Tag: styles

SHOP FOR YOUR FAVOURITE DESIGNERS…

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The website ‘shop it to me’, http://www.shopittome.co.uk is an online site where you sign up and tell them your favourite designers. You will then get a personalised email alerts telling you of sales, VIP events and secret promotion codes.

It searches for sales items on more than 480 top brands, from high end designers like Chloe and Marc Jacobs to popular high street branches like M&S and Gap.

You can specify your favourite brands, your size and what you are looking for, and then it only alerts you when some relevant items go on sale.

HOW IT WAS IN THE 1950’s…

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Think holiday camps and Butlins with home bars and cocktail cabinets a very fashionable accessory in your home.
 
Flat-packed furniture was introduced with tops laminated in a marble or wood effect.
 
The Queen’s Coronation meant mass production of souvenir items, from biscuit tins to cigarette holders.
 
Tupperware parties were popping up with melamine plastic tableware very fashionable.
 
Wall art and prints of swans and flamingos, think Coronation Street. Everything was patterned, from wallpaper, carpets, curtains and cushions which are coming back into fashion at the moment.
 
The most popular tipple of the 1950’s was Babycham with collectable glasses with the babysham on them.

BUTTON UP YOUR CLOTHES…

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The easiest way to update or create a vintage style on your clothes is to revamp them with some new buttons.

Duttons for Buttons has more than 12,000 designs to choose from, the largest selection in the United Kingdom.

They have buttons from around the world, including children’s, diamante, wooden, mother-of-pearl, leather, enamel, glass, Swarovski and metal buttons.

They will even post you a selection in case your not sure of the size. Just pick the one you want, return the rest, and then they will send you as many as you need.

This service only costs £2.99 (plus return postage) so a new look for your outfit for under £5 could be easily achieved.