As soon as I saw what this Etsy store was doing I just knew I would have to share it with you guys. Fat Cat Crafts make little felt pincushions (useful) in the shape of cats (awesome) dressed as Star Wars characters, superheroes, vampires, and postmen (SUPER MEGA AMAZING!). These fall firmly [...]
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New in Store This Week: Vintage Skirts
With all the glorious weather we have been having this week, it seems fitting that I’ve been filling the store full of pretty cotton skirts – perfect for this hot Indian summer sun. In fact, right after this update, I’ll be donning a skirt myself, pouring myself a cool glass of rum and [...]
New in Store This Week: More Vintage Blues
This week in Penny Dreadful Vintage there are ever more vintage blues. My favourite is the gorgeous 1950s skirt and jacket set pictured above, by Berketex Continentals – a label made specifically for the overseas market and sold in Paris, Spain and Italy. You can just imagine this being worn along the Riviera can’t you! I [...]
New in Store This Week: The Vintage Blues
This week in Penny Dreadful Vintage I’ve been feeling blue – though not in a bad way. The weather has been sweltering – finally summer has arrived in London, and quick as a snap we have all switched from complaining about how how un-summery it is to complaining about how hot it is. [...]
New in Store This Week: Think Pink!
This week in Penny Dreadful Vintage I’ve been thinking pink (and if you don’t know what I’m referring to, check out this previous post on the film Funny Face). I never used to be a big fan of the colour, associating it with too much girlyness. But actually, I rather like it now, [...]
New in Store This Week: Green Summer Frocks
This week in Penny Dreadful Vintage I’ve been a green-eyed monster – not with envy but with a load of green vintage dresses! For the next three weeks I’m concentrating on making the most out this summer by stocking the shop with colourful sun dresses. This week is green, and we have pink, [...]
New in Store This Week: PRIDE
I wanted to do something a little bit different in the store this week. This year, London is hosting World Pride 2012. It is an extremely Big Deal, but you wouldn’t know it watching or reading the mainstream media; apparently a competition to see who can run fastest is more important than an event promoting [...]
New in Store This Week: Vintage Shoes!
A super quick post from me today, as I am going to a wedding tomorrow and have to catch the train in only half an hour! This week I have been concentrating on buffing up the vintage shoe presence in the store. I have to say I am rather pleased with the selection [...]
Guide to Vintage Shopping in York
The City of York is justifiably famous for many wonderful things – the imposing York Minster, a rich Viking heritage, beautifully preserved medieval streets and buildings, a pretty meandering river, and more ghost stories than you can shake a stick at. To that mix you can now add in an amazing collection of vintage shops, interesting museums, [...]
New in Store This Week: Vintage Nightwear
This afternoon I did something extremely silly. In the middle of my weekly shop update, surrounded by slippery satins and printed cottons and gauzy nylons, I began to feel very tired indeed. Instead of soldiering on, I treated myself to a teensy weensy siesta. Which lasted for THREE HOURS. I woke [...]
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
