The New, the Old and the Vintage

Dear Friends:

Today we are jumping headlong into a decade for which we don't even have a name. The teens? The 10s? (Anyone?)

These historical milestones always make me think about the past. It's hard to believe that in the decade beginning with 1910, aviation really got off the ground (sorry....) with commercial planes, freight planes, stunt planes...and not one security check! Actually, it really is hard to believe, since the Wright brothers (intrepid bicycle mechanics that they were) had only invented the darn flying machine a few years earlier in 1903 in the backyard of their home (probably with their mom yelling at them from the kitchen to do their homework and stop wasting time trying to get a machine to fly in the air...ridiculous!)

During the 1910 decade, Henry Ford invented the assembly line and managed to sell 10,000 cars...many to his own workers to whom he paid a wage high enough to buy them! In 1915, my own BFF, Albert Einstein, invented his General Theory of Relativity (which I don't understand but I know it's mind-bogglingly important, emphasis on the mind-boggling). The unsinkable Titanic sank in 1912 and the Great War (nicknamed "The War to End All Wars" and later known as World War I...so much for nicknames) brought lots of inventions, many used to kill people, such as the tank and the machine gun. On the positive side, a First Class stamp cost only 2 pennies.

In the 1910 decade, modern women began wearing much looser clothing and abandoned the corset (and thereby stopped fainting all the time). Feathers were on every woman's hat, and lo and behold, they are back again! In honor of the past, we have put together a little album of photos of some of our spectacular vintage dresses and feather headpieces from the past century. And here are our own Lil, Arianna and Karina modeling them:

We wish you all a wonderful New Year with health, happiness, enough money, and most of all, lots of laughter.

Warm regards,

Sandra and the ArtsEcho team, Lil, Crystal, Ben, Arianna, Karina & Lina

PS: All week long is Buy One Get One Half Off week! This including our stunning and fabulous jewelry (and even those amazing vintage dresses...but Lil and Arianna don't go with them...)