Remember — black lite? This is the Hawaiian dress I wore to the recent Tiki weekend once the regular lights went down, and the show lights went on. This makes me want to wear my vintage tiki clothes all the time.
Other Rooms
-
Renovate Safe! Get informed about the environmental & safety issues in your vintage home. #1 RULE: Consult with pros. More info: EPA asbestos website ... EPA lead website ... Consumer Reports safety blog ... U.S.F.A. – electrical fire safety. -
Take your shoes off, stay a while…
....bathrooms ... bling to buy ... ebay, etsy, craigslist ... kitchens 1940s 1950s 1960s & 70s accessories accessories, hardware appliances, accessories attic & basement bathrooms bedroom cabinets countertops Decorating ideas decorating misc. Exterior faucets flooring furniture happiness historic preservation kitchens landscaping lighting living room meeting readers Mid Mod Madness other stuff paint pink bathrooms postwar culture reader open threads Readers and their... Retro Accents sinks & vanities steel kitchens tile time capsule homes Treasure vacation spots, historic homes, museums wallpaper window treatments woddities: wonderful oddities







Nutone Heat Vent-a-Lite with white powder coated grille
Vintage Stiffel pole lamp, fab Goldworm maxi dress & more MIB madness
Useless But Wonderful – dress labels from Miss Agnes Fashions, Pittsfield, Mass. 
Oh black lights. Reminds me of the football homecoming dance my senior year of high school, 1974. I was wearing what was in style at that time — a floor-length plaid skirt with a knit top. Very modest. But, under the blacklight, my white bra shone through the knit material of the top. The other girls laughed at me. I was mortified. Today, that look would hardly raise an eyebrow!
Love the dress fabric. We went to a tiki event in Alameda CA 2 weekends ago at Forbidden Island – they close thier parking lot and do a swap meet of sorts with vendors there selling all things tiki. Everyone is encouraged to arrive in their tiki, rockabilly, 1950s or 1960s attire. IIt was great, our first visit to this annual event. I’ve been in full blown tiki-mode ever since. Haven’t been able to find a vintage tiki dress to fit yet, so am sewing one, fun thing is that some of the pattern companies have a retro section with patterns from the 1950s and 1960s, and even the ones that don’t specifically label a pattern retro have some styles that are very vintage indeed! I was thrilled with the enormous amount of bolts of reproduction 1950s and 1960s fabrics at the local fabric store.
This would be especially fun to do after a couple of Mai Tais!