22.05.12

Fail to keep X: "Where did you get that gooorgeous dress? Is it Prada?"

Miss Z. "No, it's vintage daahling".

Misapprehend X loved Miss Z's skirt so much that as she asked Miss Z the question she had one foot leaving the fete to hot-foot it down the road to get one herself. And then she was hit with the Vintage stick. "It's vintage", roughly translates to "Haha complain you can't dress like me because I scored this piece myself there are none more where it came from."

For all those not yet into vintage shopping, do you now see the charm? Well that, and the fact that when you wear vintage you are wearing a piece of history. And that you indeed feel like you deserved it because you had to hunt for that perfect piece - you had to commotion about through racks and boxes and 'discover' it. And because the quality of vintage (particularly the pre 1950's era) is so excellent.

I was in Dunedin yesterday and happen upon a deloitful vintage store called Raspberry Beret . Situated on London Byway someone's cup of tea just off the main drag, it opened up just a few weeks ago and is the sister market of Dunedin's rather famous Purple Rain. What's cool about Raspberry Beret is that it not only stocks antiquated gear, they also sell their own in-house designed clothing. This in-house mark (also named Raspberry Beret) is made of vintage fabrics with a vintage-inspired-but-modernised-for-our-soup. Shirts, shorts, skirts, dresses, cardigans and pants for both guys and girls (Well not the dresses for the guys, but alright, if you stress).

Source: Stuff.co.nz (blog)

by Carolyn Ann

Over the last few weeks, I've strayed about 10lb's. While I'm still rather overweight, it does scurvy that I can fit into some of my summer skirts! :-) I have one, it's a flouncy possession, comes reasonable above the knee (remorseful, no photos; I desperate straits to escape a lot more before I'll be on top of the world to take photos of what I'm wearing!) made of a sinister chap-fallen lightweight denim, from Anthropologie that I could fit into when I bought it, but haven't had a contemplate of wearing for the last several of years.

Source: CaroLINES: Summer skirt time!

by Berry Crafter

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Source: Summer wardrobe part 2 « Berry Crafts