First of all, Happy Spring to all of my fellow antipodeans! There are spring people, and there are autumn people. I am most certainly a spring person. Although summer and I have a love/hate relationship, the lovely spring that we do get makes up for the punishing summer ahead. A sight that you don’t see…
Clara Bow by Margarita Bloom
Makeup is such an important part of how we create our vintage looks, and yet it isn’t something I have talked about much on the blog. You might have noticed that I wear two lipstick shades exclusively; very dark red, and bold bright red. There are a few reasons I tend to gravitate towards these…
The Daisy dress by Gatsbylady London
One of my favorite things is having an occasion to dress up. Although the outfits that I generally wear are already what most people would consider to be ‘dressed up’, I really love evening wear because I feel that with evening wear I can take more liberties. I love to throw on a fabulous beaded dress…
The Phoenix
I have always loved the concept of the phoenix and what is stands for. According to Chinese mythology – The phoenix is the symbol of high virtue and grace, of power and prosperity. It represents the union of yin and yang. It was thought to be a gentle creature, alighting so gently that it crushed…
1920s Peasant Dress
Another white dress! What can I say, when I like a certain style I will buy the same dress in several variations because I can’t stop myself! I have always had this affinity for delicate, white, feminine dresses that I can’t figure out. Maybe it’s because I’ve seen The Virgin Suicides so many times that the…
Girls in White Dresses
With how pristine and fresh this dress looks, it may be hard to believe that this dress is in fact nearly a century old and not a reproduction. Hand made in the early 1920s, beautifully embroidered and extremely well cared for by it’s previous owner, this dress bears no sign of the decades that have…
Hell Bunny Lily Dress
This dress will look familiar to a lot of you as it is one I have already blogged before, however since I last blogged it I ended up having some alterations done to the hem to make it look more vintage. Originally this dress had a mullet hem so when I saw the alteration Lauren…
à la russe
The early 1920s saw Western fashion start to experiment with Eastern elements. With a large Russian population now living in Paris following the Bolshevik Revolution, major couturiers such as Chanel sought inspiration from the costumers of the Russian ballet and elements of traditional Russian dress suddenly became a part of mainstream fashion. As a result…
Peacock Flapper Coat
I bought this fabulous robe, or flapper coat – whichever you’d like to call it – in the middle of summer and so it has been a painful wait to finally be able to wear it. Apparently it’s autumn now, and indeed it has cooled down very slightly so that I can finally take this…
Queen of the Damned
Boardwalk Empire was my gateway drug to the 1920s but it was Underbelly Razor; an Australian television series, that really made me fall in love with the styles of the twenties. Although both of these shows are set in the same period, there is a stark contrast in the fashion the characters wear despite the…