I remember spotting this dress amongst Anna Friel’s stage door costume cavalcade over Christmas. At the time I wondered whether it was a Miss Mouse; I thought it looked a bit familiar.
Well I can confirm that it was, indeed, a vintage Miss Mouse (a.k.a Rae Spencer-Cullen) dress and you can now buy it from Vintage-a-Peel!!
The other day, I blog about my new sparkly flower printed tights from H&M. I haven’t even had a chance to wear them out yet and bloody Anna Friel gets there first. You’d better be glad I REALLY like you Anna, otherwise I’d be REALLY mad with you. AND her shoes look like suede versions of my trusty stalwart patent Office darlings. Darnit. Now everyone’s going to think I’m trying to copy her. *sniffle*
This is why I generally try to buy vintage, I’d almost forgotten how irritating this kind of thing can be.
[evil mode] Do we think they might sell out and I can get a pretty penny for them on eBay? [/evil mode]
An amazing cream satin Forties dress, and Anna has now been quoted as saying that she’s ‘as happy as a pig in s**t in a vintage store‘. A girl after my own heart, with very enviable hair as well. I really do love the fact that she’s dressing up for the paps outside the theatre. That’s definitely what I’d do.
I can’t stand ‘celebs’ who look pseudo-pissed-off for waiting photographers, whilst wearing some pseudo-stained t-shirt as a dress over some pseudo-ripped tights or somesuch. Stop moaning and break out the dressing-up box!
Anna Friel is someone who looks amazing in pretty much whatever she wears, and I’m usually very taken with her style choices. Something of a modern style icon in the making, I predict. There have been a few strange ones this week (now she’s appearing as Holly Golightly in London she’s being photographed post-performance each night), but she’s definitely back on form with this outfit.
I have no idea if any of it is vintage, but I love the dress, jacket, hair and make-up wholeheartedly… I don’t often flirt with the forties look, but it might be time to try again.
Liz Eggleston 