Marickville local gathers frock stock for Love Vintage clothing show - Business - News - Inner West Courier#######

Marickville local gathers frock stock for Love Vintage clothing show - Business - News - Inner West Courier#######

White Wedding Dress @ Bendigo Art Gallery

This exhibition is divine...I drove all the way from Sydney to see it! (Mind you I went via Boorowa's Running of the Sheep Festival near Yass...very Aussie) but I'll blog on that later!

I'd never been to Bendigo before, and my, what have I missed! Its a beautiful town, steeped in gold mining history, fabulous architecture, trams and snazzy boutiques! I was pleasantly surprised.

Before I even purchased my White Wedding entry ticket, I was drooling over the prospect of returning to see the Grace Kelly exhibition

which will open next year from March to June. I will coincide that visit after I finish the forthcoming Melbourne Vintage Fair which is on 18/19 & 20 May 2012, in Carlton. I'll just do a little detour via Bendigo!

It is a time-ticketed event, letting in probably 80 people each hour. I skipped past the queue for 1800's displays to the more modern brides, from 1900's on. Then I retraced my steps to have an easier look later. My favourite dress would be one from 1926, a perfectly plain bias cut silk dress, no fasteners or openings, just wiggle in! These brides certainly had the "waspish" waists!!

I enjoyed the social or society brides dresses, plus the stories behind their marriages, who they married and the families they married into.

Moving into the modern era brides I was spellbound by the Vivienne Westwood creation for Dita Von Teese, in purple shot taffeta of course! Not to be out-done by Gwen Stefanis number in silk faille where the hot-pink hem graduated in colour up to the cream bodice. But I think they were both outdone 70 years earlier by a 1938 bride who wore a

 fire-engine red silk gauze knee length dress!!



Monica Maurice





Claudia Chan Shaws dress



Dita Von Teese

  This fabulous exhibition finishes on the 6th November; you just can't miss it ladies!

ANF/Orange Field Days 18-20 October

I've been 3 days out in the countryside, literally, for the Borenore/Orange "Field Days"  where farmers, tractors, sheep, light aircraft, fashion pavillions, CWA and scones all come together! Field Days are events that run for (usually) 3 days and cater for "the man on the land" who may need to buy a new tractor, 5 billion gallon water tank or a backhoe (as you do....)
 I first started attending the Field Days several years ago, in Henty, Tocal and Orange. All are country towns in NSW, So where I fit in with my fashions are in the "Style Pavillions" aka Ladies Interest areas that cater for the poor women who are bored witless having to check out that blokey stuff. Those women love us, and have an excuse to shop and watch parades, then shop again! They really do appreciate having the opportunity to buy lovely things they don't normally see in their litttle outback towns or out on that station!

The photos are a bit dark but give you an idea of the parades; the theme this year at Borenore was celebrating 60 years of their Field Days (who'd have guessed!) by featuring Vintage and Retro fashions. Well, I'd just packed up from the successful Sydney  Love Vintage Fair just one day earlier, so this was perfect timing!