Serial #: 0058 Date: 09/02/2011 Weather: forecast 28° Time Allowed: 10 minutes It was a very warm summer day, and I was going out for a birthday lunch with a friend. We were going to Como House &...
There was a time when I never wore prints. My minimalist wardrobe was entirely made up of a small palette of solid colours: grey, white, blue, orange, red, purple and a little black. I relied on diff...
Do click on the pics to make them BIGAt first glance, the looks on these pages – straight from the latest issue of Australian marie claire – seem straightforward 70s redux (floppy hats, b...
All that’s missing is a lollypopWe’ve all heard the humorous stories about women who are unaccustomed to walking in heels, who fall over their own feet. We’ve seen the models on the...
Late 30s Early 40s German Art Deco necklace: honey and black faceted lucite drop bib necklace; $153 from RoadsLessTravelled2 on EtsyAfter extolling my cousin’s chunky necklace yesterday, I went...
Chunky Move :: Watts // Big Up // No flashI attended a family wedding at the end of March, and my eye was immediately drawn to this cool chunky necklace my cousin Amelia-Jane was wearing. Its bold an...
Click on image for larger version Oh, I had such fun doing this ANZAC day shoot! I put on a cd and sang away to Rum and Coca Cola, Shoo-Shoo Baby, Hold Tight, Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama), an...
Serial #: 0056 Date: 25/01/2011 Weather: forecast 27°, warm Time Allowed: 2 minutes I had a lunch date with a friend to go to, and to save time I wore an outfit I used in a photoshoot that mornin...
Click for a history lessonI know that just the other day I panned the white shirt and cast it into outer darkness, but today let us pay homage to a special white shirt of recent history: the ruffled ...
Although I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, a while back I had strange hankering for a vintage candy-pink cane handbag. This seems very specific, I know. At the time, I also had a desperate de...
I am very rarely a shirt wearer. Shirts make me feel hemmed in, like I am suffering a slow death by strangulation. You could build a prison entirely from a white shirt. In fact, they have: it’s...
Heavens, it’s the first of May already! That means it’s May Day spring festival … only it’s the last month of autumn here in old Melbournetown, so I’ll be celebrating f...
Although I don’t go in for black clothes much, I do have a black bangle that I adore. A few weeks ago while holidaying with my sisters in Sorrento (Victoria, not Italy, alas), we spent a deligh...
Well, since I was talking about that legendary dress yesterday, here is the one and only Audrey Hepburn, all dressed up for Royal Ascot. She’s in costume for My Fair Lady. The dress I saw in Gr...
At Grandma’s in Surrey Hills :: Watts // Big Up // No flash I hadn’t been to Sydney for years, particularly with leisure time to go vintage shopping. I had a friend who knew her way about...
Today, in honour of our fallen heroes, I have been listening to The Best of the Andrews Sisters. So from them, to you, Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree: I wrote my mother, I wrote my father, And ...
During my holidays I set myself a fashion mission: to find at least one vintage item in each of my holiday spots. It began in Sydney, with a rather spectacular feather hat, and it ended in Noosa &nda...
Sweet shoppe :: Watts // Big Up // No flashI was like a child greedily pressing my nose up against the window of a sweet shop, which is apt since the jewellery in these windows does resemble old-fash...
Recently I have been waxing lyrical about stripes. Non-nautical stripes. Vintage ‘barberstripes’ of the 18th and 19th centuries. There were so many stripes in the most recent story I coul...
Living in the same apartment for 12 years and sharing a communal laundry, I have had ample opportunity to observe – and be surprised by – the laundering habits of my neighbours. Particula...
Serial #: 0056 Date: 31/12/2010 Weather: hot Time Allowed: 3 minutes I was having a lazy New Year’s Eve: just a couple of girlfriends round for dinner and a viewing of the midnight fireworks pl...
Karen Millen top, vintage headpiece and veilIntricate, delicate; originally hand-made from linen, silk and later cotton; expensive due to the many laborious hours of painstaking work involved, lace i...
The Cat in the Rain Hat :: Watts // Big Up // No flashThis clear plastic rain hat with ears from Sportsgirl was irresistible (as was the headline of this story). Rapunzel pulled it off a hook to show...
Happy Easter! A time of year synonymous with Christ’s resurrection, rebirth, and the new life of spring is also the perfect time for some healthy introspection and reflection; a time to put asi...
I suspect that today really is the last of the Indian summer. The phrase has an interesting etymology, but these days of course refers to those last glorious summery days that autumn is blessed with....
Fashion editors keep on drumming into us that it’s a great idea to mix your prints. I have seen very few women brave enough to do this over the years. BUT how much easier is it to do this with ...
Soft suede fringe in exaggerated proportions, jade green and magenta feathers, and beads plaited through the collar make this necklace fit for an Indian princess. Pocahontas even. It caught my eye ma...
Oooo, who can deny the sheer romance of train travel? That first step onto the platform in a strange country is delightful – how much more exciting when the train clacks in, one boards and find...
Background image taken at Park Güell Antonio Gaudi’s gloriously colourful and imaginative architecture epitomises Barcelona for me. Who could fail to gasp at the Sagrada Familia, or be del...
Pantyhose are not the most romantic or seductive of feminine apparel – in this respect stockings are much more appealing, whether you call them thigh-highs, stay-ups or over-the-knee socks. Pai...
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