LOOK OUT MARC JACOBS....

My cute friend Jonathan Wells came by (he's in the picture above) my studio for a visit last week. After talking for a bit, he confessed that he had bought, virtually a vault of women's clothing from an estate sale in Meridian, MS and had the bulk of the pieces in his car. Eileen and I were like..."you better bring that stuff inside...like now!" About an hour later we had dissected boxes upon boxes of the cutest dresses from the sixties that you have ever seen. It was like stepping back in time. The bulk of the collection was from a mother who saved she and her daughter's clothes in the attic for all of these years. I was partial to the polyester, it was really made to forgive back then and has a great stretch and thickness. Jonathan wanted to know which vintage clothing store might be the most interested as he had over 100 dresses. My mind was racing and I was still wearing some double-knit when the light bulb went off. I proposed that he let me call some interested girlfriends and give them a chance to buy some of the findings before taking them elsewhere. He was game and a party was born. Word spread fast and my friend Gogo took my advice and got there sharply at 3pm. She is very petite and managed to clean up on the smallest sizes! Being a vintage clothing wearer herself, she was on the case. Everyone managed to find something and the clothes just magically came back to like. My other friend Ashley Schumacher got lucky on quite a few dresses..it was as if they were made for her. (She's the blond in the top three pictures) It was over by six and the boxes were almost empty. Jonathan had a smile on his face, I had a blast, and those clothes are going to be out and about. He just emailed me last night that he has more and winter clothes too so I guess we'll be having another little get together soon!