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…
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!
This is something like the reverse colouration I want for my own hair (see Maureen Starkey with the blonde ends) but can’t have for L’Oreal-related reasons. I kinda like it on Drew, and I love the fact that it matches her dress. Admittedly it might look a bit odd with anything other than a matching [so beautiful I want to knaw it off her] Alexander McQueen dress, but kudos for being a bit daring. And a bit Debbie Harry as well. And that bird out of Berlin. I love how happy she looks here. That’s what a great dress can do to a girl….
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.
Last night I had the most vivid dream that WendyB’s Tie Breaker ring magically appeared in my life. I think it just randomly showed up in the mail and I had no idea if it was a gift, or a mistake…. But truly, my dreams are quite limited aren’t they? Admittedly I was dreaming about it because I had spotted it last night on her site and totally fell in love (I’m not a big wearer of rings generally, but I would make the exception for anything by Wendy), but if I’m going to dream about a Wendy ring randomly turning up in the mail….it OUGHT to be the Queen Min, for that is so very ethereally beautiful and far more expensive. Le sigh.
Anyways, if anyone wants to anonymously buy me a WendyB ring, they’d be very welcome. Otherwise I will just have to save up for the Tie Breaker myself (I know my limits).
Well, it was blue jeans. And mighty fine they were as well.
I’m now back from my holiday in Norfolk, madly trying to catch up with things and get back on track – hope you’ve not all forgotten about me? There are a fair few ‘coming soon’s on the website, which I’m aiming to upload tomorrow or Wednesday.
I was unable to blog before I departed, and so haven’t been able to squee at you all (although people on Twitter might be aware) because I MET THE BRYANGOD!! Oh yeah. The night before I left, I decided to throw caution to the wind (and pull an all-nighter with my packing) because Miss Senti and Miss Charley were in London to see Nile Rodgers and how could I resist? Well I’m very glad I was unable to resist, because at the end of the gig (after ‘chic’ly freaking my little heart out…in retrospect a mere ten feet away from The BryanGod) I turned around and saw, across a very empty balcony, Mr Bryan Ferry.
I’m afraid my knees rather went to jelly and I nearly fell over on the spot. But Charley was very strong and brave in the face of me going to pieces, and went over to ask for his autograph. Seeing that he was in a rather fabulously good mood, Senti gently pushed me over to do the same. I feel like I probably rather embarrassed myself, but hopefully not as much as it seemed at the time. I think the consensus afterwards was that BryanGod looked a bit sweetly concerned about LizFangirl, who was getting very flustered in the presence of those eyes.
You never know who is going to make you go wibbly, but I should have guessed that BryanGod would be the one.
I have just been musing over on Twitter (yes, I succumbed…) about how, in this job, one never really feels able to have a proper break. Even when torn from the bosom of the broadband connection and thrown into the beautiful countryside, there’s always that niggling niggle at the back of your head. Have five people bought the same thing? Does someone (heaven forbid!) not like their frock? Will everyone forget about me in the space of a week?
I’ve been quiet the last week or so, but not because I’ve been on holiday. No, I’ve been doing costume work interspersed with my usual vintage-ing. So no blogging, alas. It’s the first thing to suffer, but I promise you not for much longer.
I am, however, on holiday as of this evening. Nothing particularly exotic, unless the Norfolk Broads are considered exotic by anyone (I can’t imagine it, somehow), but a break nonetheless.
So I’ve tried to tie up all loose ends before leaving, but I thought I ought to come here and apologise in advance about any unanswered emails….and obviously I will be unable to perform post office duties until Monday the 14th. Coincidentally, this is the day before the Marit Allen collection is sold by Kerry Taylor in London.
I had the pleasure of meeting Marit once, and I do find it a shame that her incredible collection is being split up. However, it’s also an amazing opportunity for people to acquire some pretty damn incredible examples of John Bates’s work from the mid-Sixties.
And on top of that, there’s a Teddy Bear print Zandra/Sylvia blouse. Rare as you could hope for. Go, buy!!
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.
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!!!
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.
Liz Eggleston 