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chocolatepotSo, I spent all of today in St. Albans, Vermont. Yesterday I brought my passport to work so I could make a copy of it (which is good practice, I guess? I just follow orders) and realized after doing so that it expired late in November since I got it to go to Scotland in 2007. I arranged to go to the nearest passport center, three hours away, in order to get one expedited as fast as possible. They didn't think it would be possible to overnight it quickly enough, so I stayed in town all day and came back in the afternoon to get pick it up. So that crisis is averted!
While I was there, I visited The Eloquent Page, which seems like your average overstocked bookshop, but when I walked around long enough holding the 1835 Godey's compilation that I found on a shelf (and browsing the couture history section, and asking about some vintage patterns/periodicals on a high shelf), the owner told me that she had more. And she pulled aside a curtain to reveal a short hallway lined with all the fashion history books you could want, minus mine, and I asked her later and she said she'd gotten a copy in a collection of that kind of thing and it sold already - so of course I bought:
The Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 11 (July-December 1835) - $50
Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion (1842) - $45
Women's Wear of the 1920s - $40
Which, it has to be said, cost less all together than the passport, so it's not so bad, really. The WW1920s was ... perhaps not the best purchase, because I'm not really a 1920s person, but that's a good price for that book so in the long run I think it's worth it. Hey, that's one thing you can say for OOP and antique books - they are investments!
Going to schedule, in my lovely new planner, time to post the fashion plates and their descriptions!
While I was there, I visited The Eloquent Page, which seems like your average overstocked bookshop, but when I walked around long enough holding the 1835 Godey's compilation that I found on a shelf (and browsing the couture history section, and asking about some vintage patterns/periodicals on a high shelf), the owner told me that she had more. And she pulled aside a curtain to reveal a short hallway lined with all the fashion history books you could want, minus mine, and I asked her later and she said she'd gotten a copy in a collection of that kind of thing and it sold already - so of course I bought:
The Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 11 (July-December 1835) - $50
Ladies' Cabinet of Fashion (1842) - $45
Women's Wear of the 1920s - $40
Which, it has to be said, cost less all together than the passport, so it's not so bad, really. The WW1920s was ... perhaps not the best purchase, because I'm not really a 1920s person, but that's a good price for that book so in the long run I think it's worth it. Hey, that's one thing you can say for OOP and antique books - they are investments!
Going to schedule, in my lovely new planner, time to post the fashion plates and their descriptions!
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Date: 2017-12-21 11:52 am (UTC)ETA: Commented before I finished reading. Really cool of you to share some of it. :)
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