Vintage Find of the Day

So Kaitlin's Gran is probably one of the most amazing women that I have yet to meet. She is always checking up on Kait since she moved to Toronto. They write emails, talk on the phone and makes sure that her university bound grandchild is alive and well.. Its amazing that they are family as well as best friends.

 One of the fabulous presents that she recently gave to her granddaughter was a vintage circa 1980's blue hat but the unfortunate thing for Kaitlin is, that is doesn't fit. The fortunate thing for me is, it fits me. So now I have a very cute and ultra chic hat to borrow thanks to Kait's Gran.  : )

Dior's new look

Hey guys, kind of a big deal here right now.

The other, we decided to go on a big adventure and check out some of Toronto's best vintage stores that we hadn't yet visited.

One of our first stops of the day was I Miss You. The store is located at 63 Osslington ave just north of Queen West. Their specialty as we quickly found out, is vintage designer clothing.

Their prices are really reasonable, considering the names that they sell (Chanel, Dior, Balenciaga, Hermes, Birkin, YSL etc) and the condition of all of their clothes. I'm not saying that I could waltz in and buy an outfit, let alone even afford a dress, but hey, I'm a university student, I shouldn't be able to afford clothes from anywhere. That said, there were still plenty of gorgeous finds within my price range, be it shirts, skirts, shoes or accessories.

Of course, if you know me, you know what I went for right away.

And then i saw it. And then it was on my head. And then it clicked and I knew I was leaving the store with this hat.

From Christian Dior's 1947 "new look", my gorgeous new hat might just be my new favourite thing in my possession.

 Velvet, with a nice ribbon and a cute little bow,this was a perfect find, for only $40.

Takes about a million pins to keep it on my head, but it's very worth it.

I think the morale or this story is I Miss You is most definitely worth checking out, even if you don't plan on buying anything, you might just be surprised... and go home with the coolest piece of vintage clothing ever.

A Common Store

Living on West Queen West here in Toronto we have a huge variety of high quality vintage stores within a hop skip and a jump of us. We try our very best to introduce you to as many of these as possible.Of course, not every vintage store reduces us to excited little giggling fashionistas. A store very close to our house, Common Sort, has the habit of leaving us very disappointed.

Common Sort is located on Queen in cozy Parkdale and though they do have some interesting items and somewhat reasonable prices, their selection of clothes tends to be lacking. Not only do they have an excess of ugly clothes (which is great I guess for the ever growing hipster popular in the area) but are totally lacking in small and large sizes. Between the two of us, we've only ever found ONE ITEM OF CLOTHING THAT WILL FIT IN THIS STORE. And it's not due to lack of trying.

We will say that their accessories are rather cute, and that they do have an okay selection of shoes (but, again, good luck if you have bigger feet)

 The verdict: If you are a size medium hipster; have fun! If not, don't bother. Its not worth the time.

Vintage Find of the Day

This item was found by my mother at the Public Butter. We checked the RN numbers and this cute and comfortable short was made in the 1960s and is 100% original. The Public Butter always seems to have fantastic sales on and is definitely worth checking out.

Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

As you may have noticed, we've been somewhat lacking in updates over the holidays, but our downfalls in updates, we've made up in awesome fashion finds.

Over the break, we've been gifting and getting tons of new and vintage clothing and accessories and in the process have discovered some new shops we'd like to introduce you to!

It's really hard to for us to choose what to post first, but I guess we'll start with some cute handmade pillbox hats!

I found these for myself while I was trying to Christmas shop for my family. Ophelie Hat have a lot of very cute designs, everything from berets, to fedoras to feather hair pieces. TO top it all off, the designer was super nice, and helped me find hats that look great on me. (After pulling out big, black garbage bags just full of handmade hats!)

If you'd like to see some more of her work, you can check out her website here: http://www.opheliehats.com/ though I've found she has so much more in person, so if you can make it out to a show, it would definitely be worth it.

I found Ophelie at the Toronto One of a Kind craft and design show. I've gone every year for the past few years and it seems to just get better and better. If you're ever in TO, it's well worth the money to see the show, even if you just head to the food section and eat free samples all day ;) http://www.oneofakindshow.com/xmas10/


This hat design I liked so much, I couldn't decide between two colours... so I bought them both :D

The exaggerated leaves in the design really frame the eye, and make for a really striking piece.

Ever since I bought that red vintage hat, I've been on a bit of a hat rampage, and these hats really solidified my obsession. Along with these hats, you'll be seeing some others in the next month, as well as some cute vintage clutches, hounds tooth galore (another new obsession of mine) and some new and old jewelry.

From the Caitlins, we hope that you had some fantastic holidays and that your new year brings you fabulous clothes!