Vintage repairs

A few weeks back I took a few of my dresses that needed repairs to the wonderful Nanna Sandom aka Splendid stitches. I left 6 of my dresses with her, and what can I say? She did a WONDERFUL job. I wish I had taken pics of the dresses before so that you can see what I had done, but these are just a few of them dresses I had fixed.

Now, I have a bit of a thing with altering vintage. I will only ever alter things that have been altered previously, and this was the case with all of these garments. If a piece is in really superb original condition I don’t like to do it as I feel that it “alters” the history of the garment.

This is my infamous giraffe print Horrockses. The back of the dress had been altered at some point and was incredibly messy. Look how great it looks now! I think I’ll be wearing this at Epsom festival of vintage…it should make me pretty easy to find.

This one had a new zip put in it. I think I bought this about 4 years ago and hadn’t got round to putting the zip in. I’m so happy to have this back in my wearing collection…I’m wearing this one tomorrow night so I’ll share pics of this properly on tuesday!

And this STUNNING Rhona Roy dress is one of my best recent purchases. This had been previously taken out, so I had it taken back in to fit me better around the bust.

If you need your vintage repaired visit splendid stitches website.

Festival of Vintage: Epsom

I am SUPER excited to let everyone know about a little something i am getting invloved with in September, that is the festival of vintage in Epsom!

This will be an excellent opportunity for anyone in Surrey or London to come and view a large amount from my collection ( i promise to bring as much as I can), and this will be a great chance for me to answer any of your burning Horrockses or other vintage related questions.

A selection of the items coming along with me:

If the festival of vintage in York is anything to go by this event will be FANTASTIC. Filled with lots of brilliant demos, stall holders and opportunites for vintage makeovers.

The event takes place on 23rd September at Epsom Racecourse, Surrey. Tickets for the festival are just £7.50, and I hope to see you there!

Find out more about the festival here

Sixties and Seventies treats on ebay!

Hello Lovely blog readers!!!

Just wanted to share with you some of the TREATS listed this week.

This week I’ve put the focus on the 60s and 70s (a few little 80s numbers have sneaked in too). If you love maxi dresses, rouleau loops and bold patterns you are bound to find something you love, and not only that there are items in a real range of sizes.

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Clothes by Samuel Sherman maxi

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