One of my favourite fifties dresses (from a great grandma- who else?), I felt like a massive walking flower in this ensemble! Taken in a local arboretum by the wonderful flo.
Lots of pieces of clothing stolen from my mum! The beautiful green dress was one she bought from Beyond Retro, and the jacket was a vintage one of hers. Oh, and the boots were hers too! Sadly now too small for me. Taken in a field on a hill above my house.
My paternal grandmother's much lusted after Balenciaga dress! As I said before, it still amazes me when you look at the detail- it's obvious how much time and effort was put into making the garment. Taken in my grandma's flat, complete with original vintage decor!
The second part of a homage to Ophelia in a raw silk ball gown. Looking back at the summery photos in particular makes me wish for the days when I can tread outside without 5 layers on.
A beautiful red satin evening coat given to me by my paternal grandma shot among the trees of a nearby place. I love the vibrant colour of the coat, that very opulent shade of red.
A DIY Jaeger dress with wellies surrounded by Welsh scenery. I hacked the hem off the dress to tie around the neck in a bow. As many of you will know, I have somewhat of a penchant for Jaeger! (I bought another piece yesterday too, oh dear, the obsession continues..)
A wool tartan skirt rescued from being thrown out, used as a dress. The leather jacket was an Escada one found in a charity shop. The boots- my mum's. Taken on the road behind our house, resplendant with autumn leaves.
I know I still posted this quite recently, but is definitely one of my favourite shoots ever! I adore this striped taffeta skirt, and added my mum's little black cardigan. Thrifted Italian made shoes.
Sorry, for some reason this one won't show at full size, but I still wanted to include it! A tea dress from brick lane and a Jaeger blazer from ebay. (For £5! I bought it months ago and I'm still proud of this bargain.)
This was included on one of my very early posts. Last easter I did a shoot for a local vintage shop called Berties. This exquisite fifties house coat was by far one of my favourite pieces- I have now been searching in vain for a similiar one since. The shoes are also vintage.
Happy new year everyone! I hope you've enjoyed 2009, and are looking forward to 2010.
The past year has certainly been pretty eventful for me. I started my blog back in June, what a long time ago that feels like now! I'd just like to say a massive thank you to everyone who has read, commented and followed my blog in the past six months- I really appreciate it!
I thought I'd start off the new year by choosing my ten favourite photos from 2009 to show you all here. (Ten because it is 2010, although I have to admit it would have been much easier if it was 2015 or something!) They range from the very beginning right up until december. Looking through the photos made me think about how my style has evolved, probably partly due to having this blog!
Back to school for me on tuesday, meaning I'll be a lot busier (especially having maths and science exams coming up) but I'm going to try my hardest to keep up with my blog.
We were predicted to have some of the heaviest snowfall in the country today. What did we get instead? Drizzle! I really want some proper snow to materialise, even if just for a day. Oh well.
As I mentioned in the last post, most of our house has been redecorated. This is the door at the bottom of the loft. I thought it would contrast nicely with the bold red of the skirt.
The red pencil skirt is one I made over the summer at a pattern cutting workshop, and the material is a raw silk. I love the vibrant colour! Unfortunately it's rather tight, meaning you have to stand around in it rather than doing anything active. The blouse used to be my maternal great-grandmother's. I think I featured it on this blog a very long time ago, as I wore it to a test shoot last easter. I love the flower detail on the cuffs and neckline. The white brogues were from ebay and I love them to bits! Having said that, wearing them all day to travel on the train to the Clothes Show (a fashion event in the nearest city- which is still pretty far!) and back did take its toll on my feet. The socks were for christmas. The two gold watches are vintage ones. I love little dainty watches like these, even if they've stopped! The blue belt is thrifted and the red hat is a family inherited one. The owl pendant is one of my favourite necklaces, a kind of lucky charm I suppose. And I've had quite a lot of luck wearing it!
The flowery vintage tin sits on my dressing table and is usually filled with with all sorts of oddities and various bits and pieces.
It was fascinating to hear all of your views on the retouching and editing debate on the last post. It really made me think about all the opportunities we have now in this digital age, but I have to admit that I am probably still very traditional at heart. Like vintage fashion, I love looking at all the old photos taken by the greats such as Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn, Norman Parkinson etc.
In fact I was looking again today at a book done by a photographer friend of ours, Clive. He produced an exquisite book called 'Covent Garden. The fruit, vegetable and flower markets.' It is full of photos taken in the sixties and seventies of Covent Garden market. I really recommend it to anyone who's interested in photography of the old London- the portraits of workers and pictures of the market deserted in the early morning are so breathtakingly beautiful. Anyway, here is what he said:
"I would have three cameras around my neck, and I became adept at instantly changing from one to another- wide angle or telephoto, then back to 80mm, depending on how I wanted to frame the picture, for I always got the picture I wanted framed in the camera- I never cropped any picture in the dark room or on the lightbox."
This made me think about that real craft of planning and setting up an image, and without the security we now have of knowing that we can change or alter the photo if it isn't perfect. And every image on that roll of film had to count, you couldn't go back to edit what you had on the camera and delete the unsuccessful images. I really want to explore using film cameras, and really wish I had access to a dark room!
I'm off on holiday to see friends for a few days now, so a very happy new year to all of you! See you all in 2010.
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