{"id":2812,"date":"2016-06-25T23:28:31","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T03:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2017-03-15T16:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T20:19:58","slug":"vintage-clothing-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drivingfordeco.com\/staging\/3617\/vintage-clothing-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Patterns in our lives"},"content":{"rendered":"

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So, inspired by our blog you’ve redecorated your bedroom with colorful walls, chrome accents, period art work – a true deco boudoir. Then using the reference library you’ve overhauled your living room into a masterpiece of streamlined furnishings with warm accents and one-of-a-kind vintage art. Impassioned, you worked your way room by room until your home is a showplace to the art deco period.<\/h4>\n

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Still, something is missing. No, something is wrong! <\/em>What could it be? Then it happens. You glance into the cobalt trimmed mirror, framed by exquisite French glass sconces hanging over your\u00a0rosewood side table\u00a0and you see yourself. Tee-shirt and jeans, or worse, flannel pajama bottoms and a hoodie! After all the work you’ve put into making a stylish home and here you are looking like a shlump.<\/h4>\n

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This will never do; but what <\/em>to do?<\/h4>\n

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Our\u00a0male identifying readers have it a bit easy. With a bit of research and effort, you\u00a0can approximate the style and panache of “then”\u00a0with available contemporary clothing or thrift store finds.\u00a0 Generally speaking lapel and tie widths, fit of the armhole (which have become so impossibly low that you can no longer comfortably raise you arms), and a proper hat (not the thin brimmed, poor excuse for fedora currently so popular) represent the majority of fashion changes to men’s apparel. The exceptions, perhaps, being the nerue jacket (which I think are sort of cool) and leisure suits (what’s not to like about double knit polyester with contrast stitching – definitely NOT cool) of the late 60’s \/ early 70’s.<\/h4>\n

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