December 27, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Fashion & Beauty Vintage

Vintage Style Specs for Sex Kittens

Meow! As a glasses wearer I remember when the choice of reasonably priced glasses frames consisted of oval or round wire frames or thick black rectangular ones, that was pretty much it, no other choices. I’ve worn contact lenses for years, the ones that you sleep in, but for 2 or 3 days a month

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Inspiration & Lifestyle Vintage

Why I'm Tired of the Good Old Days.

Yesterday I was innocently scrolling through my Facebook feed. It’s a thing I often do when I should be doing actual work. I call it research and tell myself that I work in Social Meeja so, you know, this IS work. Anyway, while doing very important Social Meeja research yesterday I came across a photo

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Fashion & Beauty Vintage

Vintage Hair Styling Tips from Actual Professionals

I get emails a lot telling me about amazing interviews and tips that I might like to publish. Generally I don’t as they are always irrelevant. Except last weeks email came from Hairdressing uniforms retailer www.simonjersey.com who have interviewed the owners of vintage salons Rockalily Cuts and Miss Dixiebell as well as vintage hair and

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Fashion & Beauty Vintage

Iconic Styles: The Loafer

Loafers have been a preppy favourite for a long time. Although considered an American classic, the design actually orginated in Norway. In the early 1930s a shoemaker named Nils Gregoriusson Tveranger created the Aurland shoe, based on moccasins worn by the Iroquois in North America where he studied for a while. There is a story that they

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Dear Diary Vintage

Vintage Hayfever

Has anyone else suffered particularly with Hay Fever this year? I’ve had hayfever since I was about 6 or 7, so I’m used to wearing sunglasses even when it’s cloudy and not going anywhere without my asthma inhaler. Some years are worse than others, but I use a prescription only medication called fexofenadine that normally

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Fashion & Beauty Vintage

Vintage Brooches – The Bling

Today I thought I’d share another selection of my vintage brooches. After all, I’ve only been threatening it since I shared my animal brooches back in April. I am saving “the weird ones” for last as I want to make sure I’ve photographed them all as a few were missing, so today you can see

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Retro Chick Competitions Vintage

Lingerie Love – Rago Shapewear

Buying vintage lingerie is a bit of a minefield. For starters, we don’t all feel comfortable in someone elses old undercrackers, and if you’re lucky enough to find some deadstock, then what are the chances you’ll find it in your size? There are some fabulous reproduction companies out there, but today I’m going to share

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Fashion & Beauty Vintage

Retro Chick Presents: How to Tie a Headscarf 1940s Style

2 years without a video and then 2 in 2 months, I know! I seem to be on a roll, so if there’s anything you’d like to see in a video, tutorial or otherwise, feel free to let me know in the comments! This video is on how to tie a headscarf, 1940s, Land Girl

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Fashion & Beauty Vintage

Curling the UnCurlable – Your Complete Guide to Vintage Curls

These days I sport curly hair a lot. But I was once the owner of the worlds most resolutely straight hair. I would spend hours curling hair with tongs, mousse, heated rollers and any number of other promised miracle products, and always within 2 hours I had straight hair again. There’s nothing wrong with straight

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