The time has come my friends… for another King’s Ginger post! This one is about a subject close to my heart – fashion – and the story about how the styles of the times led to some drastic intervention by a very altrustic Edwardian lady, whose actions soon met with approval and the award of…
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Quatre, Cinq, (iPhone 4S)ix
Oh dear. I did warn you that the quality of the photographs may be somewhat lacking in this Twelve Days of Christmas Outfits series. And I’m as good at my word! These ones are almost universally atrocious! But something visual is better than nothing, no?… and they are a good example of my ‘just knocking…
Smashing clobber!
Good people! I’m flying in and out to show off a rather smashing new suit I was sent by the splendid people at Puttin’ on the Ritz. This new reproduction clothing label is based right here in Blighty, and everything they produce is made to measure and handsewn on these fair isles. The lovely Andrea,…
Sponsor Spotlight – Winter warmers
In the last few days it has chilled off a lot in London – it’s not quite glove weather, but I was certainly wishing I had a scarf with me yesterday, when I went to the Hendrick’s Horseless Carriage of Curiosities for a special brunch event. I’ll be posting my photos in the next few…
39 Steps & a call to arms
Last Thursday was the aforementioned Vintage Tea Party to mark the 4th birthday of that most splendid, spiffing and top-hole of West End plays, the 39 Steps. But something less than spiffing happened at the end of the evening, and it is with this that Naomi Vintage Secret and I need your help. Please stay…
Sponsor Spotlight – Natasha Bailie Vintage Clothing Co.
I am honoured to present my next sponsor to you all, the lovely, lovely Natasha Bailie! Natasha is another I met online, through the realms of Twitter as well as through blogging, but I had the pleasure of meeting her briefly at Goodwood back in September. Our paths have mysteriously crossed in more ways than…
Horsing around
Yesterday, I had a leisurely drive down to deepest, darkest Kent, to attend the War & Peace show. I had never been before, and didn’t really know what to expect, apart from lots of antique jeeps, WWII forces memorabilia, uniforms, and deactivated guns. And there were lots of all of those, no doubt about that!…
A Jolly Good Show – The Chap Olympiad 2009
It was a day that passed by in a haze of illicit Pimms, very British drizzle and outrageous cheating … which could mean only one thing … this year’s Chap Olympiad was officially underway! The Olympiad is an annual event, hosted by everyone’s favourite anarcho-dandyist periodical, The Chap Magazine. The Chap’s raison d’etre is simple,…