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Twenties key style elements: fashion meets leisure

Lena — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:00:29 +0000

Think Twenties fashion and plenty comes to mind: short, fringed dresses in loose fitting, sensuous fabrics, silhouetting willowy, boyish bodies. Cloche hats covered bobbed hair and framed flirtatious eyes and narrow, knowing brows. It was a time for Bright Young Things, a new partying set free to be young and frivolous and to Charleston ‘til their [...]

The cutting edge 60s designers – Foale and Tuffin

Lena — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:00:39 +0000

While Mary Quant and Biba have – rightfully so – made fashion history with their innovative designs and ground-breaking boutiques, one of Swinging London’s coolest design duos, Foale and Tuffin, remain fairly obscure. Once described as “the queens of Carnaby Street” by Zandra Rhodes and with a celebrity following including Julie Christie and Cilla Black, [...]

Vintage Queen no 82 – we love your war-time look!

Lena — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:00:04 +0000

My name is Tina Kitcher, and I live and work in Surrey. I work full-time as a Senior Theatre Sister (operating department) for the NHS. However, I originally studied Art and Printed Textiles at college so I’ve always had a passion for decades other than the one I am living in. After having my family [...]

Video guide: how to create Twenties make-up

Lena — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:59:33 +0000

The Twenties not only saw a revolution in fashion but also in make-up style. With new, advanced make-up products more readily available, the old Edwardian attitude to make-up changed profoundly. Not only did the modern Twenties woman wear make-up – something previously frowned upon – she wore lots of it. Deep red lipstick, heavily arched [...]

Ladies, gift your chaps a vintage make-over this Valentine’s

Lena — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:00:11 +0000

Perhaps the man in your life is a little shy about going vintage shopping with you? Or he might not have a clue as to even where to start? Enter the Vintage Style Doctor! Actor and vintage personal shopper Colin Reed – otherwise known as The Doc – runs the Vintage Style Surgery, London’s first [...]

Vintage entrepreneurs Q&A – Margaret Davidson, online vintage shop owner

Lena — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:33 +0000

Have you ever thought about setting up your own vintage business? Are you a vintage shop owner curious about other vintage traders’ experiences? Well, in this new series we will be meeting up with a range of vintage entrepreneurs to find out more about their career paths, mistakes they’ve made along the way and their [...]