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The Vanderbilt Shirt Factory – Asheville, NC
One of the great things about living near a place like Asheville is the fun of playing tourist for a day. We often get up to a day with nothing important on the agenda and take the drive into the...
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The Vanderbilt Shirt Company, Part II
The slightly fuzzy girl in the photo is me, circa 1974. It was taken by my boyfriend (now husband!) at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville. I chose this particular photo not to show off how short I...
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Christmas Windows, Asheville NC
I went to Asheville today to see what was “new” in my favorite vintage places, and also to check out the Christmas windows. It had never occurred to me that Asheville might have great holiday...
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Vintage Shopping in Asheville, NC
Over the past two weeks I’ve visited all my favorite vintage shopping places in Asheville. To be such a small city, there are lots of interesting places to look for vintage treasures. I actually took...
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1960s Chanel-Inspired Davidow Jacket
I mentioned a few days ago that I lucked into a vintage pop-up shop on the streets of Asheville. One of the great things about Asheville is that there are numerous little alleyways and side streets,...
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Vintage Shopping with the Vintage Traveler
My husband likes to remind me that it’s not shopping unless you buy something. Maybe I should have titled this post Vintage Looking, because I do I lot more looking than I do buying. I have learned...
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Pollock’s Shoes, Asheville, NC
In my ongoing search for all things concerning hiking clothing, I found this ad in a 1926 issue of Everygirl’s, the Campfire Girls magazine. I can’t resist looking at the lists of stores whenever they...
View ArticleAnne Adams Sewing Patterns, Fall 1938
Anne Adams was the name of a sewing pattern company which sold their products through syndicated content in newspapers across America. I have seen Anne Adams patterns from the 1940s through the 1980s,...
View ArticleAsheville Art Museum – Newly Reopened and Better than Ever.
For years I’d not thought about the Asheville Art Museum. Years ago when the museum had a great program that paired works from their collection with our US history curriculum, I took my fifth graders....
View ArticleWhat Lurks Beneath
I posted a photo of this poster on Instagram, along with a plea for followers to encourage me to buy it. I left it in the antique store where I spotted it, but I could not forget about it. So …...
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