Prints Charming Sunday: Whoa, Daddy!

Welcome to a special Father's Day edition of Prints Charming Sunday!



What does every dad need? Yep. More ties. (Like he needs another hole in the head!) They're a Father's Day requirement! So here's a handful of some of my favorite vintage 40's & 50's ties with crazy cool prints that I found on Etsy from various sellers. Did you all remember Dad today? Did you call? Send a card? Mow the lawn? Just because Father's Day is pretty much over, doesn't mean you still can't surprise the man in your life with a kickass tie in the future. Better late than never! (That's years of Catholic guilt talking right there!)




Vintage 40's Horse Racing Handpainted Silk Tie, available from seller Goodlookin.





Vintage 40's Palm Tree Tie, available from seller Art Deco Dame.





Vintage 40's/50's Oil Wells Handpainted Tie, currently available from seller Rollout Cowboy.





Vintage 50's Spiderweb Tie, currently available from seller Fabs Gabs Vintage.







Wishing all you brothers, uncles, dads, grandfathers, teachers and any other menfolk who play a positive part in a kid's life a very rockin' Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day!

Just wanted to wish all you Dads out there a wonderful day! I hope your ungrateful kids get you that light-up tie, novelty "#1 Dad" coffee cup and can of tennis balls that you always never wanted.

Now please go grill something already.

Way-Out Wednesday: Daddy Sang Bass

In honor of this upcoming Father's Day, I thought there was no better theme for today's Way-Out Wednesday than with the classic Dad present: the tie! While these ties might not exactly be weird or wacky or fug (as most Wednesdays around here usually are), these vintage ties are certainly not the usual sort of stupid Dad Tie that we used to give our dads when we were kids. These have personality and are pretty damn cool if I say so myself.

So for those of you new Dads, old Dads, Dads who are no longer with us, soon-to-be Dads, Step dads (and everything in between), who are about to rock, we salute you!(Random AC/DC reference.) Happy Father's Day! I got you a tie.




Bombs Away! Crazy atomic vintage 50's tie from Hatfeathers Vintage.




Life Imitating Art? Vintage 40's Rubens-inspired tie (and I ain't talking about the sandwich or Pee-Wee) from Necktie Party.




Vintage Hand-Painted Ties:




Ocean's 11. Vintage 40's novelty print tie from Sydney's Vintage.




Leaf Me Alone. Vintage 40's leaf tie from Vintage in Bohemia.




Whirling Dervish. Vintage 40's stripey swirly tie from Vintage Melody.




Real Men Wear Pink? Vintage 40's tie from John Pettybone. (Side note: the black "U" shapes totally remind me of playing with Lee Press-On Nails when I was a kid and how they'd fall off after about 4 minutes. Great. Now I totally want to play with Lee Press-On Nails.)




Vintage pinup ties. Warning: Possibly NSFW. Yowza:





Put the Blame on Mame. Vintage 50's pinup tie from Back Thennish Vintage.




Peekaboob! Vintage 70's tie from Dorothea's Closet Vintage.






"Daddy Sang Bass" by Johnny Cash. Oh yeah, and Mama sang tenor.

Daddy Sang Bass

Happy Father's Day to all you manly types! I hope you all get awesomely bad presents, because that's what Father's Day is for, crappy gift-giving from your ungrateful children who also don't call enough and could do so much better than that loser boyfriend of theirs and if they only applied themselves more, they wouldn't be stuck in a cubicle office job and also, why don't you visit more often?! Damn kids, they're so overrated.

May I present a few suggestions for the perfect Father's Day gift:

1.) A 40 of Colt 45. If it's good enough for Billy Dee it's good enough for me, I always never say.



Is your Pop less cool and more nerdy white guy? A sixer of Schlitz oughtta do it.



2.) Mmmm, Lucky Strikes.



3.) Since every man thinks he's the master of the meat grillin', these super rad vintage 50's coasters are perfecto for his Schlitz from EraPhernaliaVintage. Plus, what's with the floating heads? Did they not notice his apron says "Head Chef"?!



4.) Every Dad needs a tie, whether he'll actually wear it or not is irrelevant. It's the thought, dammit. This 50's tie from Hatfeathers Vintage is a little Dali-esque and a little cartoony. Much like my life. Jenn actually has a lot of awesome vintage ties--I almost wrote "toes", which I'm sure hers are lovely and all but a severed toe would NOT a great present make. Unless you were that cannibal BBQ chef above.



It might be a bit late for these presents, but there's always next year. You can always do what I do- buy stuff early, hide it, then spend the next 364 days trying to remember where you hid it all. And I only ever have one hiding spot, and that's in my closet, so the fact that I panic and forget where I put it is kind of sad.

In hommage to the day of the dad, here are a couple of me and my Dad, rocking the white guy 'fro. It was the 70's after all and he was a bad mutha', shut yo mouth.

Doing what I like to do best. Although there's no empty Jack Daniels bottle.



Doing my second favorite thing, partying my face off.



Wow. What a badass. The nerd doesn't fall far from the tree.



Happy Father's Day!