November 23, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Retro Chick Competitions

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!

    • 13 years ago

    Very nice photos!

    • 13 years ago

    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.

    • 13 years ago

    Great prize! x

    • 13 years ago

    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!!)

    • 13 years ago

    Ooh saucy!

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

    WOW! What great photos!!

    • 13 years ago

    Love the photos & that red dress is gorgeous

    • 13 years ago

    I so want to do those Noir style photos! xxx

    • 13 years ago

    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.

    • 13 years ago

    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™‚

    • 13 years ago

    Gorgeous Noir pics! Stockings are fab too! xx

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

    *weighs* …and I’m a writer!

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

    Naughty but nice!

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

    awesome pics, i have yet tp try WKD stockings!

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

    Stockings are always good.

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

    Great pictures

    • 13 years ago

    Beautiful stockings!

    • 13 years ago

    Love love love! I really hope I win xx

    • 13 years ago

    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

    • 13 years ago

    Lovely stockings

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

    Iā€™d love to win the seamed stockings!

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

    • 13 years ago

    love the pics – they are really intriguing!
    x

    • 13 years ago

    The doppelgƤnger picture is so clever!!

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

    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.

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

    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?

    • 13 years ago

    Gorgeous dresses, particularly love the blue one!

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

    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!

    • 13 years ago

    Love the photos!

    • 13 years ago

    I love your dress! And those photos!

    • 13 years ago

    Those photos are stunning!

    • 13 years ago

    Love the wiggle dress. You look gorgeous!

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

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

    • 13 years ago

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