365 Vintage Days: Red Polka Dots
Polka dots were only one of the many great fabric designs in the 50′s but for some reasons, polka dots are often the first thing that come to most peoples’ mind when they are asked to describe 50′s...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Blue, white pearls and rhinestones
Back again to one of the outfits that I wore at the Viva Las Vegas R’n'R weekender early April. This time a baby blue dress, with a white trim at the decolleté and around the fake pockets, embellished...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Teal Suit
Once again a picture taken in California this spring, precisely in San Diego’s Ocean Beach Area, which has a couple of nice antique malls on Newport Avenue. I was wearing a teal color cotton suit,...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Silk and Polka Dots
Yesterday evening we enjoyed a really good R’n'R party in Helsinki, in the Kaisaniemi restaurant. Kaisaniemi is a circle shaped wooden restaurant, opened first in the 1830′s, with great outdoors, a...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Summer Day in Helsinki
Summer is here! Finland has lately been one of the warmest country in Europe (almost + 30 C in Rovaniemi, at the polar circle, 25 in Helsinki) and we really enjoy it. On Sunday we had a long walk in...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Shopping in Berlin
Today’s post is not so much about an outfit – as I have already presented this skirt and bolero set earlier – but more about a great shopping weekend in Berlin and sharing with all of you a couple of...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Rockabilly Rave 2013
For me June means Rockabilly Rave! Four nights and days of great music, friends, vintage shopping, vintage cars, and vintage lovers. All in one place! The Rockabilly Rave is a weekender I would not...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Copper
In the 1950′s copper belts and copper costume jewelry, almost always made by Matisse/Renoir were popular. Nowadays, copper belts are pretty common in vintage shops and antique malls in the US. For many...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Silver sequin guitars
Here is the outfit I wore on Saturday night at the Rockabilly Rave: a turquoise cotton mexican skirt, with hand painted guitars, bottles, playing cards and dices, all outlined with silver coloured...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Underwater
Sunday is an important day at the Rockabilly Rave: it’s the vintage flea market day! It’s also the last party day and night. And this when I always feel that I have not had enough time to dance, enjoy...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Ranch Party
Western wear has always been popular in the US. Nowadays vintage western wear is getting increasingly popular in the R’n'R and Rockabilly scene – and so is Hillbilly and Western Swing music. Yet, I...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Midsummer swim
Two weeks ago we celebrated midsummer at a friend’s summer cottage with some twenty other rockin’ friends, by the lake, in the forest. We enjoyed good company, good food and drinks, great music, the...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Midsummer Jamboree
After relaxing at our friend’s cottage we headed for Ellivuori, for the Midsummer Jamboree to enjoy music and friends’ company. The program included a swiss band: Hillbilly Moon explosion, a Russian...
View Article365 Vintage Days: My third Casbah print skirt…
I tend to buy over and over again the same clothes… Like skirts with the Casbah print, in different colours (in black and in brown). So, when I saw this one from John Day’s vintage stall at the...
View Article365 Vintage Days: RaceCoast Rockin’Fest
On the 5th and 6th of July we headed north to Kangasala for the second edition of the RaceCoast Rockin’Fest. The festival had a really nice line up, with the Rhythm Shakers and Rockin Ryan from the US,...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Vääksy Car Meet
A car meet 130 km away from home on a Tuesday night? Why not? We had never been to the Car Meet in Vääksy but this year we decided to give it a try. Hence, we left work early and headed – again – north...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Kangasala Swapmeet
And once again we were off for the weekend! This time for the Kangasala Swapmeet, held on Friday and Saturday 12th and 13th of July… As I have mentioned in previous posts, there’s plenty to do in...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Gone for the weekend
Another summer weekend to spend with friends and away from home. With a great weather forecasted I picked up an halterneck sun dress with a bolero for the saturday. On saturday, before we headed to our...
View Article365 Vintage Days: Morning in Forssa
On Sunday morning we woke up early and after breakfast got ready for the Forssa Pick Nick. While waiting for our friends in their 1960 De Soto, we shot a couple of pictures of the day’s outfit, with a...
View Article365 Vintage Days: The lynx in the spring snow
Mid-july, just after the Kangasala Swapmeet, we drove towards the city of Lahti, spent the night in an hotel and on Saturday morning went for a walk downtown. We had planned to go to two museums: the...
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