The Egyptian snake charmers daughter

Frock number two has travelled all the way from New Zealand...

The Frock:

I was sent this stunning vintage wrap dress by bona fide frock goddess Helga in July last year. 

I often start planning a holiday wardrobe long before I'm even planning a holiday and as soon as I clapped eyes on this beauty I knew it had to come with me on my next magical mystery tour and so it did ;)

It is labelled 'Oriental Crafts'.

This frock ticks all the boxes in my opinion with its comfy & chic cut, stunning brick red colour and amazing print.

The Trimmings:

Also featured in the pics are a pair of vintage 70s St Michael raffia wedge sandals that I bought from a local charity shop, a pleathora of jingly-jangly bangly things that I've picked up from a variety of markets & boot sales here in London.

The Hair:

 Two synthetic ponytails bought from PAK cosmetics, attached with the help of one thousand and one kirby grips...it certainly felt like that many anyway ;)

It has to be said that it was a bit of a pain in the proverbial to do this at five in the morning.

The Hindsight:

I could have saved myself a lot of bother if I had only brought a wig instead.

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 Have a great week peeps, thank goodness it's only four days til Friday!

Lot's of love,

Jennie

xXx

Green is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520–570 nanometers.

In honour of Saint Patrick's Day I've decided to do a a post on one of my favourite colours i.e. Green!

I scoured the offerings of my fave blog goddesses and found gorgeous green outfits galore, feast your eyes on this fabulous lot...

VIX

HELGA

DESIREE

SARAH

LA DAMA

Here's some fabulously green frockage from my own wardrobe...

...and two new garments to hit my vast amassment of vintage clobber :)

A kitschtastic Kermit green vintage 70s jumpsuit labelled 'JOSHUA TREE - California' & a sweet seafoam green 'Dollyrockers' frock...

Hope you are all having a cracking weekend!

 Beannacht Lá Fhéile Pádraig!

Lot's of love,

Jennie

xXx

A-Z of Frocks

Over the past week I've been enjoying reading the A-Z posts featured on several peoples blogs. 

I did for a brief moment entertain the thought of doing one myself but decided against it after remembering how flipping long it took me to do a similar post in the past. 

I always seem to get stuck & can't think of anything remotely witty to write. 

So I thought instead of doing an A-Z about myself, I'd do an A-Z about some of my fabulous frocks, much easier!

If you haven't already, you can pop over to Helga's, La Dama's, Vix's & Desiree's blogs to check out their proper A-Z posts but before you leave here's my frocking one ;)

A is for Autumnal colours

B is for Batwings

C is for Chinese print

D is for Dominatrix

E is for Eighties

F is for Floral print

G is for Gold

H is for Heritage prints

I is for India

J is for Jive

K is for Kanga

L is for Ladylike

M is for Maxi

N is for Nautical

O is for Oceania blue

P is for Psychedelic print

Q is for Quirky print

R is for Ruffles of lace

S is for Swinging sixties

T is for Theatrical

U is for Urban Warrior

V is for Velvet devore

W is for Wool

X is for Xena

Y is for Yardgrass green

Z is for Zebra print

That's all for this time peeps!

Lot's of love,

Jennie

xXx

A surprise parcel from the undisputed queen of quirk

My other 'KATI' dress was delivered this morning but its arrival was totally eclipsed by the content of another mystery parcel.

For a moment I thought I’d been sleep-eBaying but after peeking at the sender address I realized that it was from the tremendously fabulous Helga.

What a darling she is surprising me with a parcel of goodies all the way from New Zealand, thank you ever so much my lovely!

I fell totally head over heels in love with the two fabulous frocks in the parcel.
In fact so much so, I had to shed all my clothing and pop one immediately.
Here it is, isn't it just flipping AMAZING!

The print, the colour, the cut...just WOW!

It's labelled 'Oriental Crafts' and the print is in my opinion art gallery worthy.

It's a wrap dress, but unlike some of my other wrap dresses the skirt on this one is gorgeously billowing.

As for the colour...a sumptuous terracotta red, simply stunning!

Helga is a complete wiz at getting frocks that fit me like a glove too, what a marvel!

It's been piddling down here most of the day, so I only managed to get pics of one dress outside before the sky ripped open again but I thought I'd rope Barbara in on the frock action too.

So here she is modelling the second fabulous frock...

Another art gallery worthy print, I think you'll agree & the cut is very 70s cocktail party hostess, I love it!

The label on this one reads 'Styled by Exclusive Frocks, Made in Christchurch New Zealand'.

I'll take some proper pics of this & the 'KATI' frock tomorrow...if it has stopped piddling outside by then.

Helga my dear, you’ve got me on a mission now to reciprocate your overwhelming kindness. 

This is not the first time that Helga has lavished me with gifts, here are some pics of other amazing stuff that has made the journey all the way from Christchurch into my vintage wardrobe...

Vintage 70s sky blue leaf patterned maxi (that I hitched up for this pic), The funkiest hot pink vintage cap ever & a very stylish 50s frock in navy blue.

Like I said 'FUNKIEST CAP EVER' & a vintage 70s dreamy pink swirl pattern maxi frock.

I almost wet myself when she sent this awesome Hawaiian vintage bikini. I brought it with me on our hols in Malaysia & Thailand earlier on this year. Mark (my hubby) wrote Helga's name in the sand before taking that sunlounger pic ;)

Goodies galore from the undisputed queen of quirk, anyone who hasn't got Helga on their blogroll hasn't lived yet as far as I'm concerned. 

Along with Desiree, Vix & Sarah she makes up my fantastic four 'Legendary Frockers' as featured in my sidebar.

If there is such a thing as a 'must-have' on a blogroll then surely these fab four ladies fall into that category, so if you haven't as yet...add them...they will make your life sweeter as they have done mine :)

Thanks again Helga, I LOVE my new frocks & the funky bag too.

Lot's of love,

Jennie

xXx