A few weeks ago, I took a trip to the seaside to the Jack in the Green festival that’s held there every year on May Day. It’s a great olde English tradition which dates back to the 16th century, which was revived in Hastings back in the 80s and the annual celebrations feature lots of…
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7 Years Young, my Tweed (Run) Anniversary
This morning I realised that my blog has turned 7 years old (well, on the 8th May). HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY TO ME! I have also had just under 5 million page impressions during that time (or at least since Blogger started recording them), so quite the milestone, I’m sure you all agree. The traditional gift for…
Shop my wardrobe – East London Vintage Fair
Good morning (or other time of day where you are)! In many, many years of collecting and wearing vintage and repro clothing, I have never really got rid of any of it. The things I bought that didn’t fit, weren’t really my style or that I simply tired of, have still stayed in my wardrobe…
Fashion on the Ration at the IWM
Tomorrow, a very exciting exhibition is opening at the Imperial War Museum. Fashion on the Ration is the story of everyday people in 1940s Britain, and how style and fashion endured and evolved under the strict rules of rationing. I’m getting a sneak peek tonight as I am DJing at the private view with The Vintage Mafia,…
Bingo wings
I haven’t been to a good old Blogger event for ages, so when my lovely friend Jayne from Jayne’s Kitschen invited me to go along to a Musical Bingo night underneath Pizza East, I threw caution to the wind and said yes. Actually, when I realised the venue, it was like I was a cartoon…
The Time of My Life
Last month, I carried a watermelon. Well, I didn’t really – I picked one up at one point. Those things are far too heavy to lug all the way from north Surrey to East London! But plenty of people did actually carry watermelons: real ones, papier-maché, bags, hats and entire costumes. It was Future Cinema‘s…
Field of Chap Dreams
I just did a double-take at the calendar because it’s now been over a month since the glorious Chap Olympiad and over 10 days since my last confession. I mean blog post. The whole of the last week was a complete write-off due to me undertaking a solid week of film extra work. I’ve been…
Fleur Does Disco
Well here’s something a little different fr your 4th of July. I’ve gone all 1970s New York disco-tastic! Check me out, dudes. It was all in aid of Future Cinema’s Saturday Night Fever spectacular for which there are only two more showings – tonight and Sunday. It. Was Mega. I have never seen the film before…
Vintage style for Glyndebourne
I am SO excited. Next Friday, I have been invited to go to Glyndebourne where I shall see Ariadne Auf Naxos. It’s a Strauss opera from 1912 but the reason I’ve been asked along is that they have set it in the 1940s and they thought it would be right up my street. I love…
Roll up to the Ric Rac Club!
A couple of weeks ago, the other two Vintage Mafia girls and I put on another Ric Rac Club. This time, not to be outdone by our previous efforts, it had a circus theme! We left our costumes to the very last possible minute as we were all too busy organising to think about them……