Posts tagged as "vintage"

Posted by Jettica on 24th February 2010
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Esty finds for a cosy spring

I’m pretty cold right now. The weather is grey and foggy and it doesn’t look as if it is going to stop snowing even into spring. What I vow we all do is snuggle into handmade/vintage blankets, gloves, scarves and other warm things. I might even go into hibernation…

Sandy soft armwarmers by clfbyclairelafaye – $44 [...]

Posted by Jettica on 27th November 2009
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Christmas Outift

So, whilst perusing the Vivien of Holloway site for business reasons, they kindly reminded me that Christmas is only 27 days away. So rather than going off the site and deciding I need to buy Christmas presents I bought myself a stunning red dress!

I’ve already got one Vivien of Holloway dress, a black one with white [...]

Posted by Jettica on 6th October 2009
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Spotting Good Quality Garments

With the thrifting trip approaching and little knowledge of what I should be looking for I thought I’d do some research into spotting the good items. I could go into any thrift store and look for pieces whether they be vintage or not but I don’t want to find myself buying crap not matter how [...]

Posted by Jettica on 5th October 2009
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Purple Green Yellow

I love colour, the brighter the better and I have been known to wear a rainbow of mis matched colours. I don’t always feel the need to colour co-ordinate and today is one of those days. Today’s inspiration is warmth, my office is freezing so I need layers, big coats and scarves. Without a thought [...]

Posted by Jettica on 5th October 2009
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Thrifting: What I’m hoping / looking for

Designer Jewellery:
I always feel like people in charity shops don’t know what they are doing, they can’t tell the designer pieces from the crap. You hear stories of people picking up expensive vintage pieces for a couple of quid in charity shops. I don’t think this happens all too often and I think charity shops [...]

Posted by Jettica on 1st October 2009
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Thrifting

So, next weekend I intend to go ‘Thrifting.’ It’s an American term relating to shopping in Thrift stores. To us in the UK we’d say charity shop shopping but Thrifting is so much easier. So, I figured I needed a little plan.
Objectives -
Find clothes for customisation
- I love customising clothes, Gok Wan stylee but I’ve [...]