Cigarette cases, like cigarette holders, smoking jackets, and hat boxes, are a fabulously stylish vintage accessory sadly on their way to extinction. Now, far be it from me to encourage , condone or suggest that smoking looks in any way cool or stylish (although, even as a life-long non-smoker… personally I think it kind of maybe sorta does. Only in black and white fiction though!)
So while smokers may be becoming a smaller and smaller minority, perhaps we could focus on repurposing all those gorgeous vintage smoking accessories. There are so many stunning vintage art deco cigarette cases out there… they make good credit card/ID holders, no? Take a look at the these beauties for inspiration.
Just a quick post today, a sort of mish-mash of art deco bits and pieces I’ve found while poking around the net for content for our site. The theme? Blue! Now, I myself am quite a superstitious sort, so you’d better believe I had my “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue” …
I have very few regrets about my wedding day, but one eensy tiny teensy one did pop up after we got all the photos and the video and we were oohing and ahhing over everything and then I looked some more and… umm.. oh. Hey, so… why didn’t anyone tell me my hair looked like …
We’ve featured the gorgeous designs of Johanna Johnson before (both her Trousseau Bridal collection and her RIDICULOUS-IN-THEIR-BEAUTY 1920s headbands and art deco jewelry)… …and today we need to bring your more deco-y goodness in the form of her 2013 collection, “Still Is The Night, Not So My Heart…”, inspired by the Ziegfield Follies chorus girls …
Art Deco Cigarette Cases
Cigarette cases, like cigarette holders, smoking jackets, and hat boxes, are a fabulously stylish vintage accessory sadly on their way to extinction. Now, far be it from me to encourage , condone or suggest that smoking looks in any way cool or stylish (although, even as a life-long non-smoker… personally I think it kind of maybe sorta does. Only in black and white fiction though!)
So while smokers may be becoming a smaller and smaller minority, perhaps we could focus on repurposing all those gorgeous vintage smoking accessories. There are so many stunning vintage art deco cigarette cases out there… they make good credit card/ID holders, no? Take a look at the these beauties for inspiration.
Art Deco Cigarette Case, Circa 1930
Red Lacquer Art Deco Cigarette Case
Mint Green Art Deco Enamel Cigarette Case, Circa 1934
Gold Art Deco Cigarette Case with Rubies
Enamel Art Deco Cigarette Case, Circa 1920s
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I have very few regrets about my wedding day, but one eensy tiny teensy one did pop up after we got all the photos and the video and we were oohing and ahhing over everything and then I looked some more and… umm.. oh. Hey, so… why didn’t anyone tell me my hair looked like …
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