Retro Pinup styling!

On the weekend (Saturday) I went to a local Rockabilly festival, which was their first ever one. So being their first, it wasn't overly exciting! Hopefully next year there will be more to do, enjoy and look at!
I arrived there around midday and caught up with a friend and follow blogger Miss Vera Gin Vintage here is the link to her blog: https://veraginvintage.wordpress.com/
We had some lunch together, then had a look around at the market stalls (which were a bit disappointing, as there wasn't really any retro style stores), then we both had a look at all the vintage cars and took some photos of each other with the cars.

Then we both entered the retro outfit competition and had to parade our outfits, which by total surprise I won best dressed!! I won a pretty bunch of roses and a sash. There was also a best male retro outfit competition! The male best dressed and myself had some photos taken and presented a trophy to the owner of the best car on the field.

After spending a few hours together at the festival we both decided to leave, but came back a few hours later for the Rockabilly dinner/dance.
I wore my Tiki/Hawaiian style dress by Collectif UK   https://www.collectif.co.uk/
Flamingo sandals by Miss L Fire UK  http://shop.misslfire.co.uk/
Pink hibiscus hair-flower
Bamboo bangles and a flamingo necklace. 

 Miss Vera Gin, my Dad and myself meet up at the club for dinner, for a couple of drinks and listened to the Rockabilly band called Slap Beat, the band was quite enjoyable.
After dinner Miss Vera Gin and myself also entered the pinup parade, which was quite fun, parading around in our gorgeous dresses. Unfortunately neither of us got a place of runner's up or winner, even though I feel personally Miss Vera Gin should have received a place, as she looked awesome in her gorgeous dress!
I wore my new dress by the brand Tatyana  http://www.tatyana.com/
Black heels from a pre-loved boutique and a new pair of back floral stockings.
 

We both ended up having an early night, as it been a big day - with entering retro outfit and pinup parades!
I'm looking forward to seeing and catching up with Miss Vera Gin next weekend, as she's entered a pinup pageant that is for a good course towards breast cancer awareness and cure. Unfortunately I couldn't enter this time due to work commitments!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Mount Tamborine and Garterbelts!

Over the weekend, Mum and I stayed at Mount Tamborine (hinterland of the Gold Coast, Queensland) for a couple of nights, we stayed in a lovely Bed and Breakfast house. As I wanted to attend the annual Garterbelts and Gasoline Nostalgia Festival, and I wanted Mum to come with me for the trip.
Mum and I drove the four hour drive to Mount Tamborine on Saturday, we arrived there around 3:00pm. After checking in and settling in our room, we both got dolled up and headed out for the evening.

First we both had dinner in a really lovely Italian Restaurant, then we attended the Miss Garterbelts and Gasoline pinup competition, which was a lot of fun watching the top 10 pinup ladies, performing their wonderful routines and watching whom placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd. After the pinup competition we watched and listen to some of the rockabilly bands and the dancing, before heading back to the B&B house for a night's sleep.

I wore my new dress from Retrosec'd Australia, which I found on ebay for a great price a few weeks ago. I decided to accessorize with my faux pearls, a red hair-flower and my Lucky-Lou red shoes which you can't see in the above photo, sorry about that!

The next day started with getting ready, then Mum and I having a beautiful continental breakfast together at the B&B. We then headed off to the Garterbelts and Gasoline festival.
Which included hot rods, vintage cars and carvans, bands and dancing, food/drinks and of course the rockabilly and vintage clothing and accessories markets, which I bought quite a number of goodies from, especially the most gorgeous dress. Which I hope to blogged about in the near future.

I wore my new Loretta dress in Atomic print by Bernie Dexter to the festival.  I accessorize this cute dress with my white sandals from Novo Australia, red cat-eye sunglasses (which I bought from a market store), vintage necklace and my new hair-flower which I received in my box of prizes from winning the title of Miss Congeniality at the Miss Rockin Pinup pageant a couple of weeks ago.

We left the festival around 1:00pm and drove around Mount Tamborine and came across this street full of lovely little boutiques full of vintage wares, clothing, household goods, accessories and antiques. We both had a look around at the shops, then had coffee together.
By the time we got back to the B&B house around 5:00pm, it was a big but fun day. That night we both just vegged out, watch some t.v., ate junk food and had a few wines.

Monday morning after enjoying another lovely breakfast, packing up our gear and checking out. Mum wanted to go back to this Antique homewares boutique to buy some homewares for her home. Then we were on the road and both homeward bound!

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

The weekend is getting closer!

Only a couple more days now to my first pinup pageant...even though I'm really excited, the nerves are also kicking in now! My outfit is all organized, it's just my little routine I'm not 100% sure with yet, but I do sort of have an idea what I'll do.
After the pageant, there will be a rock & roll ball. Then for the rest of the weekend for my town's first annual vintage festival there will be vintage and hot rod vehicles on display, vintage market stores, an ink competition, bands and a lot more. Hopefully it will be a great weekend!
I have at least 4 - 5 dresses I'll be wearing this weekend alone, so expect some photos of this weekend on my blog in the near future.

Here I'm wearing a tropical/Hawaiian style outfit for these photos, I bought this tropical inspired shirt a couple of weeks ago, which I decided to pair with my Sourpuss pedal pushers. I'm also accessorizing with my Miss L Fire flamingo sandals and my new yellow vintage inspired hair-scarf.
I meet up with another lovely lady yesterday who is one of the finalist this weekend for a coffee and a chat.

Shirt is from Lowes Australia.
Denim pedal pushers are from Sourpuss Clothing  https://sourpussclothing.com/
Sandals are from Miss L Fire UK   http://shop.misslfire.co.uk/
Hair-scarf is from a vintage market store.

On Saturday I went to a retro festival, which was about a two hour drive away their and back.  I mainly went down to watch their pinup pageant to gain some tips and just generally check it out, as I'd never been before.
I decided to wear my new Dee Dee dress in peach gingham by Pinup Couture, which I accessorize with my peach brooch by Atomic Mingo and my faux pearl necklace.

I caught up with another lovely lady whom is also in the pinup pageant this Friday night and In the afternoon with my friend who is the lead singer of the rockabilly band The Sugarshakers. I didn't get to see them perform though as they're gig was on late in the afternoon and I had to drive the two hours back home again, which was a bummer.

My friend took some photos of me in front of some cool looking vintage cars, (which was quite windy at the time and messed my hair big-time) we checked out a few of the vintage market stores and had some lunch. Also before heading back home I entered the pinup fashions of the field segment. Just for a bit of practice before this weekend. There was only four of ladies in it though, as by this time in the afternoon a lot of the crowd had left already!

Dress is from Pinup Girl Clothing  http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/
Silver flats are from Rivers Australia.
Brooch is from Atomic Mingo  https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/AtomicMingo
Pearl necklace is from Vivien of Holloway  http://www.vivienofholloway.com/
Umbrella is from a local pre-loved boutique.

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

My type of pinup style!

I haven't had a chance to blog for a couple of weeks, due to I've just been busy with work and my personal life to actually post a blog.  I've got a few exciting things coming up that I've been planning for as well.  Especially my first ever pinup pageant I have entered, which is happening in a couple of weeks time, I'm in the top 10!!  I have been sorting out what I'll be wearing and where to get my makeup, hair and nails professionally done...it's all so exciting!
This Saturday night I'm going out to dinner with some of the other pinup pageant finalist to meet, have a chat and have some dinner and drinks, I'm really looking forward to it.

I love this cherry print Jenny skirt by Pinup Couture (pinup girl clothing), I thought I would wear my cherry print blouse with this skirt, as they go so well together. I decided to accessorize this outfit with my cherry print hand-bag by Sourpuss Clothing. I just love cherries, it's one of my favorite novelty prints.

 Blouse if from Kmart Australia
Jenny skirt is by Pinup Girl Clothing and is from a facebook group. 
Red heels are from Lucky Lou Shoes  http://www.luckyloushoes.com/
Red retro Hell Bunny belt is from Gwynnies Emporium   http://gwynnies.com.au/
Red hair-flower is from a local accessories store.

 It's now Spring here in Australia, my favorite season! I decided to dress Tiki/Hawaiian style for the first days of spring. This will probably be my last time wearing this Freddies of Pinewood high-waisted jeans in a while, as it gets way too hot to wear long pants here in Queensland, Australia!
I decided to wear my new Hawaiian/flamingo printed shirt with these awesome jeans and accessorize with my vintage wicker purse and flamingo sandals by Miss L Fire.

Shirt is from Lowes Australia.
Jeans are by Freddies of Pinewood and are from Ruff N Ready  http://www.ruffnready.com.au/
Flamingo sandals are from Miss L Fire UK  http://shop.misslfire.co.uk/
Vintage wicker purse is from Cherry Bay Fabulous (find on facebook) 
Retro sunglasses are from a local pre-loved clothing boutique.
Pink hibiscus hair-flower is from Soda Sweethearts https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/SodaSweethearts

I'll keep you all updated over the next few weeks with my first ever pinup pageant, and a few vintage/rockabilly festivals I'll be attending!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo