Thursday I made the serious error of going to one of Stephen Porterfield's estate sales. I wish he had a website--he owns The Cat's Meow antique store, and we've known each other forever. Not in a Best Friends kind of way, but forever, nonetheless. He's sold to almost anyone you can think of who collects vintage clothing--Annie Lennox, Barbra Streisand--and he's shipped racks of his stuff to Vera Wang for her research. He's provided a bunch of stuff for Mad Men, which I have never seen, but apparently there's some very tall pregnant woman with a very large chest, and he provided half a dozen maternity outfits for her.
Anyway, so he had this fabulous Czechoslovakian necklace, and I made the even-more-egregious mistake of trying it on. And that was pretty much all she wrote. His prices are excellent, esp. considering how widely popular he is. (He's the one from whom I bought the smoking jacket last week; turns out, he tells me, the reason so many of the patches are shredded is because he was "boogeying" (his words) in it at the Round Top Flea Market. He has a permanent shop there in Warrenton. I just hope it was cleaned afterward. . . .
Anyway. We're getting ready to go to a dance. At a Catholic Church. Appropriate, no? Those are some people who appreciate costume!
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WOW!!!!! I MEAN, WOW!!!!! I HAVE NO MORE WORDS.....I WISH I DID! THIS IS JUST SOOOOOO FABULOUS!
(HEY)JUDE
Thank you! I love it and would never take it (actually them--I think I've got on 5 other necklaces in addition to the huge one) off except they're so amazingly heavy. The invitation says "casual dress." Oh, well.
It looks great, and really suites you.
I am not a big rhinestone gal myself (I don't care to wear sparkle, I always prefer matt) so I am looking at it and imagining the shape as a beaded collar somehow. Maybe even on ultrasuede. I have been thinking of doing a collar for a while.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Please...
Fabulous rhinestone necklaces go with everything!
Love it.
Nancy in Dallas
The ex-costume designer in me purrrs at this awesome look! WOW!
I was trying to figure out if that was ONE necklace then I see in your comments tht it is sevearl. They look amazing together. I have a little pile of rhinestones myself.
Darla
Photos, pretty please, Darla? I love rhinestones, the more over-the-top, the better. Not the expensive designer ones, though--the whole point for me is being able to wear them without having to worry about losing or damaging them.
spectacular! any photos of what you decided to wear with these beauties? and i agree - rhinestones do go with everything.
How gorgeous your neck looks. Yeah I think a black something under those rhinestones would really show them off. Just fab!!!
patq
No photos, but: I wore them with my current favorite top to wear dancing, a black corset/bustier/vest thing. You know, it fastens behind the neck, no sleeves, has hook and eye closures (big ones, not cutesy ones) all the way up the front. About hip length, so it's longer. Cotton, nothing fancy. Stays (what used to be called bones, for boning). I usually wear it with a black cotton knit shrug, but it was hot, so I wore it just like it was. I wear it with a black-and-white plaid skirt, ankle length, full with gores so it's VERY full. It's a thin cotton, so it's cool. The top was, I think, 50 cents at a garage sale. The skirt was less than $2 at either the Salvation Army or Goodwill. The shrug was clearance at Penney's, I think, for $9.99. Oh, and I wear another full skirt under it, depending on what The EGE wears. He wore a pink shirt, so I had a pink skirt underneath, also long and full. This whole ensemble is for dancing, of course--the skirts whirl out, and everybody loves it. Since they're so long, the whirling doesn't even show my knees--you don't want to have to think about that stuff when you're dancing.
Thank you, y'all. I love that I can show stuff I love to wear and other people like it, too. Mostly, here, people just think I'm a little tacky. That's fine--I don't care--but it's so nice to know people who love the same stuff I do. So I can show it and go, "Look what I found!" and y'all go, "Oooh, cool!" instead of, "Ick." Which is what my mother would have said. Also, "Tsk, tsk." She hated my taste.
Also--one more thing!--I had an ulterior motive buying this. I hope that because it's in the house, the rhinestone necklace that went missing will be jealous of the attention and will come out from wherever it's hiding. Provided, of course, that it didn't fall in the trash months ago. . . .
I LOVE THE NECKLACES.
OMG! LOVE it. They remind me of that mondo-expensive diamond necklace in the movie Moulin Rouge. Only yours, all together, are much cooler!
Did you wear a tiara as well. :=) I have a budding collection of rhinestone tiaras...mostly given to me as gifts, but one vintage one I bought on Ebay, that I love.
Rhinestones...they're a good thing.
Love. it. It's totally awesome. I am jealous!
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