Leopard Lady

Today we enjoyed the sun like all the others. Time to visit East Side Gallery before parts of it will be destroyed from estate venturers. You may have heard from it? It is a scandal!

On the way we found this great tattoo shop.

coat: fleamarket find

leopard scarf: vintage shop find

 hat with leopard bow: asos

 leopard booties: Miss L Fire

When I´m in a leopard-mood, it´s time for the ethnic pieces in my jewellery collection - like these golden african lady 50s clip ons.

After walking in the sun, some yummy cupcakes from tigertörtchen and a warm cup of tea at the Berliner Naschmarkt made our Sunday perfect.

Hope you had some sun too?

Cry Babies

Friday was a good day! We were out the first time since I felt ill in November. To be back in my favourite club, listening to my local heroine and enjoying a glass of champagne on ice was beyond words.

I honored that event with one of my favourite 40s original dresses. It is handsewn and really stands on its own.

The best thing about it are the embroidered flowers, only few of the glittering stones are missing.

I teamed it just with one glittering bakelite bangle, glittering 40s clip ons and some silk orchids. 

In the end of the evening I treated myself with the new single from Trinity Sarratt. I discovered her ten years ago with the Sin City Circus Ladies and now she is the singer of  many really cool bandprojects like the Cry Babies or the Kamikaze Queens... go and check her out!

Treptower Ehrenmal

Last weekend we had such a freezy snowy winter in Berlin, that I got into a Russian feeling in a way... so we decided to have a walk in my beloved Treptower Park and visited the 1949-built "Treptower Ehrenmal", a Soviet war memorial for 80.000 Red Army-soldiers who died fighting for a free Berlin.

Time to wear my new 40s felt hat and my 40s mink coat. The light was perfect for the cold colours. It is not reworked with Photoshop, this is real great blue winter light.

When you pass the huge gate, you will meet a statue symbolising Mother Russia.

Vis a vis started the gigantic soldier cemetary framed with red stone flags 

and a soldier on each side.

 

This figurines are always decorated with fresh flowers.

 The essential piece is the famous 30 meters high monument.

In his base is a round memorial hall with a mosaic wall. 

You can´t go in, but you can see the incredible picture with respect from a distance.

On our way back, we gave attention to all the details on the gravestones.

We will come back in spring.

 

Do you like my new hat, Santa brought me?

It always gives me a special feeling to visit historic places in fitting historic clothing.

Blitzmädel

I´m a bookworm and busy reader, so Santa brought me some nice books about the 40s and old movies last year. A speciality is this book about the Blitzmädchen, printed in the 70s.Thank you Santa for knowing my taste so well. I wanna show you some pictures and share some facts out of it:

During the entire WW II, women were involved on all sides. In Hitler's Germany, a woman should be a mother at first, staying at home and backing up her husband. But when in 1940 the occupied areas needed more stuff to administrate, the so called "Blitzmädels" filled up the ranks. In the beginning, they came voluntary, but later young women were called up. All in all  half a million women worked as Blitzmädels in the army, the marine and the air force. They were called Blitzmädels because of the Blitz signs on their uniforms. In 1940 every Blitzmädel got a uniform, later with the deprivation they just wore uprons or a brassard with civil clothes.

The boards were the same rations as the soldiers got.

Army postal service brought news and presents from home.

Most of the younger girls were looking for an adventure. But it was forbidden to have any personal contact to soldiers or civilians from occupied countries. Every Blitzmädel had to move once a year to another station to prevent deeper relationships. Even though the rules and controls were strict, a lot of romances and even marriages started here.

Most of the Blitzmädels did telecommunication for the Wehrmacht with machines like this:

 

For propaganda reasons the Nazis showed a young mother who left her two children at home with her grandmother to help the boys in the war.

In the end of the war, fire protection became more and more important

 and the girls learned how to handle a gun.

 Finally some of them died, some of them came home again  soon,

but most of them landed in war captivity.

 

 Hopefully we will never have a war again.

Jägerklause

We have a really cold winter in Berlin - time for my 40s mink coat with the bakelite fasteners and warm lined leather gloves.

I´m still suffering from the evil Ebstein-Barr-Virus, but while honey was playing with his band, I had to go out of the house. He played in a Punkrock&Country music club, so I decided to wear a westerm inspired outfit. 

 blouse: Rockmount Ranch Wear, ebay US

skirt: Tara Starlet

boots: Anna Field

I love all the details of the blouse: the white diamond buttons, 

the shape of the pockets and the great western boot print.

 

 The club is called Jägerklause and is full of  great decoration details. 

We did some pictures from the Billard-room,

 

the backstage room,

the Lemmy - shrine,

and the funny mobile phone-trophy-wall.

When you like your music loud and hard, come around and have a beer or in summertime a yummy burger in the Biergarden of the Jägerklause. See you there!

summer under glass

hat: vintage shop in Paris

dress: Tara Starlet

body stocking: Wolford

boots: Esprit

It just rains in Berlin, it´s always grey and dark - that can be quite depressing. I'm missing the sun, bright colours and the smell of flowers so much, so we decided to warm up our winter souls in the Botanic Garden. The complex of green houses was built in 1904 and still has a magic.

Do you feel the cold rainy weather? Even the mushrooms came out again.

But then we entered a tropical world and were feeling like on a summer holiday.

We were nearly the only visitors and I did a lot of pictures of the fascinating details. 

Take a little walk with me:

This "Lady Campbell" really smelled like heaven!

 

Outside, on our way back home, I noticed these huge neon green monster plants: 

Brussles sprouts! Do you remember the "Little Shop of Horrors"?