Judging and providing prizes for Emily's awesome fall vintage fashion contest

This autumn I have the great honour and pleasure of being involved with my good friend Emily - from the stellar vintage + historical sewing blog, Emily's Vintage Visions - first ever vintage fall fashion contest.

This past spring Emily held a similar fashion contest using vintage write ups from mid-century newspapers as the jumping off point for contests to garner inspiration for their looks from and it was a roaring success, so she decided to hold the same sort of contest again this season, just with a fall touch to it.

Emily very kindly tapped both myself and Lauren from Wearing History to help her judge the entries and to provide prizes for the winner and a second place runner up as well. I thrilled to be involved on each count and can hardly wait to see all of the entries that folks submit. This contest is open to participants worldwide and you can find out all of the details regarding how to enter in this official contest announcement post on Emily's blog.

The first place winner will receive the following prizes:

-Vintage Related Goodies Bag Plus $30 in Store Credit from Emily's Vintage Visions

-Beautiful Collection of Autumn Themed Accessories from Chronically Vintage (see below)

-Vintage Sewing Goodies Bag Plus $30 in Store Credit from Wearing History

The runner up will receive the following prizes:

-Vintage Related Goodies Bag Plus $25 in Store Credit from Emily's Vintage Visions

-$20 in Store Credit from Wearing History

-$30 in Store Credit from Chronically Vintage

The first place prize pack that I'm providing includes the following items:

-1950s/60s peach and brown polka dot scarf with rolled hem

-C. 1950s brown net triangle shaped head scarf (great for keeping the wind from ruining your hair or for wrapping over curlers)

-C. 1950s white and yellow millinery flower "crown" (one would attach it with bobby pins)

-Original early 1930s photo of a man and two women in winter coats (on the back it says Niagara Falls, NY, Feb 1931)

-Vintage (probably 70s) Cooking with Kellogg's recipe booklet

-3 different autumn hued mid-century "fakelite" plastic bangle bracelets

-Mid-century thick copper chain bracelet

-Fairly long c. 1930s black Czech glass bead and gold/brass toned metal spacer bead necklace

-1950s/1960s green and gold hued plastic beaded necklace

-1950s/60s silvery-gold hued metal and orange rhinestone bow brooch

-1950s gold tone metal maple leaf sweater guard (chain)

-C. 1940s green plastic leaf/feather screw back earrings

-1950s (signed) Coro silvery-gold metal and orange rhinestone leaf clip-on earrings

-Plus, not pictured, a pair of vintage gloves if I have one in the winner's size, or if not, they can choice from either either another scarf or a piece of jewelry that I'll pick out myself (and try to keep fall-ish, too).

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I strongly encourage you to check out this fabulously cool vintage fall fashion contest and to enter (entries can be submitted up to, and including on, October 18, 2015 - with the winner being selected and announced shortly thereafter).

This is such a creative, fresh idea in the vintage blogging community and one that can land you some seriously great prizes! Way to go, Emily, on coming up with these exciting vintage fashion contests!

GIVEAWAY: $50.00 gift certificate from The Best Vintage Clothing (plus three generous coupon codes for CV's readers)

Here at Chronically Vintage, it's scarcely a secret that I'm a big fan of The Best Vintage Clothing. They've a thriving vintage online empire and have been a longtime blog sponsor and giveaway partner. Today I'm pleased as punch to bring you another opportunity for your chance to win a $50.00 gift certificate for The Best Vintage Clothing's stand alone e-shop.

If you aren't familiar with The Best Vintage Clothing, I encourage you read this sponsor spotlight post from November 2013 all about them for oodles of details on this world famous vintage clothing seller.

In addition to TBVC's main website, they've also been selling on eBay for many years now and considerably more recently launched an Etsy shop as well (which is chock-a-block with stellar antique and vintage clothing of the sort that frequently makes me go weak in the knees!).

On top of offering my readers the chance to win a $50.00 gift certificate, The Best Vintage Clothing (which is also known by its alternative name, The Cat's Pajamas), has very kindly provided me with three coupon codes that you use to save 20 - 25% off on each of their websites:


♥ To save 25% on The Best Vintage Clothing's main website, use coupon code Vintage25 at checkout.

♥ To save 20% off on The Best Vintage Clothing on Etsy, use coupon code Catsmeow at checkout.

♥ To save 20% off on purchases of $100.00 or more at the The Best Vintage Clothing's eBay shop, follow this link.

All coupon codes are valid until May 15, 2015.

Best Vintage Clothing stocks all kinds of fabulous yesteryear offerings, from ladies wear to clothing for gents, accessories, jewelry, handbags, shoes, even vintage a selection of assorted vintage collectibles and there's absolutely no shortage of items on their main website to chose from, should you happen to be the lucky winner of this $50.00 gift certificate giveaway.



{Four of the hundreds upon hundreds of terrific vintage offerings of the sort that you could put your $50.00 gift certificate towards, should you happen to be the lucky winner of this exciting giveaway. From top left to bottom right: 1940s mustard yellow cotton blouse with gold buckles | 1950s novelty print sleeveless summer dress | 1950s Catalina one-piece swimsuit | 1940s blue rose print rayon blouse}



How to enter

There are ten possible ways for you to enter this giveaway, the more of them that you do, the greater your odds of winning will be. Please make sure to leave a separate comment specifying each of the ways in which you entered this giveaway, so as to increase your odds of winning.


1. Swing by The Best Vintage Clothing site to check out their terrific offerings, then come back here and tell me about an item that you might like to put the $50.00 gift certificate towards if you win.

2. Post about this giveaway in on your own blog, including a link to The Best Vintage Clothing, as well as one to this post, then leave a comment here with a link to your post.

3. Like The Best Vintage Clothing on Twitter.

4. Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter, including a link back to this post in your tweet.

5. Like The Best Vintage Clothing on Facebook.

6. Post about this giveaway on Facebook, including a link to this Chronically Vintage post.

7. Follow The Best Vintage Clothing on Tumblr.

8. Follow The Best Vintage Clothing on Pinterest.

9. Pin any item you like from The Best Vintage Clothing's site to any Pinterest board of your choosing (limit of one Pinterest entry per person).

10. Sign up for The Best Vintage Clothing's newsletter (scroll down near the bottom of the page to do so).


Giveaway details

This giveaway will run from today's date until Friday May 15, 2015 at 11:59 PST, and is open to readers from around the whole world. The winner will be drawn using a random number generator and contacted via email (if an email address is available publicly), as well as being announced on Facebook and/or Twitter, shortly thereafter.

The winner will receive one $50.00 US gift certificate from The Best Vintage Clothing, which the company will provide them with. Please don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions about this giveaway.

Please note, the deadline for this giveaway has been extended (from the 5th to the 15th) at the request of the sponsor, so that means more time for an even larger number of folks to take part in it. 

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Whether you want to add something new to your spring/summer wardrobe, shop for a loved one, pick up an item you've been trying to add to your wardrobe for ages, or just want to treat yourself, The Best Vintage Clothing has you covered and for a limited time only, you can save big while doing so thanks to the trio of coupon codes above.

Best of luck and many sincere thanks to everyone who enters this giveaway, as well as to The Best Vintage Clothing for being such an outstanding blog sponsor and company to work with. You really live up to the "best" in your name! :)