IS SHE FUR REAL?

Throughout history fur has been thought of as a luxury that only the wealthy can afford but in our time faux fur coats and vintage furs can be bought for affordable prices that anyone can now get their hands on one which is great.


Fur is one of the items that defines the vintage look aether it's real or faux. You can add a fur coat to just about any look and your glamour level automatically reaches the top of the scale.
If you look back at old photos of Hollywood stars, pin up models and royals they have all at one point worn fur. Real fur.


Now this is what I really want to get down too on this post.
The thought of people in this day and age hunting an animal, killing it, skinning it and making it into a beautiful coat is appalling to me! How can people be so cruel as to do that? And as beautiful as the coat might eventually look I would never buy or wear it because it would make me feel like a murderer and I'd be supporting the slaughter of animals in an age where we have the ability to make faux fur that looks just as real, plush and beautiful as real fur.
Although we all want to look glamorous and fashionable it is not worth the sacrifice of those animals.

 

But here's my question...

It it okay to wear vintage fur?

Is it okay to wear a coat made from an animal that was killed over 50 years ago for the sake of fashion?

Does vintage fur carry the same stigma as that of a fur coat made today?

There are two ways you can look at it.

1: The coat was made a long time ago when fur was acceptable and animal rights were not such a big thing so technically there is nothing wrong with wear it? Anyway it's cool to wear vintage and it will make me look good.

2 :No matter how long ago it happened animals were still murdered for the sake if fashion. It's a moral crime and a crime against all animal kind. All fur should be banned and people should be ashamed to wear it.

 I want to hear your opinion on this.

Are you against the fur trade?

Would you consider wearing vintage furs?

Is it hypocritical to appose the fur trade an then  wear vintage furs?

Debate!

Till next time,

Laura Lou x

Vinter Warmers

So here in England we all go really excited when, last month, we were all told that the "weather would stay warm till November!"

BEST NEWS EVER!

Well guess what... they lied. It's bloody freezing here!

In my last post I said that I have no inspiration for any posts and what not but this toe curlingly cold weather has given me the idea to do a post about vintage winter style and where to buy the best and most affordable vinter (no I'm not trying to do a German accent it's a mix between vintage and winter... I just made it up) wear.

However I have a feeling it will take me a bally long time because my internet provider doesn't care about me anymore as my current lack of internet would suggest. You'll be luck if you ever get to this post to be honest.

Anyway, I'll stop digressing and get on with it shall I...

 I don't know about any of you but when I think Vintage and Winter the three main things that spring to mind are wool, fur and hats, I love all three of those things but unless you can dress like these women here being vintage in winter can sometimes end up looking like grannies closet in winter and unless your grannie was Audrey Hepburn I don't think that's what we want.

I find that whem buying my vinter warmers it's best to get vintage inspired clothing or repo clothing because unless you've got the money to be buying the best its difficult to find true vintage winter clothes that are in good wearable quality.

Places such as eBay, Lindybop, Collectif, Vivien of Holloway, Hell Bunny and Asos.com are great for vintage repo and vintage style clothing that doesn't cost the earth (psst Collectif have an amazing sale on right now).

However this season my favorite cheap shop Primark have some amazing vintage style pieces that are great for winter, take a look....

 I'm definitely buying that coat!

When you put your vinter outfits together remember accessorizing is important to put those finishing vintage touches in place. A brooch on you cardigan/jumper, a beret or fur hat and small dainty (but warm) gloves always pull and outfit together nicely.

I know you'll all look georgus this coming season so till next time,
Laura Lou x   

Bringing Things Up To Date-ish

So I guess I'm still not dressing for the weather (which in Britain at the moment is heavy snow) if last nights outfit is anything to go by but it was pretty cute anyway.

Last Night my Boyfriend 'Ulman' took me for dinner (I swear he's trying to make me fat) at Martinos.
I tried muscles  for the first time and enjoyed them and also sat and witnessed one of the most awkward dates to have taken place in history I believe.
But anyway back to my outfit....
I went for a 'modern' preppy look. I say 'modern' but non of the clothes I own are actually that modern so it was just my take on that genre.

Although I went for a 'modern' outfit I obviously did a typical vintage makeup look, couldn't step out the house if I didn't at least have some vintage in my ensemble.

My dress I bought from New Look a very long time ago so I can't tell you the price but the jacket as only (if I recall correctly)... £14.99 from H&M so was my hat which I bought back in December in the sale for £2.

Till next time Folks,

Laura Lou x

Laura Lou's Christmas

Hello! I feel like I haven't been on here in ages but in actual fact I think it's only been a week or less.

Anyhoo, in a few hours it will officially be the end of Christmas (not that it felt like it ever started, anyone else feel like that?) so I thought I'd share with you all my favorite snaps that were taken over the festive period.

 This isn't the best picture and doesn't show it off very well but I'm putting it on anyway! The card I got from my Boyfriend :) oh and my nutcracker ;)

Of course there has to be the Christmas table shot

Charlie Brown in the one suit she now has to wear for the rest of the year

 

Me posing next to the tree in my Christmas dress

Christmas dressing gowns were had by all!

This post wouldn't be complete without a picture of me having a drink now would it?

After opening presents and filling ourselves with a most delicious Christmas dinner (made by yours truly) we descended on my Grans house with the rest of the family to open yet more presents!

A full length picture of my outfit, I'm wearing my super cute brand new t-bar shoes I got off mother :) they look just like 1930s tap shoes so I felt compelled to do my poor imitation of a tap dance when I wore them.

This is Bethan being possessed... I'm kidding obviously! I took the photo too soon and it ended up looking like this

Here's what it should have looked like.

Me pretending I'm an extra in a Doris Day film

Here I appear to be stroking my Grans placid looking cat Sebastian but in actual fact I'm stroking my Grans rather vicious at time cat Sebastian. He wasn't very impressed at having his photo taken and attempted to scratch me as soon as the shutter had gone.

On Boxing day Jessie Grace and Sara Lou came round to exchange gifts... and drink Tequila

I think I must be losing my touch as I could only handle two shots, either that or I'm just getting too old for all this.

In the last few days I haven't done too much so we'll have to skip forward to Saturday Night when My Boyfriend and I went out for dinner.

I wore a beautiful Lindy Bop dress I got for Christmas (yes another one!)

 

It's the same as this dress but it's the updated version with a different belt

Excuse the beautiful view of my Bathroom

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and have a fantastic New Year,

I'll see you all in 2013!

Till next time,

Laura Lou x

Weekly Round Up

Here's a little round up of the last few days before I head out to watch Bethan kick ass in the Trocky  (Rocky) Horror Show tonight.

So Monday was date night, I had a little breakdown when I realised I had nothing to wear so I popped out to Primark and picked this up for £5!

 

It's slightly more modern that what I would usually go for but I thought it was pretty cute (and it was dirt cheap) I wore it with some pretty little ballet pumps (also from Primark) and my trusty old denim jacket. My bag which you can really see is a David Jones (I personally have never heard of this make but I got it for christmas and LOVED it).

To make up for the lack of vintage in my dress I added a flower to my hair.

 

And apparently some hands too?

Then on Tuesday we went to some old friends for dinner. They very kindly offered to cook for us as we are getting the house revamped after the fire and have no kitchen :'(

 

Jessie Grace came along too, I can't seam to get rid of her lately. Just kidding, I love her really.

 

 

Aunty Eveline's roast beef dinner *mouth waters*

 

At some point in the evening Jessie Grace turned into a french man.

Now I shall leave you as I must get ready to see my sister walk around on stage like this...can you guess which character she is?

 

Till next time Folks,

Laura Lou x

 

 

 

Friday Night Rock Night!

Last Friday Myself and Bethan went to our local rock night at one of our favorite bars... Trocs :)
The music was pretty bad but me and Bethan looked pretty darn good.
Pictures Please!

 Bethan went for a modern fresh young thing kind of look and I channelled more of a 60s vibe with a beehive and cardigan.

 

We tried out some Alfred Hitchcock type poses, I like doing this far too much.

 

Till next time folks,

Laura Lou x

 

(Saturday) Sunday, Monday Happy Days!

This week I've done a lot of pin curling.
I've been trying out a few different techniques, seeing what works and what doesn't.
Friday night was spent setting curls for Saturday. I looked like this...

 

This look made shopping at the supermarket a lot of fun *raises eyebrow*

 

A pretty little picture of my lips. I was watching a vlog on Diary of a Vintage Girl on how to apply and shape vintage style lipstick and I thought to myself 'with lips like these I don't need that!' though anyone else who wants a perfect vintage lip should check it out.

Saturday's hair looked pretty cute. I was going for a classic 1920s style for the night (another showing of Allo Allo and a night on the tiles), I bought a new dress from asos.com in the sale and it's uber cute. I'll show you.

A picture of me in my dress, with no head?

Full length view of the dress.

The hair. What I did was after pin curling, I brushed every curl individually then twisted it round my finger to give it some bounce then after about half an hour after it had relaxed I pinned all my hair under to make it short. A bit like a bob.

And what a surprise... another Caught Out photo of myself and Hannah Potter.

Bad quality!

The on Sunday night I decided to try a different kind of pin curl. I think they are called vertical pin curls or something like that?

I actually loved how this looked. Is that weird?

But anyway, they turned out like this...

I think it will get better with practise but it did look really cute with a hat on haha.

Fortunately it got even colder later today so I got to wear another hat and matching scarf (on loan from my 10 year old sister Charlotte)

Worn with my old 'millitary style' coat.

My alien face.

Nice and warm!

Till next time my lovelies!

Laura Lou x