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It’s the St Andrews Very Vintage Fashion Fair on Saturday and it’s sure going to be swell! Do come and say hello if you’re in the vicinity.
Venue One, University of St Andrews Students Association, St Mary’s Place, St Andrews, KY16 9UZ, on 3rd March 2012 at 11.00am
And look out for Dollyfrockers, an exciting new collaboration between the Frockery and SC Make Up Artistry, who will be on their first official outing.
Here’s Hannah, one we dollyfrocked earlier!
 Images: Ivory Tower Events
We are back from our whistlestop visit to London Town and raring to go (well, sort of…) All pending orders will be going out on Monday and we thank customers for their patience during our short but sweet absence from the frock face.
It was a veritable joy to revisit Portobello Road market with its tempting array of vintage. Needless to say we managed to pick up a few pieces of interest, but bravely resisted the temptation to add too much more to our personal collection. Just a few frocks and this wee pair of D&G shoes (completely justifiable, as we’re sure you’ll agree).
It was also lovely to catch up with Eddie and the Hot Rods who performed a stonking set at the Half Moon in Putney on Friday night. (Almost as good as shoes, in fact, and much cheaper.) One of our favourite bands, these vintage rockers just get better and better with age. So thank you, Barrie and Richard especially, for making some old frockers very happy!
[Do forgive the focus 'cos we had been drinking (moderately)]
Barrie Masters
Richard Holgarth
Gratuitous picture of awesome drummer with tattoos…(it’s our age).
 Simon Bowley
We are taking a few days away from the frock face for a family celebration and would like to advise customers that we will be closed  from 5pm on Wednesday 22nd February until 9am on Monday 27th February.
Please note that all orders placed after 4pm on Wednesday 22nd will be dispatched on Monday 27th February.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
So who else watched We’ll Take Manhattan? We enjoyed it so much we watched it twice!
Young Jean Shrimpton, muse of photographer David Bailey, was to take the fashion world by storm after a boundary-pushing New York photo shoot for Vogue magazine in 1962, becoming the world’s first supermodel and an enduring style icon. In the BBC4 dramatisation, Karen Gillan and Aneurin Barnard played their respective roles to perfection as they transported us back to the beginning of an era in which the times were about to change seismically.
Last week, in a similar vein, we decided we would ‘take’ St Andrews, where talented make up artist Sandra Cormack and photographer Gillian Gamble managed to capture a certain ‘Shrimp’ spirit in Camilla, one of the models we styled for a Dollyfrockers vintage shoot in advance of the upcoming St Andrews Vintage Fashion Fair. Her coat was strikingly similar to the one pictured above, don’t you think? We should of course have remembered the teddy bear!
Shop for 60s vintage clothing at The Frockery.
More on Jean Shrimpton’s style and We’ll Take Manhattan here and here.
As regular readers will know, we have a section in our shop dedicated to boho festival frockery. As we have previously blogged, its popularity never seems to wane and we always like to maintain a good selection of boho style clothing and accessories in stock. So if you want to go boho, you need look no further than our current catalogue.
No, you didn’t miss our earlier announcement of the Frockery’s Eco-Fashion Challenge 2012 which starts today and runs throughout February, it’s just that January ran out faster than anticipated. Our best excuse is that we are dedicated followers of slow fashion!
Our inaugural challenge was held last year as a fun way of combating the snowdrift blues and was a great success, so we decided to make it an annual event. We have, however, simplified the rules this year to make it easier to take part. So do come and join us in our 2012 February frock-up!
Frockery February Eco-Fashion Challenge 2012
In celebration of hand made, vintage, retro and recycled, we are once again encouraging friends, fans and followers to take part in our February eco-fashion challenge during the shortest, darkest and most depressingly bill-filled month of the year.
The rules are simple
Most of your clothing should be hand made, vintage, recycled or second hand during February and you should post your pictures, outfit descriptions, sources and costs on the Frockery Facebook page over the course of the month (as many or as few as you like!)
If you don’t ‘do’ Facebook, you can post your entries here on our blog or email them to us directly and we will post them for you.
Pics mean prizes
Frockery vouchers (£100 for the winner and £50 for the runner up) will go to the posters of the most stylish and creative eco-fashionable ensembles at the end of the month.
So come on everybody, let’s frock!
Boho silver grey velvet top