Photos and frames by Kumar!
'60s dress: found at an antique sale yesterday
Tights: Target
Shoes: Jeffrey Campbell
Hairbow: antique store in Chattanooga

First of all I'd like to thank you all for your nice comments on yesterday's post.  When I wrote it I was half-expecting to get a few comments making fun of it--I was afraid the post might have come across as a little know-it-all and self-righteous, though I didn't mean it to be that way at all.  Finding the exact item of clothing I've been looking for in a thrift store is a rare occurance, so a lot of times I just don't bother looking.  Or I get lazy and go to H&M.  And sometimes I'm just so scatter-brained that I don't even realize that what I'm on the lookout for is really in my own closet.
Case in point:  yesterday morning Kumar and I went to this wonderful monthly antique sale here in town (the one I bought the silent film scrapbook from last month) and I bought two things--a little '60s off-white dress for the store, and a tiny vintage pocket watch for me.  Then I went home, got lazy, and sat on the couch the entire afternoon watching the film Picnic at Hanging Rock, which I'd always wanted to watch.  It's a slow movie, but I like slow movies--I got wrapped up in the soft-focus filming and lovely sets (that faded wall-papered room in the beginning is my dream room!), but most of all I fell in love with the pretty white dresses and hair bows and Victorian jewelry.  
Then during the film I got it in my head that I needed a little cream colored dress, so I went online to all my favorite stores, but couldn't find exactly what I had pictured in my mind.  I don't know when it hit me that I already had the perfect cream colored vintage dress, and it was the one I had just bought a few hours below.  With a bit of hemming it turned out to be exactly what I had been looking for.  And that just shows you how slow I can be.
Inspiration!: