Twiggy: more than a keyword….

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Twiggy’s own label was a brief, beautiful contribution to the world of the British Boutique Movement. Click here to see my previous blog about it. The pieces are rare enough, but it can often be hard to find them online when her name has become merely a ‘keyword’ for the masses of unlabelled minis and hacked off maxis floating around in vintage land.

However, Vintage-a-Peel always seeks to bring clarity to the vintage world, so I don’t use such keywords. Except now I have an actual Twiggy dress for sale, so I can. Hurrah! Stunning striped cotton mini with blue satin buttons down the front to match the blue satin ribbon around the waistline. I love the tiny, ever-so-sweet detail of the top button though, which is covered to match the fabric of the dress. It’s even lined in cotton; a detail which would simply never occur to anyone nowadays (and is far nicer than supposedly high-end designer pieces even from the Sixties!). Wearable and so sweet, but also immensely rare and collectable.

Now listed over at Vintage-a-Peel

4 thoughts on “Twiggy: more than a keyword….

  1. Unknown's avatar

    The subtle details, on what is at first glance a simple little dress, are wonderful. I'm yearning for you to 'do' Cathy McGowan's range sometime. There's a slightly kinky shiny black coat of hers in my trunk that's waiting to make its debut . . .

  2. Unknown's avatar

    Tintrunk, well I have an original catalogue of the Cathy range but not much of the gear. Only the shoes and a dress. I ought to do a blog some time though, you're right.

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