Felicity cuteness
I’m really tired. I have too much work to do. My back hurts. I can’t think of anything brilliant to post. Solution: Felicity cuteness.
Year: 2011
Wow madam…those are some shoes
Some vintage items really challenge our cultural perceptions of an era. Take these boots. We think of the Edwardian women as status and propriety bound carryovers of the Victorian era, clad in layers of white and pastel frills, and encouraged to be eminently retiring and delicate and feminine. These boots turn all of that on its head. They are feminine, that’s for sure, but there is nothing retiring, pastel, or frilly about them! They are so loud, and high, but the lack of ornamentation is also very elegantly restrained. And the curves! They are basically the shoe version of Camille Clifford’s figure! Can you imagine the sensation that Camille would have cause if she had worn these? My legs certainly don’t have the right curves to pull them off! I wonder who did wear them, or what market they were intended for? Perhaps they were the sort of shoes that ‘nice’ women would never consider. Hehe, turn-of-the-century slapper boots!
Friday Review: Three Buckets Full
Three Buckets Full 509 High Street Boulcott Lower Hutt City Wellington What it is: an antiques and notions store with a focus on textiles, sewing, and beading. Three Buckets Full is the Wellington areas best-kept secret: everyone who has ever been to it raves about, and loves it, but the shop does no advertising, isn’t on the internet, doesn’t really even have a phone line, is in the most unpromising location, and has the most inconspicuous, uninteresting shopfront. If you don’t hear about the place by word of mouth, you are never going to find or visit it. Luckily, word of mouth in the Wellington textile world is alive and well, and once I discovered it, Three Buckets Full became my favourite store ever. Or at least, one of the more dangerous stores ever to take me in to. It carries all of the most delightful and drool worthy pogey bait types: vintage jewellery, beads, buttons, lace, antique trims, old sewing notions, fabric, vintage textiles. The only thing I don’t care for is the dolls. …