Sunday, February 7, 2010

Yesterday I went to the Angels Retro Sale. Doors opened at 8:30am so as much as I hated to wake up early on a Saturday morning, I managed to peel myself off bed at 6:30am to get ready for the big day. We arrived the location at approximately 9am (yes! it is FAR) and, the line was so long it has already wrapped around the whole block! Surely is an obscured scene in the area of North Wembley with the presence of uber trendy and fashion forward crowd!
So the sale was very straight forward, the entrance fee was 5 pounds and we can choose between a medium bag for 20 pounds or a large bag for 50 pounds all you can fill!
We waited for an hour in zero degrees wind before we were finally let inside the warehouse. It was such a mad house!! Everyone was grabbing items and stuffing it in their bags, and in this case, it does feel like it was almost for free! So I started randomly grabbing everything that has potential from rows of paper boxes that were divided into genres and categories. But basically it was all about digging..so DIG DIG DIG!! Then we found ourselves a little corner to try on everything for size. This is tricky since fit is quite important if I wanted to modernize the look. At that point it was more quality over quantity, although my economist side told me a sunk cost of 25 pounds is spent already...haha.
So we were in and out of that place within one hour. I am sure I could yield more findings if I dug around for longer, as I completely skipped the accessories section (my bag still had room for more!). But the madness was draining my spirit already and I was quite happy with all my findings.

So here they are...(everything for 20 pounds!!)
Item 1.
Long black and white full skirt, worn as a dress. (Can't wait to wear this one out during Spring!) Worn with: vintage red snake skin belt, pearl necklace, Topshop leggings, and Prada open toe ankle boots.



Item 2: Vintage Miss Selfridge navy blue jacket. Worn with: H&M tshirt, H&M boyfriend shorts, Topshop leggings, Prada open toe ankle boots.
Doesn't this jacket look like a flight attendant's uniform? haha


Item 3: Rollerblade waitress short dress. Worn with Topshop leggings and Clarks Marg Kate Brown boots.


Item 4: Sleeveless button down dress. Worn with neon green vintage belt, topshop leggings and Clarks Marg Kate Brown boots.


Item 5: Pink stripped basic shirt with white collar. Worn with H&M boyfriend jeans and zara strappy sandals.



Item 6: Beige trench coat (yay one of my fav pieces) Worn with vintage red snake skin belt, topshop leggings and Prada open toe ankle boots.

Item 7: Black Madeline long pleated dress. (another one of my favoriates!!) Worn with vintage scarf, pearl necklace, vintage loafers.

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