Here's a little background history on myself first!
I am an Air Force brat! So I moved often in my younger years eventually staying in one place for sometime and that place was Washington State, Olympia to be exact! My dad was heavy into building classic cars! The first one I remember he built was a powder blue convertible mustang that he built for my mama! And that folks is how I came to love classic cars! My mama and I use to ride around with the top down complete with vintage scarves on our heads!!! And that is also how my collection and love of vintage scarves started, true story! Now my love for antiques started when I was in my pre teens, my grandmother introduced me to her world of all things antique including her very own antique store! I loved exploring not only her shop, but also her house! It was like being in the middle of an museum! There was just about everything you could possibly dream up from the the early 20's to the late 60's!!! As my grandmother aged her handwriting got worse and that's where I came in! She taught me the ropes of the business! I learned a multitude of different things like how to tell if a piece of depression glass was real or was just a reproduction, and that same method was taught to me for vintage clothing, accessories and jewelry! The minute I first laid hands on a 1950's ball gown, I fell head over heels in love with the fashion and I never looked back! I even remember my first vintage piece! It was a 1940's swing dress and it was white with pink little flowers and glass beads as buttons!!! And yes, I still have that piece kept safely in a box as it is a bit to tiny for me now ;) my next adventure was when my family transferred to VA where my father began to build a 1932 studabaker and found the Williamsburg Rod Run car club! We often camped out with the club for shows and my mother sang with the other ladies of the club as entertainment for the shows! I still have her car coat from that club as well as my dad's! I very fond memories from the adventures we went on with the car club and they truly fueled my passion for classic and rat rods!!!
I became fully engulfed in the Pinup look nearly 8 years ago and still drowning in it, but in a most fantastical way!
Over those 8 years I have learned a lot and have seen a lot! I find it interesting to see the many different takes on what or how people think Pinup is! There is a song by the Stray Cats that I find pretty amusing and very fitting and it's called "Really Rockabilly" give it a listen and you will know what I am saying! ;) it's almost as if they are in my head when they wrote that song! There is defiantly many many types of pinups out there! But here is how I see it....To me a pinup is a classy gal who leaves something to the imagination, makes a man wanna USE his imagination to wander what ya would look like without the curve hugging dress or circle skirt and tight sweater! Putting it all out there just doesn't give them much to be curious about, ya know what I mean? Gotta give them the chase! It's not always about lingerie, leave that for the bedroom or for boudoir shoots, there is just to many beautiful outfits out there for you to strut your stuff and still feel and be sexy without having to wear skippy behind closed doors outfits! ;) Keep it classy and not trashy has always been my motto and it's always how I have described what pinup is to those who have asked, that and red lips, beautiful smiles, and pointed toes ;)
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