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| 1920s actress Clara Bow, ironically sporting a lovely bow! |
Those of you who know me personally or have met me at some point within the past five years or so will know that i've never really been what you'd call a 'shy delicate wall flower' when it comes to my dress sense. I like 'different', i like bold, i like to be the black sheep and i will always appreciate vintage originality over multiple factory produced throw 'away' fashion. I will near enough always choose a bold vintage floral print over a personality-free plain black fabric. And generally if there's a choice between an understated necklace and a piece of overly extravagant statement extravaganza bling, well bugger me, i think you already know the results of that choice.
There is one old friend in particular who has always been a regular in my life for the past few years, he is of course the over sized hair bow. Long before those Japanese girls were backcombing their hair extensions into unthinkable realms of volume (i must admit this did make me shy away from the old over sized bow for a few months!) i was addicted to the bow. There was a time about a year ago where i literally felt naked without my old faithful. These days i'm happy to bring him out of the dressing up box when the time is right and not just to pop down the shops for a pint of milk.
Another close pal of The Bow, is my other good friend, the neck scarf, like (i almost wrote Bowie, then realised my error!) The Bow, he is a fabulous accessory and loves nothing better than to finish off a dull outfit that's missing that certain something. So i thought i'd share some accessory love with you all with some lovely examples of good bow-age and show you a few of my own hand made hair bows available in my Etsy shop. Enjoy!
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| Large vintage sunflower fabric hair bow available in my shop: http://www.etsy.com/listing/68102058/large-sunflower-print-hair-bow |
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| Greta Garbo looking insanely seductive. |
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| Super cute vintage bow pumps by Small and Mousey on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/53838444/adorable-vintage-creamy-white-leather |
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| Drool-some shiny bow shoes! |
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| Pure 80s so-wrong-but-so-right-ness |
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| Cute pink and white vintage polka dot fabric bow available in my shop: http://www.etsy.com/listing/68102944/large-polka-dot-pink-and-white-hair-bow |
2 comments:
yey abother bow fanatic just like me. I love an oversized hair bow but my hair is so short these days they sometimes look ridiculous on me =)
Bow Dream Nation xx
I love big colourful bows on others but always tend to stick to more neutral colours for myself- I need to man up and get some bright bows into my wardrobe! Really like the cute little pumps xx
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