Valentine's Vintage Bazaar

Bummer Town will be wishing you a Sad Valentine's Day this weekend at The Vintage Bazaar. This time the event returns to where it first started - at the Dank Haus in Lincoln Square. You will find us in the 5th floor ballroom at booth #23, at two of our favorite places to be: close to a fire exit and not too far from food. Not only will we have things to put on your body but we will also be bringing things to put in your house, like housewares and some furniture that will hopefully fit in our booth. Here's some useful info from The Vintage Bazaar ladies to get you ready.

Here's a quick preview of some things we'll have:

This picture doesn't do a good job of showing you the insane proportions of this jacket. So avaaannt gaaarde.

Liquid bronze top. Comes with MATCHING PANTS.

Candy colored restraint shirt! Whaaaat?!

Puffy reversible Mickey comic pullover top

Birds & Butterflies cotton Ungaro dress

Yeti sweaty

Tulip style high stools

See you there!

-M

Another Vintage Bazaar - Special extra soggy edition

Well I blew it again and forgot to post about it here before it happened but Bummer Town participated in yet another Vintage Bazaar here in Chicago. The organizers Libby and Katherine brought it back to The Congress again, this time expanding it outside to the adjacent street and empty lot so there was more room for everyone to move around.

Unfortunately, it was drizzling or straight up raining most of the day, from when Liz and I set up at 9 a.m. until we left around 6:30. But this is why we love people in Chicago who love vintage - it didn't stop them. People still came and had a good time, brought their umbrellas and boots and were still as excited about our stuff as they would have been if it were perfectly sunny out. This is what kept us going despite being damp and freezing, dressed in as many layers as possible and giving off a "hobo with nice accessories" vibe.

So for those of you that were there, thanks for stopping by! Here's a few pictures of some of my favorite items that we sold yesterday. There were more plenty more that I didn't have the time to take a picture of so if you bought something from us that you love, please feel free to email us a photo and maybe we'll put it up here, if that's okay with you!

This all leather fringe cape was easily one of my favorites! I hope she wears this everywhere, like to school, to the grocery store, to sleep, to her wedding, etc.

Sam debated on getting this monochromatic muppet sweater for a little while but I'm glad he finally decided to go for it It's pretty perfect on him and not a lot of people could pull it off.

This girl was really cheery and cute and picked up this classy ivory wool ribbed cape. It has a hood! And pockets! I didn't capture the details. Whoops!

Sasha's one of our favorites because of her wild styles.   Sasha "gets" us. You know? Look how perfectly this "Theo Huxtable at a party" leather and wooly sweater/jacket works on her.

This lovely girl got this densely sequined black blazer with structured shoulders. I think it looked pretty good with what she already had on.

Look at the textured venetian blind effect on this crazy sweatshirt! I never could figure out what it said, if it said anything.

So thanks again to everyone who braved the gross weather and checked out The Vintage Bazaar and especially to those who stopped into our booth. We'll be working hard at finding new old things for you for the next time! Also, keep an eye here or on our Facebook page for updates because we'd like to restock the Etsy shop eventually and I'll post about it here first.

:)/:(,
Mia

Big hair & bold colors

I was stuck at home for a week but fortunately had just picked up a pile of VHS tapes at a video store that's supposedly going out of business but which has been "going out of business" for close to half a year, so I'm hoping that means they'll be around for a while. Many movies were watched on the TV/VCR combo that week, and let me tell you, cheesy 80's movies are a no-fail mood lifter. Here's your video Prozac:




Just One of the Guys, 1985
Classic teen movie themes of nerds vs. jocks, high school crushes and prom mixed with drag and a little brother with a lot of great lines.




Making Mr. Right, 1987
A young John Malkovich plays both a scientist and his own creation - an android in his own likeness. The rest of the movie isn't that great but the double Malkovich is all I needed to enjoy it.




After Hours, 1985
How had I not seen this before? This is Martin Scorsese's dark comedy of one man's surreal night in New York, starring Griffin Dunne, who was also the star in An American Werewolf in London. If you haven't seen this, you need to watch it! I believe this is also streaming on Netflix right now.




Night of the Comet, 1984
There were some pretty good lines in this campy movie about two sisters trying to survive in L.A. after a comet kills off most people and turns the others into flesh-eating zombies (or just mutated jerks, in the case of some mall employees) but the radio station set was my favorite part:

-M

Cover girl

Our lovely makeup artist and model Jamie's shot from one of our Etsy listings popped up on The Vintage Bazaar's blog and subsequently on Apartment Therapy today in anticipation of tomorrow's pop-up market. Thanks for the love, TVB!

Spring sale!

It's been a while since we've done a sale but we're beyond excited to participate in another fine Vintage Bazaar event. This time the pop-up vintage market is in Pilsen, the home of some of our favorite places to eat & meet.

Find us at Booth #5 this Saturday at 2229 S. Halsted from 12pm - 6pm to check out our new clothes finds as well as shoes, accessories and a good amount of housewares. Sneak peaks can be seen on our Facebook page. We'll even have the ever-popular $5 (and $10) bin in tow! Hope to see you there!