Category: Vintage things to do
Get fit the vintage way and start Hula Hooping to 40s tunes
Hampstead Hoop Dance are offering a free taster and exclusive discount night tomorrow, 23 February 2012. During the session you will dance through on and off-body moves – a really toning, playful and energising exercise. Absolute beginners and intermediate hoopers are all welcome to give it a whirl while listening to tunes from the Forties [...]
Fall in love with the help of The Old Fashioned Dating Company
Today London sees the launch of a new type of dating company, one that promises to go back in time. The Old Fashioned Dating Company is an events company creating “pre-matched, pre-show events for cool modern people with old-fashioned values.” At the Old Fashioned Dating launch event tonight old fashioned daters will receive a sealed [...]
Take a tour of Eltham Palace and discover its famous women
As part of Women’s History Month you can take a tour of Eltham Palace during March and learn about the famous women from its past: find out about the role fashion played in the emancipation of women in the Twenties and Thirties. Dates: 4, 11, 18 & 25 March Time: 2 – 2:30pm Call 0208 [...]
New: The Bethnal Green Vintage Social
“The money’s too tight to mention,” sang Mick way back in ‘85 and boy does it ring true, just look at our empty bank balance. Eighties prophecies aside, the brains behind Britain’s biggest vintage fair are having none of it and are aiming to inject some much-needed frivolity back into London living. The Bethnal Green [...]
Long live the spoken word: The Fitzrovia Radio Hour
Expect chaps, cads and femme fatals at the Fitzrovia Radio Hour, a live performance of spoof radio plays of the Forties and Fifties performed and recorded with the typical style and elegance of the era. Recreating the unique spirit of Fotriess radio plays and brilliantly evoking a dinner-jacketed age of casual imperialism and stiff upper lips. The [...]
Ladies, learn how to woo a gentleman at Hendrick’s Unusual Month of Reverse Courtship
On the 29th of February each leap year, the normal rules of courtship are reversed, and women may freely pursue and propose to gentlemen of their choice. To celebrate this topsy turvy scenario, Hendrick’s Unusual Month of Reverse Courtship will be hosting a variety of events in the build up to this delightfully peculiar day. [...]
