12 Days of Christmas: Day 7
December 11, 201112 Days of Christmas: Day 9
December 13, 2011It’s been a busy and rather festive weekend!
It started on Friday night with Antidote Vintage and their first birthday party. The Antidote shop is an old pharmacy and it still has all the original drawers and fittings, so it’s a gorgeous location for a festive party.
On Saturday night it was a Vintage Christmas Ball at Dragon Hall. I went along to review it for Vintage Norwich, so you can read all about it here!
I decided to wear a dress that I haven’t worn for a few years now as it’s been too small. Despite not having lost a single pound in weight in the last year I have been exercising much more, and have lost about an inch all over. That mean I can now just about squeeze back into this gorgeous 1950s wiggle dress with pale blue embroidery. The dress cost me just £2.50 as part of a lot of about 6 dresses on eBay and I absolutely love it.
It doesn’t look as wiggly in the photo as it is, but there’s no split in the back of that skirt so vigorous dancing is off the menu, though I did manage to fit 5 slices of Biddys Tea Room delicious pie inside it, but that may have been ill advised!
❤ Dress- Vintage ❤ Belt - a gift ❤ Shoes - New Look ❤ ❤ Pearl Necklace - Vintage ❤ Pearl Bracelet - A gift ❤ Hair Flowers - Abilu Creations ❤
That’s Betsy Hatter looking incredibly festive keeping me company. She makes the most gorgeous felt hair flowers, hats and fascinators and is the lady responsible for the Historical Sauces mini mortar boards.
Dragon Hall were serving suitably retro cocktails like Snowballs and Old Fashioneds, so I now feel quite festive!
This weekend I also got back the pictures from the Film Noir Photoshoot I did with Zoe Noir Photography a couple of weeks ago. I’m really pleased with how they’ve come out. There’s a couple here, but you can see the full set on my Facebook album.
We also took a couple of Doppelganger photos, just for fun!
P.S. Todays addition to the Christmas Stocking giveaway is a pair of black What Katie Did Retro Seamed stockings. Any comment on this post will give you another entry into the prize draw! Remember you are entering a prize draw to win all the gifts I’ve revealed, but you can get extra entries every day for more chances to win. Visit the Original post for T&Cs and for links to all the other days to get your extra entries!
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Those Noir photos are a-mazing! You look so cool and suave xx
oooOOoooo, my favourite stockings 🙂 I love the Noir pics.
I have the same blue dress! Such a flattering style.
I would LOOOOOOOVE to win some What Katie Did stockings, how awesome!
Love the wiggle dress. You look gorgeous!
Those photos are stunning!
I love your dress! And those photos!
Love the photos!
OOOOh! that would be just what I’d need! just bought myself a girdle, I’d wanted one you’d recommended some few posts back, but ended up with the black Stockings and Romance one, to go under a really lovely black woolen pencils skirt I found for 3.5€! Love the ZN photo’s; I wish I had your style and patience with the curlers…- is that a different haircolour you’ve got in there?- seems a little less bright, but suiting nonetheless!
You look fabulous in the blue embroidery!
I’d live to win the seamed stockings.
I love the photoshoot pics and that’s good news about the dress! It looks stunning, very festive!
Gorgeous dresses, particularly love the blue one!
Such a pretty dress. You look great.
The results of the photoshoot are very stylish – are these simply for your portfolio or to publicise something else?
I love that dress! An ebay bargain too!? All the better!
Oh goodie! A girl can never have too many pairs of stockings 🙂
Ah, such a glamorous weekend. I’ve taken to wiggle dresses in a big way of late, and that one is beautiful. What a find.
Oh the stockings are the best yet and you look beautiful in the film noir shots!
I love your Noir photos esp the Doppelanger one-sweet!!! xox
The doppelgänger picture is so clever!!
love the pics – they are really intriguing!
x
I’d love to win the seamed stockings!
In the meantime, I’m gooing to have a closer look at ebay!
The photos are amazing, you dress is lovely too what pretty detailing
Lovely stockings
Love the photos.
And I also love What Katie Did – they have great suspender belts that don’t feel like they are going to snap at any second
Love love love! I really hope I win xx
Beautiful stockings!
Great pictures
I saw the pictures in your facebook page and they are fantastic, you look stunning of course 🙂
Stockings are always good.
I’d love to win some seamed stockings (a girl can never have too many…)
Lovely photos, so sultry! And that wiggle dress is super.
You look great in those Noir photos! Did you do your own hair & makeup?
awesome pics, i have yet tp try WKD stockings!
Stunning pictures! Also the doppleganger picture made me smile….whilst taking ooh, a minute for my brain to get around it!
Naughty but nice!
It’s so neat how we can lose inches yet stay the same weight. It’s that muscle ways more than fat thing.
*weighs* …and I’m a writer!
I haven’t tried their stockings yet! I’d love a pair.
Gorgeous Noir pics! Stockings are fab too! xx
You ladies look fabulous! Well done on squeezing into the white dress (you don’t look squeezed in at all, just perfect) And I love the doppelganger photo 🙂
That dress looks gorgeous on you! And such a bargain. Clearly I need to rummage around on eBay more often!
The photos from the shoot are wonderful too.
I so want to do those Noir style photos! xxx
Love the photos & that red dress is gorgeous
WOW! What great photos!!
Oh yum! I can’t stop giggling at that doppelganger photograph.
Ooh saucy!
That dress is such a flattering colour. You look very elegant.
Please enter me to win those stockings, I never really buy any for myself as I’m so clumsy I end up putting ladders in them (usually while putting them on or five minutes later!!)
Great prize! x
I love your pictures as you already know.
My husband would love those stockings. On me, I should probably add. Or at least I hope thats the case.
Very nice photos!