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.
Today I’m bringing back one of my favourite Horrockses for yet ANOTHER blog post, this is because I’ve had some rather exciting extra information on it… and an extra part added to it.
This is the Horrockses in question, which i was wearing in the latest issue of Vintage Explorer magazine.
Now, shortly after I posted about this dress in May a lovely lady got in contact with me and offered to sell me the MATCHING SHAWL, of course, I couldn’t turn down an opportunity like that, as it made it a complete outfit. Like the dress this was also in perfect condition.
This dress was not only special to me because of the stunning fit, but also because it was one of the dresses used for the Horrockses bed linen collection.
You can read the full details of the dress in this blog post:
http://queen-tree.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/my-new-horrockses-dress.html
At the time i assumed that the dress dated between 1955 and 1958, and was very happy to find out that my dating was infact BANG ON correct. The lovely Tessa Richards of Rainbow Valley Vintage tweeted me a picture of MY dress as featured in Vanity fair in May 1958.
I love it when a tale about a vintage dress all comes together!
Yesterday my Ma and I took a trip to Salisbury and came away with some vintage TREATS. In posts such as these I normally like to save the best purchase till last, but I am SO excited about this one that I have to share the best one first!!!
Here is my stunning new Horrockses that I picked up. This little number dates to the mid fifties roughly and the complicated cut suggests to me that it is a John Tullis design. What is interesting is that the dress has two labels. Its normal Horrockses label and also a store label “Maison Tesink” Fred H. Laan Den Haag”. I looked up the store and found this was in existence from 1956 in the Hague- Holland. (I don’t speak Dutch so this is what my hopeful vague translation is suggesting!). The reason why I was so intrigued is that normally Horrockses dresses purchased abroad would have had a different export label, but this has the label found in the UK.
The dress, even better, was picked up for a mere £50. Which for any dress this beautiful is reasonable- but for a Horrockses I thought was a great price.
The shoes I am wearing with it are a pair of 1950s Rayne stillettos that i found in a Lymmington charity shop around a month ago for £4.
These are my other purchases too.
And these are my mum’s purchases. I think you could say we are a mother and daughter pair who love our vintage!
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