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It’s a Friday the 13th birthday for me today, and to help celebrate, I’m offering 20% off any item in the Kambriel Etsy shop by entering the code: FRIDAY13. (good throughout this weekend)

Also……. The 21st Century Premiere of:

Eureka! Fashion that could -save your life-.

Once upon a time, it was a not-so-dark and not-so-stormy evening wherein the ever-elegant Madame Kat & I poured over the pages of bound antique magazines, dramatically reading aloud the often unintentionally hilarious advertisements and articles within, only to find one that stopped us in our tracks. 

The Eureka Air Bustle

The text went on and on espousing the merits of such a thing, but then we got to the point where it mentioned the possibility of being used as… AN INFLATABLE LIFE PRESERVER. 

Enter here, my friend and  *adorable* artist Tanya Bjork who took it all a step further and brought the vision I had dancing in my head to life with her whimsical illustration.  

We’re getting closer… The final step,  Gwen, screen-printer extraordinaire who is bringing the design to life on cream coloured shirts, echoing the aged parchment we found the original antique text upon.

And thus, 100 years later, the EUREKA is reborn!

Yes, that’s right… She has a blow-up, inflatable bustle bouying her up above the waves :) 

I decided to do the first run of these as a pre-order ~ to ship within the coming month.

We’re planning to do short-sleeved ladies t’s similar to the below style (but in light ivory, not the dark grey shown below), in “pre-shrunk, 100% 30 single-combed ring-spun cotton, super soft baby jersey knit, with contoured side seams” in a creamy ivory tone (like the photo of the illustration design above ~ perfect for Summer):

Gents ~ If any of you would like to wear this bit of neo-Victorian whimsy ~ just specify your size when ordering (same basic ordering info as below) and we’ll make sure you’re covered as well ~ also in a deep sand/ivory tone.

The pre-order price this weekend is only $25 each *including shipping* in the domestic US.

Available sizes are S, M, L, XL, or 2XL.  

Feel free to get in touch if you want one shipped internationally & we’ll figure out the cost.  

To order: Just send $25 per shirt via http://www.PayPal.com to: info (at) kambriel (dot) com 

Be sure to include a note mentioning whether you’d like men’s/women’s shirt/s & which size/s along with your name & shipping address.  Thanks!

(Source: kambriel.livejournal.com)

There is currently an exhibition at the Goodman Gallery of the Allentown Art Museum (including the Kambriel moiré Midnight Bustle ensemble shown in the photo below amongst other examples of clothing, jewelry, needlework, art, etc…), entitled Gothic to Goth: Embracing the Dark Side which runs until April 29th in Allentown, PA.  

“Gothic to Goth offers an overview of the nineteenth-century cult of mourning in American art and fashion and indicates how that trend translated into contemporary Goth fashion, a genre now embraced by mainstream couture as well as by the rock subculture of the twentieth century. Included in the exhibition are representative examples of mourning art such as needle pictures, paintings, and post-mortem daguerreotype portraits; mourning jewelry and other accessories; two late Victorian mourning outfits; and examples of contemporary Goth fashion inspired by the mourning excesses of the earlier century.”

I’m looking forward to checking out the exhibit in person later this month, when we’ll be in the area for…

A fashion show we’re doing on the afternoon of April 29th as part of the finale for the first ever: NYC 19th Century Extravaganza! 

“The Extravaganza is a three-day, all-ages expo featuring historically-focused classes, hands-on experiences, and performances highlighting nineteenth-century life in New York City. The festival culminates in a full-day of Victorian-style picnicking, performances, and celebration on the lawn of Brooklyn’s Old Stone House Museum.”

The Old Stone House Museum will be the locale for the fashion show & should make for a really lovely day filled with a 19th-Century Base Ball Game, Open Air Figure Drawing, Bartitsu: The Lost Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes, an Old Time Photo Booth, the Steampunk and Neo-Victorian Fashion Show, & Outdoor Hearth Cooking Demonstration, so do come if you can :)

Allentown Art Museum Exhibit: 

http://www.allentownartmuseum.org/exhibition/gothic-goth-embracing-dark-side

NYC 19th Century Extravaganza:

http://nyncs.wordpress.com/

~ Kambriel