seventies fashion

Naff-tastic: The pink nylon ruffles, the wallpaper, the satin lapels, the boobs…

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…and the biggest boob of all. Sorry Mike Reid, RIP, I couldn’t resist. This photo entertains and entrances me on so many levels. I want to climb into it. (Is it wrong that I would totally run around wearing either of the strippers’ outfits?) It’s just brilliantly awful and awfully brilliant. I had to share. Perhaps I share too much?

During another stag do at the Kingfisher Club, Woodford, Reid waits in the dressing room with strip ‘artistes’ Tuesday and Stephanie.

Sunday Times Magazine, June 20th 1971

The Opposite of Blah: Manolo Blahnik, 1974

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Please excuse me while I mop up a large pool of drool which has mysteriously appeared on my keyboard….

We were at a particularly tipsy table…

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I nearly always love these shoots from the Telegraph magazine; this is a particularly fabulous one inspired by the then-upcoming film of The Great Gatsby.




Vintage Inspiration: Bebe Buell

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It’s all been a bit Thirties-glamour-heavy on the Vintage Inspiration front here lately, so I went roaming in my archives and decided that I needed to share these three images of Bebe Buell.

I love this hair and make-up at the moment, and it’s fairly achievable which is always good when you’re low on energy….

Back! And front, and side. Fabulous from all angles

bus stop, cathy mcgowan, clobber, dove clothing company, jean varon, jeff banks, john bates, lee bender, seventies fashion, sixties, website listings

For various tedious reasons, I’ve been a bit quiet on the old website listing front in the past month. But I’m feeling much perkier now, more inspired and oh boy have I got a lot of goodies (just listed, and in the works…). Watch out world!

Right now I’ve just listed an incredible John Bates for Jean Varon dress (1973, just check out the original advert from Vogue), a chocolate brown rayon crepe Lee Bender for Bus Stop beauty, a Dove Clothing Company deep cobalt blue cord maxi dress (perfect for walking through wintry landscapes), a super romantic cream damask Clobber (a.k.a Jeff Banks) dress with flutter sleeves and trailing ribbons….and finally, a slinky blue Cathy McGowan dress with the most gorgeous sleeves and pleated front detail. Yeah, Cathy McGowan….that’s pretty darned rare!




Swinging Sixties: Happy Birthday Twiggy!

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Cue lots of people moaning about how this makes them ‘feel old’. Our very own Twiggy is 60 today, and definitely still looks fabulous. And I’ll forgive her for nearly having my eye out with her elbow last year. Good excuse for a Twigster picture spam, non? Crazy crimpy-haired Twigs is my favourite era, so I might try to do that look today in her honour.
















And here’s a little something to remind you to have a celebratory brandy, Moonie would have wanted it that way…

More Cobblers!

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Well if ever I wanted to have some toes chopped off, now is definitely the time. Just spotted these amazing Chelsea Cobbler shoes on eBay.

Lo and behold, they’re ones featured in the Vogue spread I posted way back when. Awesomeness, no? Go get ’em you jammy UK4.5-ers! That’s £90 of pure-shoe-joy very well spent, as far as I’m concerned.

Tops-y Turvy

Foale and Tuffin, jean varon, jeff banks, john bates, lulu, seventies fashion, website listings

I will hopefully be back to normal blog programming soon, lots to share as always, but I’m in a ‘listing zone’ right now so I’m making the most of my prolificacy. Enjoy! There’s Foale and Tuffin, Jeff Banks, Jean Varon, Lulu and a superb unlabelled 1930s crepe bolero…..scrummy!!!

Suits You Madam

biba, moss crepe, ossie clark, pantsuits, seventies fashion, website listings, xenia

Just listed over at Vintage-a-Peel, two stunning moss crepe pantsuits. One is a Xenia, the other probably is as well – but sadly the label has been removed. Both are heavily inspired by Biba and Ossie. Both are gorgeous.

Xenia are one of my favourite naughty rip-off merchants from the Seventies. They did astonishingly good copies of original Bibas and Ossies, which is just as useful today as it was back then.