Boho bling, not yet worn

I'm supposed to be hanging around the Blackpool Tower today, but alas, the Holiday Gods want to give me more nesting time with my Brit mannie, who has not only been looking after me and my broken foot, but is as of this morning flaked out on the couch after an emergency tooth-pulling episode.Aren't we a pair of sad sacks.So, in honour of the Glastonbury Festival that just wrapped up in England (which is the new millennium version of Woodstock, I'm...

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Thoughts on Brit fashion mags, as I convalesce

I wish I could show you a pic of moi frolicking in the northern English countryside - today is the first warm, rain-free day we've had in the last six days. Alas, the Grunge Queen is sitting on her butt reading mags and a Nick Hornby novel (set in northern England, of course) as she broke her toe/foot yesterday - the same one she breaks on an annual basis just by looking at it the wrong way.Wah.But my mannie is looking after me, never you fear.What...

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Scrag-about England outfit

I wanted to show you all the fab outfits I had planned for my holidays. Alas, the weather has been so chill in northern England that I've been living in my scraggies. No matter. It has been rather nice to put the Blackberry-toting glam girl in me on hold and just hang, sans makeup, with my British mannie.My scrag-about outfit, though, is pretty thrifty. The jeans, by Angel Jeans, were $3.99, if memory serves, at a Toronto thrift shop. They look like...

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Made in England vintage bag thrifted in - guess where?

Wimbledon (on the tube). Wine. Rain. Cold. Marks and Spencer Simply Food. This is some of the verbiage and experiences surrounding my first few days in England, which- don't get me wrong - have been glorious.Today while my hunny and I were running around, I dragged him into a second-hand charity shop (they're all over the place in Jolly Old) called Barnardos. I was bloody freezing (having packed sexy warm summer togs), so I found  a cute fleece...

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They're new, but they're fabulous

This is my Birthday Suit ha ha. A new 1970s-style pantsuit bought with my Birthday money proceeds. I'm wearing it with my 1970s necklace I featured the other day as the pantsuit is so low cut.I liked it so well that I bought a second one in a smaller size and a different pattern. Psychedelic bay-bee! And hey, I did have some Birthday money left! Thanks sis, for the pressi...

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More 1970s bling

I found another one of these 1970s mosiac-inspired pendant necklaces at the thrift shop the other day. I liked it way better than the plain oval one I found a while back, so I bought this one and sold the other one at my recent garage sale.I can't make out what the design is but it reminds me of Native Canadian a...

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Strategically placed (vintage) jewellery

Eeks. You're always catching me at the end of the day, when I'm tired looking and have missed my chance to have some photog snap me in all my vintage thrifty glory.So I snapped this pic of myself alone on my balcony tonight after I got home. I'm wearing this darling linen peplum-style blazer with crochet detail that I picked up at a consignment shop a couple years ago.The issue is, it's a wee bit too low-cut for the office, and added to that I have...

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Vintage lovers have garage sale

My gal pal Marsha and I had a blast this weekend. We decided, practically at the last minute, to have a garage sale. Here she is showing off some of the vintage 1980s bling she was selling that day.Here I am with an odd lamp that someone gave me, which ended up going in the donate pile at the end of the day.My $5 jewellery table was a huge success - and there's still heaps left so stay tuned and I will tell you about the next sale!I REALLY wanted...

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The Dress, Veronica Slater, et moi: bloggers bond

Remember this dress? Fellow blogger Veronica of Veronica Slater Presents found the same style of Pucci-esque print silk dress in a thrift shop that I also thrifted. Doesn't she look fabulous in it? I love the chunky necklace accessory.Veronica and I met yesterday, in the flesh, for the first time, after commenting on and following eachother's respective blogs for months and months. Not surprisingly, we got along like old friends. Look, we even look...

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More orange

I'm really digging the orange shades I showed you in my last post. They happen to go with my thrifted Matt& Natt handbag, which you see here, and this "new" orange hippie style sundress (only $21). The white cotton jacket was found for $5 at a clearance centre years a...

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Colour my world, bigtime

Today I saw the world through orange-coloured sunnies, literally. Quite the experience. Don't try this if you have a headache as I bet it will hurt. Aren't these 1970s shades super funky? I found 'em for $1.99 at my favourite local thrift shop, Canadian Thrift.I wish I could show you the sassy outfit I wore them with, but alas, I have no dedicated camera person to snap my looks. But you can see I matched the shades with my purse, a thrifted Matt...

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Very special vintage coat, for a very special occasion

I haven't worn this vintage coat for years - as you can see, it's pretty special: a 1930s style (wool) with these gorg embroidered sleeves. I bought it when I was 19 (over 20 years ago!) for just under $200. I remember I had to borrow the cash from my sis, who always saved her bucks (no big surprise I was always shopping, eh?).I had the opportunity to wear it this past weekend, to a party given in honour of a lovely lady who recently passed away,...

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Thrifted frock that changed my life inspired another thrift stylista!!

I've shown you this thrifted silk dress with an Italian label before, but I'm featuring it again as it was exactly one year ago that I wore it, and met my dream man in it. The dress, apparently, influenced the way he thought about me - let's just put it that way!! This is me at a recent party, in THE DRESS.This was me a year ago, with faux tan, just before jetting off to the place where I happened to meet my gorg Brit mannie.A spin-off of an already...

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Can you really let go of nostalgiac stuff, even if you never wear it?

As you look at this rather freakish close-up, that is the question I'm pondering tonight. I bought this 1970s?-esque pendant at a church sale years ago for a couple bucks at most. I have worn it - once. It doesn't really fit into my life or style, but I still love it.I love it because it reminds me of those 1970s Christmas Tree ornaments we used to hang on the tree while growing up - you know, the cut-out balls with the foiled concave insides. It...

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I'm to sexy for my (vintage Franco Mirabelli) shorts

My thighs look like tree trunks but I'm trying to ignore that for all these fab reasons:1). I was modeling second-hand duds found at and styled by the vintage goddesses at Common Sort in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood. Owner Nicole Babin buys, sells and trades second-hand and vintage clothing and accessories, and she has this amazing blog where she posts pics of her customers modeling her wares. Fun eh? She's multi-talented as she's also a fashion...

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