Tag: clothes

BUTTONS AS A CHANGE OF OUTFIT…

 

You can change an outfit in a second with vintage buttons. They can have just the same effect as a lovely scarf and for half the price.

I’ve changed buttons on jackets, blouses and cardigans for years and have a number of different styles of black cardigans that come out each winter with different buttons on them.

You can purchasee vintage buttons on ebay or my favourite shop is Duttons for Buttons in Harrogate, which has a stock of over 12,000 buttons, they also do a mail order service.

I have also bought a cardigan in a charity shop for the buttons and put some others on it then given it back to the charity shop.

My jackets buttons change every year. This year the skin look was big and I got a number of different styles in it from a company on EBay and Vinted.

Plain coloured blouses, in particular white or black, can look so different with a lovely button on it even if you only change the top button and the sleeve buttons.

I’ve even changed a few buttons on my husbands shirts to give them a new look.

Source: Duttons EBay

TAKE UP SEWING, VINTAGE STYLE…

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Why not start a new hobby in 2012 by taking up sewing, vintage style. Not only could you take it up but you could also get your children to take it up as some of the fabulous accessories are creative for children to make as well as grown ups.

A pretty first sewing kit ‘I love Retro’, .www.iloveretro.co.uk is a good start or for Cath Kidson fans ‘Scissors’, http://www.cathkidson.co.uk

Tape Measure http://www.johnlewis.com or a pin cushion that looks like a cupcake by Lauren Denney http://www.laurendenney.com

An electric sewing machine can be bought from BHS for only £50 http://www.bhs.co.uk

Sewing baskets and kits for ‘The Contemporary Home’ from http://www.tchinet.com

VINTAGE CLOTHING….

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Vintage clothing has become popular with many a celebrity including Kate Moss, the Royal Family and Sienna Miller.

Each item tells a story, and these stories define the romance of vintage clothing. For many, this is the main reason for buying the vintage. Also UK now has very few of its own manufacturers, so it’s nice to see clothes with ‘made in the UK’, on the label.

Sadly with the way things are going at the moment, even more UK manufacturers could end up closing. Of course, our labels also decree, ‘fair pay and good conditions for workers’, which is something not guaranteed on goods made in the developing world.

The other almost ‘guarantee’ about a vintage purchase is that the chances are you will not bump into someone else wearing the same outfit.

And of course, the quality of vintage clothing is quite different from the mass produced clothing of today.