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Christmas Balls and Photoshoots

It’s been a busy and rather festive weekend!

It started on Friday night with Antidote Vintage and their first birthday party. The Antidote shop is an old pharmacy and it still has all the original drawers and fittings, so it’s a gorgeous location for a festive party.

On Saturday night it was a Vintage Christmas Ball at Dragon Hall. I went along to review it for Vintage Norwich, so you can read all about it here!

I decided to wear a dress that I haven’t worn for a few years now as it’s been too small. Despite not having lost a single pound in weight in the last year I have been exercising much more, and have lost about an inch all over. That mean I can now just about squeeze back into this gorgeous 1950s wiggle dress with pale blue embroidery. The dress cost me just Ā£2.50 as part of a lot of about 6 dresses on eBay and I absolutely love it.

It doesn’t look as wiggly in the photo as it is, but there’s no split in the back of that skirt so vigorous dancing is off the menu, though I did manage to fit 5 slices of Biddys Tea Room delicious pie inside it, but that may have been ill advised!

ā¤ Dress- VintageĀ ā¤ Belt - a giftĀ ā¤ Shoes - New LookĀ ā¤
 ā¤ Pearl Necklace - VintageĀ ā¤ Pearl Bracelet - A giftĀ ā¤ Hair Flowers - Abilu CreationsĀ ā¤

That’s Betsy HatterĀ looking incredibly festive keeping me company. She makes the most gorgeous felt hair flowers, hats and fascinators and is the lady responsible for the Historical Sauces mini mortar boards.

Dragon Hall were serving suitably retro cocktails like Snowballs and Old Fashioneds, so I now feel quite festive!

This weekend I also got back the pictures from the Film Noir Photoshoot I did with Zoe Noir Photography a couple of weeks ago. I’m really pleased with how they’ve come out. There’s a couple here, but you can see the full set on my Facebook album.

 

We also took a couple of Doppelganger photos, just for fun!

P.S. Todays addition to the Christmas Stocking giveaway is a pair of black What Katie Did Retro Seamed stockings. Any comment on this post will give you another entry into the prize draw! Remember you are entering a prize draw to win all the gifts I’ve revealed, but you can get extra entries every day for more chances to win. Visit the Original post for T&Cs and for links to all the other days to get your extra entries!

50 Comments

  • Becca Sibley December 12, 2011

    Those Noir photos are a-mazing! You look so cool and suave xx

  • Lucy December 12, 2011

    oooOOoooo, my favourite stockings šŸ™‚ I love the Noir pics.

  • anneke December 12, 2011

    I have the same blue dress! Such a flattering style.

  • Roisin December 12, 2011

    I would LOOOOOOOVE to win some What Katie Did stockings, how awesome!

  • Tegan Faulkner December 12, 2011

    Love the wiggle dress. You look gorgeous!

  • Chantelle December 12, 2011

    Those photos are stunning!

  • Roxie Roulette December 12, 2011

    I love your dress! And those photos!

  • Ali Bunn December 12, 2011

    Love the photos!

  • Angeliek December 12, 2011

    OOOOh! that would be just what I’d need! just bought myself a girdle, I’d wanted one you’d recommended some few posts back, but ended up with the black Stockings and Romance one, to go under a really lovely black woolen pencils skirt I found for 3.5ā‚¬! Love the ZN photo’s; I wish I had your style and patience with the curlers…- is that a different haircolour you’ve got in there?- seems a little less bright, but suiting nonetheless!

  • Gail Ann THompson December 12, 2011

    You look fabulous in the blue embroidery!
    I’d live to win the seamed stockings.

  • Franca December 12, 2011

    I love the photoshoot pics and that’s good news about the dress! It looks stunning, very festive!

  • Emma Hollands December 12, 2011

    Gorgeous dresses, particularly love the blue one!

  • Fi Phillips December 12, 2011

    Such a pretty dress. You look great.

    The results of the photoshoot are very stylish – are these simply for your portfolio or to publicise something else?

  • Perdita December 12, 2011

    I love that dress! An ebay bargain too!? All the better!

  • Cherise December 12, 2011

    Oh goodie! A girl can never have too many pairs of stockings šŸ™‚

  • Louise December 12, 2011

    Ah, such a glamorous weekend. I’ve taken to wiggle dresses in a big way of late, and that one is beautiful. What a find.

  • Helen December 12, 2011

    Oh the stockings are the best yet and you look beautiful in the film noir shots!

  • Bunny Moreno December 12, 2011

    I love your Noir photos esp the Doppelanger one-sweet!!! xox

  • Julia December 12, 2011

    The doppelgƤnger picture is so clever!!

  • Joanne B December 12, 2011

    love the pics – they are really intriguing!
    x

  • Rebecca Murphy December 12, 2011

    Iā€™d love to win the seamed stockings!

    In the meantime, I’m gooing to have a closer look at ebay!

  • Pearl Westwood December 12, 2011

    The photos are amazing, you dress is lovely too what pretty detailing

  • claire constable December 12, 2011

    Lovely stockings

  • Chippy December 12, 2011

    Love the photos.

    And I also love What Katie Did – they have great suspender belts that don’t feel like they are going to snap at any second

  • Sarah December 12, 2011

    Love love love! I really hope I win xx

  • Erica Price December 12, 2011

    Beautiful stockings!

  • Tracey December 12, 2011

    Great pictures

  • Jessie in Fashion Limbo December 12, 2011

    I saw the pictures in your facebook page and they are fantastic, you look stunning of course šŸ™‚

  • Elizabeth December 13, 2011

    Stockings are always good.

  • Hannah December 13, 2011

    I’d love to win some seamed stockings (a girl can never have too many…)

  • Lauren December 13, 2011

    Lovely photos, so sultry! And that wiggle dress is super.

  • Louise December 13, 2011

    You look great in those Noir photos! Did you do your own hair & makeup?

  • Natasha De Vil December 13, 2011

    awesome pics, i have yet tp try WKD stockings!

  • Sara Hook December 13, 2011

    Stunning pictures! Also the doppleganger picture made me smile….whilst taking ooh, a minute for my brain to get around it!

  • Sarah Armstrong December 13, 2011

    Naughty but nice!

  • For Those About To Shop December 13, 2011

    It’s so neat how we can lose inches yet stay the same weight. It’s that muscle ways more than fat thing.

  • For Those About To Shop December 13, 2011

    *weighs* …and I’m a writer!

  • Mary December 13, 2011

    I haven’t tried their stockings yet! I’d love a pair.

  • Jo White December 13, 2011

    Gorgeous Noir pics! Stockings are fab too! xx

  • Molly Louise December 14, 2011

    You ladies look fabulous! Well done on squeezing into the white dress (you don’t look squeezed in at all, just perfect) And I love the doppelganger photo šŸ™‚

  • Lori Smith December 14, 2011

    That dress looks gorgeous on you! And such a bargain. Clearly I need to rummage around on eBay more often!

    The photos from the shoot are wonderful too.

  • luxiehoney December 14, 2011

    I so want to do those Noir style photos! xxx

  • vicky abbott December 14, 2011

    Love the photos & that red dress is gorgeous

  • Julie Booth December 14, 2011

    WOW! What great photos!!

  • Nessbow December 14, 2011

    Oh yum! I can’t stop giggling at that doppelganger photograph.

  • Kate Collison December 15, 2011

    Ooh saucy!

  • Eliza December 15, 2011

    That dress is such a flattering colour. You look very elegant.
    Please enter me to win those stockings, I never really buy any for myself as I’m so clumsy I end up putting ladders in them (usually while putting them on or five minutes later!!)

  • Alix Bell December 15, 2011

    Great prize! x

  • Wendy December 15, 2011

    I love your pictures as you already know.

    My husband would love those stockings. On me, I should probably add. Or at least I hope thats the case.

  • Isis December 16, 2011

    Very nice photos!

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