YEY!  I’m back from sunny, sunny California!  I’m definitely going to tell you all about it… it involved lots of vintage shopping, lots of beer drinking, lots of burrito-eating, and lots of sunshine.  Stay tuned.

In the interim, it’s time to return to my self-indulgent ‘Outfit A Day’ series!

This vintage silk dress from Austin has a bit of history to it.  When I bought it, those blue fans had run a little bit and there were, like, secret blue fan stains all over the chestal region of the dress.  I tried washing it and washing it, but the damn-ass-poo blue fan stains wouldn’t come out.   HOWEVER – for some stupid reason, I decided to throw it in with my horrible pink-laundry explosion disaster wash, and the dress came out peachy-pink and stain free!  YEY!

Truth is, if you look REEAAALLY hard, you can still see the secret blue fan stains.  But no one looks at me really hard ever, so I think I can get away with it: