Try to kiss and make up all you like, blogger, I'm not impressed...
Since blogger have charmingly decided to lose my blog today, and prevent me from accessing my dashboard, perhaps it’s time to think about emigrating to WordPress?
I think I will run a few test posts and see how it goes. Even if blogger have lost my blog for good (and I will cry, profusely…), I have at least all of this year’s blogs stored and saved up. If they find it again, maybe I will just import the whole damn thing.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a ‘Random Ossies in Adverts’ post, so it was high time I found another one. Bottom left, definitely one of my holy grail pieces.
Photo by Norman Parkinson. Vogue, November 1972. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.
There are too many brilliant photos for me to scan from Bright Ideas For The Home by Per Dalsgaard and Elisabeth Erichsen (1978), so I’ve restricted myself to six of my favourites.
Vac-formed arses? Coupled with those suspiciously shaped side lamps? Yikes...
I particularly love the way the heads in the background are looking at each other disapprovingly...
I need to know who on earth Midnight Blue were, and where I can get some of these insane clothes. I had never heard of them before and cannot find out a THING about them online. I am a geek and I need help, I realise this…
Advert from Ritz Magazine, Number 14, 1978. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.
Everyone is looking back in nostalgia – especially in fashion. But authentic Twenties and Thirties clothes can be expensive to buy so sew your own and save money. Use crêpe de chine and bias-cut voiles and leave out the linings for an authentic swing and flair. Choose eau de Nil, bois de rose and the pale sorbet shades for pure, undiluted nostalgia.
You all thought I’d forgotten about Mensday, didn’t you? Pah! Never! I was simply awaiting fresh meat inspiration, and what could be better than a space-themed suit advert? A suit made of steel and silk, no less. ‘A lightweight faultlessly superior.’. Nothing, that’s what.
Scanned from Harpers and Queen, June 1973.
Cheesecake sweaters by Phyllis Collins at Stirling Cooper. Voluminous batwing sweater by Lee Bender at Bus Stop. Jewellery by Corocraft.
Not only is this a delightful image, but I have a green version of the ‘cheesecake’ Stirling Cooper jumper. Whee!
Celon seems to feel a bit smoky, if the first picture is anything to go by. I definitely fancy the harem pyjamas with the mesh middle below though…
Liz Eggleston 