Velvet

neck detail - check out the rhinestones













Could not convince myself that I'd ever have occasion to wear a floor-length red velvet dress (with appliqued rhinestones on the neck), but had to take a photo of it in Beyond Retro just to remember it by.

Adios, dress...

Penguin

You have to love old Penguins. They don't make covers like this anymore. Sometimes I buy them just for the covers, and have found some good books this way.

(When one of the hostages in Lebanon, maybe Brian Keenan or Terry Waite, was being held, their captors brought them books, but they weren't very good ones - so they drew a symbol of a penguin and said 'See if you can bring me one with this on' - knowing it would be a guarantee of quality.)

Postcard

Colour wheels

They appeared one day off the Roman Road, with no explanation. The next day, they were gone...

old school shop front