It is officially summer and I am officially, um…. hot. I’ve been channeling all of the energy I can muster (not much) into dreaming about my upcoming vacation to my family’s summer house in New Hampshire. Long canoe rides, hikes in the mountains, the occasional campfire and a fair amount of time spent lounging in a vintage swimsuit. I’ve basically engineered my weeks off to become a glorified grownup summer camp and no movie brings more nostalgic summer-timey camp goodness to the table than The Parent Trap.
brass compass $15, recycled sunglasses $21, deadstock vintage swimsuit $190, wooden oar $26, american traders wooden canoe $2700+, swiss army knife $10, ll bean mariner purse $77, pendleton glacier national park blanket $160.
The Parent Trap is just adorable on every front, regardless of its superbly improbable plot. Two cute blonds at the same camp who look exactly alike? Guess what? Long lost twinsies who then use their painful cuteness to trick their estranged parents into falling in love again. One is a prep school Boston princess and the other’s a rough and tumble California tomboy. Both are equally out fitted in awesomeness and other than the whole pouring honey on fellow sleeping tent-mates, I’m game just about everything else. -amy m.
blue metal lantern $26, diamond safety matches $1.25, antique nickel flashlight $14, chloe high waisted shorts $360, vintage suitcase $45, woven leather oxfords $115, outdoor teepee $2200, blue bandana $2, wildflower honey $4.50.
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love the oxfords!
i love this movie! and the items are so awesome. great finds! =)
yessssssssssss! this is in my queue right now! hot dangi’m excited for this one!!!!!!
I love that movie! The swimsuits are so cute!
i love the parent trap!! grew up watching it. what a great idea for a post!!!
Let’s get together, yeah yeah yeah!
Omg, I LOVE this movie! I don’t care how old I get, I will always love getting lost in this classic. So funny. And the twins’ dad Mitch was totally hot!
LOVE LOVE LOVE this movie – and your post on it! If only you could find a dress with the butt cut out of it – or maybe a fancy pair of scissors!
I am so happy you did this movie! What about the parents houses and outfits! Can’t forget the girlfriend and her electric hips!
i was just watching this movie yesterday and thought the same thing.
what a wonderful inspiration for some fresh outdoors style.
Funny, I was just hoping last week that you would feature Parent Trap and now here it is! One of my favorite movies and your feature has got me hankering for a tent and some serious canoe time. Thanks!
Those swimsuits are the cutest! Can’t wait till it gets warm enough here to take a dip. By the way, I thought that was a Hudson’s Bay Point Blanket? I have a couple of those from my great-grandmother’s time and thet are the perfect thing for picnics.
Thank you!! I love this movie
this is my favorite “living in” yet! thanks for inspiring a girls’ night “parent trap” viewing party.
Love that movie! And love that red bathing suit!
LOVE this movie. And love your ‘living in’ posts.
ahhhh i loved this movie when i was a little girl! favorite favorite favorite.
I LOVE this. ‘The Parent Trap’ was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid, but no one seems to remember it now! I’ve always adored the retro, feel-good summer style. Plus, who doesn’t love Haley Mills?
Love this one! Love the retro vintage feel and I remember watching this movie all the time!
AHhhH! The Parent Trap! I love everything about this post!
I love this move! Let’s stay together yeah yeah yeah! So fabulous!!!
Oh, does this bring back memories! Great post idea. The Parent Trap was such a great movie. Summer camp… I loved it. Um yeah, remember when we could have a pocket knife? Though I did whittle off a finger nail on a girl scout project…
Canoes, camping, flashlights, smores, green tents, patriotic colors, and there was always sand in the food!
I love love love this movie. I am now inspired to go find a retro swimsuit and watch this movie! Thanks!
best movie ever!!!!
I caught my breath when I saw this post! LOVE IT! Sending it to my mother directly!
Love that movie and that whole era of live action Disney movies. There was one with a young Jodie Foster too, though I can’t remember the name now…
Love this, but there is a huge missed opportunity once the girls go back to the dad’s ranch and the mom shows up…there is a such a cool rustic mid century thing happening there……maybe I’ve seen this too many times….nerd alert….
I love this movie. My sister and I would watch it non-stop. I’m so glad that you decided to use Parent Trap as inspiration for your today’s blog post!
Such a great summer choice I think I’ll dust off my VHS. Since seeing that movie I always wanted that black swimsuit of hers with the white rickrack. I think you should do part two of this and show the California side of things ;)
This was my absolute favorite movie as a kid! It used to come on TV all the time. I haven’t seen it in years though. Thanks for doing a Living In on this one! Maybe I can get my husband to watch it with me =) Nostalgic!
That movie reminds me of childhood. Great movie!
love the teepee, but not the price, nice idea to DIY it! thanks…
My twin and I love this movie. Its a classic.
Ahhhh favorite moive every. LiLo one doesn’t even hold a candle to the original!
oh, swoon. this was my favourite movie growing up. maybe pollyanna could be done at some point to? or swiss family robinson, even?
Holy cow! I can’t believe you did this movie!! My favorite of all time, no kidding. Thanks for making my day:)
Mallory, I think you’re thinking of Freaky Friday! The timing of this post is so funny. I was just at the (amazing) Disney Family Museum in S.F. yesterday and they had a great section on The Parent Trap and some other of Disney’s first live action flicks. Cool stuff.
Growing up, I watched this movie with my sister every weekend we went to our cabin in Shell Lake, Saskatchewan! Brings back so many memories, and those woven leather oxfords and vintage swimsuit are to DIE for :)
Oh my gosh, that’s my fave movie of all time! How awesome. I love these little features.
I love the fashion in The Parent Trap. It is on my Guilty Must-Watch Top 10.
I love this movie. One of my favorites as a kid!
Thanks for the reminder of this great summer movie! I too, am headed to my family’s summer house in New Hampshire in a few weeks, and can not wait to escape Texas’s summer heat.
great post. I loved watching this movie over and over!
Oh, how I adore this movie – I’m sure every girl does :) I wish I could watch it again, now. That movie and Pollyanna, oh, that Hayley Mills was so adorable!
Love the vintage bathing suits :)
oh! well then!
i love this…the epitome of summer.
i’ll be watching it right now!
love it.
I was quite taken with this until I realised it was just a US movie version of the German classic by Erich Kästner “Das Doppelte Lottchen”, which has been filmed so many times… hm. Not sure, now…
my most favorite childhood movie! i love the whistling scene when the girls get banished and all those delicious pranks!
Great line up! Though you can get terribly similar looking oxfords here for 1/2 the price. They also come in other colors. http://www.zappos.com/bass-eddie-driftwood-goat-tumbled-softy
I love this movie! Just added it to my netflix.
one of my fav movies! well done
fantastic! maybe the best movie post yet! or maybe i just love this movie so much!? “let’s get together yeah yeah yeah! why don’t you and i com-bi-ine!”
This was one of my all time favorite movies as a kid! I’d nearly forgotten about it. Love the items you found too.
this was my fav movie growing up! my mom says I would watch it again and again. thanks for the flashback!
I love how you throw in a $2200 teepee with the other beautiful accoutrements…LOVE all this campy stuff!! makes me yearn for summers gone by…
This is definitely Hudson Bay’s blanket, our Canadian pride and joy, still sold at The Bay, posted just in time for Canada Day! Who are these Pendleton Glacier people?!
BTW, I remember Erich Kastner book, it was better than the movie.
One of my favourite movies! One Hayley Mills is never enough…
Ohmigod, I know this movie by heart! This is one I grew up with, and I totally adore Hayley Mills. I always wished I could go to that summer camp (minus the booby traps, of course).
Wow, haven’t seen this movie in a while… I learned so many great pranks from this one!
Heehee! Who knew there were so many Parent Trap afficianados out there! That film has a really special place in my childhood too, thanks for giving it a summer shout-out. Plus, any post that has a teepee in it always steals my heart!
I’m so happy right now I just can’t tell you! THANK YOU!!!
And here I thought I was alone in my love for this film. Do you ever talk about this film and people’s eyes just glaze over? I guess they just don’t get it. Thanks for adding this post. Makes me want to pop in the DVD right now. Funny, I also like the L.L. version, too.
I thought I was alone too! This movie was my FAVE as a kid! That Lindsay Lohan movie botched it. Loving that bathing suit and the whole retro 50′s camping vibe… as long as I dont have to actually GO camping….
Who didn’t love this movie! I can’t believe the clothes. Enjoyed your post.
Laura.
Love this post. The Parent Trap is one of my all time favorite movies! Love the camping accessories…hope you have a fabulous vacation!
Aw, man! I’ve been waiting for a Living In Parent Trap and ther’s nothing about Mitch’s house??? How could you???
Wow – I loved this movie growing up – I was so convinced that American girls had all the coolest things happen to them.
But sorry, Maya is 100% correct. That is definately not a Pendleton blanket – see those faint black lines above the coloured stripes? – Those are called “points” and they are only found on an authentic Hudsons Bay Company blanket (Bay blankets – voyageurs used them; they have a long, unique and important history in Canada). Pendleton just blatantly copied the design – definately not cool!
Check it out here https://www.hbconline.ca/hbcheritage/history/blanket/
Oh – I remember that movie, I loved it! Loved the newer version too – back before Lindsay Lohan started having all of her “issues” :)
Okay, I loved this movie as a kid! And the greatest thing is that all of these things are still SO cool!
I LOVE The Parent Trap! I used to think Haley Mills was really twins. You know, before I knew that she was Haley Mills…
Your Living In features are one of my absolute favorite things on this blog! I just wrote about them this week, actually!
These days, when I watch a movie, I can’t help thinking, “Would it make a good Living In post?”
This brings me back to my first memory of loving architecture but I didn’t realize it until now. Do you remember the California home? It was open and incorporated the outdoors, live plants in the living room, and with huge boulders incorporated as architectural accents in the main living room. I also remember the color scheme being so different (and better) than the boston home. Ah, thanks for the memory jogger.
I read this book SO many times as a kid, I wore the cover off and made a new one for it (drawing a plaid design if I recall). While I liked the movie an awful lot, I loved the book even more. I thought their mom was sooo glamorous.
These “Living In” posts are always so much fun! What a great movie!!! I love the swim suit, and how fun would it be to have that Teepee in your back yard?!!
My daughter and I love the old movie, love the “new” movie, and are so excited to find out there’s a book that started it all! Can’t wait to read it. I always thought the mom in the original movie was so gorgeous — isn’t it Maureen Sullivan?
Adorable, adorable, adorable!
But, please, work on the old it’s versus its issue. It’s not that hard, and the two consistently are mixed up on this site– especially in the Living In columns.
gp
maybe this was fixed before i got to your comment, but i don’t see an “it’s/its” error here. i did a term search for anything like that and couldn’t find it. could you tell me where you see the error?
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I love that movie! I loved Haley Mills growing up.
I was watching “Body Heat” last night and was thinking, wouldn’t this movie make a great “Living In” :)
One of my all time favorite movies!! I’ve seen it countless times! I love how you included the honey :)
This movie was my [and my sister's] favorite, growing up, so I was so excited to see it featured here. I was a little disappointed over the selection, though. What about some inspiration from either of their parents’ houses? the camp was great an all, but there’s so much more there!
Love. It. What an excellent throw back to my childhood! Like so many commenters, I just love the swimsuits!
PS- Grace, Here is the it’s/its mistake. I didn’t even catch it at first and I’m an editor! Then again, DS is a fun blog, not an English essay. “The Parent Trap is just adorable on every front, regardless of it’s superbly improbable plot.”
Hey, the girl all the way to the right played Larue, Sally Field’s best friend on the Gidget show! Why can’t I get paid to know things like this?
“it’s superbly improbable plot”
gp
thanks, i’ll fix that.
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I love your posts!!! I think the next movie you post should be Mystic Pizza!!! I love that film
Oh, please do a follow-up post where we get to live in Mitch’s fab Spanish Colonial Revival home! You would make my year.
Hooray! I love this “Living In”. My favorite part of the entire movie may be the vintage opening credits- too cute!
thanks for reminding me of this movie. I watched it SOOO many times.. used to dream about meeting my own twin at camp. HA!
we just watched this over the last weekend – the camp was ok but what about dad’s awesome ranch house?
Parent Trap. I had forgotten all about that movie. It was one of my favorites when I was little. And one of my mom’s favorites too! I used to imagine her there at the camp. Thanks for the reminder + the cool styles they had then.
My sister has watched this movie so many times she has the lines memorized. It is a great summer classic.
looooved this movie, watch with my girlies all the time. BUT….. what is with all of the Hudson Bay blanket knock offs??
sorry… a little protective, today is canada day after all!! check out the queens’ outfit in ottawa today!!
well it was canada day here in british columbia…. 3 hours back!
Loved this movie@ Love it!!!
yeah, sorry… that’s a Hudson’s Bay Company blanket. Canadian original, being marketed as an American product. what else is new?
I actually blame The Parent Trap for my irritating habit of biting my nails!
I can’t believe Urban Outfitters is selling the iconic Hudson Bay blanket as a “Pendelton Glacier National Park Blanket”. It’s pretty shamelessly ripping off Canada.
Love it! And it totally makes me yearn for a great “Now and Then” Living In. Can’t go wrong with a retro summer movie!
What a great post – such a classic movie. I think I broke the videotape I watched it so much. I want that mariner purse!
sigh. “girls, i’ve got a cake in my hands! i’ve got a cake in my hands!”
Love the movie. Love the clothes in it and I’m such a tomboy. But what I really love is Mitch (the dad’s) house!
I have had every word of that movie memorized since I was 7! I used to watch it over and over again for entire weekends!
Great movie. Great post. xo
Best Post Ever
I grew up with this movie – love it! (The other day, I encountered someone who had never even heard of it… what?!)
I definitely want the vintage suitcase & bathing suit. Have fun on your grown-up summer camp adventure!
so odd but like others on here, I too was just recently hoping you would do this movie, wow! it must be the come back of camper chic going on?! who knows, I even went and rented it last week, lol! I wanted to see the home of the dad in monterey, plus I am obsessed with all things old school 60s. thanks!
I LOVE this movie – I thought it was absolutely magical that both of them could be on screen on at the same time. I didn’t believe my mother when she told me it was only one actress. I thought Hayley Mills had a secret twin.
I am so glad I found this website, and all of your posts! You have done so many of my favorite movies, and this is one I watched over and over again as a kid. I wish I would have thought of this idea-you are doing a wonderful job and it seems like you get lost in everything about a movie just like me (and a lot of people on this board!). The music, scenery, fashion. Ahh, a total escape!
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