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Clothes, Cameras and Coffee
clothescamerasandcoffee.blogspot.com
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This is a blog all about fashion and photography- my two main passions. I love vintage, and am obssessed with fashion design. I like quirky ideas,and unique finds. I hope you'll enjoy my blog...
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The Importance of Wearing Clothes - the Fru-Gal Challenge

The minute one rolls out the ‘Red Carpet’ in an article then the association is one of lavish dresses – their hems sweeping over the scarlet surface as cameras pop and flash. Each ensemble is praised...

25 min ago

Taffeta - a photo story

This is another in my occasional series of photo stories completed with the gorgeous Ellen, who has previously dressed up as characters that include a zombie and a rather inebriated member of the ari...

6 days ago

Dodecahedron

Serendipity is rare – that’s what makes it special. It’s the moment when you bump into someone you know from a different country - in the middle of London, or find out that a girl from your school kn...

08 feb 12 2 people like this

In praise of Vivienne Westwood

I wish I could say that this jacket is a Vivienne Westwood – it’s not, but I connect red tartan indelibly with her designs. The history of Vivienne Westwood’s career and life is as well known and wor...

30 jan 12 2 people like this

Stripes and strife

I’m sure there are plenty of action movies where the Sergeant shouts at his troops to “GO, go, go, go, go!”? That’s increasingly what the process behind shoots for this blog resemble - entirely thank...

23 jan 12 2 people like this

All I need is a Train Ticket - and a Time Machine

Many my age might see a gap year as release from the extensive time spent controlled by term dates and exams. Thus I have friends who want to travel to America, Australia and India. The basic require...

15 jan 12 2 people like this

Snow White and Rose Red

(Click on the landscape ones to make them bigger)I often advocate extensive re-using and re-styling when it comes to clothing – and now I’m extending this to outfit inspiration too. For those who hav...

09 jan 12

Autumn Almanac

I know it may be a rather obvious statement, but the majority of clothes featured on this blog were designed for women. Unsurprising since most of my most posts feature myself or friends, and besides...

05 jan 12 2 people like this

Sounds of the Woods - Nadinoo & Wish Wish Wish

Getting up at 5.30am to be in make-up at 6am is never the most pleasant way of waking up – even if on this occasion it was the lovely Emily choosing my lip shade and expertly applying eyeliner. But s...

01 jan 12 6 people like this

Elementary, my dear Watson

Sherlock Holmes often wore an "ear-flapped travelling cap". That’s right - there was never any specific mention of the iconic accessory we most associate with his character. That particular h...

29 dec 11 2 people like this

Swan Lake

We have a set routine on Saturday mornings at home. Family members stumble downstairs in various states of sleepiness, in hope of finding my dad serving up breakfast and coffee. Then my parents and I...

24 dec 11 3 people like this

Something Old, Something New

My paternal grandma was married in the United States in the late 1950s. I don’t know the details but I do know the dress. It was white (surprise, surprise), with a fitted bodice, cascading skirt and ...

22 dec 11 3 people like this

Wintery Sunday

Whenever I put on the jacket pictured, I am immediately transported to my only brief trip to Paris in early 2010. As detailed below, it was bought on a very wintery Sunday. My mum and I arrived ...

21 dec 11 2 people like this

Grey Day

The current colour du jour for the weather is a rather classic charcoal grey, with cloud banks adding some eye-catching texture to the flat light. Basically, it’s miserable. Overblown descriptions as...

12 dec 11 6 people like this

Strange Phenomena

I discovered Kate Bush’s music when I was about six – or rather, I was in the room when my mum put on ‘The Red Shoes’ CD to play. There was no musical epiphany, no obsession (at that point), or deep ...

06 dec 11 1 person likes this

Bloomsbury Black

Rarely a month goes by without a newspaper (tabloid or broadsheet) smugly declaring that Oxbridge is ‘elitist’. "The intake from disadvantaged backgrounds is too low; the humanities courses desig...

27 nov 11 2 people like this

The Autumn Queen

If autumn were a fabric, it would be yellow taffeta. Or perhaps orange velvet mixed with brown tweed. Okay, maybe the analogy would be better suited to a whole basket of material scraps in marinated ...

19 nov 11

High Society

Lady Tallulah Lock-Likely was jolted out of sleep by a screeching. She opened one hung-over eye to see a fast retreating smudge of brown feathers. A pheasant. How disgusting. This was why she hated t...

14 nov 11 2 people like this

Seaweed Green

The notion of slithering into a wetsuit and battling with towering August waves seems so very long ago now. As does having time to relax on the beach with a book – or rather, ignoring the wind-whippe...

02 nov 11 2 people like this

Portrait of a Blogger Pt 2

Davids blog The Nyanzi Report is a superb lesson in how light, composition, an acute eye and a meticulous attention to detail yields fabulous results. His photos are as immediately charming as he is ...

27 oct 11 2 people like this

Backbone

I can tell you what I was doing exactly a year ago: to the day, to the hour, to the minute. I was lying in intensive care, dazed and more than a little confused, after having metal rods screwed ...

22 oct 11 2 people like this

Sleep walking

Our family affliction is insomnia. This comes from my dad’s side of the family tree though, so my mum really does sleep easy. However the other three of us are affected by anything from stormy nights...

16 oct 11 3 people like this

Portrait of a blogger (series)

Nadia of FrouFrouu fills her posts with timeless shades that wouldnt look out of place in a 1940s forest, farm or film - rich purples, muted olives, soft browns and blacks. Her photos resemble newly ...

06 oct 11 3 people like this

Dressing up at London Fashion Week

Photo: Zoe Glazebrook for Vogue UKPhotos: Craig Arend for Altamira NYCPhoto: Refinery 29If one could capture the essence of fashion – boil it up and then sieve it – how might the result be described?...

03 oct 11 1 person likes this

Vogue Talent Contest

I’m in a subdued airport terminal corridor at eleven pm. Everyone hurrying by looks tired and desperate to get home. We feel the same. We have just spent the week in Spain surrounded by fresh fish, t...

01 oct 11 2 people like this

March of the Penguins

My fingers run over stacked spines in my grandma’s flat. Book spines, that is. Titles, authors and publishers all piled together. Here and there a logo: a small black penguin - usually on an orange b...

01 oct 11 2 people like this

Celebration or Denigration?

I just spent the most wonderful weekend at London Fashion Week, where I saw fascinating shows, scribbled notes to my hearts content and met with good friends as well as interesting new people, all al...

20 sep 11 3 people like this

Between the Woods and the Water

I travelled home from London the evening before last on a heavily crowded train. My exhaustion only allowed for slumping in the seat while watching trees and towns swoosh past. The many crop fields t...

05 sep 11 1 person likes this

Do-gooders

Good things often come in threes. This was proved true when I arrived back from a few days by the coast to find an exciting looking package from Goodone waiting for me. Following twitter and email co...

03 sep 11 5 people like this

Bad taste is the new black

At the end of my bed there is a whole shelf dedicated to scrapbooks – finished articles that I flick through for inspiration, boxes holding postcards and tattered family photos, containers bursting w...

26 aug 11 1 person likes this

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