Maybe I’m not dedicated enough, but on the cold London streets, I still haven’t found many immaculate head-to-toe vintage looks. Come on people!
This is Flora on NYE wearing a 1940s millitary overcoat. The photo is very dark, but I really like it anyway. When I make them black and white to hand in it will sort out the yellowish tone too – after I took it I worked out that there is a setting on my camera for street lights which I will put to good use soon.
Yesterday I went to the sale at This Shop Rocks on Brick Lane, possibly my favourite vintage shop ever and bought a black mohair coat with a brown fur colla. The coat was reduced to £30 from £100 and has taken pride of place in my growing coat collection. Surely coats and jackets are so practical that having nine of them can’t be considered frivolous? I don’t know, maybe nine isn’t such a lot anyway…
I digress - back to the photos. At This Shop Rocks I took the opportunity to photograph one of the shop’s owners, who was wearing a lovely grey suit and a cravat. I love a man in a cravat.
I was glad to get a photo of a man, and would definitely like my work to represent both genders, though at the moment, men of the type I want to photograph seem harder to find.
