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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Style Icon Deanna Durbin 1921-2013
Deanna Durbin, star of the silver screen in the 30s and 40s, passed away last week at the grand old age of 91. It seems lately that every time a famous actress from times past dies, people say ‘she was the last of the great stars’ or some similar line. I personally don’t think [...]
Tretchikoff’s real Chinese Girl
Vladimir Tretchikoff’s Chinese Girl portrait is one of the most popular and iconic images of the 50s, and still holds pride of place in vintage homes all over the world. The BBC this week interviewed Monika Pon-su-san, the original sitter for the portrait. I thought what she had to say about Tretchikoff and what she thought [...]
1920s Style in the Village of Shere
Last weekend I visited the little village of Shere in Surrey, which has a reputation of being one of the most picturesque in the whole county. Well, I haven’t visited every village in Surrey so can’t compare, but I can certainly confirm its immense prettiness, and say it is one of the loveliest [...]
Reading List from 2012
It has become something of a New Year tradition for me to make up a list of all the books I’ve read in the past year. This year I managed to rack up 72 titles, which may sound impressive but most of these were light reading in the way of mysteries and whodunnits [...]
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 [...]
A Vintage Christmas Tree Alternative
The last few months have been incredibly hectic at home, with, amongst other things, a move to a new flat only last weekend. At this time of year I usually like to get a Christmas tree, but with our finances stretched after moving costs and an extreme reluctance to cart yet another heavy [...]
Make Your Own Christmas Birds
Who doesn’t love birds in trees? And Christmas trees are no different – rather than splashing out on plasticky baubles it is much more fun to make your own recycled Christmas birds (and creating your own Christmas decorations is, of course, super vintage). All you need is some leftover cardboard and some paints. Draw a [...]
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 [...]
Frida Kahlo Inspired Make-Up
A friend of mine came over on Saturday for a catch-up. it was great – we ate green curry and iced buns, drank G&Ts, gossiped, and watched the movie Frida starring Salma Hayek. Several drinks down, and we decided the film would be SO much better if we dressed up as Frida ourselves. Out [...]
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
