easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in exhibitions, photos on Apr 2nd, 2010
This morning we paid an impromptu visit to the REME Museum of Technology at Arborfield. We wanted to go somewhere local, but that we’d never been to before, so this fit the bill perfectly. We were both surprised at how big the Museum was, and also how good the displays were. I have to say [...]
Posted in inspiration on May 12th, 2009
I was watching Cranford on the iPlayer, when I spotted Harry wearing a smock! I couldn’t get a clearer picture than this, but there’s a smocked panel front and back, and at both the shoulders and cuffs on the sleeves. Am I going to see smocks everywhere I look from now on?
Posted in culture on Feb 18th, 2008
This weekend we were idly looking at the magazines in the local shop, when Paul said, “I can’t believe you haven’t picked up this!” “This” turned out to be a magazine by Yours (the best-selling lifestyle magazine for the fifty-plus woman, apparently), called, “50 Years of Everyday Fashion: How the Women of Britain Created Glamour [...]
Posted in culture on Jun 20th, 2007
Look at what my Mum found, when she was clearing out some things from my Grandma’s house! None of the envelopes have dates on them, but the style of the illustrations and the style of the clothes suggests late 1950s/early 1960s. Even better – they’re in a size which I can modify to actually fit [...]
Posted in culture on May 23rd, 2007
I’m reading the most fantastic book at the moment – The Way We Wore, by Robert Elms. It’s about one man, and the importance of his clothes as he grows up. It’s a social history, and a sartorial autobiography. Robert Elms is half a generation older than me, so some of the earlier parts of [...]