One of the things I enjoy about selling vintage is posting parcels all around the world and imagining how they will be worn by their new owners. Most of the time all I can do is imagine, but recently I was very lucky to get a full view of how one of my [...]
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Ancient Fashion and Beauty at the Petrie Museum of Egyptology
A few weeks ago my brother came to visit, and we decided to use his time in London to check out some of the smaller museums around town. I had long been interested in visiting The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeoloogy, so we moseyed on down to Bloomsbury to take a look. Apologies [...]
The Fashion of Pride and Prejudice
You must be living under a Regency-period stone to have missed that it is the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice. To think we have had 200 years of Darcy! (and 18 years of Colin Firth in a wet shirt – thank you BBC). I first read Pride and Prejudice when I [...]
Frida Kahlo’s Clothes On Display
Last year I wrote a post about the incredible style of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. You can imagine, then, how exciting it was to find out that clothes from her own wardrobe have just gone on display in a new exhibition celebrating her unique style. And how disappointing to find that it is at the Frida Kahlo [...]
Dressing up in Costume Drama Hats
I’ve been trying to clear up the huge amounts of random pictures I have saved on my laptop, and came across these ones taken earlier in the year on my trip to York (you can read my York vintage shopping guide here). These were taken at Barley Hall, which is still showing the [...]
Biba and Beyond at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
The exhibition ‘Biba and Beyond: Barbara Hulanicki’ is currently at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery. I was fortunate enough to see the press preview two days before opening, and fully intended to tell you all about it immediately and share all the brilliant photos I had taken. But as is the way with these things, instead [...]
Vintage and Antique Shopping in Tetbury
This past weekend I was in the little Cotswolds town of Tetbury for a wedding, and decided to spend the morning after the party exploring the town before catching our train back to London. What a lucky find – the town itself is typically pretty, with lots of old buildings built in honey-coloured [...]
Vintage Film Style: Desk Set with Katharine Hepburn
Yesterday I watched the 1957 film Desk Set, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. I had never heard of it before, and only caught it because it was on in the TV schedule. And boy am I glad I did. It was genuinely funny, Hepburn and Tracy sparkle together, and the clothing was [...]
Vintage Style Icon: Frida Kahlo
After posting pictures from the film Frida last week, I went on a bit of a Frida Kahlo binge. She had incredible style, but more importantly, dressed to please herself and no-one else. What is really interesting is how many of the outfits I saw captured in original photographs of Frida were recreated in the [...]
The World’s First Bikini in 1946
Nowadays it is the most popular type of swimming costume around, but when the string bikini was first launched in 1946, the world was scandalised. Louis Réard and fashion designer Jacques Heim came up with similar designs around the same time, so neither could really be said to be the ‘inventor’. But it was Reard who gave [...]
1960s polka dot mod dress by Berketex
1970s green and red tartan knit jumper dress
1960s black and white check blanket dress
1970s floral print hippy smock dress by Emanuelle
