Entering Rhiannon Leifheit’s Liebemarlene Vintage is not your average fashion blog experience—it’s like falling down a rabbit whole into a wonderland of soft lighting and ivy-covered trellises. Through her always well-dressed day trips to historical places in the Atlanta, Georgia area and her sartorial posts on imaginary literary exhibitions, Rhiannon evokes a nostalgic American style and the feeling of a simpler time far way from the city life of many other fashion bloggers. You’ll be inspired by her ability to pair modern sky-high platforms with vintage floral dresses and her recent obsession with “bordering-on-ugly” ‘90s clothing that in fact look quite the opposite. But the best part: her blog doubles as a vintage store, so if your heart desires you can take a piece of your Southern adventure home with you.

When and why did you start your blog and online vintage store?

I started my vintage store first because my thrift store habit that kept getting worse and worse.  I was going to them all the time, bringing home more than I could wear, so in 2007 or so I started up an Ebay store.  My blog was originally just an offshoot of the store–I thought I would only post things like store updates and inspirations, but then I decided to throw in the outfit photos I was already taking for the Flickr group Wardrobe Remix and I guess it grew from there.

Do you have another occupation?

I just sell vintage in my Ebay store for a living.

What is your blog philosophy?

I don’t really have one.  Mainly I want to write the kind of blog I’d like to read.

How would you describe your own style?

Romantic, vintage, lots of skirts and dresses because I feel most comfortable in them.

Whose style do you envy?

People who have their own look down and figured out.  I’m mostly all over the place.

Which celebrity, designer or model are you inspired by?

Alexa Chung, the label Twenty Seven Names and Karen Elson mostly these days.

What else inspires you?

I’ve been really inspired by the ’70s and silent films lately.

Which designer piece do you wish you could get your hands on right now?

This dress by Lover: www.lagarconne.com/store/item.htm?itemid=7790&sid=7&pid=

Which of your own clothing items are your favorites right now?

’90s dresses, a Permanent Vacation batik dress, and Karen Walker cateye sunglasses.

What are your favorite current trends?

Clogs! I’m really liking long dresses right now, silk anything, rayon shorts and’90s prints.

What is your perfect outfit?

A short cotton dress, cardigan, vintage leather satchel and really tall wooden platform heels.

Where do you shop?

Urban Outfitters, Madewell, H&M for clothes, Shopbop and Endless for shoes.

How do you decide what to buy for your store? And also, what to keep?

It’s really hard!  My rule is that what I sell has to be something I’d want to wear so deciding what to sell and what to keep can be tough.  I usually only keep things if they fit me perfectly or if they’re something I’ve been looking for a while.

If you could travel back to any decade and raid someone’s closet who and when would it be?

Maybe the silent film star Mabel Normand’s closet in the early ’20s so I could bring back a bunch of her white dresses, though I’d probably turn them into mini ones.

You have a unique photographing style of not looking in the camera. Where did that come from?

Insecurities!

What things are you into right now?

I’m super into baking, running, trying to eat healthier (more fruits and vegetables). I like Robert Altman films, planning for our vacation and reading books by Southern women authors.

What other blogs are you reading right now?

There’s a long list of them, but some I like right now are Fieldguided , Turned Out , Rosemud, and So Much to Tell You .

What music goes with your style?

Well it’s probably the really girly, ethereal kind of music I don’t like. I’d like to say ’70s Bob Dylan, but that’s probably hoping for too much.