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Your Ultimate Guide to Layering Petticoats, 1950s style...

How to layer your petticoats under dresses for maximum volume and frothiness.

Créations Gam of Paris - frivolously French lingerie.

1960s fashion vintage trade promotional material highlighting the beautiful products of Créations Gam, a wholesale manufacturer of...

Boxed in. The untold perils of being an undie seller.

I have been selling vintage lingerie for 11 or 12 years now, either face-to-face at vintage fairs or online, and I've loved every ...

UK Vintage fairs 2021. Is there hope?

My love-hate relationship with vintage fairs and other associated musings.

10 Top tips for selling and buying at UK vintage fairs

Sooner or later vintage fairs will return in the UK. Get the most from your vintage fair experience with these top tips.

1940s fashion Celanese fabric vintage full slip.

What is Celanese fabric?

1940's fashion. CC41 civilian clothing controlled.

1940's CC41 utility mark slip and knicker set.

On the record: Captivating vintage nightgowns and negli...

Saucy and stimulating - vinyl glamour girls in the groove.

What is Lastex fabric?

Lastex is a stretchy elastic yarn that can be made to give either a one-way or two-way stretch that is made from a single latex (r...

Jane Woolrich Couture

Because life's too short to wear mediocre underwear.

Objects of Desire: 1940s all-in-one sheath girdles.

Let's talk 1940 girdles. The notoriously unforgiving 1940's sheath dress required perfectly designed foundation underwear to match...

7 little-known things to look for when buying a vintage...

How to avoid the 7 most common mistakes when buying a vintage slip. Insider secrets explained in this helpful guide with photo ill...

It's Totally Beyond Her Control. And mine.

Emma Benitez interviews the inimitable and truly lovely Dominique de Merteuil, vintage fashion and travel writer and the girl behi...

How to leave Etsy and start your own vintage fashion we...

Are you ready to quit Etsy and start your own independent vintage fashion selling website? Here are some helpful tips and advice f...

CC41 utility stockings by Plaza Hosiery Ltd

Recently I was fortunate enough to obtain a box of 6 pairs of CC41 utility mark 1940's fashion stockings in perfect unworn conditi...

Heavenly vintage silk lingerie by Fischer.

US lingerie manufacturer Fischer & Company, Inc. first started using the brand name 'Heavenly' way back in 1941, but didn't offici...

Nylon: The Story of a Fashion Revolution.

Revealed and reviewed, this best selling book by Susannah Handley lifts the lid on the story of Nylon - the insider story.

Look away - don't show your face. 1950's Vanity Fair ad...

The photography of Mark Shaw and Richard Avedon in vintage Vanity Fair lingerie advertising of the 1950's.

1950s Vanity Fair vintage lingerie label dating guide.

How to date your Vanity Fair vintage lingerie labels. Your essential step-by-step Vanity Fair label dating resource.

Wolsey Vanity Fair - a rocky transatlantic lingerie tal...

The 1960's dalliance between staid, traditional Wolsey and 'winner takes all' Vanity Fair lasted barely ten years. What went wron...