4th of July Inspiration

This image is so inspiring for this weekend. Happy 4th!

Image from Tomboy Style

Estate Jewelry

Really love this chunky, vintage-y estate jewelry from Lulu Frost. If you're going to go for glitz, might as well go full out, right? Definitely inspiring some ideas for new glam guitar straps.

Jewelry by Lulu Frost, images from thecoveted

More Ties

Love these ties from the groom lounge by rue magazine at Hitched. Such amazing color combos. Definitely inspiring for men's guitar straps.

Images from D E S I G N L O V E F E S T (and Bri Emery's facebook album)

Vintagey Epaulettes

A long time favorite detail of mine, these epaulettes are pretty cool. The colors, rugged fabrics, and metal buttons are all inspiring for some details on my guitar straps.

Image from Hollister Hovey's trip to Paris

Lost + Found: Prints

Emily (a former co-worker!) and Yuuki of Lost + Found find a LOT of great vintage pieces, but right now I am really drawn to the small/delicate prints in their shop. These prints have a nice mix of nostalgia and femininity- and whenever I see them on their blog I'm inspired to find some to use on my guitar straps!
All images from Lost + Found

Bonnie & Clyde

The true story of Bonnie & Clyde is really amazing to me. It first interested me 5 or 6 years back, and the more I learned, the more I became obsessed with knowing everything about them. Part of what fueled my interest was the fact that I was living in Denton (& later Dallas) Texas at the time, which is where they were essentially from, and where some of the major events in their crime-spree took place. Plus, it felt kind of like a story whose history was fading away with a previous generation, and I wanted to discover what I could, while I could.

Anyway, the (now) vintage aspect of the photos of them, their cars, their clothes, are all very inspiring. And the 1967 movie (although not necessarily a good representation of what they really looked like) is also great and inspiring. If you haven't seen it, I really recommend it. (That they are making a new B&C film starring Hilary Duff, is truly awful. Boo.)

Movie images from IMDB

Dead Man's Bones

Is there anything better than when someone you like begins doing something else you like even more? I guess the only thing better is when their aesthetic is also oddly aligned to yours, which is the case with Ryan Gosling and his band Dead Man's Bones. Love him, love the music, love the spooky vintage look. Very inspiring.

Vintage colors

This interior shot has some amazing color inspiration in it. I love the matte black door paired with the textured white walls and especially the color of the wood cases. Plus, the cases have cool metal corner detailing. I think this could come together for a pretty cool guitar strap.

Image from The Selby

Matador/Embroidery

There is something really amazing about traditional matador/toreador pants. The intricate embroidery is quite beautiful. I think a vintage piece of embroidery, done in this style,  could make a really cool shoulder piece on a guitar strap.

Image found on WGSN

Vintage Boho

Super cool anti-war poster from the Baez sisters in 1968. Great colors, graphic type, and of course message (controversial at the time, both in regards to the war and feminism).

Vintagey & Industrial interiors

I would love to have this as a workspace. Vintage & industrial, great color scheme. Image from Jac de Villiers

Ditto. The office of Shipley + Halmos. How could you not design amazing clothes here? Image from Division Street

Minimal vintage, my favorite kind. Image from MenStyle.Fr

Dark vintage, my other favorite kind. Image also from MenStyle.Fr.  And check their blog, which is  a whole world of dark vintage inspiration: Hollister Hovey.  

Glamour & Bow Ties

I love this picture from Vogue circa 1987. I especially like the combination of her hair, which is very Veronica-Lake-1940's-glam plus her bow tie and vintage hardshell case.

Found at Sea of Shoes

Vintage Equestrian

I found an amazing vintage photography blog, and I love the photos with horses in them. There is definitely inspiration in the hardware and leather of a bridle and saddle. And check the studs on the headgear for the horse in the last photo! Pretty cool.

All images from Shorpy Photo Archive

Vintage Ribbon

Image from lostartcreations

Image from pinksewingmachine

Image from TheChurchOfVintage

Ribbon is the main design feature of my guitar straps, and after spending some time on Etsy and Ebay, I'm inspired to use more vintage ribbon.

Watch

I just bought this vintage Timex on Ebay. It fits right in with the vintage menswear look I am loving right now. I think I may start to sell other accessories on therine, and watches like this would be pretty cool.

A Past Inspiration

This is from a photo shoot I was a part of after graduating college- I designed/created/styled the outfit my senior year. But the reason I am posting this is because of that amazing staircase.

J. Morgan Puett

Wow- isn't this beautiful? 

Found at: http://warsawmade.com/blog/ and www.jmorganpuett.com