50 Years of Everyday Fashion

This weekend we were idly looking at the magazines in the local shop, when Paul said, “I can’t believe you haven’t picked up this!”
“This” turned out to be a magazine by Yours (the best-selling lifestyle magazine for the fifty-plus woman, apparently), called, “50 Years of Everyday Fashion: How the Women of Britain Created Glamour and [...]

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Four vintage patterns…

Look at what my Mum found, when she was clearing out some things from my Grandma’s house!
None of the envelopes have dates on them, but the style of the illustrations and the style of the clothes suggests late 1950s/early 1960s.
Even better – they’re in a size which I can modify to actually fit me! They’re [...]

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The Way We Wore.

I’m reading the most fantastic book at the moment – The Way We Wore, by Robert Elms. It’s about one man, and the importance of his clothes as he grows up. It’s a social history, and a sartorial autobiography.
Robert Elms is half a generation older than me, so some of the earlier parts of the [...]

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Rest In Peace, Isabella Blow.

Isabella Blow died on May 8th 2007, from ovarian cancer. She was only 48.
It is rumoured that she took her own life.
She was Philip Treacy’s muse and mentor, and is credited with beginning and supporting the careers of Sophie Dahl and Alexander McQueen.
Blow dressed in a way which suggested that she was never afraid of [...]

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