Hope you have all had a great week. I’ve been busy taking photographs here for a huge amount of new listings that should be coming up soon, and have also spent some time with my friend The Seamstress who is sadly leaving London next week. She has helped me so much with my mending over the last couple of months and I’m much better at vintage repairs now than I used to be. The last job we did together was sewing in a zip, which I have decided is my least favourite thing to do in the entire world.

One of the great things about London is that sooner or later most people end up here, and you have so many chances to meet interesting people and make great friends. One of the sad things is that they usually all leave again, so I often feel that my life is spent getting to know wonderful people only to have them move away. I’m really going to miss The Seamstress – thank goodness for the Internet!

This weekend I’ll be catching up with a few different friends; they will be ostensibly be coming round to PDV headquarters to see me, but in reality I think they just want to meet Elsa. I can handle having a cat who is more popular than me… I think. Whatever you are all up to, I hope you have great weekends.

A dancing couple showing off 100 years of fashion in 100 seconds.

33 Avenue Miquelon laboriously counted all the advertisements in the September issues of US Vogue and Elle, to work out percentages of advertising to content. They were 70% and 60% full of adverts respectively. Has anyone done a similar count for the UK mags?

This video of Gala Darling’s wedding is very cute. I love low-key wedding receptions so I thought the fact they had dinner at a pizza joint afterwards was fabulous.

Top idea: re-use your kid’s old clothes to make a keepsake patchwork quilt, from The Women’s Room.