Hello All,
All that glitters… I feel like a magpie at the moment. Anything shiny or sparkly and I want it. I bought this kimono in a charity shop and even though it feels like I’m wearing a post-marathon foil blanket, I love it. Any excuse and I’ve thrown it on.
Kimono, Thrifted
Dress, H&M
Socks, Topshop
Shoes, KG Kurt Geiger
Necklace, ORVintage
Yours,
Whisty Xx
Hello All,
I hadn’t really thought about winter hats before I saw this vintage sheepskin one. I love the bond-girl look that you get with it. Cream jumpers are pretty big for A/W’11, I like the slightly puffed shoulders and extra long cuffs of this one. It makes it really feminine and unique.
The shorts are Chloé, they were originally trousers, but after getting a hole in one of the legs, I cut them into a pair of scalloped-edge shorts. Not that I would argue with Stella McCartney (who designed the Fall 2000 collection that the trousers were in), but I prefer them as shorts now.
Hat & Jumper, Once Removed Vintage
Shorts, Chloé
Boots, River Island
OR: I’m a blogger and I gots to get paid.
Hey All,
How the dickens are you? It’s been a while, but I have returned from an impromptu sabbatical that involved a little vintage expedition. he role of ‘blogger’ is very often used with a slash. As in, she’s a DJ / actress / blogger. More recently the trend of the slash list is more along the lines of she’s a vintage seller / blogger.
It makes sense really especially if the blogger in question is a vintage fan and has a pretty large stock of vintage pieces… You can see where I am going with this right? So yes Whsity has embarked on a teeny tiny vintage project with a company called Once Removed, ‘launching’ a range of vintage pieces, called Once Removed Vintage.
Here’s a few of the pieces on-line:
Suits
Vintage 80′s Thistle Print Suit
Maxi Dresses
Vintage 70′s Maxi Dress with Matching Cape
Vintage 70′s Tapestry Print Maxi Dress
Shirts & Skirts
Vintage 80′s Check Print, Roll Sleeve Top
Vintage 80′s ruffle-neck shirt & Vintage 80′s Leather Pencil Skirt
Vintage 70′s Paisley Jacket & Vintage 80′s Pleated Midi Skirt
Dresses
Vintage 80′s Denim ‘Rah-Rah’ Dress
Vintage 80′s ‘Laura Ashley’ Cocktail dress
Vintage 70′s Pink Secretary Dress
And a couple of pieces I may just have half-inched for my own wardrobe…
Vintage 80′s striped shirt & Vintage 80′s reworked pleated skirt
Vintage 80′s Leopard Print Blazer.
Yours,
Whisty Xx
‘Like’ the Facebook page HERE.
Shop the collection on Asos Marketplace HERE and Etsy HERE.
Hey All,
Yeah, whatevs, blah, blah Irish Blog Awards…
My love comes from fellow bloggers; as shown to me by Blau von T of Blaubushka, The Hostess Handbook and Cork Student News (CSN), and Laura Morley of Glamourous Glue. Both bloggers have included me in their fab blogs this week.
Firstly an interview with Blau for CSN…
Click above for larger image.
Secondly; “5 things I Can’t Live Without at the Moment” for Glamorous Glue.
Transcription:
Music- The Small Faces – Mod music and fine threads.. What more inspiration do I need… Oh wait, beautiful lyrics too.
Beauty- Jo Malone Tea Blends perfume – Namely Earl Grey and Cucumber, these fragrances are absolutely addictive; last summer I couldn’t get enough of their English Pear and Freesia cologne, it just reminds me of summer. (Image via beaut.ie)
Hey All.
It’s been a great week, blogging every day (or thereabouts). Some posts were more of a challenge than others, Thursday’s vintage post for example took a lot of time; I wanted to make sure I had as much information as possible. The last post of the week however, took no research, I just pulled on a pair of trousers – i.e. it’s a simple style post.
I finally succumbed to the wintry weather earlier this week and pulled out my winter coat. I was heading out for a walk and decided to go to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. I love that part of Dublin, it’s so old and historic and beautiful on once side. But I also love the other side of the N81 as well, around D8, with its cobbled streets and abandoned buildings.
I’m not usually one for 80′s style but when I saw this leopard-print (with a twist) shirt in Age Action, there is no way I could resist.
Coat, Only
Vintage shirt, Once Removed Vintage
Leather Tie, Vintage
Studded Leather Belt, Thrifted
Faux Leather Trousers, Bershka
Boots, KG bu Kurt Geiger
Bag, River Island
More photos and all outfit details at HerApparel.
Xx
Hey All,
I had a bit of an idea yesterday (Thursday) morning. On Monday, I wrote list of blogs I promised to post this week, and vintage one of them. I deliberately left the subject fairly ambiguous on purpose and what I propose is to create a list of as many Irish based vintage, boutiques / shops / on-line stores that I know of. Having everything all in one place will definitely help me out when I’m thinking of where to shop for something old and beautiful.
Firstly, it’s probably a good idea to determine what the term vintage means. If we go with the Wikipedia description, because I reckon it best represents my idea of what the term means, it states:
“Generally speaking, clothing which was produced before the 1920s is referred to as antique clothing and clothing from the 1920s to 1980s is considered vintage. Retro, short for retrospective, usually refers to clothing that imitates the style of a previous era”.
(NB: Anything newer than 80′s is second-hand clothing).
Hayworth Vintage – Arnotts Henry St. D1
Awear Vintage – Awear Henry St. D1
Wild Child Originals – 26 Drury St. D2
Eager Beaver – Crown Alley, Temple Bar, D2
Lucy’s Lounge – 11 Fownes st. Temple Bar, D2
Mercury Goes retrograde – 19c Drawbridge St. Cork
Dirty Fabulous – 21 Wicklow St. D2
The Goddess Room – Meridian Point, Greystones, Co. Wicklow
The Harlequin – 13 Castle Market, D2
Green with Envy – 302 Rathmines Rd Lower, Rathmines, D6
Om Diva – 21-22 Georges St. Arcade, Sth Great Georges St. D2
Jenny Vander – 50 Drury St. D2
Monto – Parnell St. D1
Flip – Fownes St. Temple Bar, D2
V for Vintage – 12, Crown Alley, D2
Swop Shop – Crow St, Bazaar, 7 Crow St. Temple Bar, D2
Horse & June – 22 Drury St. D2
9 Crow Street – 9 Crow St. Temple Bar, D2
Dublin Flea Market – The Co-op On Newmarket Sq. D8 – Last Sunday of every month
The Crafty Market – Shebeen Chic, Georges St. D2 – 1st & 3rd Sunday of every month
The Grand Social Ha’Penny Flea – The Grand Social 35 Lower Liffey St. D1 – Every Saturday 12-5
The Loft Market – Powerscourt Townhouse, Sth. Great Georges St. D2 – Every Friday – Sunday 12-6
The George Bernard Shaw Toe Jam – 11 / 12 Sth. Richmond St. D2 – Schedule Varies
Vintage Fairs Ireland – Locations Vary – Schedule Varies
These are the ones that I have spent the day remembering / researching and ‘liking’ on Facebook. (Most of these companies have pages).
If there are any that I have missed (and I’m certain there will be), please post links in the comments below and I shall add them to the list!
Xx
Hey All,
Happy Monday.
I’m not sure if it was because board games were boring; we had a bizarre sense of enjoyment or it was simply because we weren’t allowed to watch Grange Hill, but while my sister and I were growing up, our favourite game, by a million miles, was dressing up. We actually had a ‘dressing up box’ which was a big trunk filled with an amazing collection of my Gran’s old clothes, a lot of dodgy 70′s & 80′s stuff, random bridesmaids dresses and fancy dress costumes. Shoes, hats, bags, gloves, scarves, cravats, you name it, we had it in our dressing-up box.
I’m not sure if it’s because of the dressing-up box, but I still can’t resist the urge to try stuff on that will quite obviously serve no purpose in my day-to-day life. If you are a regular reader here, you’ll know that I like old clothes for a hundred reason’s (most of them pretty obvious). One particular reason I like it so much is because it causes a bit of a divide. Some people just don’t like it, they complain about the way it smells or that someone else has worn it, or that vintage shops are crowded and dark. The reasons go on, none of which I agree with of course.
If anyone says this to me in future however, rather than argue the point, I have the following sentence to use in retort:
“Go and visit Hayworth Vintage in Arnotts, and come back to me with those thoughts”.
I was talking to a friend of a friend who was wearing an amazing vintage fur coat last week. When I hinted gushed that I loved it, she told me about the concession in Arnotts. I was over the top excited to go and have a look around, so I did, last Friday and this is what I saw.
Wow.
So I tried a couple on. They were reduced from €180 to around €120.
This one was definitely my favourite, I felt like an extra in Cry Baby.
P.S. Hayworth Vintage are celebrating their 2nd birthday by offering a 10% discount for the month of October,
Xx
Hey All,
This week I’m mostly craving printed maxi skirts and dresses. 60′s / 70′s vintage printed, maxi skirts and dresses to be more precise. Since I’d noticed Wild Child vintage clothing had moved from Georges St. Arcade to Drury Street., I thought a bit of window shopping / dressing-up was in order.
The new shop, 26 Drury Street
Navy printed 70′s maxi dress
Mint-green embroidered 70′s maxi
Ground floor, a row of vintage cowboy boots, (sans cowboys unfortunately).
First floor, vintage frocks and furs
The basement, seriously Sweeney furniture.
I think I want to go to a party wearing the mint-green dress above. One where I get to sit in this chair and drink Babycham and brandy, while smoking cigarettes through a large, gold cigarette-holder.
Xx
Dear Readers,
You know how, at a certain age, you think you’ve pretty much heard all the interesting things you could possibly know about the place you grew up. Plus the smaller the town the younger you are when you’ve heard it all, because the less there is find out. We moved from London to a small town near Nottingham when I was a child. A verysmall town, and I think I had barely reached my teens before I thought I had heard all there was to hear about Castle Donington.
However last week I was chatting to my Mum and her bother about music in the 60′s and how they had both seen the Rolling Stones live in concert. (As well as an unbelievable amount of other bands, of course). Then came the revelation that not 5km from the house I grew up in was a beautiful country folly where this photograph was taken…
I grabbed my camera, a vintage 60′s dress and drove over there. The band photographs were used on promo posters for their 11th studio album, Beggars Banquet.
Since the ‘Stones left the building has been renovated and it looks as though someone mows the grass now too. I never really get very nostalgic, but walking through the gateway at Swarkestone Pavillion, I imagined it was a portal back to 1968, and that when I got through the other side I would find Mick Jagger, Brian Jones and Keith Richards sprawled on the grass.
Rolling Stones Pictures via: www.iorr.org.
One photograph from the shoot was also used on the back cover of the album Hot Rocks, 1964-71.
More photographs and outfit details at HerApparel.wordpress.com
Xx
I was on the Topshop blog, as we bloggers need to see what wonders are being posted about in the bloggosphere. Little Boots was a guest blogger for Topshop earlier this year style-hunting in Bristol and Nottingham. She posted this pic and I have fallen in love with this outfit. It’s a perfect mix of vintage floral and edgy rock chick.
It’s a perfect outfit for trudging around the vintage markets in Dublin this weekend! Thank you Little Boots and cool Nottingham chica!
Clockwise from top left: Gold Chunky Chain Necklace £10 and Mid Acid Cut And Sew Waistcoat £55 both Miss Selfridge; Grey jersey lace up pumps £12 Dorothy Perkins; Secret Garden Bodycon Dress £30 Topshop,
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