Vintage Missoni

  Yes indeed sweet reader, this post focuses on some of the Missoni and Missoni sport goodies you can find right now at the Claire Inc. website and all the colours and vintage goodness you can expect to see from the vintage resellers. The first is this casual sweatshirt with intricate letter pattern, can you imagine something like this used to make a quilt? The mish mash of letters on this vintage Missoni Sport shirt reminds me a little of Jeremy Scott's work in which he made a pair of tracksuit pants featuring all the letters of the alphabet. The printed pattern of this shirt is something to be impressed by and I do like the colour at the centre of this unisex shirt. The cute rolled up sleeves and baggy over sized look of this shirt make it even more casual and kitsch- of course the model they use must be a size 6 with a small and slight frame to give it such an appearance, but one can dream can't one?

 

Description Vintage MISSONI SPORT Geometric UNISEX LOGO Tshirt Era 90s Style Fab tee from Missoni Sport. Taupe colour palette set off with 'Missoni Sport' block letter print. Unisex! Stretch Cotton! Great! Colour Taupe/Various Tagged Size XS Fits Like... Free (XS - M depending on fit you like) Measurements (laid flat across front only) Shoulder to Shoulder 48cm/Bust 50cm/Waist 48cm/Hips 48cm/Arm Length 18cm/Length 62cm Material Cotton Condition Excellent Vintage

As well as casual shirts available on the Missoni sub section of the Claire Inc website, there are these triangular shaped clip-on earrings with emerald cut jewels. They'd match a pair of Jeffrey Campbell Elegant Jewel slippers perfectly using the best of coloured plastic jewels against a black background. I'm not so interested in these earrings myself- my ears are actually quite small so wearing big earrings makes them look smaller and makes me feel a little more subconscious of them. Sure, for the era of the 80s from which they came from I'm sure these bad boys were right on trend, but they don't really suit someone like me I guess.

This fabulously unique vintage tee from Claire Inc is again from Missoni Sport. It's over sized and features a unisex and versatile design of multi-coloured roses. The taupe background is set off with bold coloured, textural flowers, and is made of super stretchy fit with splits on either side. Wooden heels with tassels and plain denim shorts used to style both shirts make the colours seem even more vivid. Both shirts are in excellent vintage condition- most likely coming from the same source. If you're interested in them, you know where to go.

Dragon Ear Wraps

 

Their one of the best ways to get instant cool- without the pain and cost of getting an extra piercing. Ear wraps! They can also be called Ear cuffs, but they're the same thing in principle, that is a piece of metal shaped into something artistic and cool that clings to your ear without the need for a piercing. They've been dubbed the stylish alternative to piercings and I would have to agree with that appraisal; when I first got my ears pierced my mother made me promise her I would get no other piercings and well, it would be nice not to upset her and get another piercing. That's why these ear wraps are perfect! They're very stylish and as you can see from the above photograph that there is a lot of meticulous detail that can do into them. I've seen some very basic ones such as dolphins, mermaids and star motifs but if I am going to get any ear wraps I'll happily blow my pay on some of these from America in the shape of dragons, in a few different shapes and sizes.

 

I won't bombard you with all the gory details but the ear wraps that I've shown here are all from the same seller and some of them cost more than $100. I'm sort of used to paying a lot of money for things I really want, and as long as I don't have a reaction to wearing these silver pieces and they do fit my small sized ear lobes then I'd be happy to fork out the cash. Some of them are really clever in their design, making it look as though tails are weaving in and out at places, creating the illusion that a piercing is there when it actually isn't.

It would be a little more of an insentive to tidy my hair up rather than wearing it out when I go out or to work if I had something like this too show off hanging onto my ear. The third one picture is my favourite, I like it's rigged neck with scales, the wide spread wings inspired by that of a vampire bat as well as the arrow head tail. I used to have the biggest fascination with dragons when I was eight- I am fairly sure I mentioned that part but I used to play dragons at recess and read about them from books at the library. I even made my own drawings of dragons I made up. They had attacks too- you know... because I was a really cool kid and stuff.