Jubilee fashion(!), (belated)

This year has been a very patriotic one. I think everyone is feeling proud to be British what with the lovely Queens diamond jooby and the Olympics and the paralympics. Oh wait, i must express my confusion as to why the olympics was ended and opened so grandly and officially, what about the paralmpics? It better be getting as big, or a deserved bigger in my opinion set of ceremony's! I feel the devotion shown by the paralympians is unmatchable, i have so much respect and admiration for them. What a beautiful example they are setting, so powerful.

On the Queens jubilee, as a Royalist and lover of the Queen and all her family i attended a family jubilee BBQ and watched the ceremony on the telly beforehand... I decided to go for a patriotic 1950's sort of look -

 

^I am wearing a Henry Holland shirt (very loud I know!)^
 and a Matalan skirt, which after this event i must admit i took back to the shop...should i be admitting that? i just didn't feel confident in it! But it did do my outfit criteria justice on this occasion. And New Look vintage looking shoes, i loved these but with general wear and tear (and my clumsy rambles) the little heels are inverted! Bless them! I also had primark seamed tights on but alas you cannot see.

 

 

Hello

I'm a little out of my depth trying to make a blog, the site is confusing me and the amount of options leaving me slightly wary of what I'm doing. Anyway, this is my first post and so I should introduce myself and what I plan to do. I'm an English literature and Creative writing student with an interest in vintage fashion (especially 50s/60s) and music. So I intend to write about these things and other topical issues and personal (but publishable) dramas. Along my way I will be putting up vintage items i find for sale, as my cupboard is already bursting at the seams... (my clothes jump out to say hello when i open it). And as many say, waste not want not and all that.

The following video is a track by Muddy Waters called 'I can't be satisfied'. I thought I'd post it because I feel music was better and had more soul when it came from the heart and a working hand. Looks sell these days, artists don't have to be amazing singers or writers. I think it just shows what a plastic image focused world we live in. So make yourself a cuppa, peel your ears and listen to something from somewhere that counts.