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Vintage Fair 17 December 2011, Surrey UK

Posted on November 15, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Kingston Upon Thames in the county of Surrey is the venue for a what promises to be an excellent Vintage Fair. The event is scheduled to be held in the lovely old Market House in Kingston.

If you can do so, then this is one that you really must make an effort to get to and the full details are as below:

Saturday 17 December 2011
The Market House
Kingston Upon Thames
KT1 1JS
Surrey

Admission Free
11.00 AM to 4.00 PM

To tempt you there will be 20 plus stalls selling the very best of affordable Vintage Men’s and Women’s fashion, accessories, jewellery, craftwork and homeware (with some Christmas stuff as well, no doubt). As well as this there will be Vintage books & Toys, a tea room and a Vintage Beauty Parlour.

Admission is free so make sure you come along and treat yourself to a mince pie as well as taking full advantage of the free retro gift wrapping service that is being offered.

Full details can be obtained at the venue’s Facebook page here or on Twitter at this page. As ever, please check dates, venues and times before setting out.

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Vintage Fairs This Coming Saturday November 19th 2011

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Vintage FairLast time we were in the north of England but this time we return to the South for what promises to be two cracking Vintage Fairs, one in Exeter and one on the other side of the country in Gravesend.

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Vintage Fairs Sunday 13 November 2011

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Vintage FairSuddenly I’m knee-deep in vintage fairs – from nowhere I have a long list of fairs to tell you about! All these four fairs take place on Sunday November 13th in the Northern half of the UK

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Vintage Fair This Sunday November 6th 2011

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Vintage FairShort notice again I am afraid but it is the best I can do. Kate and Lexy are well known in the craft and vintage world and this is their, I think, third fair. It is also being held at a very accessible location for those in the centre of the UK. The details are:

Woore Victory Hall
Woore
Cheshire
CW3 9SF

Sunday 6 November 2011
10.0 AM to 4.0 PM
Entry free

You can check times and details at Kate and Lexy’s facebook page at www.facebook.com/kateandlexysvintage

Although the village of Woore is in Cheshire the location is not far from junction 15 from the M6 and so is convenient to a large area; have a look at an online map by putting in the postcode above and see how far away it is from you. Continue reading →

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Vintage Fair This Saturday November 5th 2011

Posted on October 31, 2011 by | 3 Comments

Vintage Fairs UKOK, this is short notice I know but there is a Vintage Fair being held this Saturday 5 November 2011 (yes, bonfire night!) and it looks like it might be a good one to attend.

The venue is:

The Market House
Market Place
Kingston Upon Thames
KT1 1JS

Time: 11.00AM until 4.00 PM

This is in the lovely Georgian square in the centre of Kingston and there you will be able to browse through the usual large array of stalls selling affordable vintage items.

Included, of course, will be men’s and women’s clothes and fashion, as well as vintage accessories, beauty products, home wares and all those other desirable vintage items we all love. In addition to this, to feed the inner vintage shopper, there will be a range of food and similar stalls as well as a tea parlour for tea and cakes.

To give you a flavour of what is on offer, unless I am very much mistaken, here is a link to a previous fair. It is a set of photos on Flickr.

If you are lucky enough to go, then please post a link to some photos of the event below for us all to enjoy.

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Gingham And 1960s Fashion

Posted on January 13, 2011 by | 1 Comment

gingham_mod_chothes_1960sGingham fabric has been around since the 1600s and is a more unusual fashion fabric confined these days to men’s shirts and girls’s dresses however, in the 1960s it came of age when used in many mod clothes.

Part of the appeal of gingham is it’s clean and fresh look and this suited perfectly the look that the early mod designers like Mary Quant were trying to create. In addition, and in a more subtle way, gingham with it’s small regular pattern seemed to match the need for a new look that would be both distinctive and smart.

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60s Men’s Fashion At Its Best – Enter the Mods

Posted on November 11, 2010 by | 4 Comments

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Men’s Fashion

Part 1: The Suit

Part 2: More Suits

Part 3: Rockers

The 1960s was a mix and match fashion bonanza with many different trends and short lived styles that disappeared as soon as they were created. However, there was one group that had an impact on men’s fashion and it was to last and influence clothes to this day. We look at the rise of the Mods.

The decade began with Rockers, who owed their styles very much to the Edwardian inspired Teddy boy era of the 50s. There clothing was black, leather and loose fitting, macho and motor bike orientated. They were good people who, sadly, got a bad press and society saw them and their fashion in a less than favourable light. They were hard, too, masculine men and enjoyed biking and American rock and roll music. Much attention was given to creating a very male-only look. Clothes were utilitarian, functional rather than aesthetic, while hairstyles were long, greasy and often wild.

As a reaction to the Rockers a new group of, very often, middle class boys began to congregate in London. Many of these boys worked in the fashion or finance trades in the city and did not easily fit into the Rocker mould. They choose short, neat hair, neat suits and added colour, style and accessories into their clothing. They also chose the new Italian scooters like the early Lambrettas or Vespas and buzzed like bees in the thick London traffic.

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60s Men’s Fashion At Its Best – Rockers!

Posted on November 4, 2010 by | 1 Comment

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Part 1: The Suit

Part 2: More Suits

Part 4: Mods

Buying a car in the 1950s was prohibitively expensive so many young people, anxious to get themselves onto a set of wheels, choose motor cycles which, while not cheap, were more suited to the pockets of the emerging young generation.

And, just as today, young people gathered after work to socialise and so large groups of leather-clad motor bikers began to appear in city centres and around shopping areas. They also, and this was to bring them to the attention of the newspapers, went in droves to many of the UK’s seaside resorts for a day out. Inevitability, such large gathering attracted both attention and also trouble and the media began to cast the newly emerged Rockers, as they became known, as trouble makers.

They were called Rockers because of the early rock groups that they followed like Gene Vincent, Chuck Berry and, of course, Elvis Presley.

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