My First Flat...

I am about to move out of my first flat that I shared with Kylie. I left home relatively late, so I loved the opportunity to start buying my own furniture and have my own space. I am moving into another flat with more friends and can't wait, but I have loved living here. I thought for a wee change I would show you how I dressed my room.

Been in Barca and That

This is just a very quick post by way of an apology. I know it has been a ridiculous amount of time since my last post, and I won't insult you with excuses...ok I will. I am in desperate need of a new camera, I have been moving out of my shop, and have been in Barcelona. To try and not seem like a complete failure as a blogger, I thought I would show you a couple of photos of how beautiful Barcelona is. I know its just a couple of shots, but all the others are just of me and my friends drunk, and I'm sure you see enough of that from your own friends on facebook. As for my visit, I loved it, a beautiful city with so much going on, it may have just taken over New York as my favourite city in the world.

There was a big protest on while we were there, unsurprisingly the austerity measures are unpopular everywhere. I had to take this photo as I loved the green sign you can see in the middle, it says "Army of Love", not a great shot from me I admit, but I thought it was great how the Catalonians exercised their right of protest without destroying their beautiful city.

I will leave you with a picture of my new shoes and a promise that the blog posts will be a lot more frequent from now on!

Diesel Island Life

Diesel island life came to Glasgow. We had actually made a video to promote it, but thankfully it wasn't used, however they use stills from the video for the flyer, with me looking like a gaelic children's TV presenter. I don't think there is any need to show you it.

It was a free bar and great music with Thunder Disco Club and Optimo at the helm. Afterwards we had a knees up at my shop as a bit of a closing party.

Fringed Jacket - We Love To Boogie

Vintage Kilt - We Love To Boogie

Rachel Is wearing

Maxi Skirt - We Love To Boogie Colletions

Vintage Escada Belt - We Love To Boogie

Organiser and Thunder Disco DJ James Sutherland

Actress and Singer Laura McMonagle and Style Scanners Marina MacLean

Jack Sheriff

Thunder Disco's Raul Pindi, Artist Yoann Reininger, Actor Sam Robertson

A dance on the bar with my business partner Natalia Codona to say goodbye to the shop, check her blog: www.shelovestoboogie.com

Why I love Vintage

I don't know if you know, but I own a vintage shop...or I suppose soon I will only be able to say, I sell vintage clothes. My shop should be closed within the week, and while I would be lying to say I am not disappointed, and a bit sorry for the people that will be let down by this, I know I tried everything to keep it going. This isn't a diary however so we will leave my feelings on it for somewhere else. The reason I mention my shop closing is that it kind of helps to make my point. I will still be selling vintage both through my website www.welovetoboogievintage.com and my ASOS boutique, I guess you could say the next part of my journey is to sell online, step out from the monstrous weight that is having an expensive shop, and take the next step, which I think may contain some design. A collection to sit alongside the hand picked vintage, I know I should be excited, and I will be, but for now, my shop should be closed within the week. 

All this talk is inspired by my latest vintage purchase, it epitomises perfectly what I love about vintage, it tells a story, it's had it's own journey. Its a jacket once owed by someone named Paul. Paul was in the US Navy, and more specifically aboard the USS.Biddle between the years 85-86, just before I was born. Paul was a Libra. I know all this because he had embroidered on his jacket, my jacket. On a tour of the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean, he collected flag patches from most of the ports he stopped at and had them stitched to his jacket, my jacket. I admit its rare to find such a complete story from your vintage pieces, but its wonderful when you do. That is why I love vintage. They have a history, have been part of other peoples lives and nobody else at the party will have one like you.

Now on ASOS!

Hi guys just a wee post to let you know that my store now has an outlet in the ASOS marketplace, it's great that we now have two international shop windows, and so far today we have sold to Australia, Cornwall and Dublin! Check us out HERE!

Supermaxing it for Helen...

Another month and yet another jaunt to 'Supermax' for my good friend Helen's leaving party, I will miss her terribly, but I am very excited for all that the big smoke has in store for her. Once again Supermax was top class, Billy Woods making it impossible to leave the dancefloor and the "night out" lasting well into a beautiful Sunday afternoon, thankfully I was dressed for summer. I thought I would try a neckerchief for the first time too, I love the colour of this one and I usually use it as a pocket square. Apologies the pictures aren't the best, I fear my camera is terminally ill.

Neckerchief - We Love To Boogie

Shirt - Allsaints

Belt - We Love To Boogie

Jeans - American Apparel

Trench - Raf Simons

Shoes - We Love To Boogie

Me and the beautiful Helen wearing We Love To Boogie and channeling YSL's "le smoking"

Marina McLean and Jonathan Rippon, a pair of perfectly co-ordinated, jewel coloured, velvet sporting, bloggers.

Can't Get Enough of 'em Coloured Cords...

Summer is here and S/S '11 demands that you dress as bright as the weather. A crisp white shirt and pair of colourful trousers are pretty much my favourite summer outfit, particularly as its easy to always end up looking like you're heading for the beach when dressed for the summer weather. I think some people are reluctant to wear a white shirt incase it looks like office wear, but with the right combo of accessories I think it can look cool. 

Hat - We Love To Boogie

White Shirt - H&M

Belt - We Love To Boogie

Cords - Ralph Lauren

Shoes - We Love To Boogie

Sunglasses - Steve McQueen Persols at Decades