Friday 8 November 2024

A Week In Outfits


Hello! Excuse the gap between posts, it's been a busy old week. In addition to making a waistcoat and spending most of Monday in Spoons, I've swum 1.25miles and walked around ten, spent an hour and a half on my Wii Fit and listed over 200 items online. I've spent four mornings exploring the charity shops of various Black Country towns, sold a shedload of stuff on Vinted and managed to get it all wrapped and despatched within a few hours of selling it. 


On Saturday, for a morning of photographing & listing stock and a quick sprint into town for some eyelets for my waistcoat from the haberdasher's, I wore an All About Audrey wrap top (boght in 2018) with an Indian Imports of Rhode Island vintage 1970s maxi skirt (eBay, 2021) and a Monsoon fedora (retail sale buy, 2022).


On Sunday, for a visit to the clearance chazza and an afternoon of Vinted listing, I wore a vintage Adini maxi dress (£1 from a charity shop, 2017), a vintage 1970s velvet jacket (vintage stall at Womad) and a felted wool fedora (eBay, 2020) which I'd customised using an offcut of the Golden Lily curtain I'd made my waistcoat from.


You've already seen what I wore on Monday for a day in Spoons but here it is again...


Vintage Kate Beaver velvet maxi dress, a maxi waistcoat made from Morris & Co., Golden Lily curtains, an orange wool fedora (Debenhams sale, 2017) and my copal beads (50p from the clearance chazza).


On Tuesday for swimming, breakfast in 'Spoons, a whizz around the chazzas and an afternoon of Vinted listings, it was a Dilli Grey block printed midi dress (2021), a plum fedora (Debenhams sale, 2017), Dune leather snake boots (Vinted) and a vintage horseshoe nail pendant (50p!) I bought the burgundy opaques (by Pretty Polly) from eBay in 2015 and they're still going strong! 


On Wednesday for a morning of charity shopping and an afternoon of yet more Vinted listings I wore a vintage crushed velvet embroidered kaftan (Vinted, 2023), my new cowboy boots (well, not that new, I've been wearing them on repeat for over seven weeks!) and a Monsoon fedora (retail buy, 2022).


On Thursday for swimming, Spoons and yet more Vinted listings I wore another Dilli Grey dress (bought in 2022) with my Gohil's exotic snakeskin boots (bought by my junior school teacher in 1966 and gifted to me a decade ago!). Despite stuffing my hair in this charity shopped River Island cap, which Jon calls my gimp hat, I still managed to get it wet in the rain when I walked down to the baths, hence it looking a bit fuzzy! 


On Friday, for a morning of charity shopping and another afternoon spent with Vinted, I gave this vintage psychedelic maxi its first outing. It's handmade with cosy courtelle-type fabric, big in the 1960s, which'll be perfect for chilly festival nights. I bought it on Vinted for a tenner as it needed a few repairs, namely replacing all 14 of the buttons (luckily I have a vast supply of vintage ones!) I shall pack it away now it's had its first outing, along with this groovy 1970s fake fur lined cotton gilet, another future festival garment (and another Vinted find). The purple suede boots are original 1960s go-go boots and were a gift from Gisella


Whilst we've found lots for the stock room in the chazzas this week, other than the obligatory paperback novels and vintage vinyl, the only thing I'm keeping is this little pot of Absinthe lip balm. The cover model looks very familiar!


William's made himself at home on my Afghan war rug (yeah, they're quite rare and highly sought after but who am I to deny the cat?) He's currently obsessed with the catnip peapod Ann & Jos bought him over from Belgium.

It's Friday and it's almost rum o'clock. Have a fab weekend and see you on the other side.


PS Here's the link to our Vinted profile, if you fancy a look!

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