Category Archives: advantage in vintage

Advantage In Vintage hits Southampton

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As many who know me and read my blog realise I have a HUGE collection of vintage clothing. I’ve been selling my vintage on ebay for over 3 years (mostly jewellery and accessories) although. now I am branching out further. Now you can see my vintage in REAL LIFE!





Yesterday I embarked on a new collaboration with the Vintage Hair Lounge in Southampton. Their windows now contain some of my lovely vintage pieces and best of all, everything you see is for sale! I’m so excited about this new collaboration as the Vintage Hair Lounge is an amazing place and they do fabulous hair and make up (I’m going there to have my hair and make up done for my 21st).

The vintage hair lounge website can be found here: http://www.vintagehairlounge.com/

They will be doing hair demo’s next week at the West Quay vintage fair. I highly recommend anyone in the Southampton area pops along. More details about the fayre can be found here:

http://www.west-quay.co.uk/Website/Event.ashx?ParentSectionId=d920ffc5-e61f-4fb6-8776-187867b184e2&ContentInstanceId=ad57e5cd-710f-4fa3-9012-5b7459908a50

I will be regularly updating the windows so keep a check on my blog to see what I have put in the windows next! Also, If anyone would like any more details of the items I have for sale in the windows please do feel free to contact me.

The importance of a petticoat

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I was taking some pictures of a few of my loveeeely vintage pieces on Friday and was trying to make my pieces look as “right” as possible. I have always been an advocate of the petticoat, but i think these really prove just how AMAZING 50’s dresses look with petticoats.

As of yesterday i also FINALLY have a petticoat that actually fits me and is the right length. Thanks to Dead man’s glory- Portsmouth (bought from their ebay). The petticoats used on my mannequin are actually too big for me, which is a problem i repeatedly have. One size fits all is simply not the case when you are a size 6. One of them said it was suitable for a 20 inch waist upwards, i normally wear a 23-24inch waist and it literally FELL down me. grrr. Annoying ebay. Anyway rant over, this really was just an excuse to show off some lovely pictures.

All three dresses are from my ever growing Horrockses collection

Vintage obsessions: Alice Edwards

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I THINK after Horrockses this may well be my next favourite label. I am yet to find an Alice Edwards dress that I don’t like! It appears that in the 50s there were at least two lines produced. Some of the dresses are labelled “An Alice Edward’s Italian”. This seemed to be the day wear range and often features beautiful floral dresses in glazed cottons. This is one of my own dresses;





The other range in the 50’s was the “Alice Edward’s goes places” label which seemed to be the more formal line with evening dresses and cocktail dresses too. This example comes from the Hampshire museum service collection. It is a red synthetic fabric with lurex threads woven into it. Very stylish! This dress date from between approximately 1955-59.
HMCMS:BWM1967.624


Into the 1960s the Alice Edwards line seemed to produce dresses simply with the Alice Edwards simple label in. This is another example from the Hampshire museum service collection. It dates to c.1965
HMCMS:C1984.122

The earliest advertisements for Alice Edwards that I have found date to 1955. These adverts seem to suggest it to be a “new” line. So potentially this is when it started.

Alice Edwards dresses seem to command some pretty high prices (i’ve seen them at over £300 on a few occasions) although it is a label i can not find ANYTHING about. If anyone has any more info i would love love love to know.