Vintage at Sunny Southbank: Days 2 & 3

Day 2 and I was hot, hormonal and grumpy. But I put on a smile and my gorgeous Horrockses frock and headed back to the Southbank for more super selling!

The proud shop keeper and her wrinkled bed sheet

Instead of my stall being positioned next to the Olympiad, on Saturday we moved it into the Vintage Village amongst all the clothes and nic nacs....and also next to the bins. Oh the glamour

To be more precise, in between the bins and the portaloos

The reason I wore my Horrockses dress, was not just because it is fabulous, but because on the mock high street there was a Horrockses shop. It was very pretty indeed, and was full of pretty bed linen made from original Horrockses prints. As I was wearing a Horrockses frock, I was photographed inside the shop and entered into the 'best in show' competition. I also entered two other competitions in there so fingers crossed I win some bed linen or a repro dress!

I didn't stick around on Saturday either as I had a family party to attend in the evening and wasn't feeling my usual cheerful self, so once again I didn't really get much an idea of what was going on across the festival. What I did experience was food. Lots of it. They had a great food area with some really yummy looking choices. My fave was the mac and cheese stall!

On Sunday a mass of glamorous vintage bloggers and lovely chums appeared and spent some time hanging around the Chap stall which meant I got to enjoy their company and their outfits.

Miss Hannah, Charly of LandGirl 1980, Shona of Heyday! fame, and me

I wore my other current favourite dress, a 1950s barkcloth leaf print beauty with a corseted tie at the front. The giant hat made another appearance. I actually bought it on Friday at the festival and it never left my head! I found a similar one for Bethan on the same stall so we were hat twins all weekend and managed to keep poking people in the eye with our brims. He he....

I finally met Charlotte from Tuppence Ha'penny!

Sunday evening we all finally got to relax and try and have some fun. I had a wander around, danced with the girls and actually had a lovely evening.

I stumbled upon the Let It Rock 50s club and wish I'd payed it a visit earlier in the weekend because it was fab! 

Although all the different spaces were spread apart and some people have said that it made the atmosphere appear slightly lacking, I actually think that there was a really nice feel to the whole place. Whether or not you are into the same era and music or clothes style, you were surrounded by people who were all there to enjoy themselves. It was so great to be among friends all weekend, even if many of them were busy and working themselves on various projects around the site, seeing so many familiar faces and friends from the vintage community around all weekend was certainly a big plus.

Patriotic Minna and my hat twin Bethan

Me and Fleur. Hot, exhausted but happy

So yes, I had a great time. But I understand that other people that didn't had valid reasons. I think I would have been annoyed if I'd paid £60 a day. Especially as that didn't even include the headline 'revue' acts each night. I know others working there had horrible experience too, but lucky me, my boss was my best pal, and I was actually getting paid, and hanging out with all my chums at the same time.

Lets hope that by next year all the problems can finally be ironed out, and everyone that wants to be involved, and is passionate about vintage, is able to enjoy themselves as much as I did.