IDOLS CRAVING BALLERINAS

Sometimes the main reason I started this blog is because I have a story that goes with every single piece of clothing I own & in "real" life no one asks me about it. Probably the fact that most of my friends are male adds to this, but anyway. Today was one of those days when wearing this dress in the surprisingly sunny & slightly windy day turned a couple of heads, got a fair few looks. But no one went "I love your dress, where did you get it from?" Is it just me that asks this to strangers because I fear that far too few people do it at all.

So the story is: a paid way more for this dress than I wanted too just because the silk it's made of is extraordinary, the print gets a different identity every time I (or anyone else) looks at it (I think it resembles a flapper girl in profile) & I don't actually own anything pink. I got it in Berlin on Surezstrasse which has loads of vintage & antique shops on it. The shop this was in was my second favorite, after Tony Durante's where I unfortunately didn't buy anything & felt very guilty. But it was full of gorgeous silk & cotton slips and bedclothes, with lots of edwardian underwear & menswear as well. But it was the row of stunning dresses that of course, stole my heart. I have their card somewhere... but if anyone goes to Berlin, even if you don't want to buy anything I beg you to go there & see what vintage shopping should always be like!

Plus blue nail varnish because

I'm missing Mr Jesus Rogers!