Vintage Valentine!

Happy Valentines!!

Here's a look at some really lovely original 1950s valentine card designs...

and if your stuck for an outfit...take this pin-up gals' advice and make yourself a paper heart, I wouldn't recommend wearing this out though people....it's cold.

whatever you wear or don't, whip out the rouge and have a nice day ya'll!!

Love Lola x x x x x

honalulu honey!

Today the skies of London opened on me whilst walking from my favourite East End Cafe, there i ws happy and full of beans (literally) when the rain ruined my hair/mood/shoes....the only way to get through this pain was to imagine i was infact this young vintage vision....

dan da na naaaa....! Carmen Miranda!

What this gal did for fruit and fashion knows no limits..... I predict big things for the tropicana vibe this summer, cocktails, sunshine, parakeets, polka dots and fruit motifs, get in the mood with Lola's Vintage Pina Colada Recipe below.... Rain or not!

30ml white rum
15ml Malibu
30ml milk
Pineapple Juice

To make:
Throw on your finest vintage cocktail dress, attach a variety of Fruits to your head scarf,
put on "Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard,

In a cocktail shaker; Shake rum, Malibu and milk with ice , Shake booty,

Strain into a glass with ice. Fill up with pineapple juice. add umbrellas, swizzle stick, cocktail cherries and anything else silly.

Enjoy!

Love Lola x x x x

60s hats for hiding

just a quickie...what this this erratic british weather rearing it's soggy head.....i thought i'd post a couple of fabulous 60s hats and head covering photos showing some excellent vintage solutions to keeping dry and stylish with an air of Mary Quant chic....

keep fringes neat and eyelashes massive and get experimental with head scarves and hats....

Love Lola x x x

Lets get ready to jumble!

stuck for what to do this sunday....?head on down to Bar Music Hall on Curtain Road, East London,(nearest tube:old street) for a good old fashioned jumble!

word is there shall be cake, vintage, vinyl and much more to be rummaged through!

here's a little peak at what these guys have got up to in the past....this ones a valentines special so expect second hand treats a plenty boys and gals!

Hope to see you there this sunday.....

Myself and Fifi shall be making a brightly coloured stall shaped appearance at their next one in march...

Love Lola x x x

Britain's premier vintage festival!

Word on the rouge coated lips of others was that this year, yes indeed, this very year would be seeing the very first Vintage Festival in the UK!!

Amazing! I did some snooping (...i wore vintage american sneakers....for sneaking.)
and i discovered that it's true!! Late August will see the best clad festival goers yet at Goodwood for the 3 day event! Wayne Hemmingway himself is involved...and so we know it's gonna be a good'un at Goodwood, check it out here...

http://www.vintageatgoodwood.com/

looks like a fantastic weekend or big day out, so whip out the quill and save the date in your diaries...

and just to wet the whistle, here's some vintage party animals rockin' the joint!

Love Lola x

Berlin

finally i am posting this mini reportette... Berlin was a fantastic city!

I researched the top Vintage destinations before i packed my leopard print trunk and bumbled off to Stanstead, and heard that the flea markets ( Mitte region of the City, only on a Sunday) and a chain of huge charity shops named Humana were the best places to discover some buried bavarian treasure!

The city has 18 branches of Humana, (one of which has 5 floors!) I managed to successfully locate one of these! Which was in Alexandraplatz, affordable vintage shop prices in a large charity shop setting, there was a mix of vintage (mostly divided into areas of decade, like a vintage department store!) and newer second hand clothes, a full afternoon of rummaging is definatelt required here!

This little vintage bee thought London was a big city....Boys and Gals i was mistaken! Berlin is giant, and in minus 11-13 temperatures it was trickey to explore.

I had imagined plenty of folk dressed as these two cheeky sausages featured in this 70s knitting pattern, however i found none!

I think it was too chilly for the fashionistas to pear out from behind their hoods and hats, so alas a minimal report on Berlin i'm afraid! I hope to return again when it's warmer and get a better look...

Love Lola x x x

Bow-Wow-ieeeee!!

Just a quickie boys and gals, my fingers are nearly thawed out after a rather cold visit to Berlin ready to blog my discoveries,

In the mean time here's peak at an amazing Bowie Photo from the late 70s, I couldn't resist it!! Showing off some volumous vintage striped trousers.

Patterned jeans and trousers are gonna be big this spring, Think 90s floral jeans and polka dots, high waisted drain pipes / straight cut, or cut off for shorts.



Love Lola x x x