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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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Alligators Is Everywhere!

In the shameless self-promotion department, we just have to brag for a paragraph (OK, two paragraphs) about our latest press coverage: Right this minute, you can find a mention of our book (as well as a photo of the paperback cover) on page 20 of the March 6 issue of Woman's Day magazine (it's on the newsstands now)...We are indebted to Dorothy Ruff of Colorado, who was one of the earliest Alligators fans to email us with her compliments. Thank you, Dorothy!!

Across the ocean, we got a huge, hot tout in the UK...in Heat magazine. For the issue of Feb. 3-9, Alligators was ranked as No. 10 on Heat's Top 10 booklist. Thank you Heat editors!

Now, onto the Oscars...we will be watching for great vintage gowns, of course.

February 20, 2007 in about "Alligators", Current Affairs |

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Heather

I just finished reading your book today and i LOVED it!!!! I have had such a desire to shop for vintage items this whole week. I even used your guide in the back of the book, and I bought a beautiful 1940s silk brocade gray floral crop top tonight. Next time I am back home on long island and have some time, I going to try to make it out to your store. Thanks for the insight into this amazing world!!

Posted by: Heather | March 14, 2007 at 10:53 PM

Pip Lincolne

Oh... I am down to the last 20 or so pages of your book.. and I am rationing it.. one page at a time.. I just don't want it to finish! I have a vintage and new store in Melbourne, Australia.. and I can completely relate to so much of your book! Yippeee and thanks!
Pip

Posted by: Pip Lincolne | April 06, 2007 at 06:58 PM

Lisa Wells

Your book was a gift to me from my brother and sister-in-law because it made them think of my mom - who showed me how much fun it could be to shop thrift stores, flea markets and garage sales. I hope to pass on to my daughters that thrill of finding "treasures"!

Today at the Goodwill, I found a copy of The Preppy Handbook by Lisa Birnbach. All of sudden, I was flooded with memories of my "preppy stage" in the '80's. Now I'm on the lookout for vintage Lacoste and Lilly Pulitzer!

Thanks for a terrific book!

Posted by: Lisa Wells | August 01, 2007 at 11:36 PM

Fred Salaff

Just wanted to let you that two films I made about my aunt, Vera Neumann in the 1970's are now being released on dvd by goldenageproductions.info.

1: "Vera Paints Ibiza in the Sun"
2: "In the Company of Vera"

Fred Salaff

Posted by: Fred Salaff | July 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM

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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.

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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

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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.