This has been a good week for old things! First I wandered into an antique shop and got chatting to the lovely Mary there. And she told me she had taken possession of a load of old clothes and only wanted the evening dresses and would I like to look through the others? Yes, yes I cried! And did. But they were froma dealer so the price was not a bargain, but nevertheless I invested in these two beauties:
The one above is by Jane Milano and is a size 36 and features a fab 70's swirly peacock fabric. It is maxi length and has groovy, adjustable ruched sleeves... Very stylish - would suit a gal with long flippy 70's hair!
And this one is a great 60's design, a size 36/38, also maxi length and the label is Rosella. Thought it was rather splendid and can imagine it being worked with a good platform or wedge and big plastic earrings?
And then a lovely lady, who had bought clothes from Belinda and I in the days of the now-defunct Noordhoek Country Fair, came wandering into the shop with a bag full of clothes from the church bazaar which she knew were just too splendid to put on the white elephant, so, for a donation to the church's outreach project, they were safely brought home to Rummage! Here is one of them (one other requires some tender laundering and the few more were nice but more modern, so they are on the racks...).
Isn't it lovely? It is a cotton floral fabric (and florals are all the rage, darlin); full length, wide almost circular skirt and fitted bodice. It is a size 36/38, label Kemp Modes, Arnhem (see? imported Dutch vintage - and you know how stylish the Dutch are? They are! I went there in the late 80's, fresh from lefty, grungy UCT, in my dodgy jeans and tekkies - and boy, I felt like a no hoper!)
Aanyway!
Just letting you know there are some beauties lurking on them Rummage rails so hope to see you there soon.
Really hope to - because today we had NO sales... boring as hell!
