Relaxing in Daks
This Simpson of Piccadilly brochure c1937 is one of my favourite things. The illustrations, the clothes, the layout, the format....
This Simpson of Piccadilly brochure c1937 is one of my favourite things. The illustrations, the clothes, the layout, the format....
Next week I am doing some quite intensive museum things. Going to a conference about them. My brain might well...
I really see nothing wrong with this image. At all. It’s from Vogue May 1945. I have come over a...
The New Man. As he was drawn by Douglas in Spring 1933. This magazine was produced by The Rego Clothiers...
I don’t lust after much in fashion. Even though I write about much in fashion. I’m not a fashionable shape,...
The Austin Reed man was a bit spoilt with nice graphics and advertising in the mid-twentieth century. Austin Reed is...
I like shop window display. I like fashion. I like toys. I like it when all 3 of these things...
An era that interests me, ephemerally-speaking, is the Utility scheme of the Second World War. It ran from 1941 to...
The fashion world is often accused of being ephemeral. How great it is, then, when that means nice bits of...
Shelf Appeal is on an exhibition run this week. That’ll be because of Paris, then. The frock exhibitions in Paris...
It’s London fashion week. Again. So here is a bit of ephemera from my pile of donated fashion tat. From...
At the risk of repeating myself (I’m pretty sure I blogged Autumn last year) the weather is amazing at the...