Category Archives: Womens Vintage Clothes

Guest Blogger Post 4 – Fashion

Fashion is about expressing yourself, it’s about wearing what you want to wear, being who you want to be. Whatever is your style, wear what you want to wear. Don’t feel like you have to wear the same thing that your friends do, and don’t be afraid to be different. But most importantly wear what [...]
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CovertCandy sees its official Re-launch today!!

The CovertCandy team are happy to announce that today is our new site re-launch!! The past few months have been spent improving the trading capabilities and increasing the social interactive functionality on CovertCandy! All CovertCandy lovers can now enjoy: 1. Full scale trading! The community will be open for you guys to trade anything you like! The [...]
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Corset Envy

Every time I see someone really pull off a corset I find myself in a relentless suffering of ‘Corset Envy’. I proceed to travel into a daydream about how I would wear it, teaming it up with pencil skirt or jeans? Layered over fifties dress or worn chest bare for an evening of frivolity. So, I [...]
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Q&A with Sara from Get Palmd!

Surfer chick Sara from GetPalmd caught our eye with her casual and chilled style with stilettos on top. Sepcial mention to her sense of humor, the music suggestions…and the fast cars pictured all over it! So we asked her a few questions. What is this seasons must have clothing? Sara: I’m starting to like the comeback of [...]
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Q&A with OUTSAPOP.COM

Finnish fashion and accessories designer Outi Pyy from Outsapop.com is one of the best bloggers around if you are looking to customize your vintage finds as well as create quirky, runway inspired jewellery. With her easy tutorials, she makes having a unique style super easy! Here at Covertcandy we are all about sustainable fashion [...]
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Quite Contrary – Question and Answer

How old were you when you started to love fashion? There is a picture of me wearing colorfully dotted leggins and a huge knitted sweater with a teddybear and hearts on it, I was about 12 – so I guess I was older than 12 Who are your vintage style icons? / What celebrity, across [...]
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Question and Answer: College Fashion

How old were you when you started to love fashion? I have always loved fashion – as a kid I was always doodling dress designs in my notebooks and playing dress-up. But I didn’t really know so much about designers or the fashion industry until my senior year of high school when I lived with my [...]
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Behind the scenes footage

10 models, 2 stylists, 2 photographers, 2 make-up artists, 1 fashion director, 18 hours of shooting, 50+ coffees and 350 hand picked vintage clothes from Paris. Here is some behind the scenes footage of the latest CovertCandy shoot: CovertCandy Shoot from CovertCandy on Vimeo.
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Changes Changes and more blummin changes!

We’re making changes to CovertCandy in case you hadn’t noticed. Please bare with us whilst we pimp out the site. Its business as usual in the CovertCandy community but it will take 1 or 2 days until the vintage  shop is fully operational again. Please help us out if you find any problems with the site and [...]
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The 90s

Oh my goodness, would you believe it. It seems after only a short season dominated and inspired by 80s clothes, fashion journalists and trend analysists are already predicting a shift towards the 90s. Although the  80s trend will undoubtedly remain a steadfast feature of the highstreet for the near future, the indicators are already there [...]
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Lucile

A side-step from my usual ramblings about the trend for 80s clothes, I thought I’d blog about something a little more vintage. The Victoria & Albert Museum have just published a book of archive material from original Edwardian fashion designer Lady Duff Gordon, also known as ‘Lucile’. From the 1890s – 1930s, Lucile controlled a vast [...]
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The 40s

The interesting thing about our current love of everything 80s is that, back then, fashion had its own vintage trend – the 1940s. During that era, fashion was far more utilitarian. Given that war dominated half the decade and women were encouraged to make-do-and-mend, its easy to see how fashion reflected the sobriety of the time. [...]
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The Suit Jacket

In current fashion, a key feature of the 80s trend is undoubtedly the double-breasted, broad shouldered suit jacket. This remains an iconic look from the 1980s, first popularised by the 1980 Richard Gere film, ‘American Gigolo’. The costumes for this film were designed by Georgio Armani. For Gere’s character, he made sharply tailored suits with shoulders [...]
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The 80s

So first up, the trend for 80s clothes. When veteran French label Balmain unveiled their Spring/Summer 09 collection, they basically opened a gaping void in the time-space continuum and sent the Western world back to the 80s (no one seems to mind though). In fact, the trend has been taken up by other similarly influencial [...]
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Hello Vintage Votaries

Hi all. From now on, I’ll be blogging about the delights of vintage clothes. As an avid vintage hunter myself, with the eyes of a magpie and the claws of an eagle, I hope to use my experience to bring some erudite, thoughtful debate to the table. However, I may also bring some ridiculous fraff. [...]
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