IT'S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT CLOTHES....

Well it's not always about the clothes here at RIVETED .i've got stung by the collecting bug a while ago and can't help buying when i find such a beautiful piece .Today's post features a 19th century reverse glass painting bought in Paris few years ago.The piece, depicts an 1800's Euro hunter with game . Reverse painting on glass is an art form consisting of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking through the glass at the image.This style of painting has been used for religious art, abstract art, clock faces, realistic landscapes, and scenes with people and portraits. The finishing details of the painting must be put on the glass first, and must be done accurately as this is immediately covered with the next phase of the painting. So for a portrait reverse glass painting, the pupil of the eye would be painted first, then the eye, and so on in reverse order, finishing with the background. Unlike stained glass, these paintings are meant to be mounted on a wall with light shown on them, instead of light going through them.

As best as art historians can determine, reverse glass painting evolved in central Europe in the middle of the 18th century in Austria, the Black Forest region,Romania and mediterranean region.Many of the images,in the beginning,were religious and mostly created in small village's family workshops., painting on glass became favored by the nobility throughout Central Europe. A number of clock faces were created using this technique in the early-to-mid-19th century. Throughout the 19th century painting on glass became widely popular as folk art . Unfortunately, during the inter-war period (1914–1945) this traditional "naive" technique fell nearly to a complete oblivion and began to decline with the innovations of photography and forms of printing......

MEMENTO MORI

Found this beautiful piece today and felt i had to "rescue " it .love the beauty of its patina ......

IT'S IN THE AIR....A-1 STYLE JACKET

So,as a follow up to the nice post by my buddy VILBO JR , of FFC fame ,i've decided to post a nice A-1 style ,straight from the vault.this model is very similar to the one worn by the great Amelia .A-1 are the HG of jacket collectors and over 30 years of collecting ,more or less intensely, i've only had one ,but in such a relic condition ,that when i was offered krazy $$ for it ,i could not resist . One never knows ,i might get lucky again ...For the time being ,i'll settle any time for the kind featured on today's post. This jacket is made of the infamously fragile capeskin,it's lined with an OD3 cotton fabric and sports an amazing KWIK grommet zipper.gotta love its Bakelite buttons .For sure,a versatile jacket that can be worn with either dress pants or worn out chinos, for that "rugged look".......

IT'S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR :THE BIG SALES

Straight from the pages of the Chicago mail order catalog.30,50 75 % off....hurry up !

By the way the sale ends FEB 28 1939......

ANCHORS AWEIGH .......

"ON A MISSION FOR GOD" ... is this the ultimate workwear !??

I must admit,this piece was hard to photograph,because of its length and all its different nuances in the indigo.This piece was purchased 15 years ago,as part of the estate of a Belgian nun.The nun moved to the US in the early 1900's and her estate was packed with hand stitched linens, embroidered ribbons ,tapestries and antique laces.I remember people fighting that day,when they opened her storage unit ,but nobody wanted the tunic ... lucky me .This beautiful tunic is made of multiple pieces of indigo died linen and was probably used for work,hence its multiple hand made repairs . it's definitely cut to be worn over some other garment ,like a coverall/apron.Is this the ultimate workwear or what !!??

AN ORIGINAL MACKINAW....

This real Mackinaw coat, is an example of what was the "original" short coat. probably from the early 20's.Check the typical doubled shoulders...

Celluloid buttons are fragile and easily crack.The twill pattern can be seen where the 2 colors blend.....

Researched the brand but could not find much ....

Nice belted back....

Mackinaw,nowadays like Kleenex or Frigidaire, is just a generic word used to describe a wool plaid coat, but what are the origins of this word !?? .....

The name Mackinaw likely originates from the Straits of Mackinac in present day Michigan, USA. This area was an important trade artery during the 18th and 19th centuries. Heavy woolen cloth traded through this area may have been described as Mackinaw cloth.

The Mackinaw woolen cloth, is also called snow cloth.The mackinaw cloth is heavy dense and water-repellent,it is a twill [think denim] weave woolen cloth,where the weave is concealed. Mackinaw is heavily fulled or felted and napped on both sides to conceal the weave.Then ,with it's growing popularity with "the frontier people" ,an ordinary grade of wool that often had shoddy re-used or remanufactured wool mixed in,was used for its low price cost .Quality coats used melton wool.

. Historically,Mackinaw jackets were invented by Metis women in 1811, when John Askin, an early trader on the upper Great Lakes, asked them to design and sew woolen jackets for the army.Askin was fulfilling a contract he received from Captain Charles Roberts at Fort St. Joseph. They had all to be blue, but when this colour ran out ,they used red and then the black-on-red plaid cloth that we associate with the jackets of today.The short coat was belted ,double or single breasted and sometimes with a doubled shoulder

These jackets were made famous by American loggers in the northern part of the Midwest in the mid-19th century logging boom. The term later spread to be universal, and in Canada the "Mac" is regarded as a marker of national identity and working-class values.

The Métis people are an indigenous people descended from both Native American/First Nations, African and European ancestors.The word Métis is French for "Mixed-blood."The Métis homeland includes regions in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Labrador, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Ontario, as well as the Northwest Territories. The Métis homeland also includes parts of the northern United States (specifically Montana, North Dakota, and northwest Minnesota...