The Original Lulu's Vintage Store Location in Portland, Oregon 2001 - 2003 Part VII

This photo was taken at the one year anniversary party of the original Lulu's Vintage store location.

The Original Lulu's Vintage Store Location in Portland, Oregon 2001 - 2003 Part VI

A photo of Ton, a girl who lived in the apartments above my shop. This photo was taken at the one year anniversary party of the original Lulu's Vintage store location.

The Original Lulu's Vintage Store Location in Portland, Oregon 2001 - 2003 Part V

My friend Brian Mathus posing with a giant painting he had created as part of an art opening at the original Lulu's Vintage store location.

The Original Lulu's Vintage Store Location in Portland, Oregon 2001 - 2003 Part IV

My very close friend Naoko (Tanigawa) Hino with her sweet mom Noriko Tanigawa at the original Lulu's Vintage store location. Naoko was attending school here in Portland and her mom was visiting her from Japan. Naoko has since moved back to Japan.
They are standing in front of my desk which is covered with arts and crafts projects that I was working on at the time (in the photo Naoko and Noriko are both wearing sculptures/brooches that I created). At the first location of my store I didn't have a computer so I had a lot more time to do creative things and work on pricing things for the store. Now with two blogs, four email accounts, four Facebook accounts/pages, and two Twitter accounts I rarely ever have any time for anything creative anymore.

The Original Lulu's Vintage Store Location in Portland, Oregon 2001 - 2003 Part III

Naoko (Tanigawa) Hino at the original Lulu's Vintage store location posing with cute skirts that she created.

The Original Lulu's Vintage Store Location in Portland, Oregon 2001 - 2003 Part II

Besides selling vintage clothing and accessories at the original Lulu's Vintage store location I also sold local handmade designed and reworked accessories and clothing. At the time there were only a handful of boutiques selling local design in Portland.

Polaroids of Lulu's Vintage Customers

The first in a series of Polaroids of LuLu's Vintage customers from our first store location which was open from 2001 - 2003.

This young lady is posing in front of Lulu's Vintage in a vintage faux fur jacket that she purchased at the store.

Do you recognize the person in the photo? Is it you or a friend? We would love to know!

The Original Lulu's Vintage Store Location in Portland, Oregon 2001 - 2003

The original LuLu's Vintage (note the difference in capitalization) was located at 1031 S.W. Morrison Street. Ray's Cheap Date and Ray's Ragtime were right next door. This first version of Lulu's Vintage was open from 2001 - 2003.

The store had racks suspended from the ceiling, and a clean modern look - things that at the time were unheard of in most Portland boutiques, let alone vintage stores.

I would take Polaroid pictures of clients in their purchases as well as fashionable people who stopped by (I now take digital photos of clients and post them on my website). I would have the people sign the photos and then I would tape the photos up around the interior of the door.

During the upcoming weeks I am going to share some of these photos with you.

Vintage Lilly Pulitzer Corn Dress & The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota

As anyone who knows me, my store or my blog knows I love wacky, colorful, bold prints!

Take for instance this vintage Lilly Pulitzer dress with amaizing corn print that I had for sale online. A couple of years back Holly of Lucitebox Vintage fell in love with the dress and purchased it. Holly recently did a blog post on her blog HollyGab about why she bought the dress. Click here to read her post.

Chris posing with a giant corn cob across the street from the "World's Only Corn Palace". To check out photos and read of our visit to the Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota click here.

Fashion Fridays! Free People Vintage Inspired Dress & Vintage Mexican Wedding Dresses

Mix In The Crochet Dress dress by Free People.

You can purchase this new dress for $198- from Free People

The new dress pictured above reminds me of vintage Mexican wedding dresses from the 1960's & 1970's like the ones posted below...

1960's white Mexican wedding dress with black trim.

Measurements are 33" Chest, 24" Waist and 46" Hips

You can purchase this vintage dress for $85- from ACollectiveNest

1960's black Mexican wedding dress.

Measurements are 34" Chest, 26" Waist and up to 44" Hips

You can purchase this vintage dress for $94- from HillBillyFilly