My New Celia Birtwell Dress!

Well, I only won this dress and paid for it yesterday, so when the postman knocked and had the parcel, I was so excited! It was like opening a birthday present! I was ecstatic when I tried it on and found it fits like a glove! So, as the sun was out, so the camera came out as well!

My Celia Birtwell for Topshop Clown Frill Dress arrived today!

I thought I would take the chance to show you two other items in my collection:-)

Celia Birtwell for Topshop Mystic Daisy Pussy Bow Blouse, worn with Levi's skinny jeans

Celia Birtwell for Topshop Flowers for Puccini dress

Bus Stop Mania!

Lee Bender at Bus Stop is a very busy label at the moment-it is being sold and highlighted on Vintage-a-Peel.co.uk and there are some lovely pieces currently on EBay, too. I love Ossie Clark and Celia Birtwell, but I have a soft spot for Lee Bender at Bus Stop, too.

Lee Bender for Bus Stop dress sold on EBay last year

2nd image of dress sold last year

I found this beautiful lace jacket at the boot sale last year. It has the label cut out, but I'm 99% certain it is a Lee Bender for Bus Stop piece-I stand corrected if I'm wrong, of course!

Reasons being are the dress above that was sold on Ebay, late last year, is in exactly the same print and material. My jacket is typical of the 70s styling- with balloon sleeves and fitted detail. It is also very well made.

My unlabelled Lee Bender for Bus Stop Jacket/Blouse

The label snipped out was black/gold

Celia Birtwell Day!!

I was really pleased this morning, as I won a dress on EBay that I'd had my eye on for a little while, it is the Celia Birtwell for Topshop clown frill dress, from her 2nd collection. It's all bought and paid for and should be sent by the seller today.

This afternoon, I took Christopher to his uncles house and while I was shopping, lo and behold-not another Celia!! This one was in the 'Sense' charity shop and is from her 'Celia B' for Allders range. It is in a slinky black rayon and has a lovely satin and net applique neckline and decolletage. It was only £4.75 and my size as well!!

Just as well I had my declutter on Friday-that was obviously meant to be!! Piccys will follow, as this black dress needs to be cleaned.

Alice Pollock Blouse

I've been swooning over this blouse for a while now, its on http://www.vintage-a-peel.co.uk/separates/alicepollock.html.

This website is one of my favourites, as it has a lovely selection of Ossie Clark, Lee Bender at Bus Stop, Jean Muir and other British Boutique Movement labels.

Also, thanks to Miss Peelpants for mentioning my blog on your blog!

Beautiful Alice Pollock blouse with Celia Birtwell print, available now

Quotes of the Day-The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Quotes from The Mail on Sunday and Vogue May Supplement that caught my eye

The Good-

"Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
Coco Chanel

"The truly fashionable are beyond fashion"
Cecil Beaton

"What is a cocktail dress? Something to spill cocktails on?"
from The Ex-Mrs Bradford (1936)


The Bad-

"Because someone is in a white coat and using big medical instruments doesn't mean they are right"
Kylie Minogue-mistakenly given the all clear, weeks before the discovery of breast cancer

"Working nine to five, what a way to make a living"
Dolly Parton

"I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don't know what I've done to annoy them."
Bosnian villager, whose home has been hit 5 times by meteorites

The Ugly-

"I thought it did her the world of good and now I'm getting lots of offers to restyle the hair of women of her age"
Heather Mills, on pouring a jug of water over her ex husbands divorce lawyer in court

"I have made a grave error and consider myself to have taken a 'wrong turn' in the course of my life"
Eva Rausing, wife of the heir to the Tetra Pak empire, on being caught with cocaine and heroin