"BROCANTE" in Belgium

I will share again our passion for flea markets after this post. We go really often to all local flea markets near our house and we are quite well known by all the regular sellers due to our look so a lot of people keep for us various objects for amazing low prices!!!

It was my first trip out of the house this week, I was quite ill and I had to keep the bed for some days...

Woke up at 5:30 AM, towards Belgium about 50km from home!

 

What a beautiful NOS pair of boots from 1900-1910,
unfortunatly too big for me.
I bought a 40's dress from the seller.



A cute 50's unbrella with lady bugs,
unfortunatly in bad condition.





Discovering some NOS 20's lingeries: slips and
panties with floral and Art Deco embroideries.

Here was how we were dressed today...

My husband wanted to buy a strange thing, a mexican velvet hat from the 50's, like new with amazing gold embroideries. It will be hard to store and I must organize a mexican party soon to be able to wear it....

And here is all what we bought this week-end... I'm quite ashame to have bought so much, we have a big house but it will be soon full!!!!!

But how resist to such cuties for just some euros and we often think that we must save all these kitch objects from the 50's...

And a list of what we bought :

- a bamboo cheese plate from the 50's

- 2 cakes plates from the 50's

- one small 50's poodles dish

- a set of 6 bakelite fruits knives from the 50's

- a women 50's eyeswear frame

- a pair of platic earrings from the 50's

- a 40's dress

- a plants tables from the 50's

- a pairs of triangle small tables from the 50's

- 3 atomics barkclothes from the 50's

- some others atomics fabrics from the 50's

- a mirror frame from the 50's

- a yellow lamp from the 50's

- a green purse from the 40's

- an atomic tea-pot from the 50's

- a bamboo wall plant holder from the 50's

- a 30's bakelite hairdrier

- a bar furniture from the 50's

- another small atomic table from the 50's

- 4 ski pole from the early XXth century

- a Xmas tray from the 50's

- a 50's scarf

- a bag for make-up from the 50's

- some 45 rpm records most from Elvis

- a 45 rpm holder from the 50's

- a mexican hat from the 50's

- 7 atomic pots from the 50's

- a souvenirs plate from Chicago from the 50's

- a 50's style men shoes NOS

- some 50's platic things to clip on plates to put bread or sauce

- a 50's revues holder

- 2 50's yellow plastic pots for plants

and not in the pictures a TV from 1954 and another 50's floor lamp.

Fortunatly, the flea markets season will soon come to an end due to the upcoming cold weather... we will have this winter to organize all these new purchases and perhaps have to sell some of them...

What do you buy the most in Flea Markets?

Do you buy in order to sell or just for you?

Hollywood Portraits

I made a really nice find in a flea market this summer... I bought a huge lot of vintage pictures (probably not original ones), this is a lot of Hollywood Portraits and movies scenes from the 30's thru the 50's, most from the 30'-40's. Some are in color but I really prefer the B&W ones. All these pictures are so glamorous!!!

First I was watching them at the Market to buy only perhaps 10 of them but each one was more beautiful than the other and it was so hard to choose. So we decided to take them all and we made an offer to the seller.

When we came back home we compted all these portraits and classed them depending of their era: more than 1350 pictures!!!!

These pictures are quite large about A4 format. Here are some examples from this treasure.

There are not so many men pictures, but I'm just pleased with that because I love actresses' portraits the most. So many things to watch on women: dresses, hairs, hats, shoes, make-up, jewels...

Look at this amazing dress!!!

Some of these pictures show how amazing the 40's fashion could be.

For me who is a vintage hats lover, I was able to see really amazing hat so well pictured!

In this lot, there are also some funny and cute pictures like these ones :

The are also a lot of couple pictures, here are some examples.

A lot of great great hair styles!

Some pin-up showing their best bathing suits!!!

Some vintage brides!!!

Some WWI memories.

A lot of dance scenes from 30's and 40's musicals.

If I can find a good hair dresser (still not find a good one here), I choose these 2 ladies for their hair style, I think it could fit me, quite the same cut I already have but shorter and curlier.

I cannot show you all these pictures but I thing with those examples, you can see how amazing this collection is. I think I prefer starlets than great stars, their pictures are always more fun.

I made some Hollywood Portraits with my Husband in Rhythm Riot weekender some years ago. Here is a 2004 picture by Gordon Ayres.

Do you like vintage Hollywood Portraits?

Have you ever done one of yourself?

Our vintage WEDDING...

A lot of people ask us about our wedding. So I have decided to made a "small" post about it.

My husband and I have known each other for 15 years but we married in April 2006 when we bought our home sweet home.

We choose to have a small wedding, not a big event where you must invite all your cousins and parents friends with whom you have nothing in common. Only our witnesses, brothers, sisters in law and parents.

Of course our wedding was vintage inspired!!!

The party took place in a lovely small 50's hotel with a great view of the city, Thionville.

There were 2 vintage cars for our wedding. The bride's car was a 55 Cadillac Convertible and the broom's car was our 59 Cadillac specialy decorated for this great day!

It was a windy but sunny day. I was really proud of my bouquet with beautiful soft colors matching with my dress and some pearls to match my wedding ring, so romantic!

So let's speak about the most important thing for a girl: her wedding dress!!! Mine was not a real wedding dress, but a light pink vintage prom dress from the 50's with a matching stole. My shoes were 50's lucite and gold leather high heels, I realize that I have no pictures of them from this day... I was wearing silk white flowers on my hairs, white gloves and pearl jewels. I also had a white rabbit fur stole for the evening, also from the 50's.

The groom was also really elegant with his brown 50's suit. I don't know if you notice his 40's silk tie with 2 HEARTS, perfect for a wedding...

The most outstanding feature of this wedding it's that it was organized in only 3 weeks!!!! Fortunatly it was early Spring so we could chose the restaurant we wanted. I already had the dress, so I just had to look for accessories.

How was your wedding? Was is a vintage one?

Are you planning to have a vintage style one?