Remember how I was asking, post-Gunne Parade, for someone to please start a Gunne Sax database? Well, guess who jumped on it? None other than our friend Nicole from Atelier/Flaming Hag Folkwear!

Nicole felt like a regular "database" would be just too darn boring, so she put the Dream into blog form. You can peep her first few entries (including a history of the founder of Gunne Sax, Jessica McClintock!) at Gunnes on Parade. 

Best of all, you can send her your pics of your Gunne Sax duds, for inclusion in the blog, at this address: gunnelove@live.com. Let's fill up the blog with pics of all the Gunnes of the world!

These pictures are some of our fave Gunnes that we have already sold, but don't despair- Violet Folklore is your Gunne Sax source! We have lots of gorgeous Gunnes in the store even as we speak… even one that is almost a copy of this cute purple one!

 
 
 (A huge thanks to Nicole for being so kind, so cool, and so ON IT.)

xoxoxox

You all remember our Gunne Parade in Sacramento this past weekend, of course?

Here is the wonderful Atelier, one of the most charming clothing stores in all of Northern California. The ladies who run it have made an intimate, inspiring space filled with incredible vintage and one-of-a-kind clothing designs. It's true love right from the rosebush by the front door:

Hey, that's us on the sign! And recognize the clothes on that rack? It's our Trunk show! We just love how all the pretty dresses look hung up together…

(Every inch of Atelier is thoughtfully decorated, even the windows!)

Here is one of the Atelier "advertisements" for the Gunne Parade… none other than an exquisite Gunne, of course! And some more of the dreamy inside of the store:

The adorable children's section:

We were talking about how someone should do some kind of Gunne database… I mean, all of us agreed that we just keep seeing new Gunne designs all the time! How many dresses did this one company make? Here's a late 60s one that takes the cake:

Love those birds!

The Gunne Database might solve some of the Gunne Mysteries… like why these two very similar dresses (one is ours, one belongs to Atelier) have different labels. One is in the Bridal Collection, one is not. Huh??? (By the way that's Amber with Kara, one of the owners of Atelier. Kara also runs the fabulous Etsy shop Porkchop Rules! Check it out! Kara is wearing a Gunne skirt/vest set.)  Continue Reading... (544 words + 15 images, estimated 2:11 mins reading time)

No, really!:

That means you, girls (and guys, we don't discriminate!)– come on down to Atelier (1617 16th Street in Sacramento), trussed up in your fave Gunne Sax piece, and parade with us through the happening streets of the Second Saturday Art Walk in Midtown! We're even going to get some music to accompany us. Parade ends back at Atelier for munchies, antics, and shopping– we'll even be doing a Violet Folklore trunk show. Come on out and be ridiculously girly and silly with us– just think, haven't you always wanted to be in a parade? 

Btw, here are a few of the myriad accepted modes of parading: skipping, sauntering, cartwheeling, sidling, jigging, and hopping. 

Are you in?

xoxo

Sasha and Amber