shop update this week!

i've got some great things that i'll be adding to the shop this week! a few lovely 40's and 50's dresses that have been very hard to part with!

Stars of the cortex

so, here it is, my first science post. science is what i do during the day, and while its such a different world from fashion and art, it does have its own certain beauty. for my research, i study the brain, and one of the very first scientists to study the brain also made some of the most exquisite drawings anatomical drawings. Ramon y Cajal lived and worked during the early 1900's and his detailed drawings of brain were some of the first proof that the brain was made of specific cells, rather an some amorphous substance.



this is a detailed drawing of a single brain cell, called a neuron.



neurons are arranged in very specific patterns throughout the brain. these neurons are arranged in layers in the cortex.



cells are arranged differently in another brain area, the cerebellum.



these are some examples of a different cell type, the glia. these are called astrocytes, the astro part refers to the fact that they look like stars.



The little guy marked "D" is a one of the inspirations for the name of this blog. he's a spiny stellate cell, stellate meaning 'like a star'. i've always thought it was the cutest little cell, and that stellate was one of the loveliest words.

snail and the cyclops and forest bound on etsy!

I'm pretty sure mostly everyone has seen this already, but if you haven't, definitely check it out! Francesca and Alice both run the most wonderful shops and it was amazing to see inside of their home! Also, the dress that Francesca is wearing is the first dress i ever sold in my Etsy shop, so it was very cool to see it here!

I love seeing the things that i've sold in picture's on other people's blogs and flickr pages! whenever i see one, i get really excited and i always leave some sort of comment. of course, sometimes, i just randomly stumble across them, so i end up leaving comments on random people's flickr and it does make me feel a little bit stalker-ish! but i can't help it, its just the coolest thing to see the stuff you sold being worn well and looking great on other folks. maybe those of you with your own stores can understand.... do you end up feeling super excited/happy when you see stuff from your store being worn?

Brown 50's dress

I've worn this dress a bunch of times since i've gotten it, i just love the little bow on the front!



i think i look a little sad in these pictures... i took another version with me smiling, but these ones just seemed to reflect my mood more. things have been a bit rougher in grad school for me recently, but i suppose that's how it goes, the ups and downs. oh, but speaking of grad school, it was mentioned in one of the comments that i have the word 'science' in my blog description. that's because when i started the blog, i wanted to try and incorporate a little bit of what i do during the day (science research) into the blog. i've been trying to think of the right way to do it, and it turns out its been a bit harder than i thought, cause i don't want to bore you all to tears. but i think i've come up with a good post, so sometime this weekend i'll put up my first science-related post, but i promise it will be cool, not horrible! :)
hope everyone is having a lovely weekend and a great 4th of july!!!

Coming soon to the shop!

smaller shop update this weekend... i've got to do some ironing because i really do have a number of other nice things! but this weekend, these two blouses and this dress. and maybe another skirt. also, i'm going to take some better pictures of the red 20's dress, the ones i have up right now really don't do it justice.

The 1920's collection

1920's Blue

1920's Flower

1920's Red

These beautiful dresses were found together in box packed away in the 30's and not opened till recently. when i bought them, they were terribly stained from all of the years of storage. however, oxyclean worked its magic and they are now stain free! (i didn't used think there was anything special about oxyclean, but now i've totally changed my mind! i'll put some "before" pictures up in a little bit.) Anyways, these lovely dresses will be up for sale this evening (around 5 pm) in my shop!

photo shoot

This week my extremely sweet friends Amy and Xiaoyu helped me take some pictures for the shop in the park behind work. Amy wore some of the small dresses from the 1920's collection (more about that to come!) and I wore a 40's dress and a 50's dress. I have to say i felt a bit nervous about it at first, but we had so much fun and seeing all of these cool dresses that have been hanging around in my place come to life was the greatest! These pictures from the 50's dress came out so well that I beginning to think i may have to keep it and not sell it:)
I've put a few pictures of the 1920's collection on my flickr, but i'll do a proper post here before i put them up for sale this weekend!

Best appreciation photo!

So I have really been neglecting this blog... like alot! i guess that most of my spare time has been going to putting things up in the store. its alot of work washing, mending, ironing and photographing everything. i love it very much, but i have pretty limited free time as a grad student, so despite my grand plans, i can't always finish everything i want to!
But anyways, i've been wanting to get back to the blog and the other day I received the best appreciation photo, and it was a great inspiration for a post. A little while ago i sold this dress in my etsy store. i had bought it on ebay from a lady who was getting rid of the clothes she used to wear as a girl. it fit me pretty well, but i have this sort of weird phobia about wearing dresses without sleeves (strange, i know!), so i decided to sell it.
Well the sweet girl who bought it sent along this picture, of a cute girl in the 40's wearing nearly exactly the same dress! Apparently, she had just read an article on feedsack dresses, seen this old picture and then saw my dress in the shop! pretty amazing!

Future fashion

This is such a cool video from the 30's predicting what "Eve" will be wearing in the year 2000. some of the predictions are waaayyy off, like i'm not sure why anyone thought that wedding dresses made of glass would catch on. but, one fashion designer had some real insight cause their predictions were pretty darn accurate....




white jumpsuit...



Cantilever heels!

Being the fairly conservative dresser that I am, i don't really see myself wearing either of these anytime soon. but some very similar things have been shown on the runways of late, so proving our friend from the 30's quite right!



Marc Jacobs 08



Ossie Clark 09



Katie Holmes 08

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