I never thought I’d be consumed with desire for a pair of fluorescent orange patent shoes, but oh my goodness look at these! Aren’t they just mouth-wateringly delicious? These stunning shoes are all by Corthay, a French designer based in Paris. Pierre Corthay makes bespoke shoes by hand, and also produces a ready to wear collection [...]
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The Red Shoes.
Posted in inspiration, shoes on Feb 2nd, 2011
Image © Koronya Oh. My. Goodness. Aren’t these shoes simply gorgeous? The uppers are made from a single piece of leather, and I adore the delicate little detail on the toes. They’re handmade in Budapest by Koronya, who writes a blog about making shoes by hand. It’s been really interesting to read the posts about the [...]
Heart Button Cufflinks
Posted in embroidery, inspiration, sewing on Jan 27th, 2011
The trouble with buying men’s shirts is that the sleeves are always too long. I buy them because it’s quite difficult to find women’s shirts that fasten with cufflinks, unless you can afford to shop at somewhere like Thomas Pink. Then it can be difficult to find pretty or interesting cufflinks, but fortunately it’s extremely easy [...]
These boots weren’t made for walking.
Posted in shoes, shopping, Uncategorized on Jan 17th, 2011
At the end of December I received an email that I just couldn’t resist – a message about the Jeffery~West sale. I went to their website, just to have a look, you understand, and discovered that the Rochester Rafael boots were now half price. Even better – there were several colours left in my size! After [...]
Suddenly obsessed with ties.
Posted in sewing on Sep 28th, 2010
Not a bow tie this time, but a tie nonetheless. The pattern is McCalls 2447, cut to the shorter length. Although I love the way it looks, I have to say that quilting cotton is really not the best material for making a tie. Because it clings to itself, it’s difficult to make a decent [...]
So cool I made another one.
Posted in sewing on Sep 27th, 2010
Yep, it’s another bow tie. I couldn’t resist. Exactly the same as the last one, the pattern is Kwik Sew 3183, and the fabric is “Sew What?” by Michael Miller.
Bow ties are cool.
Posted in sewing on Sep 24th, 2010
This afternoon I made a bow tie, using Kwik Sew 3183. This is the self-tie version, and I looked at a lot of instructions for how to tie it, but these seemed the easiest to follow. It’s nowhere near as difficult as some of the instructions seemed to suggest. The tie is supposed to be [...]
Social Suicide.
Posted in shopping on Jun 3rd, 2010
I wonder how many times I’m going to start a blog post with “my friend’s Patrick’s such a bad influence…”? Yes, here I am again, showing you something that Patrick showed to me. I was musing about clothes for keeping cool in the summer, and he sent me the link to Social Suicide’s new “Holidaze” [...]
Yesterday I went into London, to visit the Foale & Tuffin exhibition at the Fashion & Textile Museum with a friend. Afterwards I had a few hours to spare until I was due to meet another friend for tea, so I’d planned to spend the afternoon looking at the Relics of Old London exhibition at [...]
Jeffery-West
Posted in inspiration, shoes, shopping on Jan 25th, 2010
My friend Patrick is a Very Bad Influence. We were talking about shoes, and he pointed me in the direction of Jeffery-West. Now we’re both coveting beautiful shoes that we can’t afford – and they aren’t even made in my size! (And I still haven’t saved up enough money to go on a shoemaking course.) [...]