28.7.12

70s cocktails





TGI The Weekend, Vintage Dames and Dudes!

Glam Rock week is coming to a close... but what better way to celebrate the weekend than some classic 70's cocktail recipes? 

Take your pick!



HARVEY WALLBANGER

3/4oz vodka
1 1/2 oz orange juice
1/4 oz galliano 
orange slice for garnish
maraschino cherry
ice

fill glass with ice // pour the vodka and orange juice into a glass // top up with galliano // add slice of orange and maraschino cherry // 

story:
supposedly invented by LA mixologist Donato 'Duke' Antone, who had a regular customer called Harvey.

Harvey was a surfer and had lost a competition one night. story has it that he got rather inebriated on the fruity drink and kept banging into the walls and doors.






SLOE COMFORTABLE SCREW
(ah...tee hee hee)

3/4oz vodka
1 1/2 oz orange juice
1/4 oz galliano 
orange slice for garnish
maraschino cherry
ice

fill glass with ice // pour the vodka and orange juice into a glass // top up with galliano // add slice of orange and maraschino cherry // 











KAMIKAZE SHOOTER


3/4oz vodka
3/4oz triple sec
3/4oz sweet and sour
2 pinches sugar
lime slice


fill shooter glass with vodka, triple sec and sweet n' sour // sprinkle pinch of sugar // add wedge of lime









Bon weekend!

25.7.12

glam rock fashion

It's Glam Rock week on the blog and what better way to kick it off than a collection of serious sparkle? Bowie would be proud. 

gold sequin vest
vintage sequin tank // shop

glam rock necklace
glam rock collar // shop

glam rock underwear
glam rock panties // shop

glam rock tee
cropped tee // shop


80s sequin top
sequinned top // shop


gold chainmail scarf
gold chainmail scarf // shop

black sequin vintage tank
sequin tank // shop

glam rock platforms
platforms // shop





23.7.12

glam rock playlist


Happy Monday, Vintage Dames and Dudes!

We hope you had a glorious weekend.

It's a new theme for the week on the blog... we're looking at the fabulously sparkly Glam Rock era!

Here's a little playlist to start your week, with the Glam Rock giants T Rex, Bowie and Iggy Pop, plus Golden Earring and a song that Em loves, by Mud. Enjoy!
two vintage dames

20.7.12

60s mod movement

We're having a party this week on the blog, celebrating dance eras through the decades. We've talked 70's Disco and 90's Rave.... today it's the turn of the swingin' 60's!


The Mod movement is seen by some as one of the most powerful fashion influences in the 21st Century. For the first time, girls were dressing like young women, instead of wearing more petite versions of what they Mother's wore.


The word 'Mod' was an abbreviation for Modernist, which emerged during the 50's and usually referred to Jazz fans. There was a wild Bohemian culture in London at the time, with Beatnik coffee houses entertaining art students until the small hours of the morning.

60s go go boots
vintage go go boots // shop

Young people wanted to be on the cutting edge of fashion. They started to embrace anything that went against the tradition of their parents and the sweet, pure popiness of the 50's. Mini skirts, thigh high boots, streamline clothing and bold colours.

green mod mini dress

60s mod dress // shop

Famous designers of the Mod era included Mary Quant for the girls (the mini skirt) and Ben Sherman for the boys.

Suddenly, it was acceptable for heterosexual men to take an interest in fashion and boy, did they love anything Italian and French. The Kinks even wrote their hit 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion' about the Mod movement.


mod monochrome purse/>
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<div style= mod 60's bag // shop

Women often had short haircuts, wore heavy eyeliner and pale lips. Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy were huge style influences of the time.

Both boys and girls would listen to bands like The Who, Yardbirds and Small Faces, alongside modern Jazz and early RnB. Whilst The Beatles looked Mod in their early days, they weren't popular with the Mod crowd until it after the look became commercialised. 

green 60s micro dress

bright 60's micro dress // shop

Scooters became popular because public transport stopped around 11pm and young Mods wanted to stay out later. Italian brands like Vespa and Lambretta were like 1960's iPhones!

Swanky dance moves included The Swim (think Pulp Fiction), The Locomotion, The Mashed Potato, The Twist and The Shimmy. It was no longer about learning steps with a partner, but more about learning brief, faddish routines with friends.

blue square mod earrings

geometric mod earrings // shop

Go Go Dancers were coined during the 60's, when women were employed to dance on podiums, usually in long boots, and entertain the crowds. Carol Doda was the most famous 1960's Go Go Dancer; dancing at the Condor Club in the Beatnik North Beach neighbourhood of San Francisco. It's pretty rare to see Go Go Dancers in clubs now, unless you go to a gay bar, where the tradition lives on!

monochrome mod scarf
monochrome scarf // shop

During the early to mid 60's, true Mod was at its peak. After 1966, Mod started to become commercialised, with 'Mod' clothing being mass produced by large companies. 


Like many youth-led movements, such as the Flapper Girls of the 20's, the followers grew up, got married, had children and made way for a new generation of style and music. Psychedelia and rock started to take over and the original Mod bands began to change their style as, they too, grew older. 


green 60s coat

60s pea coat // shop

In the UK, Mod experienced a revival in the 90's with the Britpop scene, through bands such as Pulp and Blur. Though the original Mod movement may be over, it's really not difficult to see why the sharp lines and futuristic silhouettes of the time are still sought-after today!

And ok, let's admit it... we've all done The Swim or The Twist on a night out... haven't we?


19.7.12

70s disco fashion

disco wallpaper// source

Recovered from yesterday's rave yet, Vintage Dames and Dudes?
Put down your whistle and slip on your platforms: it's 70's Disco fashion time!
70s disco dress70's disco dress // shop
Disco reigned until the late 70s and became popular in New York and Philadelphia before spreading through other cities, such as San Francisco and Miami, as well as Europe. 
Disco music included artists like Donna Summer, The Bee Gees, Jackson 5, Gloria Gaynor and of course - The Village People!

70s platforms
vintage platform disco shoes // shop

Fashion-wise, we're talking pure hedonistic fun - loud, trippy colours, spandex, high-waists, sequins, metallics, glitter, hotpants, jumpsuits, gold lame, bell bottoms, chunky shoes and bling jewelry.


70s gold necklace70's gold necklace // shop
Nightclubs were popular and of course, required a dresscode. The laid-back vibes of the 60s had passed and as technology and fashion became increasingly accessible, the focus was on style status. If you wanted to Disco, you had to look the part.

70s white jumpsuit
disco jumpsuit // shop

Like the Rave fashion of the 90s, Disco fashion was a costume for the clubs. It was clothing that came out at night time. A casual girl who wore a peasant dress during the day would transform into a Glamazon Queen once the sun went down, sporting a white spandex jumpsuit and sky-scraping platforms. 

70s disco top
disco halter // shop

The term 'disco' came from the French 'discotheque', which meant 'disc only' - i.e. no live music. Disco began as a subculture and became a sign of the times. Unfortunately, racism and homophobia were still rife after the 'free love' sexual revolution of the hippies in the 60's. Black and gay communities found a place in Disco. After the release of Saturday Night Fever, Disco achieved popularity across the races, genders and sexual-preferences.


pink disco dresspink disco dress // shop
Female sexuality was beginning to be embraced more openly than in previous decades. Donna Summer released Love To Love You Baby, which contained simulated orgasm sounds. It was never intended for release, but nightclubbers of the Disco scene loved it. The promiscuity of the 60's continued into the 70's, women wore micro skirts, skintight clothing and began to embrace sexuality in a way that only men had done before. Nightclubs became hunting grounds: it wasn't just about dancing, it was about preening, strutting and parading - from both genders.


70s red jumpsuit70's red jumpsuit // shop

Disco started to filter out in the late 70's, in favour of Dance and Electronic music, Rock and Punk. Despite a move away from the scene, Disco has remained an iconic period to this day, with plenty of nightclubs offering Disco nights or even Disco rooms. 



vintage disco ballvintage disco ball // shop




18.7.12

90s rave fashion

Blow your rave whistles, Vintage Dames and Dudes!

Yes, the 90's are officially vintage. 

rave lights
rave light bra // shop

Well, anything up to 1993, that is.

We're in a partying kind of mood this week and there's no better place to start than the fantastic bold neons of the 90's.

90s rave smiley hoodie
smiley hoodie // source 



The term 'rave' was actually coined in the 50's to describe wild Bohemian parties of the era. It was also used throughout the 60's, due to the emergence of psychedelia and drug use. 


80s nu rave leggings
vintage rave leggings // shop


In the late 80's, with the exploration of electronic music, Acid House music came onto the scene. Drugs and partying were still synonymous with each other and there was something of a psychedelic-electronic revival in the form of yellow smiley faces, bright neon colours, tie dye and various clubbing accessories such as dummies/pacifiers on long ribbons, white gloves, whistles, glowsticks and bum bags... ( or fanny packs in the US; which will make our UK friends laugh)... 

rave windbreaker
vintage rave windbreaker // shop


Rave dancing was free-moving, due to the type of repetitive, electronic beat and the high drug use. It was, in short, about throwing your arms in the air and not really caring whose sweaty face you hit with your elbows - hence bum bags / fanny packs, which clipped around the waist and kept all the clubbing essentials out of harm's way!

neon bum bag fanny pack
neon bumbag / fanny pack // shop

White gloves and glowsticks were used to create 'trailers' - lines of white that dragged in the air under the strobe lights in the dark. Especially when ravers did moves like Big Box, Little Box. Don't know what we're talking about? Look here.


rave neon top
vintage neon mesh top // shop

Ecstasy was one of the most popular rave drugs and it had the unfortunate side effect of making teeth chatter... so dummies were used to calm the mouth... (nice). 

Raves themselves were often huge events, drawing in crowds of 30,000 people or more. Criminal Justice Legislation in the early 90's pushed them underground, to warehouses, fields and large houses in the middle of the country.

neon green sneaker earrings
neon green rave earrings // shop



Due to the legislation, Police Officers were permitted to stop anyone who looked as if they were going to a rave and were also able to shut down large open air raves on the grounds of noise pollution and drug abuse. 



nu rave t shirt
nu wave tee // shop


Alas, the rave movement was, for the most part, given an early curfew - but vintage-inspired Nu Rave neons seem to have a revival every summer to this day!

17.7.12

dances through the decades




Dances Through The Decades by Bellissima Vintages on Grooveshark

Hello Vintage Dames and Dudes!

We hope you had a wonderful weekend.

It's a brand new week and that means a brand new theme on the blog. This week, we're looking at vintage dances through the ages and the fashion that went with them - things like 90's rave neon, 70's disco sparkle and 50's Lindy Hop getups! 

To get things started, here's a dance-themed playlist just for you.


15.7.12

Carolina Beach Style

It's Rock n Roll Sunday with the Dames

Today we are celebrating the beach sounds and styling of Carolina Beach Music.  Beach music is still heard and appreciated to this day in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and had it's own styling to go along with it.  








The ladies would wear crop pants and crop tops, garden party tea length floral dresses, head bands and flat or low heeled leather bottomed shoes a bit of early geometric mod lines tossed in here and there.  

Digger Pants
Pink Silk Clam Diggers // Shop

Vintage Day Dress
1960's Floral Day Dress // Shop

Vintage 60s Blouse Gingham
1960's Yellow Houndstooth Crop Top // Shop


The gentlemen usually wore clam diggers or slacks of a light shade and checked or stripped button down cotton shirts with loafers. 

mod vintage shorts
Vintage Men's Plaid Shorts // Shop

Vintage Men's Shirt Short Sleeve Plaid
Short Sleeve Men's Button Down Shirt // Shop


The flat smoothed leather bottomed shoes were great for the celebrated dance of the time The Carolina Shag.  

Vintage 60s MOD Yellow Patent Vinyl Shoes
Vintage Yellow Mod Shoes // Shop

vintage 60s white loafers
1960's Loafers // Shop


14.7.12

80s Retro

An Etsy treasury geared for those interested in Retro 80's styling...





13.7.12

lucky costume jewelry

Happy Friday, Vintage Dames and Dudes!

Friday the 13th is supposed to be an unlucky day... so we wanted to share a little lucky costume jewelry to offset any of those superstitious vibes. We reckon you can take on any black cat that crosses your path if you wear one of these beauties!

trifari clover brooch
gold Trifari clover brooch // shop


swarovski lucky brooch
swarovski lucky card and dice brooch // shop


vintage rabbit foot necklace
lucky rabbit foot on vintage chain // shop


vintage lucky dice
vintage Danecraft dice brooch // shop





weiss vintage horseshoe pin
weiss horseshoe brooch // shop



coro wishbone brooch
Coro wishbone brooch // shop

gucci horseshoe
paolo gucci horsehoe brooch // shop

dior clover brooch
gold Dior clover brooch // shop