Once in a while we buy garments which have a raised velvety flocked finish. Usually 1950s dresses but we have had tops and bags plus 1980s dresses and tops. Just bought a 50s powder blue prom dress recently which had a cream flock design and it made me curious as to the origin of flocking…
I know we haven’t had much of a summer but I’ve still been able to wear my favourite vintage dresses albeit with a cardi gan most days. The worst thing for me about the weather getting even chillier is that I have to pack them all away. This year I am embracing the ‘anything goes’…
PASS-THE-PARCEL GUEST BLOGGER Lucy Clews age 18 from Newsome Huddersfield comments on the dilema of what to wear in our changeable weather. The weather in Huddersfield is, on the whole, unpredictable. Quite understandably we see a sunny sky as we wake up, put on a polka dot tea dress with our favourite pair of court…
Our collection of shirts, in store now, carries a varied range of styles; with REVIVAL’S focus always being on vintage classics. We have a range of denim shirts, printed Shirts, Hawaiian styles, collarless shirts, checked shirts, striped shirts with a mix of long or short sleeves. ps with the right shirt nothing else matters…
BRIT award winners MUMFORD & SONS will be playing at Greenhead Park in our home town, on June 2nd, “why Huddersfield you say, well it lays slap bang in the middle of this great nation”. It has been billed as the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover and will also see appearances from Michael Kiwanuka, Willy…
We’ve seen Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy, well now it’s Snoopy’s turn to join the gang and blazon the chest of Huddersfield’s trend setters. With a variety of Snoopy portraits on various snoopy sweatshirts you’re sure to find one to suit you. The fictional character Snoopy is from the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M Schulz…
Who is Gaia? What is she? The what is the thin spherical shell of land and water between the incandescent interior of the earth and the upper atmosphere surrounding it. The who is the interacting tissue of living organisms which over four billion years has come to inhabit it (Lovelock, 2006). Gaia is a metaphor…
Blue, stone wash, frayed, cut off, shirt, jeans, flared, skinny, stretch, slouchy, double D… so many ways to describe the fabric of resistance, the fabric that exists in many forms and the fabric that probably (most likely) exists in everybody’s wardrobe in one form or another. Usually I would be all for you trying something…
Preppy plaid suits graced the Autumn/Winter runways, with influences from Marc Jacobs (one of our favourites) and Rag and Bone. Although the models looked as incredible as ever, we question how practical and realistic it is to wear head to toe checks in the life of a mere mortal walking civilian streets and not a…
The New Year is well and truly over and the word ‘new’ has been debased through over use. The New Year brings about this inherent desire to start over, clean the slate…start a fresh. Well what’s wrong with working with what you’ve got?…that’s what we’ve done. Re-working and re-using the old into fabulous new outfits….