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Guest Post: Most Valuable Vintage Items

Guest Post: Most Valuable Vintage Items

The news is littered with stories of the latest auctions of iconic clothes and accessories, with price tags that still manage to shock us all. Here are some of the most valuable vintage items, both in terms of cultural and monetary worth 1.      Marilyn Monroe’s ‘Seven Year Itch’ dress It is one of the most(…)

Guest Post: 10 Vintage Buying Tips For Beginners

Guest Post: 10 Vintage Buying Tips For Beginners

For everyone starting out in the vintage scene, it can be a bit nerve-racking! You look at all the lovely blogs and pin up photos around the web, and you wonder where to begin. Before starting on the tips, every vintage loving gal should know, you need to figure out what your end goals are:(…)

Guest post: the mysterious story of the Tigra-Girl

Guest post: the mysterious story of the Tigra-Girl

Everybody knows the beautiful green cigarette packets with a beautiful woman on the front dressed up in a tiger suit. She looks at you with intense seductive eyes and even if you don’t smoke, you’d want the packet just for its beautiful picture. A lot of people like the cigarettes or like the packet but(…)

Vintage Style Icons: Barbie

Vintage Style Icons: Barbie

Barbie has been a fashion icon for girls (both young and old) since the late 1950s. What would be a more perfect way of celebrating vintage style than through Andi (of Andi B. Goode)’s collection of fabulous vintage Barbies! Which is your favourite? Hi We Heart Vintage readers – I’m Andi (of Andi B. Goode)(…)

Vintage French weddings 1920s-1970s

Vintage French weddings 1920s-1970s

I’m delighted to have a guest post today from the lovely French blogger Anne who blogs at chicandgeek.com. She has agreed to share some of her wonderful family wedding photos from the 20s through to the 70s. Enjoy, and merci Anne! The pictures I’m happy to share with you today came in my mailbox (the(…)

Vintage bathing suits

I’m a huge fan of vintage swimwear (sooo much more appealing than a string bikini *shudder*) and I’m delighted to welcome Julia of Jeeze Julia who’s agreed to do a guest post for me and share two of her grandmother’s beautiful vintage bathing suits, enjoy! When you’re a lake girl, you collect a lot of(…)

How did 1950s models get such tiny waists? The low down on waist training

How did 1950s models get such tiny waists? The low down on waist training

I’ve often marvelled at the different body shapes which have been in fashion over the decades: from the skinny boyish figure of the 1920s and 1960s to the fabulous hourglass figures of the 1950s. It also got me wondering why people don’t look like that today. Above: 1950s model and pinup Betty Brosmer. Image courtesy(…)