21st Century Girl

Hello! I'm bringing you this blog via our newly installed full fibre broadband. Yes, we've finally caught up with the 21st Century! 

I love algorithms! I rarely search for anything on Vinted, their Recommended For You page knows my taste so well it's bordering on scary. Last week this 1960s raw silk, screen printed dress popped up and, at £9, it was a no-brainer. It had been listed for over six months, why on earth had nobody already snapped it up? 

It got its debut yesterday (Bank Holiday Monday).

Whilst I was photographing some of my jewellery for my last blog post, I came across a bag of discarded bits & pieces I'd  forgotten about so Jon and I spent our rainy Saturday afternoon making some new necklaces.

This Kuchi pendant looked a bit lost on a silver chain but threaded on a cord with these obsolete Indian coins and some oxidised metal tubular beads it has loads more impact. As I've said before, I don't do discrete or dainty, I like my jewellery visible! 

The tie back construction reminds me of those Walk-Away dresses that were popular in the 1950s.

We've been watching Yellowstone on Netflix and noticed how the cowboys wear a lot of Wrangler. Until Nick Kamen and that iconic Levi advert in 1985, it was the denim of choice for our generation. A few years ago a girl was trying on a vintage jacket at a fair we were trading at and asked what Wrangler was as she'd never heard of it (we told her to ask her Dad).  

 

 

Walking back from the swimming pool on Friday morning the second hand stall on the market had a £4 rail and I soon snaffled this marvellously-aged 1980s Wrangler jacket. It was intended for the Kinky Shed until Jon tried it on. I have suggested he practices his lasso technique on William when he's running up and down the lawn like a thing possessed after a few Dreamies.  

We spent yesterday in the pub and met Tony for pizza in Spoons at midday. Mine was topped with roasted vegetables and the boys' spicy pepperoni.  They also shared cheesy chips with bacon. I don't really do chips (I know, I'm a disgrace to my nation!)

After eating we headed up the road to the Black Country Arms to meet up with my brother, Marcus, and to watch Walsall who were playing Wimbledon at Wembley in the Division 1 play-offs. 

Sadly we were beaten 1- 0. 

We drowned our sorrows with some delicious Salopian IPA. 

Amazingly, despite spending eight and a half hours in the pub Jon & I were up bright eyed & clear headed and in the pool for 7.30am this morning.

Taken on the way to catch our flight to Rhodes, September 2022

With the weather being a bit iffy this weekend, I've been doing a bit more refashioning. I absolutely love this Dilli Grey dress which I bought new in 2022 but the tie straps really annoy me, the bows get tangled up in my hair and I can't be doing the trailing ends so I removed the straps at the back, flipped the front straps over my shoulder and sewed their ends to the back of the dress, chopping off the excess fabric. 

Waste not, want not! I used the unwanted straps to make scrunchies, every long-haired girl's best friend!

 And now I've got rid of those faffy straps I can play around with layers and make it a year-round dress rather than something exclusively for the summer. I can't be bothered with those seasonal wardrobe swap-overs, I love my clothes and want to wear them all year round!

I love it with this marmalade velvet wrap top (another All About Audrey purchase). 

Here's today's outfit, another Vinted find. A vintage Afghan dress for £10! Excuse the wet patch on the dress and my dishevelled swimming cap hair, I had to dash outside to pose for a photo when there was a break in the rain. It's the black version of this blue one I bought back in 2019! 

More of my cuff collection - both of these were charity shop finds.

Ditto the glass earrings and enamelled Kuchi pendant. 

I don't wear jewellery to walk down to the swimming pool but have to put it on after my swim, I'd hate to disappoint the regulars in Spoons who always tell me that I'm cool! 

Thanks for visiting, see you soon!