On Vintage Question and Answer Tag Fun

Over the past month, I’ve seen several bloggers playing this fun game of vintage question and answer tag and I thought I’d join in, so here it goes…

1.       Who are your style icons?  Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, and people in old family photos.

2.      What is your favorite way to get inspired? Looking at old family photos, vintage magazines, pattern envelops, watching old movies, vintage books, and by reading vintage blogs.

3.      What's your most-used hair tool? Hair pins, the “U” shaped ones not bobby pins.

4.      What's your favorite hair tool? Once again, hair pins.

5.      Updo, down, or half-and-half? Having long hair I usually prefer an updo, although I frequently wear it down too. I definitely need more practice in doing half-and-half styles.

6.      Is vintage something you do every day, on weekends, or for special occasions? It’s an occasional thing for me to dress completely vintage due to reasons of practicality. However, I’m usually wearing at least one piece of vintage jewelry or have some sort of accessory that is.

7.      What's your favorite blush and lipstick? Don’t use blush and very infrequently use lipstick, so I don’t really have a favorite.

8.      Dress, skirt, or pants? Heels or flats? I like all three!  Definitely flats.

9.      Off-the-rack or homemade? Both. In the last year I really started focusing on homemade, though, as I was given quite a few vintage patterns. There’s also the advantage of being able to pick fabrics and to make size adjustments.

 

10.   Do you swing dance? Nope. I enjoy watching, though. :)

11.    Extreme vintage or subtle touches? Usually subtle touches.

12.   Favorite perfume? Either Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s Alice or The Queen of Hearts.

13.   Favorite skincare product? Soap and water.

14.   What does your family think of your style? All sorts of positive things, from that it’s amusing to that it’s fun.

15.   Favorite accessory? This really depends on my mood and what type of accessory is being referred to. I love wearing pins and brooches and if hair accessories are included a clip on bow tie that belonged to my grandpa.

16.   Do you find the vintage community welcoming or snobby? Very welcoming, as far as the bloggers I follow go.

17.   What drew you to vintage style? I really don’t remember anything exact. It was probably any number of things ranging from having used 1950’s/1960’s Christmas decorations from a very early age, time spent looking at family photos, my love for old books, and a decision made some time during high school that I was only going to watch old movies (versus new movies).

18.   Favorite places to shop vintage? Usually a thrift store that is right around the corner from where I live.

19.   What vintage eras are your favorites? Without a doubt, the 1940’s and 1950’s!  

20.   Most glamorous film stars?  I think that any number of stars could fit this and I presume this isn’t just meant to refer to them in their movies, but it real life too, so to name a few Grace Kelly, Maureen O’Hara (even when being kidnapped in The Black Swan) and Cyd Charisse .   

21.   Favorite vintage object that you own?  Finding this a very unfair question I shall list several things in no particular order…a 1940’s dictionary, a wooden music box, various pieces of jewelry, any number of Christmas decorations ranging from elves to ornaments,  a cloth sewing measuring tape (see  photo at #9), just about every black and white family photo, a mouse pin cushion (see  photo at #9), a giant pocket watch, three playing card wind chimes, my grandma’s china, a set of 1950’s tart tins, a set of mismatched spoons, a salt and pepper shaker set,  the Nancy Drew and Judy Bolton books that belonged to my grandma and great aunts, a box of buttons that I’ve been playing with since I was little,…Okay, so that was more than several, but once again this is a very unfair question and how can I pick just one thing!?!

 

My dictionary, salt and pepper shakers, and a few pins.

 

 And there you have it my answers to this lovely game of vintage question and answer tag! ♥