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We Love Our Customers: Lindsey, Boho Queen of Jersey

Posted on September 23rd, 2009 in Our Fabulous Customers!, bohemian with 3 comments

From Sasha

I've said it before, I'll say it again: we have the coolest customers. Case in point, our new friend Lindsey, who bought our Ultimate California Boho Chic dress! Now it is the Ultimate New Jersey Boho Chic Dress, as it's gone to the other coast for its new adventures. Lindsey sent us the best Customer Appreciation photo, and she kindly agreed to do a mini-interview with us. Here is a little more about this lovely guitar strummin' gal…

Violet Folklore: What is inspiring you this Fall?

Lindsey: The untimely cold weather here in New Jersey has inspired me to start layering. I've been trying to layer more elegant pieces under all of my vintage 60s and 70s thick hippie sweaters.

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VF: What are you playing on that there guitar? What are your fave (musical) albums/songs of the moment?

Lindsey: Well, I am still taking guitar lessons, I am only 15 years old, but I hope (someday soon) to miraculously become a guitar virtuoso! I love to play Creedence Clearwater Revival tunes, they are so fun to strum! I love listening to old music, mainly classic rock. I absolutely love Bob Dylan. I also like Joan Baez, The Band, The Allman Brothers, Steve Miller Band, and the Rolling Stones. I do like some newer music, though. I really enjoy Beck. His music is so fun and crazy! I like The Killers as well.

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VF: Where did you get your love for vintage clothes? What are some of your fave pieces that you own?

Lindsey: I started wearing vintage clothing because the details, fabrics, and shapes are just so different and, in my opinion, superior to those of the clothing made today. I definitely would not be able to go to the mall today and find a psychedelic and floral printed turtleneck dress with a smocked bodice and long, flowy sleeves. (like the one I purchased from your shop!)

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VF: What is the best thing that happened to you this year?

Lindsey: A highlight of this year was the Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and John Mellencamp concert that i went to over the summer in Lakewood, NJ. It was unbelievable!! The entire concert lasted about eight hours. Even though it rained torrentially the entire time, it was still so much fun! The crowd, the performers, and the rain made it the closest I'll ever get to being at Woodstock!

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Lindsey just opened her own fabulous Etsy vintage boutique. Check it out here! And rock on, vintage ladies…

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The Most Coveted Dress

Posted on August 31st, 2009 in Eye Candy and Inspiration, Our Fabulous Customers!, We Heart Etsy, bohemian, favorite pieces, local artists, musicians, & other creative folk with 4 comments

From Amber
A few weeks ago Sasha photographed herself in our Alfred Shaheen Peacock Dress. Later that day she went home and put the picture up in a blog entitled August in California: Dry Grass and Gunne Gowns, planning on putting the dress up for sale in the shop the following morning.

Well, by the time the morning rolled around our blog comment box, Flickrmail, and Etsy Convo's were filled with requests for sole buying privileges on the dress! It was the biggest response we've ever had for a piece of clothing, and we were more than a little surprised! But the print, of course, is fantastic.
The ladies fought a hard fight, but it was Izzy, the lovely woman behind the Etsy shop YeYe! Vintage Boutique, who staked the first claim. Check out her recent blog post featuring a mountainside photo shoot in which she manages to make this gorgeous dress look even more so thanks to her beautiful natural surroundings and amazing styling…

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Double The Happiness!

Posted on August 27th, 2009 in Our Fabulous Customers!, We Heart Etsy with 2 comments

Some of you will remember our friend and customer Hana, who gifted us with the amazing amethysts that we used in the Crystal Unicorn Visions photo shoot in June. Well, we were sooooo happy to find this picture in our inbox today, of Hana wearing a whole Violet Folklore outfit– a dress and belt! They seem so perfectly right on her, and she looks absolutely radiant. What a fabulous gift to start our day!

This photo was taken at the awesome business that Hana owns, the Happy Happy Crystal Shop in Setagaya, Tokyo. (Which, by the way, is our favorite name for a store ever!) Those of you in Japan should look her up… she does classes, we hear. Way cool.