Category: Make do and mend
Make your own Bettie Draper frock: Mad Men dress course
Make Betty Draper jealous and learn how to make your very own Sixties summer dress. During the four-hour class you will learn how to alter a pattern, sew and finish your dress using couture techniques and how wear it with style. You will also have your own pattern to take away with you so that [...]
Where vintage meets DIY: make your own cake stand workshop
What do you get if you cross vintage china with a Black & Decker? Your very own cake stand. That’s what Anna Sbuttoni did when she tripped over to the Oak Studio in Hampstead Heath to make a three-tier beauty. It’s early(ish) for a Saturday morning and I find myself wielding a drill in one [...]
Get your vintage repaired by The Lady That Does
Lindsay Rodham, aka The Lady That Does, provides a personal alteration and repair service specialising in vintage clothing. Based in Walthamstow, East London, Lindsay’s clients come to her for a cup of tea and to discuss in detail how they’d like their garments fixed and changed. If Walthamstow is a tad too far you, can [...]
Bringing vintage cool to Kings Cross: Drink, Shop & Do
Drink, Shop & Do is a new design shop and café bar just around the corner from King’s Cross station selling products from emerging designers alongside vintage furniture and home wares. Everything in the shop, which is housed in a Victorian bathhouse, is for sale: from designer crafts, vintage tea sets, Fifties dressers and unusual tables [...]
