little red fox: what mimi wore--my vintage shop--now open for business! (finally)

At long last! My vintage shop What Mimi Wore is up and running! This is something I've wanted to do for a very long time and finally got around to it. Whew. This is a very large item to cross off my to-do list.

It will be a highly curated mix of both ladies clothes...

...and shoes...

...of varying eras...

...and also some fun home goods-type stuff...

...all inspired by my gorgeous, fashion-plate grandmother, Mimi.

(This is Mimi with my mom, Betty, the tiny Cupie doll in a bow tie.)

She understood thrift better than anybody I've ever known. She was a child of the depression, and strangely--a generation removed--her varied thrifty ways have affected me profoundly. She was college-educated which was incredibly rare for that time period and that part of the country, but she was also an incredible homemaker: a seriously wonderful cook and gardener, an incredibly organized and detail-oriented person in terms of housekeeping (she ironed her sheets). That house was managed like she got a major paycheck for it--she was like Martha Stewart because she could do it all and do it all well. She was an intelligent and capable woman who learned how to make do--but she always had a real sense of personal style and pride in her appearance. All this in spite of being a Mississippi farmer's daugher and certainly never in her life a wealthy woman. She always looked absolutely fantastic and always did it on a very modest budget.

I know there's no shortage of vintage-type shops, especially on Etsy, but this was something I really wanted to do and when it hit me how much of it was actually about Mimi...it seemed even better :)

I'll be continuing to list more items over the next few days and after that, my goal will be to list new items at the end of every week, depending on what I find.

I'm also slightly over the moon to have an official excuse to hit up my favorite local thrift and antique shops :)