hurdyburdy vintage

26/06/2026

Heatwave essential ☀️🕶️ If, like me, you colour your hair (yes, I know you thought it was natural 😏) THE second best vintage accessory to sunnies is a headscarf. I carry one always. Mine is a favourite red and white cotton and it comes out when I’m in the sun after a trip to the hairdressers. It’s there on hot days to wear around my neck and mop my fevered brow. You can also wear the right sized scarf as a bandeau top - fab for holidays when you need to pack light.

This vibrant pink scarf is in my online shop but I have stacks of vintage headscarves in various colour ways.

26/06/2026

15/06/2026

1940’s bridal wear 💐 The direct link can be found in my Insta Stories / for sale highlight 🌹Or check my online store ❤️

14/06/2026

This beautiful bridal gown is vintage, late 1940s and now available to purchase 💐

13/06/2026

The only picture I took that day ❤️ Hockney pictured with BBC arts correspondent, Ian Youngs

13/06/2026

Really can’t say enough to add to the tributes. He was from a generation of talented working class youngsters (including another favourite, David Bailey) who had the chance and seized it with everything they had. He was totally grounded with a dry sense of humour (a def. Yorkshire trait) and an absolute icon.

Born in Bradford, he later lived and painted in East Yorkshire - living half an hour up the coast from me in Brid. He spent hundreds of hours painting outside in the East Yorkshire Wolds. The work resulted in a major exhibition that launched in Yorkshire - Bigger Trees Near Warter. It broke visitor records in York and Hull (I worked in Yorkshire tourism at the time and we absolutely jumped on the opportunity- with launches, Hockney trails etc.) and set the scene for the 2012 Royal Academy, A Bigger Picture, with wall to wall trees painted en plein air.

Personally, I love his Californian paintings. The light, colour and movement. And his self portraits. He often looked bemused by the world around him. I met him very briefly at the York launch and I think this bemusement came through when he found himself showing a group of us star struck 20 and 30 year olds how he did work on his iPad 🙂❤️. A really lovely collective memory we all share.

06/06/2026

Vintage bags ⭐️ in my shop ⭐️ A few more were added yesterday ❤️

26/05/2026

☀️ Cool cotton 1800’s antique chemise or nightdress with square neckline edged with Broderie Anglaise lace. 🐞

Plenty of room - underarm to underarm is 23 inches on the flat. Easily fits up to UK20 / 44 inch bust. See listing for all measurements ☀️

25/05/2026

New listing 💫 Sheer black 1950's Tricel blouse. Self fabric buttons, integrated scarf.

Best fit: 38 / 40 inch bust approx UK 14/16. Dress form is 39 inch bust.
Bust: up to 42
U to u: 22
Waist: 40
Shoulders: 16
Armhole circ.: approx 19 1/2
Circ. of bottom: 42
Length: 22

DM to buy or see direct links in Stories / shop bio.