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Retail Therapy: Junkee Clothing Exchange, Reno, Nevada

Posted on October 27th, 2009 in Clothing Fantasy Lands with 5 comments

My first newsflash about Nevada's most amazing clothing store came last December, when Chris and I were swept into a Santa Pub Crawl in Reno. My new best friend, an inebriated reindeer, couldn't get over my red lace 80s vintage dress, and she told me that I had to go to Junkee. When I came home, I looked it up online, and was won over immediately by a video of the employees dancing around the store in a choreographed routine, wearing incredible dresses and having waaaaay too much fun!

One thing after another got in the way of another trip to Reno, which is about an hour and 45 minutes from Grass Valley– not far, but it's over a 10,000 foot mountain pass. We drove it once in a snowstorm, and vowed never to make that mistake again. Winter stretched on, then spring and summer were crazy busy… long story short, last weekend we finally made it to Junkee! And come to find it, it actual WAS the vintage mecca I'd made it out to be in my mind. It was even better than I expected! How often does that happen?!?!?

Here are a few snaps from the inside… the decor was love at first sight for my kitsch-lovin' soul.

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The Dress and The Dream, Revisited

Posted on August 25th, 2009 in 70s, Clothing Fantasy Lands, Eye Candy and Inspiration, We Heart Etsy, bohemian with 3 comments

From Sasha

You all remember Cerise, our fabulous Australian friend who bought the California Dream Girl Dress? If you read her spirited interview, then you probably won't be surprised to learn to learn that this multi-talented young woman is a talented photographer. She took the Dream Dress out for a shoot with her lovely friend Jessica, and just LOOK at the magic that they created!:

It makes my heart absolutely HUM with happiness to see one of our dresses becoming part of someone's artistic inspiration, half a world away. I hope they all find such happy homes!

For more of Cerise's beautiful camera work, check out her Flickr stream here. Told ya we have the best customers.

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In The Great Republic of Rough and Ready

Posted on August 20th, 2009 in 60s, 70s, Clothing Fantasy Lands, Shop Preview!, bohemian with 7 comments

From Amber and Sasha

While The Great Republic of Rough and Ready has an very imposing name, in reality it is a small rural community situated just outside of Grass Valley. Though it is just a five minute drive down the road, it feels like worlds away. Rough and Ready made motions to secede from the Union in 1850, in protest of a tax on new mining claims and the prohibition of alcohol in Nevada County, but the community voted itself back in when they realized that they could no longer celebrate the 4th of July if they were independent from the Union. This doesn't stop anyone from celebrating "Secession Days" every year in late June, and there is an outlaw vibe in Rough and Ready that remains to this day. When my in-laws moved from the suburbs of the Bay Area to the foothills, they looked at a house there. Their conclusion? "It's too rough, and we're not ready!"

We, on the other hand, were ready to take on the historical downtown, if for one afternoon– with bags of vintage clothes and a camera!

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Snowmelt Rivers and Tiger Lily Meadows: Vintage Dresses in the High Sierra

Posted on August 17th, 2009 in Clothing Fantasy Lands, Shop Preview!, the lore of the land & herbs with 7 comments

From Sasha

Monday, Monday. This day, as I live it now, at a desk job with a ringing phone and an endless pile of paperwork and filing to do… well, at 5:00 my Gypsy Feet are itching to run away to the hills. Oh wait a minute– I already live in the hills! The only thing that satisfies, then, is to get deeper into the wild. Today I burst out of the office and drove up up UP the Highway 20 to the very edge of the High Sierra– to the place where you can see the backbones of the mountains, and where the plants, who were still under snow when those of us below were running around in bare feet, think it is yet early summer. By the Bear River I could hear the lilting voices of the Fae, and the wetland meadow smelled of wild onions and mint. Ahh… my true home.

Have some of you been sending wonderful Intentions our way, that we should find THE best dresses this week? These four are just the tip of the iceberg, my friends! They will be in the shop Tuesday night… meanwhile, if you want to visit this wonderful corner of planet earth, here's how:

From the Highway 20, take the Bowman Lake Road turn. Shortly after turning, you will see the sign for the Sierra Discovery Trail on your left. Pull in and park here, follow the boardwalk over the wetland to the main trail. Happy hiking!