A Week in Clothes

Hello! Has it really been a week since I last posted? I'm not sure where the time's gone. 

On Saturday, for picking up and posting Vinted parcels, I wore a 1960s trippy cheongsam dress usually reserved for festivals. 

On Sunday we met up with Liz & Al at The Light, Walsall's independent cinema to see Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. Prior to the screening there was a message broadcast from Cillian Murphy reminding viewers that as the film wasn't due to be aired on Netflix for a fortnight not to share any spoilers on social media ....so I won't. All I can say is it was utterly spectacular and it was a thrill seeing so many familiar parts of Birmingham on the big screen. The soundtrack, the cinematography, the clothes, the storyline and the acting were superb.

I wore the same outfit as I wore when I went to The Peaky Blinders Festival with Claire back in September, 2019 - a vintage Janet Wood for Monsoon Afghan dress and a 1920s silk kimono. 

I wore the same outfit as I wore when I went to The Peaky Blinders Legitimate Festival with Claire back in September, 2019 (HERE) - a vintage Janet Wood for Monsoon Afghan dress and a 1920s silk kimono. 

Needless to say, we couldn't resist posing with Tommy Shelby in the cinema foyer before stuffing oyr faces with artisan pizza and pale ale. 

On Monday we went swimming, had breakfast in Spoons and a look around the chazzas. I wore the silk velvet Laura Ashley maxi skirt I bought from the Sue Ryder clearance shop for £2.99 three weeks previously, teamed with an All About Audrey wrap top which was marked down to £12 on their Vinted page as there was an area of uneven stitching on one of the sleeves (which I still haven't found!)

On Tuesday it was a day of Vinted listings and a bit of housework. Like so many poeple we know, Jon's got that cold which keeps coming back - the third time since January. I woke up with a sore throat but luckily it vanished after 24 hours. 

I spoke on my Tiktok video for the first time, shattering a few of my followers illusions that I was posh!!

Jon was feeling sufficently recovered for a swim on Wednesday morning. After a few days of Spring last week, the weather's reverted back to Winter with a bitterly cold wind hence the Cossack hat. Liz bought me the dress for Xmas, the colour is the sartorial equivalent of sunshine. 

It was our friend Brendan's 65th Birthday this week (he's a Blck Country legend, check him out HERE) and the celebrations started on Wednesday evening when we headed over to Wednesbury for a meal. Neither Jon or I have ever been to a carvery before and were very impressed with Churchill's. There were three options for vegetarians/vegans in addition to vegetarian gravy (something bI've never tried and still haven't) and roast potatoes & parsnips cooked in oil (as opposed to beef dripping). Carnivores had pork, turkey and beef. £9.95 per head included a pudding, too (I gave mine to Jon as I don't really like sweet things). 

 I wore a crushed velvet maxi dress which was originally from All About Audrey but bought on Vinted for £20. My magazine clutch is a 1990s reproduction of the highly collectable 1970s version (pre-pandemic chazza shop buy). 

As I mentioned in my last post, as I've been selling so much of my own stuff on Vinted recently, my feed is full of tempting vintage beauties to encourage me not to bank all of my newly acquired funds. Always on the hunt for a vintage maxi skirt I spotted this amazing tricolour velvet number for an insane £3 which, despite not venturing further than the corner shop on Thursday, I simply had to wear! 

I think it might be the greatest velvet maxi skirt I own! It works rather well with this Spring green cotton maxi dress I bought from All About Audrey from one of their flash sales in 2024. 

I love making these "get dressed with me" videos as much I do watching other women's! 

The seller was also selling the skirt I wore today (plus another!) Listed as an Indian circular skirt with no label, it turned out to be by India Imports of Rhode Island, established in 1968 and later becoming Adini and again, priced at an utterly insane £3! I teamed it with my vintage Anokhi blouse which was a bit of a mistake for swiming this morning as the buttons take an absolute age to do up. 

Here's Jane Seymour modelling the same blouse in 1972. 

After our swim, we breakfasted in Spoons alongside a large party of young men off to Cheltenham for the Gold Cup (it's an hour down the road). Peaky Blinders has been a huge influence on what men wear for formal occasions and all the teenage and 20-something blokes were dressed in three piece suits with the obligatory flat cap, short back and sides haircut and gold fob watch....a refreshing change from the ubiquitous grey joggers and slug-like puffa jacket. They looked amazing and, as I always do when I see well-dressed people, I told them that they did.

We've not spent much time charity shopping this week (Vinted's another story!) but I've picked up a few gems...

This amazing kimono is made in Kyoto and so pretty. 

 I found the Cristophe Robin, Paris hair mask in the 50p basket and am very impressed with how shiny my hair is and how nice it smells. I couldn't resist the 1980s beaded Korean-made hair slide for £1, just my colours.

 

I was so excited to spot this Kent cherrywood pure bristle hair brush for £1. My Romanian charity-shopping friend Google Lens-ed it and nearly passed out when she discovered that they retail for £38. Kent is the world's oldest hairbrush maker, having been in business since 1777, they've even got the royal warrant! 

I love buying beauty products in charity shops - as you can tell. The Clarins oil is the perfect travel size and the Parisian rose gold eye shadow (made in Belgium) is so pretty on. It seems odd that Jimmy Choo, a designer famous for making shoes, also makes body lotion but it smells great (and fortunately not like sweaty feet!)

Have a fabulous weekend, see you soon!