30.8.11

Mildred Pierce uniform,
worn by Joan Crawford, 1945

"Ozmite" jacket designed by Adrian
for The Wizard of Oz, 1939

It Only Happens When I Dance
With You. Worn by Anne Miller in
Easter Parade, 1948

(actually sold June 18th, 2011)

24.8.11

Bring back: The teddy bear coat.
Photograph by Eugene Robert Richee.

23.8.11


Extinct: Isetta, 1953-1962. In the event
of a crash, the driver and passenger were to
exit through the canvas sunroof.

22.8.11




Living: PastelerĂ­a tradicional, Menorca,
home of the Pastisset. Lower two photographs
by Lucy Slater and Reed Wilson.

18.8.11

Living: Eleanor Pritchard wool throws
woven in a traditional mill in Wales, and
influenced by the English landscape
and mid-20th century British art.

17.8.11

Pardoned: The rat. Accused of
spreading the Black Death plague,
now pronounced Not Guilty.

16.8.11

Rescuing: Henry Lamb, his portrait by
Duncan Hannah, pajamas and espadrilles
rescued from The Burning House, featured
Photograph by Foster Huntington.

15.8.11



Living: Mike Turtons Quality Butchers, formerly
W. H. Andrew, Purveyor & Family Butcher,
est. 1855. Photographs taken at Ilfracombe,
North Devon, by Jesse Carrington.

11.8.11



Patrick Hamilton chic by
Old Town, photographed at the
Red Lion, St. James's, by Matt Hind.

10.8.11




Living, in display cases: Clarice Cliff.
Her Bizarre series was partly influenced
by the textiles of Sonia Delaunay.

9.8.11

Extinct: The black rubber floating device.
Photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue.

8.8.11

Living: Giffords Circus, currently at
Michinhampton Common, Gloucestershire.
Photograph by Reed Wilson.

3.8.11

Loving: Un-shy wiring.

2.8.11

Living: The Ian Mankin grain sack tea
towel, woven in Lancashire, once the centre
of the British textiles industry (see Potted
History No. 3 for further edification).
Available at Ancient Industries.

contributors

Reed Wilson, Kendra Wilson