Gilt Vanity Collection
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This is what makes my heart beat a little faster and my chest heave a sigh of longing. These are my gilty pleasures. Reticulated metal vanity/dresser sets.....by the likes of Florenza, Saks Fifth Ave, Stylebuilt and others. I love their thermoset faux stones and AB rhinestones so beautifully applied to gold or rhodium plated designs. These types of sets were fairly common post WWII and appeared at jewelry counters in fine department and drug stores across the country. Higher end counterparts such as Apollo, Globe and Empire dresser sets are not currently a part of my collection as they are outside of my budget. But.....someday....maybe.....
Ode to the days when ladies sat at dressing tables and brushed their locks with boar bristle brushes and had a place for all the trappings used in the course of their adornment.
Femininity and being lady-like, genteel and mannerly were celebrated. As Peggy Lee once sang so well.....
" I enjoy being a girl!"
HDRose
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