In the second of my two posts for Shurgard‘s blog, I am asking: so, you think you have a good eye for vintage clothing and accessories? Perhaps, after many years devoted to your own collection – honing your eye for a bargain – you realise you prefer hunting down vintage and antiques more than your…
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Starting a Vintage Collection: Beginner’s Basics
Collecting anything, but especially vintage clothing or accessories, can vary from being a casual hobby to an all-consuming compulsion. As a collector of everything from Beanie Babies (as a kid) to vintage housedresses (ongoing), I have experience at both ends of the spectrum! I was asked by Shurgard Self-Storage to write a piece about said…
Goodwood Revival – a very vintage fashion guide
While entering mid-August does make me feel more than a little sad that summer is soon on its way out, there is one positive to the inexorable creep of the year. It’s coming round to one of my favourites events of the autumn, the most excellent Goodwood Revival. If you don’t know about the Revival…
Windy Weather
Just a quick outfit post for you today! I wanted to start incorporating some of my cotton summer dresses into my outfits after a long and boring winter, but I picked a particularly bad day to do it. I don’t really have enough slips or vests and today was cold, windy and, when we started…
Wonderful workwear
As a blogger of reasonable standing, I get sent a lot of press releases – too many these days to ever have the time to reply to as 99.9% of them are not about vintage, nor indeed any of my other interests outside of vintage. But the other day I got quite a cool one…
The Mafia x MyDaily
A couple of weeks ago, myself and my Vintage Mafia amigas were lucky enough to be featured on MyDaily, a site which has a regular feature called My Vintage Wardrobe. I’ve known a few people who’ve starred on there before and they are, to a woman, fabulous. So it was an honour to be asked…
The Pentax #q7weeksofcolour project!
Last week, I got involved with a little project with Pentax (or, PENTAX as it seems to be in all the correspondence, which is odd retro-futuristic to my eyes… PENTAX THE DESTROYER, robot from outer space), anyway, yes. They wanted me to test drive a little Pentax Q7 – little being the operative word. It…
Chasing chevrons
I’m getting to that point where my wardrobe is so stuffed with dresses that I am forgetting what I have in it. A couple of weeks ago, the lovely ladies at Gudrun Sjoden, knowing my penchant for all things Swedish at the moment, gave me this cute a-line skirt as a Midsommar present (as you can…
Brooklands and Belle Blossoms
I used to do loads of swing dancing – lessons every week and social dancing at weekends but, when I took up running, it fell by the wayside. Well, now running has taken a backseat to dancing again and I have been going to Swing at the Light every Monday to learn lindy and balboa…
Vintage booze with Vintage News
A couple of weeks ago, I went on a Vintage Mafia (with honorary man) road trip! I drove… I didn’t take this picture! Our destination was Brighton and the birthday party of the beautiful Sadie, of Vintage News and the Vintage Vanity Case fame. This lady is just a doll – she is excellent at…