We ventured out of our comfort zone today in pursuit of tie pins and fifties sundresses - we travelled extreme west to the satisfyingly solid 1930s
Hammersmith Town Hall on a pilgrimage to visit the
London Vintage Fashion Fair.
Truly vintage heaven this, a cornucopia of of
textiles, colours and textures. Beaded bags, silk ties, feathered hats, lace and ribbons and buttons, worn leather
Gladstone bags. Everything from ostrich feather fans to heavy beaded flapper dresses to bold fifties prints to seventies polychrome polyester.
I tried on a lilac polka dot forties pinafore and a cornflower print fifties sundress, and lovingly trailed my fingers through trays and trays of bead necklaces and diamante brooches.
We moved on to
Chiswick High Street to check out the
Old Cinema antiques shop and ate our hearts out over beautiful, mint condition mid-century moderns pieces that we'll never be able to afford: the lead 'if-we-had-the-money' buys? A brick red fifties three piece suite and a haberdasher's chest, full of tiny drawers.
We can but dream ...
