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40s Frocks and Parisian Fountains

Now, I COULD have put these photos in Mondays post. I COULD have done, but I like this dress, and I like the photos we took, so I decided to award them a blog post all of their own. This was Saturdays outfit for wandering the streets of Paris on really quite a warm autumnal

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Retro Chick Competitions Travel & Events

Bonjour!

Hello! Did you all have a lovely weekend? I certainly did. We paid our little caravan in the woods a visit, and then headed off to Paris for a lazy weekend eating cheese, drinking beer and cocktails and wandering the streets idly stopping to eat Croque Monsieur and shop for tat. Today I mostly plan

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Dear Diary

Au Revoir!

Not really, I’ll be back on Monday as ususal! If I’d had something interesting to schedule in advance for today you’d probably never even have noticed I was gone. I’ve been so rushed off my feet though that this is the best I can do. It’s my wedding anniversary tomorrow, and we are off to

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Fashion & Beauty

Winter Warmers

I wanted a cape for YEARS! You couldn’t find them anywhere, unless they were stupidly expensive. Now, all of a sudden, they’re everywhere! Of course, some of the things they call capes just appear to be coats with baggy sleeves. What I always wanted was something that’s essentially akin to a very smart blanket. Something

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Dear Diary

A Marvellous Cocktail Party….. The Return

Phew, what a weekend! Friday was the return of A Marvellous Cocktail Party at Farmer Browns in Tombland. It’s a 1930s themed cocktail party, with the focus on a bit of glamour, and some truly marvellous cocktails, properly made, strong, and cold. I was so super busy at the start of the evening that I

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Fashion & Beauty

Retro Chick Reviews – Soap & Glory Super-Colour Fabulipstick

Well, this is SUPPOSED to be part of the red lipstick review series. You’ll notice however, that it doesn’t start with a chart. The reason for that is that this is most definitely not a red lipstick. Still, it’s a very good lipstick, so it’s worth reviewing anyway! I have a back log of red

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Fashion & Beauty Vintage

3 Ways to Wear a Beret

I LOVE Berets. I think they’re the best hat in the world and I’ll have one in every colour please. Thanks. They’re essentially about 8 hats in one. A slight change in the tilt, how you tuck the brim and how poufy you make it creates a whole new hat. They also don’t blow off

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Dear Diary

Happy Halloween, and Other Stuff….

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! I hope you’re all feeling suitably spooky? I’m wearing an awful lot of green eyeshadow today, to bring out my inner witchyness. Do you like my special Halloween header? Seeing as I don’t have a party to go to this year I decided Mini Chick ought to dress up for the occasion. <<Giveaway

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Dear Diary

The Cosmo Blog Awards

Well hello! Happy Friday! I’m back from my little jaunt to the Cosmo Awards (plus a very enjoyable day at a beer festival yesterday) and I shall tell you all about it as promised! As you may know already I didn’t win, but then, I wasn’t expecting to. The runner up in my category was

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