Big news! The latest batch of Heyday Fleur dresses are out and they’re pretty fab! I’m modelling the ‘Lilac Heaven‘ for you today, along with this rather snazzy picnic basket! First, let me show you the dress. All the usual Fleur features – wrap style with rounded pockets (pockets and neckline trimmed with lilac bias binding) and…
Tag: modelling
#ThrowbackThursday!
Every month, when I do my King’s Ginger posts, I have to search through the image archives on my blog to find the KGL logo. Since my blog has now been going for six years this May, there’s a lot of old pictures from way back that I have to scroll past. And, since my…
Self nostalgia?
I’m feeling kind of old at the moment. Hurtling towards my mid-thirties, few too many late nights (and shandies) lately, not enough exercise. So it was lovely to receive an unexpected email last week from the talented photographer Rebecca Parker, who I did a photoshoot with way back in the mists of time (2008). You may…
Vintage London: Valentines Bowling & Dating
This morning I got to play in a retro bowling alley for a last-minute modelling job. It was before it had opened, so it was a bit strange. Especially the weird noises coming from behind the pins… Spooky goings-on aside, the shoot was to help out a friend who goes by the name of Cliff…
Costume Capers – Vintage Halloween
Greetings on All Hallows Eve! I hope you’ve all got suitably spooky things going on this evening or next weekend (or last weekend as I did! Pictures soon)? Or at least, if you live in a highly child-populated area as I do, that you’ve stocked up on penny sweets to dish out to the costumed…
I do Dig This!
Last week, I did a spot of modelling, for a lovely, small repro vintage company called Dig This Clothing. While they do sell a selection of the usual suspects like Bettie Page, they also have a small range of their own designs – namely dresses and trousers. The 40s frocks are cute and practical –…
Shooting pool
Last weekend (or was it the one before? Who knows!), the Vintage Mafia headed en masse to Tooting Bec lido for a very special photoshoot. It was for The Retro Festival, which is going to be the absolute highlight of my summer this year, just as full of colour and sunshine as these smashing pictures!…
Fast forward
Hello and welcome to another slightly rambly update on my life at the moment! To coin a cliché: what a difference a year makes. Yesterday afternoon, at about 4pm, I was walking along the seafront in Portsmouth, talking life and business plans with my dearest friend Naomi, after spending the day doing a promotional photoshoot…
Bit Bobs
Yoo hoo! I did plan to put this up yesterday, but the cretinous people at o2 Broadband ruined that plan. I’d love to have a full day of internet connection at some point… but enough about that. I’d like to announce the winner of the Vintage Trudy card giveaway, before regaling you with some more…
House Proud
Yesterday morning, Miss Jeni Yesterday and I were commissioned to do a quick photoshoot in a rather splendid location – the Imperial War Museum. Jeni works for the museum, and they needed a pair of suitable models for a special job… Cracking! The Children’s War exhibition has been running fo a while at the IWM,…