My new favourite photo. I love Claudette anyway, and here she’s reigniting my desire to dress up like a Pierrot.
She’s sailing a bit close to the wind though. You can almost see the right side of her face….that will never do!
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The Icing on the Cake (or, The Bow on the Butt)
butt bows, mary quant, mod, sixties, website listings
Ahhhhh….you have to love a butt bow. I was rather surprised to see a butt bow on a Sixties Mary Quant mini dress, but surprised in a good ‘oooh, the girl done good’ kinda way. It’s an adorable dress anyway (and perfect attire for a mod french maid) but that’s just the icing on the cake; the bow on the butt. Anyway, it’s a new listing over at Vintage-a-Peel – please do check it out!
More Cobblers!
chelsea cobbler, platforms, seventies fashion, shoesWell 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.
Butt Bows
buffles, butt bows, maria grachvogel, sarah whitworth(Initially inspired by this post by the fabulous Everybody Says Don’t)
Like the fabulous WendyB, I’m a big fan of the butt bow. Frankly I’m a fan of any decoration on the butt. When you’re a petite lady up top, and you quite like your butt, you know it makes sense to draw attention down there. This is why I love Sarah Whitworth (Queen of the Buffle) so much.
Anyway, a few weeks back I was stopped in my tracks by this incredible dress in the window of the Maria Grachvogel shop. I’m quite a fan of MG which, considering my usual antipathy towards modern designers, is quite an achievement for her*.
*I’m sure she’d be delighted to know that!Terry De Havilland: Oh! to De Havalottamoney (andsmallerfeet…)
platforms, seventies fashion, shoes, terry de havilland
One day. One day I shall have lots of money to spend on sparkly Terry De Havilland platform shoes wot fit my feet. Til then, I can but drool at other people’s goodies… Click the images for the eBay auctions and bid away dear readers, let me live vicariously through your feet….
We’ve Got a Bottle of Hair Dye and We’re Gonna Use It…
Eighties Fashion, fuzzbox, new romantic, strawberry switchbladeThought I would share possibly one of my favourite Eighties videos (and songs) by the fantastically low-budget girl group Fuzzbox (a.k.a We’ve Got a Fuzzbox and We’re Gonna Use It). I mainly remembered them from the later Eighties when they came back with a slicker sound, look and Barbarella-concept video for International Rescue. But I also remember my eldest brother speaking fondly of how ‘punk’ they used to be. I’m sure he’d now cringe at the idea that Fuzzbox were ever vaguely proper punk. But when I went a-hunting for inspiration for the New Rom nights, I discovered the early Fuzzbox videos and was hooked.
I honestly really wish I could style my hair and dress like these girls. I think I have a built in taste-limiter though. I usually end up more Roxy-girl or Strawberry Switchblade-esque. But perhaps one day I’ll say ‘to hell with it’ and dye my hair pink or something. The crimping and make-up I think I’ve got down pat….
Funk to Funky
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In honour of the new series of Ashes to Ashes starting tonight (I’m currently pausing for a moment to resist the urge to bounce around….oh what the hell, bounce bounce bounce!) here are some random early Eighties images….if you like that kind of thing!
Mmmmm…..gratuitous soggy Durans shot…..
And speaking of sparkly boots…
boots, glam rock, platforms, Things I wish I owned
Oh major lustlustlust moment here…..sadly not my size. But I would gladly own them just to put them in a glass case and worship…is that weird?
Oh honestly….
boots, daleks, doctor who, doctor who companion fashion, funny googles, platformsdoctor who girl companions porn
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lalla ward breasts
They’ll sure have a hard time finding the last one!
All google searches which have found my blog. I have apparently become the go-to blog for some very naughty Doctor Who fans…..tsk tsk!! Have you lot got nothing better to do?
Gratuitously posted because I think it’s an awesome image. See, I just look at that photo and go ‘ooh, sparkly boots!’…..I tend to forget that some guy, somewhere, might be enjoying it a bit too much.
Oh well….
For Queen and Country: Rayne Shoes
emma peel, shoes, Things I wish I ownedI find I have become quite, quite transfixed by these shoes just listed on eBay. They sort of look like they should be hideous. In the wrong hands they would have been hideous. But they’re not hideous. They’re beautiful. They’re green, they’re silk, they’re diamante.
Rayne shoes were of a very high quality, being shoemakers to the Queen and all that. Mr Rayne also made the shoes Diana Rigg wore in The Avengers. So you know you’re getting something good with Rayne.
They’re also about a size too small for Miss Muggins here, but please someone with 5½ feet buy them. I can’t promise you won’t be so transfixed that you’ll find yourself staring down at them all the time and keep bumping into people, but it’s probably a price worth paying.
Coooooo, Mavis, ain’t they gawgeous!
Liz Eggleston 