Anthromollogies

Featured on our blog previously, anthroholic Molly is one of the most stylish mommas I have seen on the blogosphere. Now that she is pregnant, she hasn't let that cramp her fashion forwardness. Instead, she features her belly proudly as one of her favorite accessories. I am sure all the hot, little pregnant mommas out there can glean a lot from the inspiring outfit collages she posts on her blog anthromollogies.com. I know at 8 months pregnant myself, I am incredibly fascinated by her eye catching combinations of pattern and color. Thanks Molly for showing us fashion can be MAJOR and maternal.

MOLLY'S FAMILY

MOLLY ROCKING DAMSEL IN DISTRESS VINTAGE HEM

$10 OFF of Neenie's Cup of Tea in Chocolate

The word chocolate is the promo code aired on Good Things Utah this morning to get $10 off your order of our chocolate Neenie's Cup of Tea slip. Alicia did such a great job on the show introducing us to so many great options to wear underneath our clothes. I know I added several of her items to my must try list!

Michael Moloney from Extreme Makeover was on GTU talking about the big reveal of a home here in Daybreak, UT. He joined Reagen and Alicia during the undergarments segment and they were cracking me up with their fun comments. I never dreamed Michael Moloney would be a sidekick on a Vintage Hem TV segment. Pretty much made my day! He totally got the layering concept of Vintage Hem which shows how chic he is even though our product wouldn't be in his closet!

Neenie's Cup of Tea is one of my summer staples in my wardrobe. The dupioni silk trim on the hem has a great texture and sheen in the fabric which allows it to be worn with a lot of different shades of brown without having to match perfectly. I love throwing it under a cool summer dress that needs just a few extra inches to feel comfortable in when bending over and sitting down. The brown accent color is a great tie in to another accessory like a woven brown belt which is a super hot trend right now.

$10 off and free shipping is a steal for our chocolate Neenie's Cup of Tea! You wont want to pass this up.

Neenie's Cup of Tea is Full!

The Gals at Vintage Hem are happy to announce the arrival of Neenie's Cup of Tea in Black Licorice and an exciting new flavor Chocolate! They are available for purchase on the website now! Get yours while they last, especially Chocolate as it is sure to be a favorite and only made in limited quantities.

Fashion Show Pics

Vintage Hem was delighted to be featured in a fashion show in Orange County. The audience was about 500 young women and their mothers celebrating beauty and modesty in fashion. The organizer Jenny was fantastic in securing us these few shots sporting eyefull of lace, eiffel tower, damsel in distress, and lastly our tulle slip, have a ball. It is always exciting to see how people style their outfits using our hems and we appreciate their kindness in including us!

Betty Grables Legs Worth Millions!

Reachel from Cardigan Empire recently did a giveaway kindly featuring Vintage Hem. Reachel is a fantastic writer and details the insurance of Betty Grables legs along with the details of her own shy leg adventures in fashion. To read more of her superb post on VH or just peruse some of her other delicious fashion advice you can visit her at Cardigan Empire.

Brace Yourself Effie!

Here is a cell phone picture of a Vintage Hem converted with the poladroid. The model is one of my fabulous sisters Stephanie. She is the namesake of our slip Effie's Dessert and she wears it beautifully. I am going to try and create a little collection of all the different ways she wears it. To start it off, here she is with Lady Vanilla pairing it with a darling cotton dress and trendy grey boots.

Somewhere along the way one of Stephanie's nicknames became Effie. Maybe it came at the end of a rope where we were skimming the cold but happy waves of Lake Washington on a water tube. Quite possibly it could have been when I fastened her with ropes of tights to her daybed and sang endless rhymes torturing her and her cabbage patch dolls attempting to make her pee her pants from giggles. She has been called Effie as long as I can remember, even when I was walking a tight rope in my life and scared people which way I might fall.

She has always been there for me whether I am scaring her or making her laugh and I love her dearly for it. She forgives me, cheers me, and inspires me. She is a striking woman and can get out of traffic tickets and into VIP easier than anyone I know. The neatest thing about her is that her inner beauty matches perfectly her outer beauty which is a remarkable compliment anyone could aspire to. She gives everyone the benefit of the doubt and has a kind word for those around her. I admire her devotion to her family as she puts them first above anything else. Her husband is as brilliant and handsome as she and together they have created a wonderful family.

One of Stephanie's many talents is fashion. Whether she is shopping at Sak's or Walmart the girl knows how to put an outfit together! Lately, her and Janine have been working together to style Neenie's closet and I am quite jealous of the fun they are having together. Neenie told me that she daringly paired some cheetah heels with an outfit inspired by Stephanie. While it is never good to be overly obsessed with materialistic things, creating physical beauty and comfort to surround our families in is definitely a worthy pursuit.

CYBER MONDAY!

Vintage Hem added 2 more colors of our tulle slips to the half off sale! You can get antique gold and ivory HALF OFF TODAY! The antique gold is my absolute favorite tulle slip. It looks dynamite under your winter pencil skirts. You can see Have a Ball in antique gold styled above by Eliza Magazine.

Vintage Hem Customer Spotlight: Mayor Love

If you have been keeping up with the news lately you probably saw this headline from The Salt Lake Tribune, "History in Saratoga Springs: Utah's first black woman mayor." The Gals at Vintage Hem would love to congratulate Mia on a well earned office and look forward to seeing the results her dedicated service will bring to pass in her community. She credits her family and friends with helping her achieve her goals in political service especially her smart & handsome husband Jason seen congratulating her in the picture posted in the Tribune below.

Mia is a dedicated wife to Jason Love and mother to her beautiful children Alessa, Abby, and Peyton. The family is very close and enjoys camping and playing together. Both parents, take an active role in the education of their children and encourage them to pursue their individual passions.
A longtime customer of Vintage Hem, Mia has lately loved Effie's Dessert in Lady Vanilla. She originally fell in love with the moss colored Damsel in Distress which she used in a fun way to embellish her Halloween costume pictured below. Mia is not a stranger to dressing up and wore an amazing 70's outfit to my Birthday Bowling Party. Her fun sense of humor endears her to all including the 6 year olds at my daughters Vintage Glam Birthday where she tried on the prom queen sash and tiara. You are never short of intellectual conversation and humorous entertainment with darling Mia around.
Mia is an adventurous woman and loves travelling, fitness, and games. She works hard and plays hard, a mindset that is shared by her husband Jason. She is a friend to everyone she meets and serves those around her in need. We celebrate Mia as she continues to enhance her community and create a beautiful home for her family.

Video Courtesy of KSL.com

Happy Halloween Giveaway!

Blog author, Tracy Wallace took one of our Vintage Hems for a test drive. You can read all about her likes and dislikes of the Have A Ball Slip in her detailed post. Tracy confessed that she did like it so much that she wanted to share one with a blogger friend. She is offering to give away a free Vintage Hem to a lucky blog commenter. In between Halloween parties be sure to visit her blog! Thanks Tracy for Saying it With a Slip! You only have until October 31st to enter the latest giveaway featured on The Just For You and Me Blog.

VH Featured Boutique, Blend Fashions

BLEND FASHIONS
Where the Latest Fashions Come Together
Phone:
801-701-0730
Address: 285 East State Road
Pleasant Grove, Utah
Email:
contactus@blendfashions.com

Some of our hems are available in a local store, Blend Fashion, in Pleasant Grove, UT. They have Effie's Dessert, Neenie's Cup of Tea in Chammomile, and also Damsel in Distress in Blush. Vintage Hem slips are a great addition to their inventory which caters toward the modesty minded customer, One of my favorite lines they carry is Undertease designed by Suzie Broadbent. Get hot tips on the trends by visiting the Blend blog. For all of you that love to shop online you can also browse their shopper friendly website which features several affordable style options.
The store, Blend Fashions. was created from the ideas of two dynamic women.

Shellie Slade, co-founder of modbod, wanted to have a clothing line that her girls would be able to wear. "It's so difficult to find dresses and clothes for my daughters that are not revealing" So in 2004 ModBod was created and evolved from their MiniMod line, to their ModBod line and now into more trendy fashionable clothes for the modern body.

Amanda Behrbom, creator of Blend Fashions, was tired of finding the same fashions in Utah. So after partnering up with Undertease and Shellie she decided to bring the two companies together and create a new trend. Only in our modern store, Blend Fashions, will you find ModBod and Undertease in the same place. "I wanted women to fall in love with our unique styles that you can easily layer with our modbod's or our Undertease shirts." With our modbod fashion line nothing is over $75 dollars and for those looking for a higher line of clothing we will have our boutique side of our Undertease fashion line. We are so excited for this new combination of companies and can't wait for you to experience it yourself!

Clothed Much

Congrats to the winner of a Vintage Hem slip on the Eliza Magazine Blog giveaway. Eliza announced the lucky blogger on their blog and she is a local, Elaine H. from Salt Lake City. She won an all black, Have A Ball tulle slip. Elaine writes about her penchant for fashion on her blog titled Clothed Much. Elaine even has a fashion illustration depicting her; you can see how cute it is above.

The Gals at Vintage Hem love love love Eliza Mag because it highlights today's hot fashions in an uplifting and artful way that celebrates womanhood. It is classic style full of fresh sass. Here is a preview Editor Summer Bellessa gave about their newest issue highlighting travel:

Open the matte pages of our travel issue and embark on an intercontinental experience. We start in lovely Paris with fashion stories “French Kiss” and “Ooh La La” and a much needed “Chocoholics’ Guide.” Then we soak up the British style in “Hello London.” Head east and you will discover our travel picks for Jordan. Keep going to learn about Eastern medicine.

Then jet set to Nigeria, previous home of actress Hope Olaide Wilson; Oppegård, Norway is home to singer Sissy Wish; see “Russia with Love” for beauty inspiration; and in Peru see how “Micro-Loans can Save the World.”

Unmentionable!

Featured VH Boutique, VINTAGE FOX

Vintage Fox Boutique is a delicious offering to the shopper's palate. The friendly and fashionable owner Jen provides private styling and brings a unique flavor to the Salt Lake fashion frontier. She wants to help Utah not be 10 years behind the fashion world and she accomplishes that goal by offering customers both fresh funky style and timeless fashions. Her motto is something for everyone: rich, poor, young, and old!

Jen delivers impeccable customer service from the minute you are welcomed in the door to when you leave with all your beautifully wrapped goodie bags. I admit I don't have a passion or giant budget for fashion, but I am astounded with her unique finds and fabulous price points. It is hard for me to walk out of the store without purchasing something. The boutique is located in Sojo Salon which is very convenient if you are multi-tasking! They recently hosted a fashion show which you can see the pictures from on the fashion blog www.jchicboutique.com. You can preview inventory online and even shop at the website www.vintagefoxboutique.com. Jen currently stocks our tulle, Have a Ball Vintage Hems in gold, ivory, and black along with Effie's Dessert in Lady Vanilla. Vintage Fox Boutique is located in Sojo Salon at 1098 W. S. Jordan Pkwy in South JORDAN, UT.


JEN CLYDE
PRIVATE STYLIST
VINTAGE FOX OWNER
801-949-5744
JENBIGGS@MAC.COM

Deseret News Article

Eliza magazine: Style and substance
By Nicole Warburton
Deseret News
Published: Sunday, Feb. 15, 2009 7:33 p.m. MST

Summer Bellessa didn't intend for ELIZA magazine to be anything big. Just a side project. You know, similar to scrapbooking, she joked during a recent interview.
But when your "hobby" gets featured on "Good Morning America," Fox News and in Newsweek, things change. And for Bellessa, it changed in a big way.

Her magazine, which is based in Los Angeles, suddenly hit the national stage. People were jumping to subscribe to the magazine, which showcases stylish yet modest fashions and also "uplifting" entertainment and lifestyle articles.

For Bellessa, the growth of ELIZA is a clear indication there is a market for modesty. Women want to know about top fashions and trends but without having to wade through articles and images they may view as inappropriate, she said. Her print-run is 10,000, and her magazine can be found in stores across the nation, including Barnes & Noble bookstores in Utah.

"We have found there is a group of women whose voices aren't heard," said Bellessa, who serves as editor-in-chief of ELIZA. "They still want to buy fashion magazines … but they don't cover their view."

You can sense Bellessa's passion as she talks about her magazine. During a recent interview at Bambara restaurant in Salt Lake City, she talked about how articles are selected and trends presented in the magazine.

It's a careful balance to determine how people will perceive things and the message that will be sent by words and images. In the most recent issues of ELIZA, Bellessa said she and her colleagues were careful to call it their "marriage" issue instead of a "wedding" or "bridal" issue.

They wanted to promote their belief that getting married is about more than the wedding and a fancy dress. Sometimes the words "marriage" or even "wife" have bad connotations, said Bellessa.

"We wanted to make sure we could show how fun marriage really is and that it's worth it, working hard to build that relationship," she said.

But the magazine is by no means "prudish." Bellessa, who is in her late 20s, is a former runway model and is still represented by Ford Models. You can sense she knows fashion by the way she dresses and the clothing featured in her magazine, which is published quarterly.


There are beautiful images that showcase trends such as layering, or wearing lace and other vintage-inspired themes. Also, articles and images show different ways to apply makeup, or highlight different styles of wedding dresses for sale.

"We attract really creative people whose work is right up there with Vogue and Glamour and it's so much fun to be able to do that," said Bellessa about the talent that helps produce her magazine.

Laura Field, marketing director for Layers Clothing, which is based in Draper, said her company "loves" ELIZA magazine because of its positive spin on fashion. Layers was started in 2005 by Michelle Boley and three friends and is now represented in nearly all 50 states, the Philippines and Canada.

Field believes ELIZA magazine is a great outlet for "amazing" fashion and really demonstrates how people can mix-and-match high-end pieces with affordable, trendy clothing. Layers advertises in the magazine and is featured on the back cover of its most recent magazine.

"Summer, ELIZA's editor-in-chief, has tapped into a world of fashion that is so needed during these times of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll," Field said.

Jennifer Jensen Young, the owner and creator of Draper-based Vintage Hem, also advertises in ELIZA. For her, the magazine showcases true feminine beauty without too much emphasis on skin.

Young sells slips women can use to lengthen skirts or add a touch of style to their outfits. She said she loves vintage styles that are romantic and feminine.

"I have three little girls and I love the idea they can pick up a glamorous magazine and look at it," said Young, who has more than doubled the size and revenue of her company in two years. "The women in ELIZA are revered for style and beauty, but they are in modest clothing."

For Bellessa, that is the goal: to showcase styles, trends and people that are beautiful yet substantial. Some of the women featured on ELIZA's cover include Brooke White, who appeared on American Idol last season, and Nicole Lapin, who is a young anchorwoman on CNN.com Live. We don't want to put people out there who are glitz without any substance," Bellessa said. "We want to make sure they're really someone who should be looked up to."

For more information about ELIZA magazine, log on to: www.elizamagazine.com

About Summer Bellessa:

Summer Bellessa was born in Chicago and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Kerry. She began modeling about age 4 and started a full-time modeling career around age 16.

Bellessa has done runway modeling, appeared in catalogs, magazines and also commercials, including some in Japan. She was married six years ago in the Los Angeles Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

While she still models, her main focus is working on ELIZA magazine. Her goals are to continue growing the magazine, but she won't go into detail about upcoming plans.

One of Bellessa's fashion inspirations is Audrey Hepburn. ELIZA magazine is named after Eliza Doolittle, the character Hepburn played in a film version of "My Fair Lady."

Said Bellessa: "I think it doesn't matter where you come from. If you cultivate yourself and have knowledge and take care of yourself, anyone can look like a princess."

E-mail: nwarburton@desnews.com

Studio 5 & Effie's Dessert in Lady Vanilla

If you are local in Utah, you may have been able to check out our fashion show and conversation with the fabulous hosts of Studio 5. KSL's Brooke & Darin got the details about our trip to Dallas for The Next Best Thing national product search. Janine also gave them a sneak peak at one of our Spring Tea Slips, Effie's Dessert worn by our model Heather Wilson!

Fox 13 Fashion Show

One of our super sassy Vintage Hem Gals, Janine Hansen Ottley was featured on Fox 13 the morning of Wednesday, January 21st. She enthusiasticly debuted one of our "Spring Tea" slips-Effie's Dessert in Lady Vanilla, as well as showcasing several pieces from our Wardrobe Collection. All of the slips worn by our models are available online now at www.vintagehem.com including our new styles which you can reserve by pre-ordering.

The gals thoroughly enjoyed visiting with the very gracious Dan & Kerri from Fox's Good Day Utah. They even began design plans for a Vintage Hem Menswear line by talking about lengthening Dan's pants with eyelet embellishment; we're
going to work on that Dan!



Thank you to our beautiful models for getting up so early!
Models:
Heather Wilson, Nan Lemmon, Amanda, Jessica, Rachel & Hannah