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Get some Vintage-a-Peel by Miss Peelpants
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Get Some Vintage-a-Peel by Miss Peelpants: featuring previews of upcoming listings on ebay and Vintage-a-Peel.co.uk, highlights from my personal collection and musings upon the world of vintage clothing and other cultural curiosities.
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04 apr 12

Peoples of the vintage and retro persuasion! I am moving!

Dearest, loveliest readers. I am currently in the process of emigrating from blogger to wordpress. I had been contemplating it for a while, but the final push was having my google account suspended f...

21 mar 12

Mensday: From the sublime to the ridiculous, and back again...

Bryan FerryPilfered from a SuperSonic annual (1977) I found in a charity shop in Ramsgate. Some of the best and worst examples of manhood from the period. I dont know all of them terribly well, so fe...

21 mar 12

Inspirational Images: Crowning Glory

 Photos by John Swannell. Vogue, December 1977. Scanned by Miss Peelpants. 

20 mar 12

Random Ossies in Adverts: California by Max Factor

Scanned from Nova, August 1973Its been a while since Ive done a Random Ossies in Adverts post, so it was high time I found another one. Bottom left, definitely one of my holy grail pieces. See also h...

19 mar 12

Inspirational Images: Think Beauty... Say Green

 Photo by Norman Parkinson. Vogue, November 1972. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.

18 mar 12

Bright Ideas For The Home, 1978

There are too many brilliant photos for me to scan from Bright Ideas For The Home by Per Dalsgaard and Elisabeth Erichsen (1978), so Ive restricted myself to six of my favourites.Scanned by Miss Peel...

17 mar 12

Vintage Adverts: Midnight Blue

I need to know who on earth Midnight Blue were, and where I can get some of these insane clothes. I had never heard of them before and cannot find out a THING about them online. I am a geek and I nee...

16 mar 12

Inspirational Images: Value Added Fashion

Everyone is looking back in nostalgia - especially in fashion. But authentic Twenties and Thirties clothes can be expensive to buy so sew your own and save money. Use crêpe de chine and bias-cut voil...

15 mar 12

Mensday: Cosak is Orbiting

You all thought Id forgotten about Mensday, didnt you? Pah! Never! I was simply awaiting fresh meat inspiration, and what could be better than a space-themed suit advert? A suit made of steel and sil...

14 mar 12

Inspirational Illustrations: Elizabeth Arden

Scanned from Harpers and Queen, June 1973.

13 mar 12

Inspirational Images: Fashions Upper Crust

Cheesecake sweaters by Phyllis Collins at Stirling Cooper. Voluminous batwing sweater by Lee Bender at Bus Stop. Jewellery by Corocraft.Not only is this a delightful image, but I have a green version...

12 mar 12

Vintage Adverts: The Picture That Feels Like Celon

 Celon seems to feel a bit smoky, if the first picture is anything to go by. I definitely fancy the harem pyjamas with the mesh middle below though...Images scanned by Miss Peelpants. Honey Maga...

11 mar 12

Inspirational Illustrations: How Self-Possessed Are You?

Illustration by Malcolm Bird. Vanity Fair, May 1970. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.

10 mar 12

Before They Were Famous: Jacqueline Bisset

The unmistakeable Jacqueline Bisset, in a rather frumpy advert for wool.Nova, October 1965. Scanned by Miss Peelpants.

09 mar 12

Curious Coincidences: Hobbs NW3 vs. Biba (via Miu Miu)

Biba (modern photo of early Seventies garment) - Miu Miu (spring 2010) - Hobbs NW3 (current season)How very curious...

09 mar 12

Single women must never marry

Yes, its everyones favourite feisty Aussie (after the lovely Margaret, of course) Germaine Greer. What better way to mark International Womens Day than with Nova Magazine, and Greer. From October 197...

08 mar 12

Doodling With Colour

Hmmm. What shall I try first? A rainbow across my tilt-up nose, or should I wait a few weeks and do the April Fool! one? Some good make-up tips here, I particularly love the rainbow lashes, and I wou...

07 mar 12 1 person likes this

Oh to have been a fly on the wall...

Front row left to right: Jean Muir, Alice Pollock, Thea Porter.   Second row: John Bates, Tim Gardner, Gina Fratini.    Third row: Bill Gibb, Zandra Rhodes.   ...

06 mar 12

The New Avenger in Lee Bender

  (click to view listing)I have just listed some stunning new pieces over at Vintage-a-Peel, but the real star of the show has got to be this incredible Lee Bender for Bus Stop skirt and halter ...

05 mar 12

Inspirational Illustrations: Painted Pin-ups by James Wedge

What is this mysterious alchemy that makes James Wedges version of the pin-up cliché somehow completely wonderful to my eyes? I think the hand-tinting is a nod to the fictitious nature of the pin-up,...

03 mar 12

Inspirational Images: Knickerbockers Glorious

Left: Knickerbockers and midi waistcoat by Pippa. Gilt hinged patent belt by Stuart Baxter. Snake printed Jules et Jim cap by Mr Freedom. Right: Waistcoat and gauchos by Pippa. Belt by Second Skin. S...

02 mar 12

Inspirational Images: Brighton Belles

Scanned from Cosmopolitan, August 1974.

26 feb 12

Mild Sauce: Pop in Effigy - A Wife and Two Dollies

There are times when Allen Jones makes a highly plausible bid to be taken for a fetishist. His paintings of shoes with impossibly high heels are in the realm of phantasy and can only be worn by the p...

24 feb 12

Vintage Adverts: Miss Levis, 1974

Scanned from Cosmopolitan, June 1974

23 feb 12

Party Time: Which ten would you pick?

Which ten would I pick for my dinner party? Diana Rigg and George Harrison for beauty, wit and talent. Frank Zappa and Kenny Everett, to see what on earth would go on between the two of them and to s...

22 feb 12

Joanna Lumley in Catherine Buckley, The New Avengers 1976

Its of the greatest frustration to me that nobody has yet bought this beautiful skirt by Catherine Buckley. Made from antique fabrics, patchworked into a maxi skirt, it is a key piece of this designe...

21 feb 12

Inspirational Illustrations: Play the Fashion Game

I fear I may be thirty-eight years too late to enter this competition, but I definitely wouldnt say no to a wardrobe full of Irvine Sellars gear! Let me know if any of you are crazy enough to print t...

19 feb 12

Mild Sauce: The Naked Lunch

Jim Lees version of Le déjeuner sur lherbe for Cosmopolitan, June 1974.

18 feb 12

Vintage Adverts: Grace Coddington in Ban Lon

Why yes, that is Grace I hardly did any modelling Coddington. Scanned from Nova, March 1966.

17 feb 12

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