November 24, 2024
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Fashion & Beauty

The Place to Be for A Very Vintage Halloween

This post is both a cry for help and an event alert. Halloween is approaching at a disturbingly fast rate of knots. On Friday I wrote about 10 things to do for a vintage Halloween and number 3 was to book tickets for Don’t Dali with the Devil at The Fox, 28 Paul Street, Shoreditch.

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Fashion & Beauty

New Autumn Winter Goodies in the Shop and Other News…..

It might be Sunday, but I thought I’d pop in a quick update as I have a few new pieces that are perfect for Autumn in the Retro Chick Shop. For a 1940s or 50s autumn look a good wool skirt is an essential. Either pleated or straight with box pleats at the hem. Wear

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Fashion & Beauty

Halloween Countdown: 10 Things to do for a Vintage Halloween

17 days till Halloween. And probably only 2 weeks really till Halloween parties and celebrations galore, because we all know that the Friday and Saturday will be when things happen. Now the time you should be thinking about your costume and making plans. So I’ve decided to conduct a little round up of 10 things

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Dear Diary

Hendricks Gin Horseless Carriage of Curiosities

Oh Lordy. When I was invited to a brunch in the Hendricks Gin Carriage of Curiosities I actually thought “but surely they won’t serve us gin at 10:30am?” Boy, was I wrong. I actually didn’t get served gin till 11:05am as the vagaries of the UK train service meant if I wanted to be in

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Dear Diary

Fancy Pants

Today I should be gallivanting off to London to have brunch with Hendricks Gin (I am unsure if there will be breakfast cocktails, but there is croquet and a penny farthing apparently) While I’m gone I thought I’d leave you with some pictures of pants to look at. Pandoras Choice is a new sponsor for

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Fashion & Beauty

Vintage Jewellery – Faking Bakelite

I’ve done reproduction vintage frocks, but today I have reproduction vintage jewellery! I just couldn’t resist sharing this, as one of my favourite shops (and favourite ladies), Notorious Kitsch, has added some amazing new jewellery to her store. Bakelite jewellery was incredibly popular in the 30s and 40s as economic conditions meant diamonds and pearls

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Fashion & Beauty

What Are You Wearing? Gloves & a Hat

Ah, Monday morning. Here it is again. Mondays are boring, so it’s far more fun to think about what I did at the weekend. The weekend here was calm, but overcast with a definite crisp autumnal chill in the air that required examining the contents of my hosiery drawer. It turns out all but one

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Retro Chick Competitions

Countdown to Halloween Giveaway with Aspire Style

Aspire Style actually contacted me all the way back at the beginning of September about running a giveaway. When I found out they had a store in Oxford I decided to pop in personally to pick out a prize for you, and to see for myself if their shops are as gorgeous as they claim!

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Dear Diary

Art in the Underbelly and Other News

Just a brief post today as I’m feeling a little delicate. Partly because I still have this (expletive deleted) cold, but mostly because I went out last night to the opening of an exhibition of Photography by Ryan Watts. I “met” Ryan through Twitter, but we’d never actually met in person, so it was very

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