Category Archives: New Treasures

Summer Beauties For Your Pleasure

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Super Vibrant Modern Art Pantsuit

Unique and Vibrant, this gorgeous polished cotton pantsuit by Marilyn of New York, just listed in Vintage Lucy, along with many other summer delicacies for you to enjoy. Please do stop in soon….more beauties just arrived and we are working fast on photos. The warm weather is upon most of us in the states, though weather is a bit trippy these days, one day it’s hot and steamy, the next day cold and snowy….one never really knows. One thing for certain we will not get bored with the weather.

So…..we need to be prepared, by surrounding ourselves with jackets and light coats this summer, and maybe a warm and cozy sweater, along with the other airy and cool seasonal treasures we purchase and procure to satisfy our healthy and forever growing vintage obsessions. At Vintage Lucy we have timeless found garments for all seasons, northern climates all the way to the down under lands where it is now getting colder. Think mix and match when viewing items from our listed ensembles (tops and skirts paired together) with your already-owned wardrobe favorites. Enjoy the vintage jewelry, purses, and heels…it’s always fun to accessorize. More being listed soon. Email if you would like a multiple purchase price reduction as we are most happy to give lot quotes with combined discounted shipping. Have a fabulous happy summer!

New Found Precious Treasures

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Romantic 40s Silk Love Story Evening Coat

The weather has been oh so cold here in upstate New York…..makes me want to fade into a good book as soon as the night falls, which is delightfully sweet and early. I still lust after vintage, no matter how cold and how much I crave comfort, how about you? Last week once again I was out seeking vintage. My treasure hunts take me to new and old magical places.

Have just found a lovely vintage 40s black and cream tweed suit with scallops down the center front of the classic fitted jacket. There are also wide split cuffs and finger pockets with flaps…and the classic fitted skirt to match. Simply dreamy! Also….a superb classic-cut fluffy white swing coat happened my way, no doubt drawn to me by my inner cravings. Both of these beauties to be added shortly…just did the photo shoot today….so do keep a look out. Many other new beauties as well….full dresses and cashmere sweaters, sweet skirt and sweater ensembles….I am working hard creating the presentations.

For now, do feast your eyes on this silk Chinese Love Story Coat listed recently:
SHOWING A MYSTIC TELLING OF THE BUTTERFLY LOVERS IN THE GARDEN OF THE THATCHED BRIDGE WHERE THEIR OATH OF LOVE WAS MADE.
The romantic legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai is set in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Zhu Yingtai is a beautiful and intelligent young woman, the ninth child and only daughter of the wealthy Zhu family of Shangyu, Zhejiang. Although traditions of that era discourage females from going to school, Zhu manages to convince her father to allow her to attend classes in disguise as a young man. During her journey to Hangzhou, she meets LiangShanbo, a scholar from Kuaiji (present-day Shaoxing). They chat and feel a strong affinity for each other at their first meeting. Hence, they gather some soil as incense and take an oath of fraternity in the pavilion of a thatched bridge.Keep warm and have fun shopping and wearing vintage!

Dress Vintage for Halloween and Holidays

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What could be better than wearing a new favorite vintage outfit as you go out partying? Every treasured garment and accessory is unique saying so much more about you and your individuality. Isn’t it disheartening that so many new styles these days are only remakes of our vintage delights of cherished days gone by? What’s with that? You would think that today’s designers could come up with all new styles to dazzle, instead of borrowing their  “new looks” from the supremely innovative ideas of past eras….but they fall short. No slightly changed copy can ever compare with the real thing. And…..if you are a believer of vintage spirit magic as I am …the stories carried in the threads are not there to help create new moments to treasure ….no mystique, no magic….so sad.

Do stop by Vintage Lucy and find a timeless treasure to inspire your Halloween eve and, remember…the holidays and all those family gatherings and office parties are just around the corner. Many new beauties being added weekly just waiting for new homes where they will be cherished. Take a peek at this 40s to 50s deep blue plush velvet dream dress, with matching original shawl, featuring Egyptian style draping in the front skirting and hand-prong-set sequins over ruched bust and set in a star burst pattern on shawl ends. Come to Vintage Lucy and take a closer look with many varied views for each vintage garment.

Vintage Lucy Fall Treasures

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Wow, we’re deep into summer now, aren’t we? Half the country is baking hot, hot, HOT……. so we have no complaints here at Vintage Lucy Heaven, upstate New York…just dreamy hot enough weather with an occasional cooling shower. The vintage beauties keep coming in…..so we have listed some unique stunners recently, the 60′s culotte set in forest green corduroy, a fancy ghost gray evening pantsuit dress with silver beaded trim, a lovely tummy-showing tropical full skirt dress from Indonesia, and a very striking Canadian 40′s sweater dress set with a dynamic hot melon chevron design highlighted in metallic gold and creamy white angora….just to describe a few. Do stop by and take a peek…more being listed almost daily now, readying the collection and filling it out for the fall weather just around the corner! Hope you have all been enjoying the crazy summer, or winter down-under…..now we will continue on, playing in the glorious fields our personal vintage wardrobes during the near perfect weather of the favored transitional months, right?

 

Don’t  forget to email when you are shopping Vintage Lucy, so I can answer all of your questions. I do love working with you personally. Send photos of yourself wearing your favorite vintage garments if you would like to share, and of course you know we treasure your suggestions always. Keep smiling and creating your unique one-of-a-kind looks! We are there with you in these endeavors, always offering new accessories, separates and ensembles to add a bit of new spice, whenever you crave it. Thank you for your continued enthusiastic support and business….we couldn’t do it without you!

Time for Vintage Loving

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Sheer Boho Dress with Gold Rings

It’s summer, and oh-so-hot in over one third of the US and there are fires out west…difficult times, still we go forward as there is no other way to go…….no sense in being too sad and morose as we feel for everyone affected and send our caring thoughts. We find ourselves still loving our vintage and collectibles and finding solace in these beauties from yesterday. Just maybe they bring us luck, through the waves of soothing time gone by and center our minds and spirits on the delights of these precious garments and their lives at 50s parties, 40s days at the beach on vacation, and 60s rock concerts, freeing us from concerns of today.

We are being very lucky up here in the north country…upstate NY. I do hope you are fortunate also, and just maybe you are as you have found yourself here at Vintage Lucy today. I have not been keeping up with this new blog, though labor of love it is…….am trying to work it into my daily routines but this hasn’t happened so far….just am too busy watching the world and using my Vintage Lucy time for finding new beauties and shooting photos to keep the collection here growing and fresh. I have been enjoying my cherished return customers as you come back for seasonal treasures, and have also been noticing many new names, being drawn to Vintage Lucy for the first time, buying unique personal collections for their vintage wardrobes…..so many dynamic and mysterious names, and I can only imagine the faces with the kind notes as we communicate back and forth.

Today I start showing you some sleeping beauties….special hidden treasures that sometimes get lost in the shuffle as you search for your heart’s desire, though they are truly favorites of mine that I hold dear as they stay with me in the VL collection. I hope by drawing your attention to these featured treats, you will look even more closely the next time you shop Vintage Lucy…so much more fun than regular retail shopping, don’t you think? See the above sheer Boho dress with gold ring trim!