New vintage finds from the Mile High City

Midge

Midge

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Last week was finally the time for my hard-earned skiing vacation in Colorado. We always spend the last night in Denver, and this time we made it to a vintage shop too. I had been so busy at work that I almost forgot to research that, but the one I had found turned out to be quite what I had been looking for! The shop wasn't only well-stocked, but also well-sorted, so that I easily found what I was looking for (Dad had a look around and was amused about some of the more outlandish things they had, but I knew this was not the time to browse for around endlessly :hysterical: ).

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Pumpkin orange 50s day dress. Has a side metal zip and a short zip in the back, down from the neck opening. Interesting.

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Shaped sleeve. I love details like this!

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The dress was originally sold at Neusteters, a traditional department store. The store doesn't exist any more, but the building is still there on 16th street, and I now know that we must have walked past it on several visits to Denver already. Now what could be a better souvenir :D.

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Beautiful slip, the label says "Lingerie by George Hatab".

I also found a green dress (yet another) - posted that in the Q&A section. Also tried to take some self-timer pics today, wearing my brown 30s dress the first time, but they came all out totally ratty :mad:. Hm, maybe tomorrow with daylight will be better.

Karin
 
Great finds! Love the orange dress and bet you look fabulous wearing it. Glad you had a great vacation and successful vintage shopping in Denver. It sounds like you've been there before - why Colorado rather than closer to home for skiing???
 
Ummm... yes... it's a bit far, I admit :D. For me it was the 8th, for Dad the 10th time. Plus we went to Utah once and to Canada twice for skiing as well, but we keep coming back to Colorado. It's not that we don't like skiing here, and my Dad grew up practically with skis on his feet, and in Klosters no less. But... the snow is just not the same as here (that powder!), it's never icy like it gets here sometimes, there's often much more snow, it's a lot higher than here, and still you sky mostly within the trees - not a lot in Breckenridge and Keystone is above tree level as here (which makes for better visibility should the weather not be so nice), the runs are longer - and people have much more discipline when queuing at lifts (here it's always a mess), and lift attendants keep an eye on things and make sure people fill lift seats up when there's a bit of a bigger queue, instead of every 4- or 6-seater going uphill with only two people in it. You get tired from actually skiing and not from queuing. I'm a good skier, but also a safe and careful one - I can say I never ski here at home like I do over there. It's just so much more fun - it's mostly not as crowded, I can go a little faster without feeling unsafe... One morning we had fresh powder some 5 inches deep - absolutely awesome, and not something you get here. The concept of back bowls (unprepared runs or bowls that still are within the controlled ski area and therefore safe as in there is no avalanche risk) is also unknown here.

Anyway, as I mentioned in the other posts, the dry cleaner's closed today, so I took the opportunity for a little photo session instead...

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Karin
 
Beautiful!

And I think you are onto something - locally labeled vintage makes the perfect souvenir!

Hollis
 
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