What are your Favourite Collectables?
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Vintage fashion is wonderful, you can get a great outfit and be sure that nobody else will be wearing the same. Whereas a ‘one off’ designer piece would cost a fortune you can pick up vintage clothes at very reasonable prices. Even the likes of Kate Moss and Sienna Miller have been seen in charity shops from time to time.
When we apply the ‘vintage’ tag to clothing, shoes and accessories it means that it was made from 1920 onwards. Just as with modern fashion there was a difference between couture and mass produced clothing. The majority of vintage clothing you are likely to pick up in the charity shops would be mass produced and can be bought relatively cheaply.
Many people remember the flower fairies as enchanting mythical figures from their childhood, while nowadays we see them on greeting cards and giftware. The Flower Fairies were created by Cicely Mary Barker in 1923, when she had her first series of drawings published in a book. Since then her works have become children’s classics and are sold around the world.
Cicely Mary Barker was born in Croydon, South London in 1895 and being a sickly child she was educated at home. Cicely excelled at pastel drawing and taught herself to paint in oils and watercolours. Her father encouraged her to draw and together they joined the Croydon Art Society in 1908.