i spy: luxurious train travel, a fern print dress, a Berlin chanteuse, and dogs!

What's inspiring me lately?  Springy green fern prints, dreams of luxurious train travel, a Berlin cabaret performer...and dogs.

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clockwise, l-r:

*wool skirt suit by Victor Stiebel, autumn 1942 / V&A Museum

*bar car on the Venice-Simplon Orient Express / Poppytalk

*German cabaret performer, Katie Kühl, 1933 / Cabaret Berlin

*model in a fern-shadowed dress by Herbert Sondheim, photo by Herbert Matter, 1948 / Pleasure Photo

*autumn in Bucharest by yony_ro / yony_ro on Flickr

clockwise, l-r:

*hungover pups / WonderfullyStrange on Flickr

*Nora, a terrier mix / The Dogist

*Vienna, a dachshund at the NY Pet Fashion Show / The Dogist

*photo of a girl and her dog, early 1860s / KaufmaNelson Vintage Photographs

*a World War I German mascot dog with his own jacket, hat and Iron Cross Second Class.  Oh, and pipe. / Wooway1 on Flickr

xo

K

vintage dogs

I know there are a lot of cat ladies out there in vintage world.  Well, this post is for the rest of us (though there is a cat here!).

movie star dog / here

French circus dogs (& a cat!) / here

from the WNYC archives, Rolf, the mandolin playing terrier / here

my grandfather, Dan, and Mupsy, 1908

Victorian dog in top hat, smoking a pipe, from the collection of Libby Hall / here

from the collection of Libby Hall / here

love the french bulldog's collar, and that terrier on her lap! / Libby Hall Collection

You can see more on my Pinterest vintage dog board.

xo

K