|white leather 1950s sandals. Have been worn, but were recently resoled and reheeled and have not been worn since.||width outside of the bridge part:8cm||inside sole:25.5cm.||Heel:7cm|
|black suede, leather and velvet leona edmiston shoes. 1940′s styling.||width outside of bridge part: 7.5cm||inside sole: 25.5cm||Heel: 11cm.Front Platform: 2.5cm|
|red and white patent leather slingback Fiorrucci shoes- have been worn twice – come in original box.||width outside of the bridge part:8.5cm||inside sole: 25cm. Outside sole:20.5cm||Heel:9cm|
1. White glomesh bag with gold trim and detachable strap.
Hangs at 64cm from shoulder to base
Depth: 14.5cm. Width: 28.5cm
2. Brown lizzard skin bag with bakelite clasp (no strap)
Hangs at 52cm from shoulder to base
Depth: 18cm. Width: 27cm
3. Red leather convertible bag.
Hangs at 57cm from shoulder to base
Depth: 24cm. Width: 31cm
Charcoal wool 1960′s suit with velvet trim and coated buttons. Really soft wool with a beautiful pink silk lining.
Skirt waist: 35cm. Jacket waist at pockets: 39cms. Bust jacket: 45.5 cms. Skirt hips: at zips end: 47cm. Jacket at base: 45cm. Skirt length: 69cm. Jacket length: 50cm. Arm length: 59cms.
Green, black and white wrap around tie skirt made out of vintage 50′s cotton by a Melbourne Designer. Trimmed with green tie.
Waist (keep in mind this is a wrap around and will fit any waist): 38cms. Hips (taken 20cms down the skirt): 48cm, Length: 64cms.
1. Lilli Ann 40′s silk jacket. The pictures really don’t do this one justice. The silk is the most iridescent gold shimmery loveliness…Divine. Is missing one button but a new one could be made up with same fabric from hem, or all replaced.
Waist: 35 cm, Hip: 44cms, Bust: 48cms, Length: 59cms, Arm length: 59cms. All measurements taken flat.
2. Lilli Ann 40′s silk/mohair blend suit. Has one small stain on front, have not tried to get removed. Again, pics don’t do it justice, it is a pale silvery teal blue gunmetal kinda colour.
All measurements taken flat.
Skirt Waist: 34cm, Skirt Hip: 48cms, Jacket Bust: 48cms, Jacket Waist: 37cms, Skirt length: 77cms, Jacket length: 63cms.
First set of items for sale. (yay!)
These will all go on ebay and etsy, unless sold prior. Please contact me for prices, or make an offer!
1. 1940′s grey silk and wool patterned riding jacket with black velvet trim and glass buttons. Pink/beige silk lining and hip swag.
Waist: 37 cm, Bust: 45 cm, Hip: 43.5, Length: 58.5, Arm length: 30cm (all to be doubled)
2. Beige/oatmeal linen 40′s suit with lucite buttons and the most amazing collar ever.
Jacket Bust: 45 cm, Hip on Jacket: 49cms, Skirt Length: 68cms, Jacket length: 56cms (all to be doubled)
3. Black and white velvet trimmed 60′s cotton weave (?) suit.
Jacket Bust: 48 cm, Hip on Jacket at base: 47cms, Skirt Length: 57.5, Skirt waist: 34cms, Jacket length 52cms, (all to be doubled)
you know what?
maybe I’m not still here.
I don’t want to buy anything new or old, don’t want to take vain pictures of what I wear, and sure as heck don’t want to keep making the assumption anyone cares.
I was talking to a friend some time back about having possibly ‘cured’ myself of years of a quietly increasing (and normalising) need to buy pretty things.
To possess, care for and display beautiful 50’s satin cocktail dresses, feathered 30’s hats, shiny leather handbags, glorious coloured shoes, soft gloves and scarves… THINGS.
A cure coming from a range of sources, but primarily a realisation that like any other obsessive addiction, there is no destination.
It doesn’t stop anywhere.
This cure is a good thing.
Sure, I still gasp when looking at the new Dior offerings, or my favourite Etsy stores, but I just don’t need it anymore.
Recently, I was invited to assess an enormous pile of vintage clothing.
Rooms full of vintage clothing.
A life full of objects.
Belonging to a lady who had it all.
Whatever she saw, and liked, she had the capability to buy. And buy she did. 10 gloves, all in the same style, different colours, just because she could (I thought).
No, it was because she didn’t know how not to.
She couldn’t leave it alone.
She needed it.
She needed to own 4 harlequin jumpsuits in sizes 6-16 when she herself was a size 12.
She needed to own the pretty 60’s dresses with their tags intact. She needed to own them, but never wore them.
Where once I would have done almost anything to have been that lady, have that lifestyle and leave that legacy of velvet, lace and elegance, it now has started to scare me.
I have enough things.
I have more than enough.
This section of the blog will go on hold for a while.
I’ll start writing again.
Start putting beauty in to things, rather than just capturing what is there.
Investing in people, not clothes.
I’m not wealthy enough to do both properly.
80′s does 50′s blue and purple stained-glass cotton 50′s dress.
Red belt, gifted.
Wooden green snake-skin bangles, gifted.
This was an outfit to cure a craving for wearing a petticoat in winter. Worn with stockings and a singlet under.
Amazing bright kittenbow shirt, made by the very talented Kitty.
they go back to their full time carer on Sunday.
email firstname.lastname@example.org for details.
I don’t really know where to start.
A lady who was a hoarder.
Melbourne in the 50′s.
Mostly unworn, some with tags on.
All for sale.
Email brandnewarmour(at)gmail.com for measurements and prices.
They need new homes. They deserve good ones.
No pictures could do this justice. It’s phenomenal. Heavy red velvet, with a scooped neckline, pleating at either side 3/4 way down the front, bow at the waist. It is just superb.
Late 50′s chocolate brown lace beaded cocktail dress, red and white houndstooth suit jacket (has matching skirt), with ribbon at sleeves and neck, double buttons. Pale blue striped 60′s jacket with bows.
Sublime pale turquoisey blue silk 50′s ballgown with a pleated cross over bust, and silver embroidery.
Emerald green linen a-line skirt with self-covered belt and pleats at the front.
Pink and white harlequin print scooter dress with white collar, white front and double buttons. Pink, blue and green silk/dacron scooter dress.
Black and bright floral halterneck poly late 60′s dress.
Red and white silkish-poly a-line 60′s dress with great collar, bow at neckline and self-covered belt.
Black velvet a line 60′s dress with pink bow at Empire waist line, with tags on.
Creme glomesh bag, pink velvet and beaded hat, black hat with bows and netting, yellow silk hat with flowers, orange, yellow and blue gloves (all unworn with tags on), beaded and diamante clip on earrings. Pink, purple and gold necklace and clip-on earring set, blue and silver necklace and earring set, green stone and gold screw on earring set.
Pale yellow embroidered soft linen late 40′s day dress with belt and pleating. Orange cotton 50′s dress with ruched waistline and plastic buttons, 3/4 sleeves.
Orange, pink and yellow paisley 50′s dress with asymetrical and cut-in bustline, belt and pleating.
Glorious pink and grey polished cotton 50′s dress with gathered 3/4 sleeves, square neckline and such a full skirt.
Blue, white and pink 50′s dress with great buttoned asymetrical bust, and full skirt.
40′s cotton (?) blue and pink floral dress with lovely detailing.
Here’s me. In spearmint long sleeved jumper with creme cardigan, and a silk scarf.
And then here’s me now – smug and oh so happy with the addition of THE most remarkable blue teal wool 40′s coat. Aha. You heard it. How could anyone be less than ecstatic in this coat, with its fabric covered buttons, high and deep pockets and perfect silver lining. Oh, I die.
The skirt – blue silk German thingy. It had the best silver acorns on it. They’re now in a drawer.
You can’t see it that well here, but there are the most amazingly huge shoulders. Huge football player shoulders. Ah. Ok, I’m off to drool on it now.
For some reason, when I wore this outfit my colleagues were amusingly unable to see the day out with speaking to me in terrible ‘French’ accents. Yep, all class.
Big, boofy and warm. Cotton 50′s skirt, singlet and cashmere mint sweater with wool cardigan over the top. Worn with orange belt and new green lucite bangle of wonderfullness.
An accompanying hair-do.
40′s ballernia print dress
This whole having long hair thing is still freaking me out.
This is how I handled it for the best part (my computer died whilst in the throes of uploading) 1 week.
Front roll 40′s updo thing with a red flower clip.
The same (hah!) but with added warmth.
Victory rolls with the rest out and a pink flower clip.
Messy bun with a headband and purple flower.
Bumpit roll with scarf and hair worn down.
Roofline in Enmore where we were staying.
The wonderful balcony at Tara.
Cotton dress, made by me. Knit cardigan, etsy. Plastic beads, gifted. Scarf (in hair), opped. This was worn with flat red shoes and my new woven plastic and bamboo handled bag!
Blueberry, vanilla and lavender creme tart, and watermellon, strawberry and pistachio sponge cake….Dear lordy they were good. From a busy little hipster pastry shop at the back of the garden infront of the Newtown train station.
You’d have to be a real dingbat to not be able to grow plants in Sydney. Everything was so lush.
The outfit which I wore to dinner at Rockpool Bar and Grill. The venue was an enormous old Art Deco structure, and I dressed to match. Black jersey drapey 30′s style wrap dress, bought in Highpoint for $10! Leopard coat, etsy. Worn wtih black beaded 30′s clutch, silver and black suede shoes, Hair pin worn as a brooch on the left shoulder, and my hair done in a 30′s wave tuck style thingy, at Doppelganger Hair in Newtown. The place is mint green, fairyfloss pink, and has a resident cat!
The loungeroom at Tara.
Street art in Newtown.
Lovely town houses with great wrought iron windows in the backstreets of Enmore.
Us. Who got engaged. (YAY!)
White 40′s style knit, bought some time ago. Maroon suede belt and grey wool jacket, opped. Burgundy plastic necklace, gifted. Worn on the first real day the temperature crashed into Autumn. Feel that I’ll be wearing a lot of berry shades this Autumn.
And then back to 25 and sunny..Cotton navy, red and creme graphic print dress. Made by me last year (and then packed in a box because I was too lazy to fix them hem. It’s finally fixed now.) Navy and white (which is now an awful shade of pink, after I washed it in the wrong load…) cardigan, opped. Ivory necklace, country Vic somewhere.
Simple hair for a day off at coffee shops. Kinda tucked under and pinned. It all fell out on the way back, due to the Arctic wind, but I was full of coffee and didn’t mind at all. Worn with red cotton dress, striped skiivy, polka dot jacket and green scarf. And boots, importantly.
Parroty. Silk dress, Malaysia. Red Lilli Ann coat, etsy.
Blue scarf. A result of washing all of my washable-wools over a 2 day period in readiness for winter. The weather responded with warm and sunny. Ah well, at least it is all dry!
Work outfit with new 50′s platic shinies from Adelaide, Red Ruby Vintage.
Black cotton shift dress, Sorrent op-shop. Black cardigan, gifted. Silk headscarf, gifted.
Work outfit #2. Pink and red 50′s button front house dress with tiny gold detailing and an awesome collar and sleeves, gifted. Petticoat with applique roses, opped. Worn with pink cardigan and hatpin to close the slightly-not-appropriate-for-work fold front…
Play outfit. Off to see the Grace Kelly exhibition in Bendigo. Which was ok. Lots of nice dresses, total drivel written on the ‘information plaques’ and lots of rude elderly gallery-goers. People need to chill out.
Mustard skirt, opped. Wrap sheer polka dot top, opped for $3 in an Adelaide church opshop. Leopard jacket, etsy. Worn with singlet, tights and black court shoes. Funnily enough, my charming partner-in-vintage-crime Kitty’s Drawings, wore the same colour combo.
Which by the end of the day, dinner at my parent’s house, had unwound itself to be cartoon-like.
Prettier. Pink on pink.
when I return to kitty, there will be camera items.
sorry, rotten week.