Dear modern women,
We have created some fun hair accessories for your vintage heart. Please enjoy.
Love, Lulu Mae

Out Of The Blue Jewelry is handmade in Texas. What started as a strong focus on aquatic themes has exploded into vintage (the pink Japanese flower earrings, from vintage cabochons) and the vintage-inspired (Secretary Shorthand earrings). Jerin Scott, owner of Out Of The Blue Jewelry, tells us how she escaped her 9-to-5 in favor of creativity. Spending more time with her kids was an added bonus!
Tell us about your background. How did you get started designing?
My degree and background is actually in accounting. I spent the …

Heather Rama learned to sew against her will. “My mom taught me to sew in 7th grade because I was going to fail home ec. She spent a very frustrating evening teaching me how to sew.” Out of failure springs success. High school brought about an interest in vintage. “I liked vintage clothing because it was made so differently from modern throw away clothes and it was so unique. Vintage was still relatively cheap then, so I would buy it and redesign it or cut …

I stumbled upon this fantastic vintage store a few weeks ago. I was in the area looking for a yarn shop, and found Playclothes instead. The place was jam packed with copious amounts of vintage clothing, shoes, hats, jewelry, coats, knick-knacks, and other various pieces of yore.

After well over an hour in the store, I finally came away with this gorgeous hat (along with a couple other pieces which you will see later). Black felt and velvet, with a long, swooping feather adornment, this hat is probably …

My mother made a big mistake showing me this clutch. She found it while helping my grandmother clean out the closet. I told her I was borrowing it (along with a number of other vintage goodies to be posted later) to photograph it and put it up on Spork Fashion. Little does she know it is an extended borrow.
I don’t know what era this is from. The style looks 1950s, but the ingenuity and some of the materials look like they came from the 1970s. …

If I remember correctly, I purchased this dress for $20 off Ebay. It was a tiny bit big for me, but I haven’t worn it in years. I would probably fill it out much better now. I only wore it once, in this photo, when I went to dinner at the Magic Castle, and exclusive magic club in Hollywood. It is a very interesting dress – I can change the era with my earrings.
The way I am wearing it in this photo, I feel that it …