Antique Market

On Sunday, I went with my mom to the Long Beach Antique Market for the first time ever. I had been wanting to go for a long time, but just never got around to it. I definitely think I will go back next month, maybe by myself or with someone who won't get bored as easily. Mom wanted to go home pretty early, and I could have stayed until it closed.

Since I didn't stay long, I didn't bring home too much of a haul, but I will share what I bought!

First, these two lovely items, a tarnished sterling silver ring and a vintage pin. The pin looks like it might have at some point had chains dangling off of it. I'm guessing they were most unfortunately ripped off at some point, due to a horrible accident. In my mind, the horrible accident involves a child grabbing onto the chains and pulling with a might that kids only ever seem to possess when they are intent on destroying something that doesn't belong to them.

Obviously, this sort of thing has happened to me before.

Here is a close-up of the ring.

The next thing I bought was this beautiful cloche. I'm not sure exactly how old it is, or if it's original or a replica. It's definitely not made the same way cloches are made today, it has a net lining on the inside, which I've never seen in commercially sold cloches from, say, Forever 21.

Here's me wearing it. Please ignore my sunburnt nose. ;_; Yes, my hair is quite a big long for a cloche hat, but I still think it looks nice, if not 100% authentic. I will be cutting my hair short in June though, so hopefully it will look a little better!

And my final purchase was this dress. Again, not sure exactly how old it is, but it's quite pretty, I think. My mom doesn't like it at all. But me, I like librarian clothes. :P

Here's a close-up of the top part.

I hope to put together a coordinate with it and take pictures fairly soon! Maybe on a day when I'm just sitting at home reading by myself and I feel like playing librarian.

Thanks for reading!

~Jacq

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