Being inspired by an advert I spotted in my latest Vogue magazine (get me now..) it set me off in a whirl of thoughts and memories. The boldness of the design and style was a ‘flashback’ to the days when fashion was extremely ‘daring’ (not saying it isn’t now) in which you certainly didn’t hide Read More
Is it ‘pathetic’ to be upset when a brand essentially dies? The shop that has been there all your life… now suddenly gone? My mind got thinking this way for a number of reasons, though what piqued my interest was a report of a lone mannequin dressed in black wearing a veil looking very forlorn and Read More
Well the outside stall that offered the Chanel tea set (covered here https://philippanestie.com/it-aint-chanelbut-what-the-hell/) was now selling Versace! Yep…you can buy a mug/plate or a bathroom set…though I had to laugh at the famous Medusa logo because on close inspection she looks rather…cross eyed ahhhh! Then! I notice on a quick browse around the shops ‘Versace’ Read More
On flicking through an old crochet magazine I picked up at the Charity Shop, I was struck by the huge multicoloured crochet bag talk about big! Talk about ambitious! So I searched further and I found a large shopper both you can make, though for me the shopper would be a lot easier as I Read More
Ever since I spotted the Blondie vest in a Charity Shop earlier this year, I’ve been searching for any ‘rock inspired’ fashion only to find no other T-shirt to ‘match’ it for ages and ages. Until just the other week I came across a long black and white top with a ‘mysterious woman’ on it Read More
With the balmy weather we’ve been having showing no abating…it’s been hard to trying to keep cool in this heat wave…so my mind turned to think about swimwear (not an easy subject at my age…coupled with middle age spread…) it was obvious I had to find a ‘cossy with cover’ so a bikini was a Read More
‘Strange’ museum displays, ‘spooky’ shop windows, wig’s on sideways, missing limbs, crinkly clothes, dusty appearance, an occasional ‘musty’ smell, and dynamic poses…what might I be describing? Well it’s those favourite’s of mine…mannequins! Sadly it seems they are disappearing fast…so what is to be done about it? Times are a changing with minimalism, clean lines, and Read More
So I’m in a ‘tight spot’ both physically and ‘fashionably’…still not well, and in a form of erhmm…‘exercise’, I was sorting through my collection of vintage tights. I just love the packaging on these beauties, they also have a definite ‘no nonsense approach’ to labelling! With a ‘full panel gusset’ you really know what they Read More
So it happened again…I’ve got the worst ever back pain. So bad..I collapsed..and ended up in hospital…but enough of that, I want to think no more of pain..whilst in hospital I decided to distract myself, to try escape from my current malaise. So I looked back into those old days when convalescence was the ‘very Read More
My big 50th birthday passed earlier this week, (very scary…) and I was lucky enough to get a Vogue from January 1967 as a present, so to celebrate this I’m posting here some fashion images of how things look back then, and fashion wise it was kind of a ‘groovy time’ to be born, oh yes! Read More
So I was pleasantly surprised to find that down at my local Museum was an exhibition celebrating the eponymous fashion brand Biba, which was founded (shock horror) in the early 1960’s even before I was born! Originator Barbara Hulanicki wanted to bring ‘hip n happening’ fashion looks to the masses, this she achieved and more with Biba. Read More
On a recent visit to a Town nearby, whilst I was browsing an ‘antique-style’ stall (style as it was old ‘n’ new, odds and ends etc) I came across an arresting image entitled ‘Fashion Repeats Itself’ from a sheet of The Illustrated London News dating from 1872, and I knew I just had to buy Read More
