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May 01, 2013
Please vote for Candy Says in the National Vintage Awards!
Read more →We are delighted to be nominated for Best Online Vintage Fashion Shop (UK) in the first ever National Vintage Awards! The Awards will take place in Birmingham on Thursday 27th June, and have been created in order to help celebrate the small, independent businesses that keep the vintage scene alive. Please help us by submitting your vote for Candy Says. This year marks our tenth year in business, having launched in 2003 as one of the UK's very first online vintage shops - so winning an award would be the icing on our very sugary cake! We started out...
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Apr 29, 2013
Covetable vintage labels: Horrockses Fashions
Read more →One of the most sought after off-the-peg labels of all has to be the Preston-based Horrockses Fashions. Although we've stocked many dresses by this covetable label over the years, most of the time they barely spend a day on the website without being snapped up by eagle-eyed cotton connoisseurs. Horrockses 1950's vintage cotton dress with folky floral print in bright citrus tones Horrockses label from the dress above If you've ever owned a Horrockses dress, it is not hard to work out why this newly resurrected label is so renowned and adored by women of all ages. The...
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Apr 28, 2013
1940s Harris Tweed advertisement
Read more →This fantastic advertisement for Harris Tweed dates from 1947, and was published in the Daily Mail Ideal Home Book 1947-8. It features the well recognised Harris Tweed Orb and Maltese Cross logo, which was registered in 1910 and in use from 1911, making it the UK's oldest registered trademark. The logo identifies authentic Harris Tweed products, which are protected by the Harris Tweed Act of Parliament 1993. This act safeguards traditional production processes by outlining strict conditions under which the genuine products can be made. Authentic Harris Tweed has been hand-woven and finished by Islanders in the Outer Hebrides...
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Apr 03, 2013
"Beatle age" - vintage Fab Four article from Fab 208 mag 1969
Read more →We found this article on the Fab Four in an old copy of Fabulous 208 annual from 1969 and had to share it with you! Written by Mark Stevens, it looked back on The Beatles' career and how they had grown up in the public eye. It provides a fascinating insight into the pop world's perception of their enormous success, from the vantage point of the very end of the Swinging Sixties.
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Mar 27, 2013
Some 1920s humour on the fickle world of fashion
Read more →As excitement builds over the release of the long-awaited new movie version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's iconic jazz age novel The Great Gatsby, we thought you might like to see a few quirky examples of 1920s humour regarding the fashions and fads of the era ... Firstly a cheeky little cartoon on the changing hairstyles and hemlines of the era, taken from Punch magazine, 1928. The text reads "It is perhaps just as well that the twentieth-century girl, after having bobbed her hair, then shingled it, then adopted the Eton crop, never quite reached the Dartmoor shave and is now...
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Mar 27, 2013
WIN two weekend camping tickets to Hipsville 2013!
Read more →After a cold, dreary and frankly rather miserable winter, what better to cheer you up than a whole weekend of 60s go-go and garage rock fun! Those cool cats at Hipsville have offered us A PAIR OF WEEKEND CAMPING TICKETS to give away to one lucky competition winner at Candy Says. Read on ...! Hipsville 60s go-go garage party takes place over the weekend of 10th - 12th May at the Bisley Pavilion in Surrey. The venue itself is a step back in time, full of eccentric British charm and sure to add to the authentic atmosphere of this unmissable...
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Mar 25, 2013
Bigger and better - issue 7 of Vintage and Homemade Living magazine out now!
Read more →Whilst we all patiently await the arrival of Spring, at Candy Says we will be curled up in the warm with the new issue of Vintage and Homemade Magazine, which is out now! Issue seven is bigger and better than ever, with lots more pages bursting with fascinating features and things to make. There are articles on the Andrews Sisters, starlet style fashion and vintage festivals, directions to turn your vintage fabric scraps into scatter cushions and lots more besides! This issue also includes the start of a new regular feature - an original vintage knitting pattern. This time it's...
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Mar 11, 2013
WIN a vintage Goodie Bag from Candy Says!
Read more →Enter our Facebook Giveaway to win this fantastic vintage goodie bag! The goodie bag includes a vintage tooled leather bag, an unused 1950s rayon scarf, a pair of pretty goldtone metal clip-on rose earrings, some bright orange 1960s beads, three adorable novelty 1950s hair pins (a feather, a bow and a bird) - and finally, a £10 gift voucher to spend at Candy Says. To enter, visit our Giveaway page on Facebook. The winner will be picked at random on Monday 18th March. Good luck!
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Jan 29, 2013
Marshall & Snelgrove - 100 years of luxury
Read more →Marshall & Snelgrove enjoyed a superb reputation as high-end retailers for over 100 years. James Marshall had opened a shop at 11 Vere Street in 1837, and in 1848 on the retirement of his business partner he was joined by John Snelgrove (a former assistant in the shop), and the firm's name was changed to Marshall & Snelgrove. The article above dates from 1884 and advertises costumes, mantles, furs, lace and gloves. Following rapid success, the business expanded and Marshall & Snelgrove took over grand new premises at 334 - 348 Oxford Street in 1851. James Marshall retired in...
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Jan 24, 2013
Dandie Fashions and the 1960s Kings Road peacocks
Read more →The 1960s saw menswear make the transition from traditionally rather plain, dark clothing to bold colours, bright floral and psychedelic prints, frills, lace and cravats - marking the rise of Swinging London's Dandies. Parodied in songs such as the Kinks' 1966 single 'Dedicated Follower of Fashion', this new trend indulged the peacock in every man and gave way to an assortment of high fashion menswear boutiques such as Hung on You, John Stephen and for a brief period, Dandie Fashions. Located on the ultra-fashionable Kings Road, Dandie Fashions had made the move to Chelsea from their original premises in...