Fashion Show!

On Tuesday this week, a couple of friends and myself did a little 1940's and 50's fashion show for the elderly residents I care for at a Aged Care Home.  We  paraded around three dresses each to show off to the residents, one of the dresses I wore was my Mary Blair umbrella print dress from Pinup Girl Clothing  http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/

I wanted to do this for the elderly residents I care for because I thought it would bring back some good memories and reminiscing of days gone by. Also something different for them to enjoy, instead of the same old, same old, everyday activities.

Sorry in the above two photos I had to block out most of the background, due to privacy reasons! 
I received great feedback from both residents and staff that I work with.  Hopefully I'll be able to organize another one in the near future!

Here is another dress I wore to the fashion show on Tuesday my cherry print dress from Collectif https://www.collectif.co.uk/
I decided to take some blog photos in this dress, that same day.  A friend from work found this old vintage suitcase in a store room at work, so I took it for future props for blog photos/fashion parade's etc. I decided to use my Mum's replica vintage phone for the above blog photo.

 I accessorized this dress with my red cloche hat, Luxulite brooch, white faux beads and a simple red bracelet.
The night before I curled my hair using a wet-set with sponge rollers, I find this way works really well for me to curl my hair. As my hair is so thick and stubborn at times to do anything new/different with.

I'm looking forward to this weekend, catching up with close family members and hopefully meeting up with a follow fashion blogger and friend and taking some photos of each other for future blog posts!
By the way for all that's buying up big this weekend in the Black Friday sales...yay for you!!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Birthday Picnic and Vintage Fashions!

On the weekend (Sunday) I went to my friends Birthday picnic/BBQ at a local Botanical Gardens, after we all had finish our lunch, I asked a few of my friends if they wanted to take some photos together in the gardens. Which of course they said yes to if was just us ladies who were dressed up in "pinup".

After having some lovely photos taken together, a few of us girls went to see an Australian movie called The Dressmaker this movie is set in the 1950's and stars Kate Winslet, Liam Hemsworth, Hugo Weaving and Judy Davis.  I really loved this movie, especially the beautiful 1950's costumes...just stunning!

For these photos I wore my sunflower Hell Bunny dress,  my new sunflower hair-flower from Daisy Jean Floral http://daisyjeanfloraldesigns.com/ 
Betty Jo sparrow brooch from Erstwilder http://www.erstwilder.com/ 
and a pair of white peep-toe shoes from Target Australia.

 I really enjoyed the day, it's so good to "hang out" with girlfriends whom dress similar to myself and enjoy having photos taken!

For my day off from work today I decided to wear this gorgeous 1950's Atomic print dress by Love ur Look Clothing  http://www.loveurlook.co.uk/
and to take some photos for my blog.
This week apart from working, I've been trying to organize a few girls that live locally and who also wear's pinup/vintage style clothing to help out with a little 1940's/50's fashion show I'm organizing for next week for the residents I take care of in an Aged care facility I work at.

I've asked the girls to bring along at least two outfits to parade around in and that are inspired from the 1940's and 50's.  Hopefully I will have enough girls for next week, as I really want the fashion show to be enjoyed by all!
Today was a really hot day here in Queensland, Australia. Apparently though over the next week, it will be getting hotter. Summer is here in Australia!!

I'm accessorizing this dress with my retro sunglasses by Collectif  https://www.collectif.co.uk/
a Betty Bo necklace, a red printed hair-scarf, a couple of bangles and a pair of red floral earrings.

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

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

Colourful Pinup!

On Saturday 31st of October 2015 I attended the Decades Festival in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The Decades Festival included a mixture of music (bands), vehicles and fashions from the 1950's through to the 1990's. Though saying that the pinup pageant and the fashion parade (which I took part in) mainly included inspired fashions from the 1950's and 60's.
At the festival I looked around at the awesome vintage cars, had some lunch with a follow pinup friend, had a bit of a browse at a few of the market stalls, watched the pinup pageant, participated in the fashion parade and had some photos taken at the event.
It was so hot walking around in the sun, even though I had an umbrella with me I still got a bit burnt.

The above photos are some professional photos of me on the catwalk and having a photo taken with a 1950's vintage car.
I really loved the outfit I chose to wear for this event, as I do love bright, bold colours. Plus pink is one of my favorite colours.

I wore my new Dolores pink top by Collectif UK  https://www.collectif.co.uk/  
Queen of hearts border print Jenny skirt by Pinup Girl Clothing http://www.pinupgirlclothing.com/ 
I accessorized this outfit with a pink pinup belt and pink hair-scarf from an ebay seller.  A pair of pink retro sunglasses that I received as a gift and my tea-set brooch from Deerarrow  http://www.deerarrow.com/ 
I also walked around with my pink and yellow umbrella as part of my outfit at the event.

A few days ago I received in the post three different hair-flowers from an Australian company called Daisy Jean Floral Designs   http://daisyjeanfloraldesigns.com/
I've been wanting to purchase some of their hair-flowers for a while but just haven't done so, until recently.
I ordered and bought a big sunflower piece, a rose double and a pink gerbera as in these blog photos.

As soon as I received these lovely pieces I wanted to take some blog photos, to showcase them to you all that follow my blog. For this pink Gerbera I knew I had to match it with a bright and colourful floral dress, and I knew straight away which dress to wear my floral halter-neck swing dress from Vivien of Holloway.

 Floral Fiesta swing dress is by Vivien of Holloway  http://www.vivienofholloway.com/
Pink gerbera hair-flower is from Daisy Jean Floral Designs  
Wide blue belt is from an ebay seller and my pink flower brooch is vintage.
Petticoat is from Gwynnies Emporium  http://gwynnies.com.au/

Next week I'll blogged about the pinup picnic by the sea that I recently enjoyed and attended!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

 

Pretty Pink Pinups!

I have another big weekend planned! This weekend on Saturday I'll be attending a festival called Decades. Which showcases vehicles, music and fashions from the 1950's through to the 1990's. I'm actually in the fashion parade, so for the last couple of days I've been planning my outfit to wear. I'm really looking forward to going, as I've never been before!
Then on Sunday I'll be going to a pinup picnic by the sea down at the Gold Coast, which includes pinups, rockabilly guys and dolls, meeting in a park and having a picnic together. There will also be photographers and lucky door prizes up for grabs!  I'm planning on taking my new picnic basket, a blanket and a parasol/umbrella on the day.

 In these photos I'm wearing my Collectif UK white Gypsy blouse, my Banned Apparel flamingo skirt, pink peep-toe wedges by Williams Australia and a pink flamingo hair tie from an ebay seller.

 On Saturday for a few hours I went to watch a pinup pageant in aid of Breast Cancer Awareness. Some of my friends were in the pageant. I also wanted to enter but I had to go to work that day!
Anyway all of the ladies had to entail the colour pink into their gorgeous outfits. I loved seeing everyone dressed in pink, as it is one of my favorite colours.
As well as the gorgeous pinups, their was also quite a number of gorgeous looking vintage cars and hot rods their too.

 Off course I had to get a photo or two with some of these wonderful cars.  Apparently quite an substantial amount of money was raised on the day to go towards the breast cancer foundation, which was great to hear!
All the ladies were amazing with their little routines, there end up being a 3rd runner up, runner up and of course a winner. But everyone was a winner in my eyes, as it was for a very good cause!

 I wore my new Nadine posy floral dress from Collectif UK  https://www.collectif.co.uk/ 
a pair of white shoes from Target Australia, pink hair-flower and cat-eye glasses from an ebay seller, vintage beads and my pink/yellow umbrella from a pre-loved clothing boutique.

 All in all it was a lovely morning catching up with friends, meeting new ladies, looking around at all the cars and especially watching the girls up on the stage!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

Tiki pinup vs Kitchen pinup

One of my favorite pinup styles is the tiki/Hawaiian look, I own quite a number of dresses/skirts in this style, that also includes fabric patterns of palm trees, hibiscus flowers, flamingos, orchid's etc.

This summery tiki style wrap/wiggle dress is by the brand Miss Fortune UK   http://www.missfortune.co.uk/
 I love the fabric print with the white palm trees on the brownish background, the halter and the wrap style.

I decided to accessorize this gorgeous dress with my bamboo bangles, an orchid hair-flower, a pair of leopard print sunglasses and wedges from Williams Australia  https://www.williamsshoes.com.au

I took this photos for my blog outside in the nice sunshine in my Mum's beautiful garden.

Today I walked the catwalk for Noni B (ladies fashion chain store) in "fashions on the field". I modeled four different outfits, it was a lot of fun and really great to build up my confidence for any future fashion shows/pinup pageants!

 Another favorite pinup style of mine is the floral/cute "look".  This cute little floral dress is by the UK reproduction brand Voodoo Vixen http://www.voodoovixen.co.uk/  

I adore the style, the floral design on the light blue background and the gathered bust line. This dress is so great to wear in the summer/hotter months as well.

I decided to accessorize this lovely dress with some fashion jewelry, a pink hair-flower and a pink pair of faux cat-eye glasses that I bought from an ebay seller and my white peep-toe sandals from Target Australia.
I took these photos for my blog in my pink kitchen that I'm installing in my little granny style flat.

This weekend (Saturday) I'm going to watch a pinup pageant for a couple of hours which is actually happening locally, and is in aid of Breast Cancer awareness, so all the gorgeous pinup's have to include pink into their outfits, it should be a lot of fun to watch, encourage and say hi to friends! Unfortunately I couldn't enter, as I have to work that same day and really can't get out of it!

Until next time!
Miss Milla Cherry xo

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