Vintage Shopping

This summer has been quite jam packed and I'm glad to be finally home.  I spent the last few weeks in Michigan with a short stop in Chicago.  One of the highlights was visiting Royal Oak where there are two main vintage shops called Paris and Lost and Found.   Paris has to be my favorite vintage shop.

I haven't had a chance to photograph my purchases but I bought an incredible hat, a 40's dress, and a nifty variety of jewlery.  When I first went into the shop I fell in love with a princess coat in velvet but I left it behind with the thinking "Is it really practical?".  After a couple of days of thinking about it, I went back in a bought it.  I decided that 50s glamour topped practicality.

Here I am outside of the shop:

Views of the amazing and vast selection of vintage joy.  I can't rave about this store enough and things are very reasonably priced.  It's hard to see from this front view but there are quite a few racks of clothing in the back of the shop.

Incredible selection of hats!

Here I am trying on this green hat ( I didn't buy this one but opted for a red new look hat to be featured in a future post.)  I thought this hat had an interesting side profile view.

Bakelite dreams:

I thought this suit was really interesting with all the buttons.

Here it is another couple pictures of the velvet princess coat.  It is difficult to make out the details since it is black and I hope to take some more detailed photographs as the lighting isn't easy in a shop.

What? Even more vintage in the basement level?  Shop away!

A lot of beading on this dress!

A couple of stores down Lost and Found 

A great selection of vintage as well, at a reasonable price but more modern.

They did have a small selection of 40's and the rayon dress in the middle below was just lovely and I would have snapped it up if it would have been my size.  It was in awesome condition.