Op shop
Outfit of the week – Royal wedding
Last Saturday night I had some girlfriends over to watch the Royal wedding of Meghan and Harry. Frocking up was optional but we all dressed up in our own fashion. Op shop fashion that is. Read more…
Last Saturday night I had some girlfriends over to watch the Royal wedding of Meghan and Harry. Frocking up was optional but we all dressed up in our own fashion. Op shop fashion that is. Read more…
A few weeks ago I went to a friend’s place for dinner. I took along some of my son’s clothes he’s outgrown to see if their son would like them and he chose a couple Read more…
I bought this navy frock on the weekend at one of my local op-shops. I think it’s a home-made dress as the only thing like a label was a small size label which I accidentally Read more…
I was sorting through photos a few weeks ago on a hot weekend when the weather precluded doing much outside the house. I was making my annual photo book for 2013 – I know – Read more…
A year ago I visited The Dressmaker exhibition at Ayers House in Adelaide. It featured many of the outfits from the the movie of the same name directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Kate Winslet Read more…
None of my long, retro frocks (image above) made it into OpFrocktober. This is probably because I had a wardrobe full of other ones to display throughout the month. However, I have a collection of Read more…
During my month of OpFrocktober I got my teenage son to take photos of me – bless him – and he did so without complaint. Our usual routine was that we would go out to Read more…
In part 1 I outlined my reasoning for wearing my op shop frocks during October and added photos of these for half of the month. Below is the rest of them. When you wear dresses Read more…
Three years ago I participated in Frocktober, a fundraising effort for ovarian cancer research. The idea is that you wear frocks as little or as much as you like in the month of October while Read more…
I wouldn’t say I conform to latest styles which is stating the bleeding obvious I guess, being a regular at op shops. I love it when I can mix a vintage item with something newer Read more…