About
Tarnished sequins. Fields and fireflies at dusk. Midnight rooftop tea parties. Whirling dervish to fiddles and clarinets. Bonfires. Gold bangles. Smoky dark velvet cushioned rooms. Blankets of frost. Stars through the skeleton limbs of trees. Low fog in the morning over the bend of the river. The smell of crackling pine logs and burnt sugar. Tearing up the coast in a powder blue ‘64 Valiant, bubble gum popping & rhinestone sunglasses. This blog is located somewhere in the clouds & mountains between the Bay Area and Vermont.
In my (oft-neglected but still well-loved) shop you’ll find handpicked vintage garments – gorgeous vintage items are like orphans I can’t help but take home and find better homes for. I can’t bear leaving amazing pieces behind when I shop, so they’re lovingly passed on to you!
I am also available for styling for fashion and band photoshoots.
I offer select custom magical garments, including wedding gowns. Please contact me for details.
All photography on this blog is © by the author unless otherwise noted, and all rights are reserved. Please do not use without permission.
Selling vintage & handmade since 1996; under the monikers of The Boneyard, Dramatis Personae, Dainty & Dirty, and now Verhext, which means ‘bewitched’ in German.
BUST: January 2009 ~ winter Black Forest magic!
Ready Made (as Dainty & Dirty): 2006
For this assignment, I took traditional men’s accessories and reworked them. An old miltary jacket became a pouch to be slung on a belt, vintage scarves became a cravat, the jacket was turned inside out to reveal a printed lining, a ship plaque became a belt buckle…
Oneighty : Fall 2008
Online Magazines
Modepass: February 2009
N.E.E.T. Magazine: March 2006 (as Dainty & Dirty)
Blogs
Ruffled, Design*Sponge, Apartment Therapy, Bust Blog, Gala Darling, ninainvorm, Style Bytes, Larkin & Catcher
Guest Blog Posts
Music Press
Tussle wasn’t the only band to play that night. San Francisco’s The Cold War played its left wing brand of noise rock to the audience. Singer Tamera Ferro was all over the place, belting out the vocals while entertaining the crowd with her stage presence. The band played a very short set, with the acoustics at The Hotel Utah not exactly being cooperative to its type of music. Regardless, the band was very entertaining and may have prompted some people in attendance to start a Communist revolution.
Mesh Magazine, December 2005
Tamera Ferro sounds a little like Karen O. But the Cold War, fueled by political rage and fractured guitars, goes to a darker place than the Yeah Yeah Yeahs would ever dare.
flavorpill.net, October 2005
Tamera Ferro from The Cold War does her vocals up like a barked exorcism… twitchy and guided by wildness. Also including Allison Pheteplace and Tony Dryer, they have some similarities to Erase Errata-the dance beats, the occasionally barky vox– but they’re driven entirely by bass grind and prone to psychedelic noizexplorations, off-kilter drum freakouts, oscillating space-tweets, and echo-reverb warping their sharp edges…
Pitchfork, April 2005
3. The Cold War (and their hot dance moves), Hemlock Tavern
San Francisco Bay Guardian weekly top 5 list, April 2005
DON’T BE FOOLED by the fact that the members of the Cold War only play two instruments and the vocalist is all elbows and knees: this musical Luftwaffe pull off the volume of a much larger band. Or maybe a small militia.
San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 2004