Betty’s Trick or Treating Jack o Lantern, circa 1973. I really took that out for collecting candy. It seemed so big at the time… Happy Halloween!
Boo!
October 31st, 2011Bring out your tees!
October 28th, 2011Our friends at NEST in Clarksville, MD (they have carried Elisabethan in their store just about as long as anybody has) are having a T-SHIRT DRIVE this weekend for Elisabethan. It’s something we’ve wanted to get going for awhile and are so glad Anastasia and her crew have stepped up! Elisabethan will buy the tees that people bring into Nest, and Nest will donate that money to a non-profit group of their choosing… and t-shirt donors can free up some drawer space!
Fashion Week, Paonia II
October 24th, 2011More pics from the fashion show… Despite other designers opting for hipper, or at least more current music, ‘bethan models walked the runway to David Bowie’s “Sound & Vision”—you gotta stay true to your inspiration! I’m still trying to run down some pics from Elisabethan on the runway, but at least you can see Regna modeling the our Designer Challenge…
Fashion Week, Paonia
September 23rd, 2011It’s time for the 3rd annual Fashion & Design Show at the Paradise Theatre in downtown Paonia, CO. This year’s title is “Stitching Together the Style & Beat of the North Fork Valley”. 7 designers, including yours truly, have been working fitfully, then frantically, on their runway-bound designs in what has become one of Paonia’s “must-see” events. Due to popular demand, the show runs TWO nights this year—last night was opening night.
NEW this year is the Designer Challenge: artistic director Regna Jones gathered discarded materials from area businesses & industry — from farms to mines to the local bike shop — paired designers up, & challenged them to make an outfit from these otherwise unwanted materials. I got paired with Karrah Aegerter of Trash’d Designs… we used a bird seed bag, landscaping fabric, bike hardware, film trailers, those plastic trays for starting seeds, goggles, & baling twine… Regna modeled the piece, titled “Hanna” for the film trailer we used. Four outfits were constructed, with liberal use of staplers in our case. All were surprisingly finished and compelling…
Here’s a few pics of ours (from iPhone, sorry!) while we were getting Regna dressed!
9am Saturday morning
September 10th, 2011
You know summer’s really on the way out when the Aspen Saturday Market starts at 9am (it’s 8am during summer’s high season). And as nice as an extra hour of sleep is (getting up at 5am instead of 4), it’s bittersweet… days are shorter, mornings chillier, the river’s too low for swimming. So we’re bringing a few and I mean A FEW– of the brand new, much sought after TUNIC TOPS to help with the change of seasons. See you tomorrow (that’s Saturday, Sept 10) at 9am, downtown Aspen, Colorado.
…and we’ll get a better pic of the tunic before the snow flies!
Before & after…
August 30th, 2011I had good intentions to do pithy blog entries from the Atlanta & New York Gift shows in July & August, but it was all I could do just to get to the Elisabethan booth on time everyday… besides, none of the shows gives you FREE wifi access, so that made onsite updates a non-option for THIS thrifty exhibitor… Here are a few pics taken during set up…
pic 1–The entire 10′x10′booth (and most of the samples) fits into 2 sturdy shipping crates (even THESE are recycled from another company’s trade show set up)
pic 2–My favorite display within the display—cashmere/wool fingerless gloves arrayed around a vintage toy truck touting “Handmade in USA”
pic 3–A ruffle pippi scarf shown to good advantage on one of the “Ta-Ta Girls” (industry term for those black plastic body forms)
Hangin’ Out
June 2nd, 2011…laundry, Elisabethan-style…
Flashback
May 11th, 2011These are a pair of pants that Virginia, a customer in Utah, asked me to alter for her. I ran into her last summer at the Park City Festival of the Arts. They are vintage Elisabethan—-ok, at least several years old anyway—-but she has kept them in mint condition.
Come on, humans!
April 5th, 2011
It’s Miss Kitty—-I got this blog thing going, hoping the humans could take it from there, and for awhile it seemed like they were… Lately, not so much. I know they’ve been busy and all, but if I can find time between naps to post, surely they can… come on, humans!
Oh Atlanta
January 13th, 2011Made it! —to Atlanta for the Atlanta Gift Mart, Jan 14-18. Schools, etc, here are still closed as Atlanta deals with all the ice left by the latest storm, but neither sleet, nor snow, nor gloom of night… how does that go? Well, none of it can keep ‘bethan from bringing its newest goods to market!
