Not an heiress but a married-into sort of person, a WHOLE LOT more interesting than the actual heiressy crass-chic we have now &, of course, w/ much better taste. Her grandfather was Augustus John & her great aunt Gwen, for heavens sake.

tags:

• balloon sleeves
• , peacock blue
• , vintage clothing for women
• , mid-century clothing
• , treacy
• , biba
• , betsey johnson
• , enokiworld
• , ossie clark
• , treacy lowe

.....that I've ever seen--cos the best pair's MINE & i am gonna sell em this week. Enokiworld, btw, is the hippest & best of the venerable vintage dealers online. [Especially if one or another of them is listening--even if not] They had The Best Bill Gibb suit I have yet to encounter. & theyre still ABSOLUTELY worth a gander. Cant touch them, either. Not easily.

tags:

• vintage couture
• , 40s
• , style
• , silk satin
• , paradise
• , silver
• , metallic
• , vintage
• , new york
• , shoes

One of the better examples of 60s nostalghia for the 20s--flappers, fitzgerald, clara bow, jazz babies--& all that. Preceding by less than a decade the early 70s fascination for all things 30s, then 40s, then 50s--whereto & wherefrom we now reference & re-reference, like a trompe l'oeill painting of a painting of a painting of a painting..... Where will it all stop? I wonder about this sometimes, especially as we are running out of late 20C decades. Perhaps not as sexy as what would accompany the soon-to-be-then's Ossies, tho certainly a better evocation of Twiggy & her era would be difficult to find.

tags:

• shoe porn
• , 30s
• , twiggy
• , vintage
• , 60s
• , shoes
• , jazz
• , flapper
• , flats
• , vintage clothing for women

1930s crèpe dress, an archetypal Ossie inspiration, beyond incredible, tho too rich for my own personal tired blood [$800US is an underestimate. The auction has yet to conclude, has yet to even begin]. Brought to you, once again via me but, in this case, initially via Kerry Taylor, London.

tags:

• full length
• , wraparound
• , vintage
• , wrap
• , auction
• , garbo
• , mulberry
• , 30s
• , 1930s
• , burgundy

Now me, I wouldnt buy em cos theyre flat but I am personally & professionally impressed. I was too young in the seventies to buy any wonderful objects [even tho my father had the peculiar presence of mind to buy me my first pair of platforms, age nine]. In the eighties, when I was old enough to be the purchaser of my own life, it was w/ relish that I remembered what I couldnt get--& waited for my turn. & waited. The wait thru the 80s was long & nearly fruitless. There were a few, tho--One was Maud Frizon. Represented here at her best--even sans archetype heel.

tags:

• beautifully designed clothing
• , 1980s
• , boots
• , shoes
• , frizon
• , maud frizon
• , vintage clothing for women
• , otk
• , couture
• , maud