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Louisville Department Stores

Mar 17, 2014 | by admin | Fashion History | Regional Style & Stores, Department Stores, Cities Read More
Louisville Department Store - Courtesy of Hollis Jenkins-Evans, pastperfectvintage.com

They were unique. They were of their time. And they were ours. And now, they are all but gone. Like so many other American cities, Louisville once had scores of local clothing stores that were institutions. One grew up and learned to shop were one’s mother and aunts shopped, not unlike following family traditions regarding one’s choice of church, doctor and attorney. Ladies went downtown to shop to the flagship buildings of Stewart’s, Selman’s or Kaufman – Straus or a bit later to the Art Deco Byck’s. If you went to Stewart’s, you wore a hat and gloves and went to lunch on the Orchid Tea Room. If you were a doctor, you shopped at Martin’s; a banker at Rodes-Rapier. . .

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Written by Hollis Jenkins-Evans, pastperfectvintage.com

Las Vegas Style

Jun 22, 2013 | by admin | Fashion History | Regional Style & Stores, Cities Read More
Early 1950s elegant casino gown - Courtesy of Vintagetrend

Fashion brings to mind so many stylish cities: Paris, New York, London, Milan, Las Vegas? Las Vegas?

Okay, so it may not be the capital of couture, but there is a certain look associated with this vibrant city. Remember Sharon Stone in Casino and what do you see? Acid coloured crochet pantsuits with bare midriffs, pale pink lipstick and big blonde hair.

Dino or Frankie or any of the Rats might enjoy lounging about backstage in a silk robe…
You only have to say ‘Rat Pack’ to conjure up images of shiny sharkskin suits and cigarette ash adorned lapels set off by narrow-brimmed straw homburgs. Think about Elvis jeweled leather jackets, show girls with feathered headdresses and mobster’s molls in white mink coats in the dead of summer. There is a lot of style in Vegas, which is kind of odd when you consider this is where museums are optional and the oldest buildings standing aren’t old enough to drink in most states.

Las Vegas means ‘The Meadows’ in Spanish, an ironic term for a tiny oasis in the middle of a desert. But that’s Vegas – it’s all about irony. Back in the 1850s, almost a hundred years before the hotel-casino concept, Las Vegas consisted of a Mormon fort where it was illegal to flip a coin to settle a wager!
Founded on May 15, 1905 as a whistle stop tent-town of saloons, stores and boarding houses for the Union Pacific Railway, Las Vegas wasn’t much of a town at all. In 1931, the Nevada Legislature legalized gambling and construction was started on the nearby Hoover Dam. Here’s that irony again because it was just when most of America began to feel the effects of economic hardship during the Great Depression that Las Vegas began to prosper.

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