Totes unexpected, our Leeds Fair made the pages of one of our fave glossies – GRAZIA! Labeled, the best place to ‘bag a bargain,’ we’ll be back in Spetember so watch this space!
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MADchester
Manchester Manchester Manchester. How you have stumped us. Like Goldielocks, we’ve hopped around venue after venue – too small, too dark, too many traffic wardens – just looking for that fairy tale setting to call home.
Setting up shop at the HMV Ritz, we’ve found a happy ending! With over 800 shoppers, coming across for the day, we LOVED it!
DJs, balloons, sale rails and traders galore, here’s our fave photo of the classic Ritz Ballroom in full swing…
WHAT A DAY! Manchester, we’ll be back in the Autumn for more fun and games. Until then, we bid you adieu.
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If Kanye and Jay-Z took tea…
…we like to think that they would use these, brought along by Retrovert to our Cambridge Fair. Spot of afternoon G anyone? [get it? get it??]
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BLOW-M-G
The 007 of the hairdressing world, we loved this shot of Miss Dixiebelle, bringing her skills to our Edinburgh fair at the HMV Picture House! License to thrill? YES PLEASE!
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Bethnal Green [in 3D]
Evening vintage fans!
Now, you may have missed the memo, and in case you did…
That’s right folks, the MOTHER of all East-end vintage events is back on the scene from Sunday 27th May! To celebrate said homecoming, we wanted to go the extra mile every which way possible; with a whole host of things on offer, instead of b-o-r-ing you with words, we’re letting our new fler do the talking [it’s late on a Thursday so sue me for bad blogging!]
No appropriate phrase springs to mind, so we’ll settle for ohmygoditsfrikkinamazinglookatherpigtails – ithinkimgoingtopassoutitssogood! [roughly translated as s’good!]
We can’t wait to be back, the girls on the flyer can’t wait to be back, heck even the balloon is counting down the days! For more information on what we’re up to, click here.
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Rock ‘n’ Rolla
Rocking chairs – they bring out a funny indecision in me. Back and forth i go between cool liberation [take THAT gravity!] and horrible imagery of B-movies [and the ravages of old age!]
That said, we all <3 this danish rocker from CHESTER’S AFFORDABLE VINTAGE FAIR last weekend. Perhaps it’s the shape [or the jazzy fabric] but we can’t wait to give it a spin!
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Spitalfields Supreme
Hello all!
In the spirit of TRUE vintage blogging, we’re harking back to APRIL 2012 in a bid to catch-up with what we’ve missed [FYI: hiding under your bed with old Vogues and merlot won’t result in any task doing itself- no blogging elves or self-typing laptop ever saves the day!]
Let us paint a picture for you…the year was, well, this year. The weather was… concrete at best. The destination was a bustling east-London market that we’re learning to call our own. Enter a petite young thing fresh out of wartime and forties from head to toe. She was Naomi. We said hello. Our story started here.
The market was of course that of Old Spitalfields which we have been occupying since it’s Saturday doors yawned open last year. Our heroine [for all plugged-in to the ever growing vintage scene] is stylist, savant [and all-round good egg] Naomi Thompson [aka Vintage Secret, the UK’s leading vintage stylist]
The meeting? Not one of chance. With Naomi jetting off every other day for book tours [her is very good by the way!] styling and general vintage whimsy, fitting into her schedule is like trying to capture a hurricane with bare hands only.
Cigarette in hand, Naomi had kindly taken some down time to help us out; indulging in our own twisted take on the Olympics [none of the running and all of the praise!] Naomi was on hand to give out gold medals and goodie bags to our best-dressed guests . With one residual puff, into the market we strut to scan, award and glorify what wonderful street style east London had to offer.
The results? As you can imagine, the choice was a TOUGHIE! So diverse were the styles and eclectic the eras that Bill & Ted couldn’t even keep up!
Instead of waxing lyrical, we’ve picked out our favourite visuals for you to coo over…
Now, we fell head over heels for all of the outfits above but one shopper, in a pair of Jeffrey Campbells [that we almost mugged her for – damn you unsuitable getaway shoes!] knocked us for six in the style stakes…
And there we have it – another Saturday among the stalls! Only in it’s infancy, Spitalfields will be back on Saturday 7th July [we’re having June off to chin-chin the Queen and even have a GIN!] For more information on the fair, click here and to pay Naomi a visit, click here!
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Happy BANK HOLIDAY!
We thought we’d keep it brief as we deal with a back-log [back-BLOG] of things we need to post about [brace yourselves vintage fans, we’ve had caffeine AND listened to Prince – WIRED is the word!] Before we assault your senses with a deluge of catch-up posts, we thought we’d say…HAPPY BANK HOL-I-DAY!
‘Three-day weekend’ – are there no sweeter words? Whether you’re shopping, exploring, liquored-up or laying down, we hope you have a corker!
Draper on drapes…
Greetings vintage fans,
Ahead of this Saturday’s MASSIVE vintage fair at the Old Spitalfields Market, London, we’ve had a little dalliance with the national press – hooray!
Writing in Saturday’s Times, Mark Bridge wrote that “mid-century furniture and accessories have been coveted by design buffs for years, but recent appearances on the 1960s-set of Mad Men have hugely widened their appeal.” He then mentioned JUDY’S AT SPITALFIELDS as the place to get them!
With stalls like these, we’ll be going Draper on our drapes before you know it!
xVVx
A week on the street!
Greetings vintage fans!
It’s Friday – HOORAY! Before we head off to prepare for DURHAM, NORWICH & SOUTHAMPTON [you say prepare, we say drink gin – potato, pot-a-to] we thought we’d share with you a rather STYLISH week on the streets. Here’s who we’ve found…
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