Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Glamour For an Indy Woman, Born 1913

Does the sight of a baby ever prompt you to wonder what the world will look like for that child when he or she is decades older? Or maybe when they are your age? Think...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Road Trip: Vintage Fashion in Pattern

“Want to write about fashion from a historical perspective…?” Pattern  Editor-in-Chief, Polina Osherov queried this past fall. If you weren’t aware, Indy has an emerging interest in fashion and Pattern is an organization dedicated to “Uniting...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Stout’s Shoes & the Circular Nature of Styles

This article and a portion of this website is generously sponsored by Stout’s Shoes If someone asked you to name the oldest business in Indy, what are the chances that Stout’s Shoes would come to...

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Posted in: Friday Favorites Friday Favorite: Rink’s Store

It’s funny how circular life on this planet appears over a series of years; Indianapolis, is no exception to coming full circle. As a note of possible interest to the those munching popcorn in the...

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Posted in: Sunday Ads Sunday Adverts: Rink’s for Coats

The last “Friday Favorite” was about the former Joseph Rink family home; next week’s will be Rink’s Cloak House, reportedly one of the first department stores in the USA devoted exclusively to women’s clothing and...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Warm Colors of Autumn

I don’t know about you, but this is the most eagerly anticipated autumn I can recall. Ever. And with it, the colors of fall will soon be moved back into my wardrobe’s repertoire. You could...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Indy’s Remote Connection to Vogue Magazine

Imagine you are from Indy (not too hard, right?) and moved away, and you’ve become close friends with Vogue Editor-in-Chief, Anna Wintour. Everyone who cares the slightest bit for fashion in Indianapolis would know this...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: That Ayres Look, 1951 Derby Style?

Many thanks to Thomas Brown for sharing this gorgeous 1951 advert with a dress by Traina-Norell and hat by John Frederics. If Indianapolis had a derby, I think this would be my pick! Ok, J....

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: The Skirts Have It

“There’s nothing new under the sun,” so the saying goes–and never more so than in the world of fashion. There are, in fact, just so many ways you can drape and decorate the human form....

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Spring Hats, 1957

Hats, hats, glorious hats! Oh how I love a great hat! these spring 1957 beauties are a little reminder of fashion’s past. Though I’m far more inclined to don a big and wide-brimmed hat, this...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Ghosts of Easters Past

Anyone else recall the days when you had to look your very best for Easter? Where have these days gone, friends? Nowadays, you go to a church or the theatre and find the most garish,...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge LADIES LOUNGE: WM H BLOCK CO SUIT

Oh to have been able to select an entire wardrobe from the early 50’s (local expert Thomas Brown informs me this is from 1951–thank you; I just had a loose image in a stack). Even...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: What would we wear to the Oscars if they’d been in Indianapolis in February

1956 No Doubt there would have been a lot more long sleeves, for a start. Some of those ladies looked chilly at yesterday’s Oscars, even in California, but had they been in Indianapolis, outerwear would...

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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: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: How You Could Rock the Super Bowl Like a Lady-Oldschool Style

Flashback to a time when more of us actually were ladies– rather than puffed up siliconed, girls-gone-wild, overly made up, super desperate for the attention of…well…anyone. I know it’s been awhile, and this may be...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: 2012 Golden Globes, Reimagined Worst to Best

With all the money, stylists, designers, and the like, how can Hollywood still turn out this many ladies looking this wrong? Most of them are physically fit, and therefore have a great frame to start...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Vintage Handbags

This week’s Ladies Lounge sponsored by Minx Vintage & Home – 111 E. 16th Street in the Penn Arts Building between Pennsylvania & Delaware Streets It seems the purse/ handbag industry is cranking out product...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Ladies Lounge: Indianapolis Brands, Winter Suits

    Rarely does a gal receive more compliments than when wearing a vintage suit, yet so many are timid about trying them out. After looking at the above vintage adverts for suits of yesteryear,...

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Posted in: Ladies Lounge Cocktail Dresses for Cocktail Time

When cocktail time rolls around, your outfit can be as intoxicating a concoction as the libations. I am thankful to be fairly height-weight proportionate and take great delight in finding fashions that fit my hourglass....

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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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