Buying & Selling

Kinky Melon was off in Warwickshire yesterday trading at my friend Amy's Blighty Boutique Vintage & Handmade Fair. 

  

Many event organisers struggle to get people through the doors during the summer months but, despite being held in a village hall a few miles drive from the nearest town, over 600 vintage lovin' bargain hunters came through the doors.

And what fine folk they were. Many were repeat customers who'd bought from us back in May and we met some lovely blog readers, too. The van came back significantly lighter, always a bonus.
The red vanity case, navy fedora, several bow ties, old skool travel bag and vintage sailor top you can see in this picture all found new homes!

I wore a 1960s chiffon Peterson Maid maxi I bought in Cardiff last week.

As a chap we were chatting to yesterday said, vintage is a way of life. We not only sell it, drive it, and live it in but we wear it every day.

Linking to Patti's Visible Monday!

Jon wore some jumble sale trousers he'd altered and a 1960s fine knit

We'd planned to have a lie-in this morning and tackle unloading the van after a leisurely breakfast but a phone call from a contact telling us they'd got some stuff we might be interested in meant that we were back on the road before 9am.

Here's just a snippet of the haul. 

Fabulous coats and suits from the 1960s

and a lifetime collection of hats from the 1950s onwards.

This fabulous wool coat has buttons stamped "London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company". At one time it was the largest commercial undertaking in the British Empire until nationalisation in 1948. Splendid condition considering it's at least 65!

Just some of the immaculate 1960s & 1970s menswear.

...and That Shirt not only has the original shirt unworn inside but it to be one of the grooviest packaged piece of menswear I've ever come across.

I promise I haven't become a crazed doll collector but I had to grab this 1960s skiing doll just because she had a pet poodle.

Brilliant! That's this week's stock shopping done so we can concentrate on sorting ourselves out for this weekend's Green Man Festival and maybe (phone calls permitting) manage a lie-in!

See you soon!