More vintage accessories!

A lovely vintage handbag from the 1960s and a beautiful 1980s vintage belt.

I found them in South London this year. The bag is in very good nick and is a nice size, big enough to be useful (measurements are on the listing.) The belt is brilliant and if it was bigger, I'd be keeping it!

And here's a link to my other stock, more is being transferred from Etsy this week, as part of the ongoing Etsy/eBay.

New stock: Vintage headband 80s velvet

boy und schwester vintage brings you this fab vintage velvet 80s headband. You can't help but love it! It makes me smile every time I see it. And, it's only $10/£5. What more could you ask? :)

Available on boy und schwester's etsy shop here. And don't forget to check out our other stock! :)

Vintage gold leather frame handbag with matching mirror and purse

More new stock! Wow, I'm on fire this week! :)

Lovely vintage evening handbag in soft gold leather. It has a matching coin purse and a mirror, which is original.
On sale now for $18! Bargainaous! Click here to buy it.

New stock! Beautiful 80s belt

New stock! Finally!

A small string of accessories will be put up over the next week and here's the first item, a lovely 80s belt. It's navy and beautiful. I wish it fitted me, but it's too small :( I hope someone out there fits it and can enjoy it! A bargain at $18.
Look at it here and the rest of it my shop here!

Vintage fashion

As you may have noticed from my posting, while I proclaim a love for vintage clothing, I don't wear vast amounts of it on a day-to-day basis. Most of the time it's just vintage jewellery or vintage accessories.

There are number of reasons for this.

1. I'm not into rockabilly or anything similar and don't like feeling as if I am an extra in a period film.

2. I don't have the lifestyle requirements to wear my favourite vintage dresses, which are all smart and tailored. I walk to work and can wear jeans. If I tottered about every day in heels and a wiggle skirt, I'd look stupid.

3. I like to look modern and fresh at the same time as wearing vintage clothing. Here's a perfect example of what I mean:

Photo from the Style Scout.

This girl's complete outfit is vintage. Yup, even the trousers. Yet because she's combined up-to-date colours (the pink is very this season) with an interesting variety of silhouettes, she looks incredibly modern. An inspiration to us all, especially if we want to wear vintage clothing but not look like we're about to take our pinny off to freshen up before our hard-working husband's get home from a long day at the office.

Having said that, I do wear older vintage clothing but it does tend to be saved for more special occasions. I'll post pictures separately.

Blogs of interest: The Fashion Forecast

Another blog I'm enjoying is The Fashion Forecast by Hanna Heichler (the address is actually hannaheichler.blogspot.com.)

It's a fun fashion blog with lots of news and updates. Chanel's Particulière nail varnish? It's back in Selfridges! It's on Fashion Forecast and there's even Selfridges telephone number on there to help you get it!

Another great story is that Erin O'Conner is the new face of Hovis. Yup, the face of a loaf of bread. Actually, more truthfully, Hovis are supporting a sandwich designed to feed models healthly over fashion week at The Model Sanctury, which Erin set up. The full story's here. She also recommended Miss Kitty Litter Vintage, which I will second, for it's thoroughly awesome name!!! It's got a nice selection of vintage and is in it's early days so have a look and support it. I love this brooch - such a shame it's gone! It was perfect too - really big, about 12cm long. I would have loved wearing it.

Keeping warm with a vintage vibe!

Oooh, it feels so different writing this knowing that even a very few people might read it! Say hello and tell me what you think :D

I thought I'd have a little 'show and tell' session about what I've been wearing over the past few weeks as it's been so bitterly cold. I do find it really hard to look like I'm wearing something interesting when it's bundled up under a coat! Have you tried looking cool trudging through the snow in wellies or walking boots?! I have no idea how all these people photographed in places like Stockholm go about with so few clothes on. Now I sound like my mum.

I love this outfit and I never thought I'd say that about any outfit that involves a parka!

Ancient wellies, H&M socks, M&S tights, Massimo Dutti shorts, Zara shirt, Gap parka and vintage jewellery.


I love this outfit so much! This hat makes anything cool. I picked up the shirt at a market in Glasgow last time I was there. Poser? Me? Nooooo!
Massimo Dutti shorts, M&S boots (from their first ever Limited Collection), Accesorize broach, Max Mara hat, my great-uncle Paul's ring and vintage shirt from Glasgow.


I love wearing trench coats, I'm just getting into them. I like wearing so it looks like you've got nothing on underneath except, perhaps, some hot underwear. Obviously here I'm wearing more.
Massimo Dutti trench and shorts, Accessorize outlet top, Oasis cardigan, my boss's old James Smith & Sons umbrella (they're awesome, check them out!), a lizard skin Mapin & Webb vintage handbag, my dad's old Burberry cap and my mum's old Liberty print scarf. And my super attractive walking boots. When you walk to work in the snow, they are a necessity.


So, the slight theme in what I'm wearing at the moment is looking like a member of the Bloomsbury set - I'm going for happy Virgina Woolf. Can you tell?
Shoes LK Bennett, trousers charity shop that I altered, belt Max Mara, shirt Zara, coat with fur collar detached Episode, 1920s necklace from my mum and locket was a present I got when I was born. Oh, and the ring is my great-uncle Paul's again.

Hope you enjoy! What are you wearing at the moment? I want to do features on friends and readers so do email to tell me!

Fashion timing

Remember I posted about the fashion quandry I was in thanks to having to sport a backpack for my German lessons?

Well, look what was in Vogue's Spring/Summer 2010 runway report as the accessory of the season. Backpacks. Yup, you guessed.

That's me, always ahead of the fashion trends. And interpretting them in a vintage fashion way with my classic vintage Jansport. Is mid-1990s old enough to be retro vintage though? I hope so!

Although I fancy a bit of the Ashish paint splatter back pack. Maybe I could do a home project with tipex for geek-chic?