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Here are some of our favorite resources for everything vintage; from hair styling supplies and accessories to vintage clothing and sources for inspiration. Please let us know if there is a website you think should be on the list!

Vintage Hair Accessories

  • HairFlowers.net
  • This place has so many wonderful and unique flowers for your hair.

Inspiration for Hair Ideas

  • Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen
  • A site full, and I mean FULL, of 100s of photographs of starlets and full biographies on each one. And it does pay to be a member of this site!

Vintage Clothing

  • Viva La Vintage
  • This shop is chock full of vintage clothing and accessories. It also gets high marks for style. The owners have great taste in offerings!
  • Pin-up Girl Clothing
  • A huge selection of the vintage look in reproduction clothing so you don't have to search high and low for something that will fit a modern girl.

Vintage Things

  • Deadly Night Shades
  • Save money by buying cheap lamps at the thrift store and then splurge on these custom lampshades. They make your living room retro in an instant!

Pretty Pin-Ups

  • The Pin-up Post
  • This is a fun interactive website to see lots of perfect pin-up photography.
  • Lana Landis
  • An amazing combination of elements, music, and photography creates a really fun website to take you back in time.

Beautiful Burlesque

  • Burlesque As It Was
  • Along with a very talented burlesque troop, you will find a beautiful book written by Vivienne VaVoom on the history of and the new Burlesque movement.

Interesting Information Resources

  • Craig's Big Bands and Big Names
  • I came across this website in a search for my before-my-time crush Johnnie Ray. It has oodles of information on amazing singers and musicians from the 40s through the 60s.
 

  • Beauty News from the Past

    Maybelline - May 10, 2011

    This vintage Maybelline ad circa 1960 has a great array of makeup products. more

    Lipstick Review - February 12, 2011

    I tried the L’Oreal Infallible Lipstick reds out and they are pretty nice. more

  • Keeping Vintage Hair Simple with a Beret

    June 7, 2011

    Berets are a perfect, simple accessory to go vintage. The hat style has been around for ages and so can fit with most decades and because it covers most of your head when you put it on, you can fudge your vintage hairstyle without feeling like you need to be an expert. more

  • Curl Setting

    January 10, 2011

    A basic understanding of curl will make you better at retro styling your own hair. Here some basic theory on how a curl happens is explained and why it is what it is, in hopes that it sheds some light on why your hair may not be doing what you want it to do. more

  • “The Women” Hairstyle

    August 20th, 2010

    I adore the 1939 original version of The Women. I also love the hair of the movie. There are many easy styles to mimic. This hairstyle is worn by Paulette Goddard for the character of Miriam Aarons. See step-by-step directions on creating this hairstyle. more