Kids are great. I have twelve nephews and nieces! I babysat my entire teenage life. Such fun!! Lots of music and choreography and dancing and dressing up. Sometimes I think GEEZ I wouldn’t mind one of my own to dress up if it meant some vintage Osh Kosh B’Gosh:
Lucky for me I have my very own adult size pair of OSH KOSH (ticking!!!!!!) winging its way to me by Royal Mail RIGHT NOW!!
The shoe is confused and la donna e mobile. These are victoriana cum workboot cum golf shoe cum cowboy boot are available at The Urban Collection.
I love a victorian style boot with black stockings and white cotton on top , but these are a step beyond. Are they the greatest boots ever or just plain crazy?
I hope to win this 1940s wool and knit myself some over-the-knee socks from a pattern I found in a junk shop a few years ago, but that has languished in a box since… or a vest with an accent colour at the neck and hem, or perhaps that old standby of a large moss-stitch scarf.
Wish me luck!
Ebay is awash with Comme for H&M - how many of those things did they produce for God’s sake!! I lost interest immediately. Consoling myself with trawling the ever-reliable Regan for alternatives.
Jodphurs in the softest moleskine, breeches in gabardine. And paisley lederhosen?? Oh yeah….
Dream and awake sell vintage dresses through their gallery and online shop.
The BBC’s six-parter British Style Genius began on Monday night with an episode focusing on the phenomenon known as the “British High Street”.
Joy-sapping moments included a Topshop production person delighting at how they had cost-effectively replicated a pretty vintage thirties fringed shrug for Kate’s range, thus stripping it of everything that had made it special, and Phillip Green, Katie England and Kate Moss in a highly staged production meeting at Topshop HQ. “Two-fowsend??” squeals Kate over the sales units. The genius on the high street is making money.
The director and execs must have been kicking themselves over the pay-off - Phillip Green boasting that they were going to “take on” New York, when in reality the opening date for Topshop in Soho just keeps on moving backwards… ouch!
The other five programmes are looking up though, with themes of tailoring, rebels, country (hooray and pass the gin!!) and the ’street’.
