For the love of Enid
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For girls who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, bags designed by Enid Collins were the ‘must-have’ item. Everyone who had the means would rush out to acquire one of these lovely handbags. Mothers preferred the bucket bag style, while the younger set inevitably went for the popular box bag.
The quirky, brightly-coloured designs were attention-getting, and with good reason. With their shiny rhinestones and catchy design names, they are just as popular today as they were when newly created. The distinctive motifs of Enid’s bags are certain to enhance any vintage (or vintage-inspired) wardrobe.
For more on Enid’s work, check out this website HERE
Or try this one HERE
Vintage cheesecake
Why buy vintage clothing?
Open publication – Free publishing
The new Blind Lemon Vintage website.
After much debating of what it should look like and what i wanted it to do, here it is….
The new website, powered by wordpress. (steep learning curve!)
It’s cleaner, easier to use and much more social.
You can add your own comments about each Fair, let stallholders know what you want them to bring, and much more.
You can buy tickets from the shop.
There are new RAC route planner widgets to make the Fairs easy to find.
Add your own photos of you in vintage garb.
Share interesting posts via social networks.
Please let me know what you think!
Edwin x
Lodekka vintage shop (on a bus)
Check this blog out!
It’s from a vintage shop that’s situated on a bus! In Portland, Oregon, USA.
What a wicked business idea, am so tempted to start looking for a vintage bus to buy!
Edwin x
Hungerford Vintage Fashion Fair
A new event for August 2011!The first ever Hungerford Vintage Fashion Fair comes to town on Saturday 20th August at the Town Hall. There will be up to 20 stalls with the usual Blind Lemon standard and attention to detail. There’ll be menswear, womenswear, accessories and jewellery, all vintage and all pukka.
For more info on what Blind Lemon do please click through to the website; http://www.blindlemonvintage.co.uk to find out more.
Edwin x
Tommy Nutter exhibition
What a reason to visit the Fashion and Textile Museum in London! 20th May to 22 October 2011
There’s an exhibition on the work and life of Tommy Nutter, the legendary Savile Row tailor.
Tommy opened up his shop and business in 1969 along with master cutter, Edward Sexton. before too long the shop was patronised by rock stars and aristocrats all looking to get a piece of bespoke tailoring Nutter style. This exhibition looks at a range of suits that are placed alongside social contexts to enable you to see the impact this man had on the staid (at the time) Savile Row establishment.
There are also workshops and talks. Check out the Fashion and Textile Museum’s website JUST HERE.
Oxford Bags baby!
I found this article online about Oxford Bags last year, it’s from fashionencyclopedia.com
Young people attempted to set themselves apart from their elders and establish their own fashion styles in the 1920s, a trend that continues into the twenty-first century. In 1924 at Oxford University in Great Britain, a small group of male students began wearing trousers that never would have been worn by their fathers.
These pants were loosely fitted and featured extremely wide legs; at their knees and cuffs they measured between twenty-two and forty inches wide. They came to be known as Oxford Bags, named for their excessively baggy appearance and the institution of higher learning from which they originated.
Personal thoughts on charity shops selling vintage
I like charity shops, they raise vital funds for research, palliative care and more
I like charities. They provide much needed services that the public sector can’t or won’t.
I love vintage. It’s green, makes you look unique and I make some money from it.
Just to set the scene I thought I’d write the above.
What I’m not so keen on is charity shops pretending that they’re vintage shops by jumping on the selling vintage bandwagon. I was in rePsycho on Gloucester Road the other week talking to the very elegant and glamorous Diane and checking out the latest offerings from Tim and Andy.
Diane was telling me how a newly opened charity shop just up the road had been slagging vintage shops off by stating that they were cheaper. This irked me as well.
There are some very good reasons why there is a price difference between charity shops selling vintage and vintage shops.
Charity shops pay reduced rents and business rates.
Charity shops are staffed by volunteers.
Charity shops don’t have to pay for their stock.
Vintage shops pay commercial rates and rent, have to pay for staff and have to pay for their stock.
Plus vintage shops are staffed by people who know what they’re talking about in terms of designers, era’s, how to care for vintage pieces and much more. We know what we’re talking about. Charity shops won’t get that much vintage given to them either.
So there I was; a little cross with charity shops whilst being aware that they do such good work and have to raise funds.
Hmmmm.