Peekaboo Rose!

This gorgeous floral dress that I received to blog is by an Australian ladies clothing business called Siren Clothing
Siren Clothing is the creation of Rebecca Brimblecombe, who works from her studio near Noosa, on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.
Rebecca began her career in fashion in 1980, when she graduated with Distinction in Fashion Design from the prestigious London College of Fashion and launched the very first incarnation of the Siren label (simply called Siren) with a collection of body-con dresses and separates at Camden Market.

From there she bought her fashion business "Siren" to Sydney, Australia in 1985 and changed the name to "Siren London" and her brand received an overwhelming response throughout Australia.
In 2001 Rebecca opened and operate her stall "Siren Clothing" at the Eumundi markets, which are located at the Sunshine Coast hinterlands.  In 2013 she made a permanent move to a shop at Eumundi Square, just across the road from the famous Eumundi Market's, which opens every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
After more than 31 years as the designer and owner of Siren Clothing, Rebecca continues to draw on her wealth of experience in expert pattern-making technique and is still filled with same passion for creating her own unique styles.  To cater for all women who love to wear beautiful vintage inspired dresses and clothing.

This beautiful dress is called Peekaboo Dress - Climbing Rose.  I adore the floral design on the cream background!  Other wonderful features is the scoop neckline with the "peekaboo" cut out with a bow tie.  This dress also comes with a matching fabric belt.  It's has a full pleated A-line skirt, that I'm able to wear a full petticoat underneath for extra shape and structure.
There is also a low scoop back and a invisible zip closure in the middle of the back.  It's made from 97% cotton sateen and 3% spandex.  Sizes range from XS to XL, I ordered size Large and it fits my measurements wonderfully.  Get in contact with Rebecca if you wish to find out your exact size if ordering online. Which I highly recommend that you do order yourself something real special from her!  This exact dress is currently listed to buy for $135.00 (AUS).

Accessories Include
Shoes from Payless Australia
Handbag Vintage from a facebook buy/sell/swap group
Hair-flower from Daisy Jean Floral
Bangle and pink gloves thrifted
Sunglasses from Colette by Colette Hayman

These photos were taken by Vera Gin Vintage (aka Miss Vera Vamp) at a Lavender farm in Bundaberg, Queensland called Amandine Lavender
Even though we didn't take any photos around the lavender flowers, there were many other lovely backdrops to take our photos in front of!

 In other news I had a full-on but fun weekend at the second annual Rockin Maryborough Vintage Festival
I got all dolled up and attended a Vintage style ball on Friday night. On Saturday myself and other beautiful pinups checked the festival out which included the vintage cars, caravans and bikes, a couple of markets, rock and roll bands, enjoying refreshments and food at local cafes.
On Saturday night there was a pinup pageant that myself, my Mum and my sister enjoyed watching. After that there was a rockin dance party that I attended and have a great time at.  Sunday morning there was a pooch parade, I checked out another rockabilly band and had high tea with the Miss Rockin Maryborough Pinup finalists.

My friend Vera Gin Vintage (Miss Vera Vamp) won Runners Up in the pinup pageant out of 11 other pinups. She actually wasn't very well all weekend, as she just had an operation a couple of days before the festival.  So she did very well to receive that title, even when she definitely was not feeling 100%!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo





Note: All words & opinions in this blog post are written entirely on my own.

Pinup's Picnic and Pinup Posing!

Last weekend I went to a pinup picnic by the sea, which included a lot of us "pinups" meeting in a park at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
I actually live a few hours drive away from the Gold Coast, so I ended up staying in a hotel the night before. I arrived at the park where we were all suppose to meet at around 11am.
On the day there were a few professional photographers on location to take pinup style photos individually of us "pinups" at the picnic.
The photo above is by Phil Kustom Photography I love this photo it's so fun and playful.  The photo below is by Chrome-Plated Photography. This one I find is more sultry and serious. Both photos I really love. I actually hope to view some more that was taken of me in the near future.

 On the day I decided to wear my new pineapple print wiggle dress by the brand Collectif  https://www.collectif.co.uk/   
I accessorized this dress with my bamboo tiki-style bangles, a pineapple printed hair-scarf, my cocktail brooch from Deerarrow  http://www.deerarrow.com/  and a pair of sandal wedges from Williams Australia.

Here are some other photos taken on the day, with some lovely "pinup" friends,  I had a great day of getting photos taken, saying hello to friends, meeting new people, having some lunch and laughs.  By 2:30pm I knew it was time to say good-bye and drive the long trip back home again. I look forward to attending another "pinup picnic" in the near future!

 I'm trying to change and experiment with my posing for my blog photos a bit and make them fun and more interesting to all that read/look at my posts.
For example in the above photo I'm trying to sell that I'm loving what I'm looking at in the retro magazine!

In the above and below photos, I'm both happy and shocked of the "news" I'm listening to on the telephone!

I don't know some readers might perceive these photos differently to what I'm trying to sell or portray, please feel free to let me know your thoughts!
For these photos I'm wearing the peach gingham Dee Dee dress by Pinup Girl Clothing  http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com
I've accessorized this dress with my Peachy Keen brooch by Atomic Mingo  https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/AtomicMingo 
a peach colour hair-scarf and a peach colour petticoat from retro market stalls.

This weekend I'm hope to go on another picnic for a friends birthday if it's a nice day and there are no storms or rain about, which we have been getting lately in sunny Queensland!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Rockin Vintage Festival!

For Day One of the Rockin Maryborough Vintage Festival I decided to wear my new dress, that I bought from a facebook buy, sell and swap group. This beautiful dress is by Pinup Girl Clothing which is called Pele dress in black and pink Hawaiian floral print, this dress also has a matching bolero, which I ended up taking off, towards the end of the day.
I decided to accessorize this dress with a pair of flamingo sandals from Miss L Fire, UK, a vintage wicker purse, a new pair of retro sunglasses that I received in my box of goodies from winning the title of Miss Congeniality and my pink hibiscus hair-flower from Soda Sweethearts https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/SodaSweethearts

 This day included having a lot of photos taken, checking out the hot rods and vintage cars and caravans, selling raffle tickets to the crowds of people, having lunch, entering and watching a tattoo competition, meeting new people and having fun and laughs with my fellow pinup friends.

Day one ended up being a really busy but great day, it was so wonderful to see so many people out and about and checking out the vintage festival.

For the second and final day of the vintage festival I decided to wear my Mary Blair umbrella print  dress by Pinup Girl Clothing. I accessorized this amazing dress with my vintage style heels that I bought from a pre-loved clothing boutique, a petticoat by Hell Bunny, my pink Sun Jellies bag, white retro sunglasses, vintage beads and my parasol that I bought from Cherry Bay Fabulous (find on facebook).

The second day included watching a pouch parade, going on a horse and carriage ride, which was a lot fun, having high tea with the pinup ladies, having more photos taken and selling more raffle tickets.

 All in all the weekend ended up being a wonderful and successful weekend, bring on next year's festival!!
I loved meeting and making new friends, whom have similar style to myself, supporting and promoting Maryborough and getting all dolled up in the pinup style that I love so much!

Next week I'll blogged about the Garterbelts and Gasoline festival, which I'll be attending for the very first time this weekend!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

What a Great Night!

 

Friday was a busy though exciting day of getting ready for my first ever Pinup Pageant. Which included having my finger nails, hair and make-up professionally done. As well as getting dressed and having a run-through of where/how to parade down the red carpet for the pageant and meeting the rest of the beautiful finalist ladies in the Miss Rockin Maryborough pinup pageant.

My pageant dress I choose to wear was this amazing Bernie Dexter orange print dress and a black petticoat underneath.  I accessorized this dress with a pair of black shoes from a pre-loved clothing and accessories boutique, an oranges necklace from Your One Stop Pinup Shop and a hair-flower from a store I bought at Greazefest a few weeks ago.

 Here I am on the red carpet I was quite disappointed in myself though, as my nerves did get the better of me and I was shaking quite a bit, this was however my first time, and I am quite an introverted person. I do feel though the more I enter pinup pageants the less nervous I will become, when walking/parading down a catwalk or on the stage in front of people.

After the pageant had finished we all had our photos taken, this was one of these photos with a gorgeous pink poodle by the name of Coco Channel. Coco and her owners came up from the Gold Coast (about four hour drive away) to attend the Pageant and the weekend festivities for the Rockin Maryborough Vintage Festival.

 After the pageant most of us, changed out of our pinup outfits and into how Rock and Roll ball gowns.  To attend the Rock and Roll ball and find out who won the title of Miss Rockin Maryborough 2015. 

My frock, shoes and bangle I choose to wear for the night I bought from a pre-loved clothing boutique on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland.

After some dancing, mingling and having some fun, the top ten finalist were called up onto the stage to find out who won a title in the first ever Pinup Pageant for Maryborough.

First was the title of Miss Congeniality which was *drum roll* me Miss Cherry Milla!!  I couldn't believe it, that I had actually won a title, I was so happy and thrilled with this. I won a tiara, a sash, a lovely bunch of flowers and a box full of little goodies.

Next it was the title of Miss Adored which went to Miss Ivory Rose, she won this title because she had the most facebook likes on the Miss Rockin Maryborough facebook page.

Then came Runner up which went to Miss Christabelle, this lovely lady was ever so thrilled and happy with her title.

Next was the prestige title of Miss Rockin Maryborough which went to Miss Sapphire Siren. A beautiful young lady, whom has entered quite a number of well known pinup pageants in the past, so she was a well-deserving winner!

Myself aka Miss Contingently with Miss Rockin Maryborough aka Miss Sapphire Siren.

All of the ladies who made it into the top ten, are all such beautiful, amazing, gorgeous ladies. Which I can now call my friends and look forward to catching up with all from time to time in the near future!

My next blog post will be Day 1 and Day 2 (final day) of the vintage festival.

Until next time!

Miss Milla Cherry xo

Pinup's meet and greet!

On Saturday night I went out to a pinup meet and greet dinner with some of the finalist ladies whom are competing in the Miss Rockin Pinup competition next Friday night! Most of the ladies that went, was my first time meeting them. It was so great getting to know each other before the big event next week. Unfortunately though the rest of the finalist ladies couldn't make it!

There will be 10 finalist all up, as you can see only six of us could make to dinner on Saturday night. Though we all still had a lovely time. We were all able to wear our pinup sashes for the night, which was a lot of fun to do. Heaps of people asked us what we are doing, why we all dressed up etc.

I decided to wear my Pinup Girl Clothing Jenny skirt in Queen of Hearts print and a red top I bought from a pre-loved clothing boutique. I accessorized this outfit with my Pinup Couture red belt and my red Lucky-Lou heels.

In the above photo I'm all dolled up and ready to go out for dinner with the ladies!

For my day off today I decided to wear my Hawaiian/Tiki style dress by Collectif UK. I just love the hibiscus yellow flower's on the red background to this dress. Such a great dress to wear in the spring/summer months.
I decided to accessorize this dress with my bamboo bangles and my red hibiscus hair-flower.

This weekend I'm planning on going to a Retro festival a couple of hours drive away for the day, just to check it out, as I've never been before and I want to watch their Pinup competition to gain some extra tips for next Friday night...I'm really looking forward to it!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Another holiday outfit and Greazefest Part 2

This cute dress by the UK brand Voodoo Vixen I have blogged previously before this is the link if you wish to have a look: http://missmillacherry.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/kitty-cat.html
I wore this dress out to have a hair-cut, to run some errands and also to have a coffee with my Mum.

I love the pink fabric background colour, the cute black cats print, the cut-out neckline and the front little pockets.  I've always find I can style this dress a number of different ways, either wearing a black, white or pink belt, with or without a petticoat and with or without leggings/tights or a jacket/cardigan.

 I decided to accessorize this dress with my leopard print tights, my black peep-toe wedges, my cat earrings (a gift from my cousin), a white long-sleeve top and my pink Sun Jellies handbag.

For the second day at Greazefest, I meet up with my close friend.  Her band The Sugarshakers were playing a set in the morning, which I ended up watching. After her band had finished their set, my friend and I spent most of the day together, which was so great.

This is a photo of The Sugarshakers above that I took a photo off.  After watching The Sugarshakers perform, my friend and I had something to drink and eat, then we checked out a pinup parade, then looked around at the markets/store holders, watched the dancing and listened to some more bands.  I meet quite a number of people that my friend knows through her rockabilly band and burlesque shows my friend performs/MC's for.
It was such another wonderful day!

This gorgeous dress that I received a lot of comments on, is called The Evelyn dress in Mary Blair Umbrellas print by Pinup Girl Clothing.  I totally adore this dress, hands down is probably a favorite of mine in my wardrobe for sure.

Until next time!
Miss Millacherry xo