Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: That Ayres Look, 1947 Hattie Carnegie

Another offering from Hattie Carnegie–exclusively carried at L.S. Ayres in Indianapolis. This look nods to 50 years prior, at the tail of the Victorian era–the Golden Age for our Capital City.  Look back at the...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Pinteresting

It’s often difficult to find vintage Indianapolis ads or other ephemera we’d love to acquire to share with the fine readers of HistoricIndianapolis.com –so what a delight to find some on Pinterest.com. We’ve taken the...

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Posted in: A Room with a View Room With a View: Harloh’s New Digs in Fountain Square

If you never visited Harloh’s in Fletcher Place, you may not fully appreciate how much more spacious the new place is. Now located at 1110 Prospect, Harloh’s Vintage has doubled its space. Now it’s a...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Fall suits- William H. Block or That Ayres Look?

Ahh, to have been a Lady Who Lunched in Indianapolis in the 1930’s, 40’s or 50’s. Would you have opted for “That Ayres Look” or …well, what would you have been called if you preferred...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Ad: the Model Clothing Store, 1895

From 1895 is this advertisement for the Model Clothing store. How children’s fashions have changed! The Model was located at 41-49 East Washington Street and 2-22 South Pennsylvania Street in the late 1880s and 1890s....

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