SNEAK PEAK: Items coming to the SHOP this week!

Reincarnated Remnants ~ Dresses to Wallets

I love recycling and I especially love it when it's a team effort!  For years I have been saving bags of fabric remnants from dresses I have hemmed to more flattering lengths and recently after cleaning out my garage, I passed them onto a crafty friend.  Last weekend after having dinner, Jeff and I were browsing around Blue Windows on 2nd St. in Long Beach and all of a sudden I spotted some really familiar fabric.  Heather Davidson, the friend I passed the fabric onto, had made all of these beautiful wallets from the pieces I had given her.  After digging through my sold items I was able to find the two dresses that contributed to these beautiful wallets.

Salvage Style:: SEQUINS for the Holidays

Sequins are one of those things, when worn right, can be so timeless.  You instantly feel dressed up when you are wearing them.    I recently added a lot of festive, sequined adorned items to the SHOP for the holidays.  I have saved some clippings of sequins worn well from Who What Wear.  There's no better time to wear this look!

Salvaged Halloween Get-Up

Things have been so crazy around here!  As I'm sure you have noticed, we have this lovely new website and blog,  THANK YOU Rachel, of Ironwood Design Studio, for doing a fantastic job and meeting my every little request to my exact specifications.   We are also transitioning to a white background for photos, still working out the kinks on that,  Our clothing and jewelry was featured last week in People Magazine and Taylor Swift has been seen around town in our necklaces.  We've got something bigger coming at the end of the week, hopefully I can tell you soon!

In the midst of all of this, Halloween happened, and somehow I was able to pull off a last minute costume for Ruby and I.  That's the beauty of having a vintage shop and way too many things collected over the years.  Ruby wore my vintage sailor dress from when I was her age and I wore a nautical 40's inspired dress from the 80's, which will soon be available in the shop.  I found some red shoe clips that I added to some pin-up style shoes I had.  Ruby's hat was thrifted and mine was given to me by a sailor many years ago. :) Here are some of my inspirations and photos of us. 

Inspiration photos from here and here.

Taylor Swift shops at Salvage Life

Just when you thought you could keep our little vintage shop a secret so no one would know where you got all of your fabulous one of a kind clothes...

If Joseph Cassell, Taylor Swift's amazing stylist found us, your friends will too! Taylor is wearing THIS vintage dress from our shop in her current Fearless concert tour. She wears it while singing White Horse, Tim McGraw, Hey Stephen and Fifteen. I found these photos from fans at her Philadelphia, PA and Charlottesville, VA concerts.

Hurry and head over to the SHOP to snag yourself a one of a kind dress before they are all gone!





photos: here, here, here and here