Vintage Verity

Adoring all things vintage, retro and downright quirky

Subway chic August 19, 2008

These are the first few images from an exciting photoshoot we did over the weekend for a brand new Bristol-based cultural magazine called Kerouac’s Dog. As one of the contributors, I decided to provide a fashion spread on three up and coming young Bristol designers – here are the images from the shoot we did with Anna Stretch’s fabulous evening gowns…

 

 

 

These are just a teaser, local people will have to wait for the mag to come out to see the rest!

 

Credits:

Styling, hair & make-up: Verity Gough

Photography: Heidi Gough

Models: Charlotte Coombes, Anna Stretch, Meera Joshi

 

Sparkly new find – Remakeables! August 7, 2008

Every so often you come across a company whose products take your breath away – well, welcome to my recent breath thief, the Remakeables (thanks to my sister Shiv for sharing this one with me!)

I could barely contain my excitement when I clicked on the link and saw the swathe of beautiful kitsch fabrics and super-cute buttons that they stock, and the prices aren’t half bad – of course, it is a US company (sheesh!) but hey, I’m getting used to that!

Here is a selection of the fabrics that I have already ordered:

 

Origin: Japan
Length: 113cm
Prices start with 1 unit=25cm – £3.17

Oh so lovely Bambi-inspired orange (my fave colour) fabric – planning to make some cushions in this one…

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Origin: Japan
Length: 115cm
Prices start with 1 unit = 25cm – £2.11

I can’t get enough of text fabric, so these green and orange based images and newsprint on beige cotton fabric tick all the boxes…

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Origin: Japan
Length: 114cm
Prices start with 1 unit = 25cm – £2.80

I love this beautiful flower print and think it would look great around the bottom of an A-line skirt

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Origin: Japan Length: 114cm
Prices start with 1 unit = 25cm – £2.80

 

Super summery, these lovely, bright and colourful flowers on medium-weight cotton blend fabric make me want to take off my shoes and run barefoot through a meadow – mind the thistles!

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And how about these rather super robot buttons – and the good-enough-to-eat apple buttons at the top of this post – there is a remarkable range of buttons and other trimmings to choose from too! Now shoo! You’ve had a taster, go and see for yourself.