Harrogate Vintage Trail

All the vintage bods in Harrogate have got together and created a leaflet highlighting the ever increasing amount of places to buy you vintage and retro gems in our lovely little town. Heres the front...

and heres a map.. feel free to print it off if it'll help you get around..

and heres a link to the facebook site of VintageShops.co.uk where you can find more details on some of these great shops.. 

Cats in Hats

Now, I thought I knew hats, but a quick blog about the differences between certain types have hat has turned into an education.  Firstly, here's a pic of what we sell...

Pretty impressive if we say so ourselves with caps, trilbys, fedoras, pork-pies, homburgs all ready to go.  So, whats the differences between all these?  Caps can have a blog all to themselves but what makes a trilby a trilby and a homburg a homburg?
Firstly, they're both fedoras. I'd always thought that a fedora was a wide-brimmed felt hat with a pinched front, as expertly modelled by Paul Simenon of The Clash

But it seems that, technically at least, fedora is a generic term for any hat of this basic shape so trilbys and homburgs are fedoras of a particular style.
Homburgs are the more formal solid hats with a fixed brim and a centre dent, occasionally called a 'Godfather' hat and here's why....

Not for the faint-hearted these as its harder to counteract the size and formality with the right clothes and attitude, much easier is the trilby, easily the most common hat around today. For those poor souls not brave enough to wear vintage there are plenty of cheap (and not always nasty) copies in Topshop and Primark.  For a masterclass in how to wear a trilby, or pretty much any hat, just look to the master, ol' blue eyes

And for those taking it to the next level, the pork-pie hat with its short brim and flat top,  beloved of jazz dancers, rudeboys and immortalised by Gene Hackman as 'popeye' Doyle

The key to all these, of course, is to wear with confidence and never forget that 'jaunty' angle.
Lastly, it's not just men that aren't wearing enough hats, don't forget that a masculine hat can look stunning on a woman too. Here's Faye Dunaway (who defined wearing a beret in Bonnie & Clyde) in funky, floppy fedora.

Heres a great site dedicated to hats for any wanting to delve deeper....Headstart

On Line Reviews

Its great to come across really nice reviews and mentions on the web that you didn't even know were there.

Thanks to Mandy from Interior Design Anglesey for this from last Sept, click on the pic....

And this great guide to Harrogate from last Nov.

http://www.queen-tree.blogspot.com/2011/11/vintage-guide-toharrogate.html

Dummies!

Our new look window/doorway, with matching mannequins and everything.

That's an original Ossie Clark on the left, with a lovely 70s Maxi and a cool retro chinese dress.  Plus the obligatory Tretchikoff, of course

Space Pounds

Gift vouchers back in stock if you've got one of those tricky to buy for people on your list. We challenge them not to find something in Space!

Available in £10s only.   Any resemblance of Space Girl to the Queen is purely accidental.

Discover Vintage in Harrogate

Keeley and her Discover Vintage crew have been involved with Space since the very beginning. It been a real pleasure to watch her business grow, her first ever fair was in Harrogate and they're returning this Sunday 20th to the St. Georges Hotel.

Heres a link to the facebook event

And click on the pic to go DVs website

Stereotypical stereogram

We waved goodbye to this bad boy today.....  its gone to a good home in Durham. To a guy who once represented the UK at the olympics playing Hockey, we got chatting as we tried to squeeze it into his hatchback.
I can safely say its the second nicest stereogram we've ever had.  Guess where the the other one lives.

Sleeveface

This is what we get up to when you're not looking.  click on the pic to check out sleeveface

Vote for us...

We're delighted to have been nominated for best 'specialist' store in this years Plush magazine awards
Please take a second and vote for us on the link below,  Cheers!