Monday, April 25, 2016

EPITOME OF FLAIR - LAUREN STONEHAM

 
 
 
 Who are you? 
 
Lauren Stoneham.
I am a mummy of 2, a boy and a girl and have been married for 10 years.
I have been a hairdresser for over 17 years and have owned 2 businesses in that time.
I have a hobby shop called Bommy Belmore Designs where I make and sell felt brooches, handpainted wine glass's and hair flowers to name a few things.
I am old fashioned at heart and that includes my dress sense.
 
 
 
Describe your fashion style
 
My love for vintage attire lays certainly in the 30's to 50s bracket but i am a sucker for tailored pants and vests and go gaa gaa over vintage Mexican and western which i love to mesh together.
 
Who is your favourite style icon & why?
 
I wouldn't say I have one particular style icon that I swoon over because there is many.
But I will say I love classic vintage and authenticity.
 
Name your essential fashion pieces 
 
-SPANKS 😂😂😂.
-Neutral petti slip (its bloody windy were I live and I don't want everyone seeing me spanks)
- my vintage fox stole.
-shoes that match the bag that match the belt
 
 
 
Do you have a special prized fashion piece in your wardrobe?
 
Probably my Black fur coat my brother brought me.
The fact that my brother thought to gave me it and it was also my first fur 💓
 
What is something surprising about you?
 
Ohhhh gawd...definitely not sewing related.
I can clean, load and shoot a gun like John Wayne and my favourite smell in the whole world is a camp fire....and chickens scare me 😨
 
Do you have a favourite sewing pattern? What is it?
 
Not "sew" much a sewing pattern but my draft system that my mum gave me so I can draft from my Golden Rule Lutterlok.
 
 
 
Etsy shop coming 😊

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

EPITOME OF FLAIR - Rachel Azzopardi

 
Who are you?
Rachel Azzopardi aka Bella Von Doll Shop -Be Von Doll (Be Like Me)
 
Claim to fame
I was chosen out of a group of 20 girls to join June Dally Watkins Modelling Agency when I was 17. A modest country girl with 3rd generation sewing skills handed down from my beautiful Nana
 
 Describe your fashion style - Simple and Classic with a hint of Flamboyance
 


 
 
Who is your favourite style icon & why?
From a young girl I adored Gabrielle Coco Chanel. I watched the video of her life story when I was 13 and I use to cut out pictures from Vogue Magazines and paste them into my high school diary of her fashion releases every season. I still adore her life story of small beginnings to supreme couturier
 
 
 
Name your 5 essential fashion pieces:
Rago Shapewear Cincher
Vintage petticoat
matching Bangle Brooch and Earrings
Vintage Handbag
Hubby wearing a colour coordinated Bobby Darin to match my dress.
 
 
 
Do you have a special prized fashion piece in your wardrobe?
I have many favourite pieces, but my most special is my black velvet and white bow vintage hat
 
 
 
What is something surprising about you?
In 1991 I was driving through Maryborough from a holiday in Hervey Bay and stopped to take a photo of one of the most famous restored Queensland houses of our town. Not knowing then that 15 years later I would purchase the house and now living across the road from the house I stood in front of to take that photo. Amazing where your path in life leads you.
 
 
 
Do you have a favourite sewing pattern?
I have many original vintage patterns that I purchased at one of our local op shops. I adore them all, for their age and their history. One of my favourites is McCalls 3015 .  I like the high neckline and back detail, I've just been to scared to make it.
 
 
 
Last year, along with a few like minded friends, we started the Rockin' Maryborough Vintage Festival with the objective to share the love of vintage in our town. I am the president and our first years event was organised in flash of 12 weeks.
I never like to fail but the task that we started was bigger than Ben Hur.
I'm glad we have had 12 months this year.