We love a good vintage accessory – the pearls, the jewels, the sparkle, it’s every girls dream! So today we’ve welcomed Gabi into our fold who will be doing some work experience with us over the coming weeks. Gabi’s blog looks into the dazzling World of vintage accessories! —————– The beauty of vintage is that every piece is original and individual and can be a lot cheaper than high street buys. But what makes vintage accessories really special (and why … Continue reading →

Lets talk vintage and Oscars! Here’s another lovely blog by our fab girls Emma and Gina, good work gals! In 1927 The Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences made the bold decision to reward the best movie, director and actor of the planet. An ambitious idea? Yes, because the award wouldn’t only be a “trophy”, but a symbol too. So in 1929, during the first ceremony Margaret Herrick, an employer of the Academy, unintentionally nicknamed this gold figure of excellence. … Continue reading →

Happy New Year from us at Britain Does Vintage! We hope you’ve shrugged off 2013 and are ready for a fantastic 2014, we know we are!  2014 sees us welcome a lovely new member of team, Gina (the fabby author of this post)! We think it’s pretty savvy, we’d love to know your thoughts!  Love them or hate them, the January Sales are still in full swing with big red signs all over the high street trying to grab your … Continue reading →

Ever wanted to know if something really is vintage? Well our Laura has gone to town (this is a super long, highly informative read so bag your spot on the sofa for this one guys!) to create a ‘know how’ on figuring out if your favourite dress is actually vintage! (eeek!) With designers often using vintage fashion as inspiration for newer pieces (Jaeger, Marc Jacobs to name a few) to the untrained eye it can be tricky to know whether … Continue reading →

Ever fancied creating the perfect pin up look? Well fear not … the lovely folks from Corsets UK have only gone and shown us how to transform yourself into the perfect 50′s doll! Along with the pristine 50s housewife fashion we’re all familiar with, there’s also something fascinating about the whole pin up style and attitude from the same era. Although the 50s is somewhat known for it’s housewifey, conservative look, the pin up style was also emerging and becoming rather … Continue reading →

This fabulous insight into the 1920s was written by one of our lovely, lovely interns, Beth Elenor. Read on to see what a great job she did! (Please feel free to comment at the bottom of the post, we’d love to hear from you!) Today sees the UK release of a theatrical adaptation of “The Great Gatsby” directed by the infamous Baz Luhrmann (an Australian director, screenwriter and producer also well known for directing Romeo & Juliet and Moulin Rouge … Continue reading →

We’ve said it once and we’ll say it again, one of the main reasons why we love our job is because we get to meet some really lovely and talented folk. Ruby from Frank on Olive has kindly written this fabulous blog on crochet through the ages. Throughout the decades crochet has stayed pretty much the same, swooping in and out of fashion magazines and catwalks around the world, that same old traditional square pattern you see thrown over the … Continue reading →