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Eva Marie Beale married to the nephew of our favorite deceased aspiring dancer/recluse Edie Beale, and she's opened an online store called Grey Gardens Collections, on which she sells vintage jewelry inspired by Little Edie's personal style. Clearly, they will help accessorize everyone's Best Costume for the Day. Take a look at some of the pieces after the jump, and try to keep the line between the past and the present (although we know it's awfully difficult).
"Edie's Choice" Velvet Cuff
S-T-A-U-N-C-H!
Rhinestone Horse and Jockey Brooch
I'm pulverized by this latest thing!
Rhinestone Cat Brooch
I adore kitties.
Rhinestone Cat Brooch
But raccoons and cats become a little bit boring. I mean, for too long a time.
Grey Gardens Bridal Collection Cuffs
Edie never married, but she had a proposal of marriage from Paul Getty. Remember Paul, the richest man in the world?
Rhinestone Bow Brooch
This will keep your scarf on your head on a windy day.
Opera Glasses
It's much easier to view the numbers on the scale with a pair of these.
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Comments
My mom has the opera glasses and the rhinestone bow broach. All I need is a giant headscarf and I'm all set.
Wow. I have an inherited necklace that looks just like that bow. Do want.
The best way to honor an edgy style icon and show off your own unique style = copying her to a T.
Ok, I know "estate jewelry" is supposed to be really fancy schmancy ridiculously expensive stuff owned by really rich people. Is it bad that everytime I see pictures of it, I find it to be the tackiest shit ever?
This looks like most of the random and wierd stuff you would find in my grandma's costume jewelry box.
Are we sure these didn't come from Edie's actual personal collection?
I'm sorry, but Edie's whining took a couple of years off my life. (Although I did like The Beales of Grey Gardens. Less moaning, more interesting.)
Where is the sparkly flask? Show me, and then I'm in.
American flag and binocular charms? I'm sure they weren't going for a certain statment other than "awesome crazy old broad" but those two charms look sadly/oddly appropriate together.
@KathrynwithaY: The other day, my brother and I were watching a documentary on the cocaine trade in Miami in the 70's. They show pictures of the murderous, truly evil queenpin of Miami wearing a black and white dress with a jaunty red hat and the first words out of my mouth were "Grandma would have worn the fuck out of that outfit!"
Does anyone under the age of 60 even wear brooches?
Little Edie is the crazy I aspire to be - no, seriously. I would kill to walk around all day in a bathing suit and scarf while singing at the TOP OF MY LUNGS.
When I get dressed to go out - her voice rings in my head like a style muse...
bless her.
Hmmm, looks like the endless display cases of costume jewelry I see at the small-scale antique stores. You know, the shops where unwanted/not needed/odd-ball/not-my-style family heirlooms end up! It's less guilt than directly to the dump.
@distractedbyshinyobjects:
Yep, on my coach. Its as close to a Rufus Wainwright style as I can get.
My nana had similar pieces...but the one I remember most....was a gold fish pendant, with moveable scales...
The freaking thing wiggled like a real fish...It was sooooo cool!
@distractedbyshinyobjects: absolutely! On coats, I pin them on purses, I wear them on funky jackets.
I love good vintage costume jewelry. Back story: a number of the good names (Miriam Haskell, Coro, Eisenberg) hired Eastern European jewelry makers who escaped from the Nazis. Take a look at the craftsmanship: some of it is like fine jewelry.
@meanmommy: and probably worth something now. I
wow - i need a velvet cuff. stat.
Didn't lil Edie also get proposed by JFK's older brother who died in WWII? I think that's right...This contributes nothing to this thread whatsoever. Oh, Ben Bradlee of the Wash Post owns the Beale's house now, it's true!!!
@distractedbyshinyobjects: Yes! I'm 26 and I love brooches!!
Little Edie: You can't have your cake and eat it, too in life.
Big Edie: Oh, yes, I did. I did, I had my cake, loved it, masticated it, chewed it and had everything I wanted.
I heart the Edies.
@distractedbyshinyobjects: I wear them on my denim jackets. It seems like you would, too, because they're nothing if not shiny objects.
Rhinestones : Diamonds :: Knockoff logo bags : logo bags
Antique costume jewelry : antique estate jewelry :: vintage shopping : vintage inheriting
I don't know what the relationships between these things are but there are some, and I am too senior thesis-ed out to untangle them. Whatever they are, in any case, made me purchase a dress once that was exactly like one my grandmother owned in the sixties. It can be viewed here:
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@SheCracked: Well - I would stare at yours, that's for sure ;)
where is the scarf made out of a real cat?
Ooh! I am coveting that blue cat brooch! I dunno how I'd pull it off though.
I think I have one of those bracelets in the basket. I have to go through my costume jewelery and see what I have. I think I have a great halloween costume...
I have a bracelet kind of like those rhinestone ones that I inherited from one of my dad's aunts. Must go pin a sweater around my head now and practice my batshit crazy.
@meanmommy: my mom has one like that that will be passed on to me & then to my daughter. i LUVRE my moms jewelry even though its all crazy and such... i'd like to wait a really, really long time for it to be passed to me tho.
A Longaberger basket full of Edie-inspired bracelets shouldn't excite me so...but it does!!
PONYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! Give it!
@JessicaLovejoy: Boosh and/or Kakow!: Hahaha! That's too funny that a 70's cocaine trade inspired (funded?) outfit would remind you of your grandma...sounds very over-the-top and awesome.
I can't wait till I can be 80 and wear/say whatever the hell I want. However, I don't know if I would take on the Grey Gardens look...Dynasty-era Joan Collins would be my go-to older lady choice. Drama!
I'd love the Rhinestone Cat Brooch. I'll use it to fasten all my headscarves.
Ah hell, this is just making me miss the other branch of the Bouvier family, the one with Jacqueline and Lee in it. Now those girls had some real jewellery. Didn't pay for it themselves, either.
Those would look perfect with my revolutionary costume.
Is it wrong, terribly wrong, that I kind of dig the little jockey pin? It's Seabiscuit!!
What? No marble fauns?
This is the ticky-tackiest stuff I've seen in a while. It looks like the dregs of someone's great-grandma's jewelry box.
Want all of it. Especially the wedding bracelets and that fucking awesome jockey brooch.
Is that bad?
Need Opera Glasses. They are totes COOL!!!
@BeachLover420: I WANT OPERA BLASSES.
RIGHT NOW.
PRONTO.
@Trixie from Toronto: Not at all. I want it too!
or you could take the skirt off and wear it as a cape.
I'm watching this movie as I type this and... the Edies are crazy and oh so fascinating. It grosses me out whenever they eat something, though - due to the hygiene standards of their home.
@distractedbyshinyobjects: Heh heh heh. Well I guess you would stare at mine, they're really fucking shiny. I could see the danger of having one yourself and not being able to walk down the street or drive or or work or shit.
I want the opera glasses. This may make me elitist and eccentric, but apparently I'm not alone.
When I saw Edie, I thought it was Edith Massey and thought - finally, her true genius has been recognized. This is still fabulous, though. I'm loving those cuffs.
Blue blood eccentrics: proof that the rich really are different. Lovin' every bit of this, by the way.
@JessicaLovejoy: Boosh and/or Kakow!:
Was the documentary "Cocaine Cowboys?" If it was I know exactly who you're talking about, and she was totally fascinating. All the old photos of her were amazing.
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LOVE the bracelets!! How much do they cost?
I LOVE Little and Big Edie- what other women could look so lovely wearing sweaters rolled and tucked in awkward places, what looked suspiciously like curtains, and pantyhose the way these women could? LOVE IT.