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  • Summer Festival: vintage looks for rock'n'roll style in a field

    We all know the festival staples; wellies, hat, sun cream, sunglasses, rain poncho ... but aside from that it can be hard to decide what to wear whilst hanging about in a field with a pint of warm cider in hand. From personal experience we've found that generally you can't beat a vintage maxi dress as your festival frock. Comfortable, chic, unique and doesn't look weird with your wellies/cowboy boots or with a chunky cardigan thrown over the top for the evening (not that anyone really cares about looking weird at a festival!). Below are a few of our favourite...

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  • A Day at the Races: Royal Ascot in true vintage style

    This year, the supremely elegant Royal Ascot takes place on Tuesday 18th – Saturday 22nd June. World-famous for uniting the very best of fashion, style, sport and entertainment, for five days in June the course is awash with colour, glamour and pageantry. If you want to stand out from the crowd and make sure you are racing ahead of the fashion pack, opt for vintage; then you can be sure that no-one else will be showing off the same dress or making a scene in the same hat - perish the thought! Here are a few of our top picks...

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  • Candy Says is through to the National Vintage Awards finals!

    We are delighted to announce that Candy Says Vintage Clothing are through to the finals of the National Vintage Awards 2013! Thank you so much to all those who took the time to vote for us. We really do appreciate your support. If you'd like to come along and cheer us on at the awards ceremony later this month, tickets are available from the National Vintage Awards website.  Priced at £8.00 (no seat for awards ceremony) and £15.00 (with seat for awards ceremony), the event takes place on Thursday 27th June 2013 at Fazeley Studios in Birmingham. The ticket price...

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  • The Pendleton Turnabout: Patented 1950s Skirt Design

    When US-based company Pendleton came up with their Turnabout Skirt, it was such a complex design feat that they had to patent it! This fabulous little fashion coup looks so simple but is so effective that it became, along with the poodle skirt, THE skirt craze of the 1950s.   It was launched in 1953 and allowed the owner to give the impression of owning two different skirts when in fact all they needed to do was literally turn it inside out. The design made a point of the fact that the weaving on a Pendleton skirt was equally as beautiful...

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  • Please vote for Candy Says in the National Vintage Awards!

      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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  • Covetable vintage labels: Horrockses Fashions

    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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  • 1940s Harris Tweed advertisement

       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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  • "Beatle age" - vintage Fab Four article from Fab 208 mag 1969

    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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  • Some 1920s humour on the fickle world of fashion

    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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  • WIN two weekend camping tickets to Hipsville 2013!

    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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