovascotia #novascotiasmallbusiness
Vintage Flashback: Coventry pieces used textured metals and artificial stones to create budget-friendly bling and used freelance designers to create a wide range of styles from brutalist pieces to romantic florals.⛓️🌼
Which pieces do you recognize from your mother’s or grandmother’s jewellery box?
Rediscovering the many design styles in this collection of quartz wristwatches.
Collectible textiles — Embroidered vintage hankies are often still found for a dollar or two in vintage shops. These little handmade masterpieces show such care and precision. Sorting through them can be so calming.
#vintagetextiles #vintagehankies #vintagecollectibles #vintagelinens
A colourful, well-preserved die-cut paper valentine from the 1850s featureing angels, birds, and flowers held together by bits of ribbon.
❤️Happy Valentine’s Day from the 1850s❤️— Paper Valentine featuring angels, birds, flowers, hearts, and strung together with ribbon.
#valentines #antiquevalentines #antiqueephemera #papercraft #victorianvalentine #victorianstyle
Antique tool for measuring the inside length of a shoe. Now obsolete since standard measurements, but still could may have had uses for travellers buying shoes in other countries in a hurry,
Curiosity — Found this gadget at one of my local thrift shops. It is a Dr. Scholl’s Shoe Size Detector from 1915 — spring loaded to measure the inside length of a shoe.
#shoeaccessories #antiquecuriosities #obsoletegadgets
A collection of antique eyeglasses showing some of the repairs people would make to them in order to continue using them. The arms of the glasses show small metal welds and twists of wire and string used to keep the broken bits together.
Celebrating the faults: small welds, twisted bits of wire and string used to fix the broken, and often mismatched, arms on some of these antique pairs of eyeglasses.
#antiqueglasses #vintageglasses #vintagecollectors #spectacles #antiquerepairs
Display of 4 vintage cut crystal scent bottles in varying colours.
Simple Pleasures: Discovering that your crystal scent bottles can be balanced on their sides 💎
#vintagescentbottles #vintagedecor #cutcrystalbottles #vintagecollectors
