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Archive | July, 2010
It’s a common reaction
28 Jul
Been at a hair do tonight – although I’m working on a fashion feature about the return of straight, I was ECSTATIC to see the Louise Goldin look recreated before my very eyes (above). Regular readers will be aware of my obsession for the Louise Goldin hair from last season – sulky teenager hair, all over one eye and slightly greasy on top. TIGI were the guys behind it, and spent tonight explaining how to get it. I took about 300 photos of the model’s hair and have been studying the lookbook since I got home.
But back to straight – I’m excited for its return. It’s time! Let’s do something new! I love Chloe-style waves and huge curls and big beehives – this isn’t new information. But when it comes to fashion looks, things need to change up seasonally. We’ve had about ten years of lovely bedhead curls, let’s do something different… The poker straight look they demonstrated (up top) was stunning in its simplicity, and I really, really hope this is one trend that makes the transition off the catwalks to the high street.
PS Sorry for the gloomy pics. I have better ones but they need to go through the work machine first.
Young hearts make such foolish mistakes
27 Jul
This Elle Sweden shoot was too good to send to my hair archives. Sorry for posting almost all of it, but it’s just so lovely I can’t help myself.
So excited for this new hem length, so ready for it, so bored of everything in the shops…
Mona Johannesson // Elle Swewden // August 2010 // shot by Jimmy Backius // all via FGR
Warm below the storm
25 Jul
[Click for full size - the first picture is the only thing that's inspired me to change my desktop in months.]
The Krazy Kat Klub – a bohemian hangout, in a treehouse, in Washington DC. These pictures are from 1921. In 1919 the Washington Post described it as, “something like a Greenwich Village coffee house, in an alley near Thomas Circle”. The building is still there, apparently.
Public Service Announcement
25 Jul
Sometimes I think to myself, Rachael, you’re not doing enough online. I mean, sure, I’m spending 70-80% of my life on the Internet, but is that really enough? Could I not be trying a little harder to push that stat up to something closer to the upper echelons of the 90s?
With that in mind, I’ve set myself up another little project. I’m doing a hair Tumblr – I figured hair is my bread and butter, and rather than clog this blog up with countless hair pictures that I don’t have much to say about, it would be a nice outlet.
So, if you’re into hair of any variety, take a look.
A man of the world
24 Jul
Not really trying to just rip off Twin, but she just posted this ace link to Out of Print Clothing, and I felt the need to share this Fitzgerald number. I think book t-shirts could happily be the new band t-shirts. I’d rather see people wearing Of Mice and Men shirts than faux-distressed Motorhead ones, it’s just funnier.
As a fully fledged Francis Scott Fanclub member (not really, that doesn’t exist), the Tales of the Jazz Age cover has always been one of my favourites. Not quite my number one though, that accolade goes to this:
Friday Afternoon Disco
23 Jul
Last weekend we went to see Toots and they Maytals // Lee Scratch Perry // The Congos. Andy said I should have made a reggae playlist last week, but it was too late. So here you go with one this week. Like last week, there’s a YouTube playlist and track running under the cut, as well as the usual Spotify link.
Make it across the Bay Bridge fast enough to put the beer in the fridge
22 Jul
Nikki and the Corvettes. All style no substance? Some might say, but I think they still had a few good tunes. My iPod stuck on their album today; that’s 2 x 40 minute commutes listening a 30 minute album. You do the math(s).
A little bit more than me
22 Jul
Some of you may be aware that my right honourable Twin (check out her new website) earns a reputable living designing for the high street. I’d say pretty much anything nice on the high street is the result of her hard labour – weird to think her doodlings are hanging in the wardrobes of the world…
A little game I like to play (because I am a sad bastard) is, ‘what did Twin design?’
When Look magazine lands on my desk every week, or I take a stroll down the high street at lunch, I look out for anything I think Christine might have been responsible for. I never actually check with her (sad bastard, see above), but I definitely have it down pat. Having spent three years at uni pretty much working in tandem with her, and all the following years shopping/blogging/shooting with her, I’m pretty sure my eye is trained accurately.
This week I decided to put my talents to the test, after spying a frock in Peacocks that I had my eye on. One message later and… Sure enough, I was right. Conjoined thinking.
PS My collage is better than hers
PPS I have had this song in my head since I started thinking about this post, lulz!
I like the words you say and all the things you do
22 Jul
DO LIKE.
God I love the Tate. Like/Dislike Stamp Set, £20, available at all good [Tate] gift shops now.
Done up like a dog’s dinner since 1984
The Good Stuff
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Vintage shopping in Sheffield: an essay of sorts
A couple of months ago a reader asked me for advice on vintage shopping in my hometown of Sheffield. I finally returned to the motherland this weekend and took the opportunity to do a bit of shopping… all in the name of research. Sorry for the shit pictures, people in Sheffield seemingly get weirded out [...]
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My Super Big New York Guide
Hi guys! This page got deleted when I moved over from my old blog but after some extraction work down at the coal face, it’s back in its rightful home. This guide is now… several years old so undoubtedly some stuff is out of date and I guess a lot of places will have closed. [...]
