A new way to shop at denisebrain!

Please check out the new denisebrain store! Go to my new homepage at denisebrain.com and click on "store" to shop for some great vintage!

It's an Etsy world and we just live in it, part 3: umbrellas

It is raining, have you a vintage umbrella?

Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade materialgirlbags.etsy.com

Denisebrain field trip 2: Vintage Fashion Expo San Francisco

Once again, I was fortunate enough to get to go to the Vintage Fashion Expo in San Francisco, March 21-22, home of the most amazing quantity and quality of vintage temptations I've ever seen! I helped my friend Anna Newman (Anna Newman Vintage and Booty Vintage on Etsy) with her booth, which was smashingly cheery! It didn't hurt that the event was being held, after a long absence, at the SF Concourse, with plenty of natural light.

Vintage rainwear

Especially good to have something bright and happy...and vintage...for a rainy day.

My latest Flickr set is devoted to vintage rainwear:

Carmen Dell'Orefice inspires

If you have just a few minutes, listen to this woman!

One Of America's First Supermodels Still Striding
(on NPR news)






(photo of Carmen Dell'Orefice by Richard Avedon)


(more recent photo by Fadil Berisha)

And speaking of subway grates...

It's time for my March theme, Get Blown Away by Vintage!
(please visit, with your sound up)

It was a bit of a challenge getting some wind into my photos, as you can see from the before shot here: