Before you begin your spring shopping at flea markets, vintage and thrift stores, and/or eBay, take a quick peak at the February issue of Vogue. You've already seen it? If so, you probably caught the mini-profile of designer Alice Ritter (page 266), posed in a delightful black dress with white trim and tasteful little bows....Yours for only $563, if you only buy new. Then, just a few pages before Ritter, you'll see an armload of square and rounded bangles, clear and gray, from $175 to $1,400.
Oh my. We are so glad we love old!
Photo Albums
A Few of Our Favorite Websites & Blogs
- All Things Sixties
- Bagnifique (handmade beaded bags)
- Bonnie Cashin Archives
- Brenda Kinsel's Tips & Teasers
- Clothing Swap
- Collectors Weekly
- Fabrics.net
- Fashion and Costume History
- Fashion Dig
- FashionTribes.com
- Fuzzylizzie Vintage
- Glamoursplash
- Jennifer George Jewelry
- Legacy Heirlooms
- Lucy Loves Fabric
- Overdressed For Life
- Papier Doll
- Random Acts of Vintage...A Real Treat!
- Re-Mix Vintage Shoes
- Susan Jane Jewelry
- The DebLog at Debutante Clothing
- The Museum of Costume
- The Sartorialist (a fresh view of NYC)
- Thrift Store Directory Listing
- Tramp Lamps
Make Sure to Visit...
When In Doubt...Look It Up
- Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now
- Retro Chic: A Guide to Fabulous Vintage...
- Secondhand Chic: Finding Fabulous Fashion...
- Dressing Up Vintage
- Virtual Vintage: The Insider's Guide...
- Collector's Guide: Costume Jewelry
- Fashion Today
- Boutique, A '60s Cultural Phenomenon
- Vintage Style
- Wearing Vintage
- The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia
- Western Shirts: A Classic American Fashion
- 100 Years of Western Wear
- The Cowboy Boot Book
- The Aloha Shirt
- Shoes: A Celebration...
- Shoes: Fashion and Fantasy
- American Ingenuity, Sportswear 1930s-1970s
We Goofed: Vera & Vera
- While we've only heard from one reader who spotted our Vera Maxwell mistake in Alligators... we can't believe we made such a dumb mistake and we want to correct it. We confused two designers, both named Vera, and the woman we wanted to identify in our book is Vera Neumann (see page 182 in the hardback edition). Vera Maxwell was also a design legend, with a career spanning fifty years, but it is Neumann whose screen prints appeared on everything from dresses to napkins and tablecloths.
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Where Is Hooti Couture?
WE ARE ON HOLIDAY/WINTER BREAK! HOOTI IS CLOSED UNTIL FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2012.
Late Winter/Spring 2012 Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 11-8.
How the heck do you get to Brooklyn? It's easy. You'll find Hooti at:
321 Flatbush Avenue (at Seventh Avenue)
Closest neighborhoods: Park Slope, Prospect Heights
Best subway lines: B & Q trains (exit at Seventh Avenue and you'll find Hooti across the street)
Phone: 718-857-1977
Find Your Way to Hooti!
What Is Alligators...?
Alligators, Old Mink & New Money, One Woman's Adventures in Vintage Clothing was written by sisters Alison and Melissa Houtte and is available in the U.S. and Canada in both hardback (top; William Morrow/Harper Collins) and paperback (Avon Trade).
You can also buy the UK edition (Orion Publishing) in hardback in England, Australia, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales. Orion's paperback edition (below) is also now on sale.
Alligators & the Media
- Woman's Day, March 2007 issue; Heat magazine, UK Feb. 3-9, 2007, and many reviews and touts from 2005/2006, when our book was first published: People magazine ("charming memoir"); New York Post (3 1/2 star review); Women's Wear Daily; New York Times; OK magazine; TimeOut New York; All Things Considered, NPR (Jan. 15; you can hear it at npr.org); Glamour (British edition, "a must for all vintage die-hards"); InStyle, (British edition, "a charming journey"); Madison magazine (Australia); Body & Soul magazine; and Newsday, Associated Press, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Dallas Morning News, Miami New Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury, The Scotsman (Glasgow, Scotland), Pacific Sun and Sacramento Bee
Amazon
Clothes Quotes
- A batch of vintage classics, with thanks to Hester Hull of Birmingham, Michigan:
“Nothing is thought rare which is not new, and follow’d; yet we know that what was worn some 20 years ago comes into grace again.”—Francis Beumont
"The purse is the mirror of the soul.”—Anna Quindlen, 1987
“When in doubt, wear red.”—Bill Blass, 1982
“These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.”—George Eliot
“And she always took the clothes created for her one step further by adding something of her own, some small personal detail which enhanced the whole.”—Givenchy on Audrey Hepburn
“Large handbags to carry all the family’s ration books were also practical rather than fashionable accessories.”—Carol Harris in Women Under Fire in World War II
“Skirts couldn’t get any shorter and remain legal.”—Amy Greene, 1970
If you adore her, you must adorn her. There lies the secret of a happy marriage.”—Anne Fogarty, 1959
Just make sure no one has exactly the same dress I do. I want all mine to be original and no fat little women hopping around in the same dress.”—Jacqueline Kennedy
“When a man says he likes a woman in a skirt, I tell him to try one.”—Katharine Hepburn
"A woman’s dress should be like a barbed wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”—Sophia Loren
“Each day Beryl would appear in the yard, looking as if she had stepped off the pages of Vogue. Silk shirt, perfectly cut jodhpurs, shining leather boots, little kid leather gloves. A broadbrimmed hat and leather whip tucked under her arm completed the ensemble. It was first class all the way with Beryl. That was all she knew. ‘ Tell them to bring the horses around, will you sweetie?’ she would say when she was ready.”—Mary S. Lovell in the biography of Beryl Markham (first woman to fly the Atlantic east to west), Straight on’ Til Morning
“Just to flirt again---in a skirt again/ There’s no romance when you dance/ Cheek to cheek and pants to pants /Oh for an old fashioned dress!”—Irving Berlin.
Hey grrrl... I've been reading "Alligators..." for a few days now (any chance I get). Very inspiring. I've never really been into the fashion scene much (most boys I know aren't) but since I started reading, I've already been out and about trying to find my own vintage style... nothing yet! I'll probably be heading to NY in April and hope to stop by and say "HI!" Hope all is well..
-Josh : Homestead, FL. (Redland Animal)
Posted by: Josh | January 26, 2007 at 01:00 PM
Just to say that I have never been a vintage kind of girl...crisp, preppy, cottons, linens and very new clothes were my thing, a legacy of having a highly successful and practical woman for a mother, and for being a product of an Oxford education (which will kill all sense of personal style!!).
Alligators, Old Mink and New Money changed all that. Allison, your book, your love of clothes, your love of history and most importantly your love of people have given me the core values which were lacking in my new, elegant and very proper clothes...a soul, an emotion and a feeling...
I'm just sorry you didn't write this book while I was living in Manhatten in 2003. Discovery of Hooti Couture would have made the weekends regular trips of self-exploration and adventure for this one very new convert to vintage style!!
Posted by: Hnin Aung-Dehn | January 27, 2007 at 03:20 AM