yes we're going to a party party

good evening, good evening, good evening, good evening!

i finally have my laptop back & running reasonably well, so now i can catch up with the posts i've been planning for a couple days. my mum's friend heard that i'm a pretty big sixties nerd, so she passed on a few things she thought i might like.

and, oh boy, do i like them.

a twiggy dress-up book (probably for ten year oldish girls from the sixties, but i can pretend) & a beatles programme from when she went to see the band in 1965!

the book has lots of lovely cut outs of clothes i wouldn't have minded owning myself - like that freakin' awesome pink suit-dress-thing.

the beatles programme is one of the loveliest things i have ever come across - it really means so much to me that i can actually own things like this. my parents & grandparents weren't big beatles fans, so the only way i can find out about them is to go looking myself & often the real stuff is far too expensive for my humble pockets. 'cause, i don't know if you've noticed, but stuff from these guys is in pretty high demand.

anyway, it's full of loads of black & white photographs of the boys & my mum's friend even included her actual ticket. squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal!

i'm only 45 years late, sigh.

aaaaaand the programme came with some mini posters of the boys themselves! (although none of them but george look all that happy)

today is actually paul mccartney's 68th birthday (and the birthday of a good friend of mine too!), so happy happy birthday paul, i've got my playlist of beatle lovelyness on in your honour (:

dedicated follower of fashion

it's been a while since my last post, & for that i do apologise. i've just had art shiz to deal with (and i forgot to take pictures of my final piece, but i will post some as soon as i can!) & i've had no inspiration for posts, & i didn't really want to just do an oh-my-god-i'm-so-sorry-for-not-posting post.

yesterday, my mother (a textiles/fashion historian) gave me a book about newcastle (my home city) in the 1960s. last week she gave a talk about 60s fashion, & this was her gift for taking part.

this in't just any book though, this actually features my mother (aged about 28ish) modelling some original biba clothes.

not actually in the '60s though, she's not that old.

there she is!

my mum has always been into 60s fashion, & i've practically grown up on information about the famous biba clothing label & barbra hulanicki. she was working on an exhibition all about it just before (and slightly after) i was born at a local art gallery - which remains the most popular exhibition there of all time. in fact, i was almost named biba!

and again in colour.

the book is filled with some amazing photographs of the region and people dressed in lovely multicoloured clothes. i did take some photos, but they came out ridiculously blurry - i must get my camera fixed!

this is one of my favourite finds in the book.

it's a window display in fenwick's (a department store) featuring jenny boyd, who was eric clapton's girlfriends at the time! she's also patti boyd's sister, who eric wrote the song layla about - while he was still with her sister & while patti was still married to george harrison!

i love their love square type thing, even if it is beyond complicated.

i love all the music posters they had too, and i squealed when i saw the bob dylan one!