Christmas countdown

HoHoHo out there in blogland! Sure you are in the same Christmas countdown stress as I am. So I make it short.

Saturday was time to break out and show the world what St. Nicholas aka Honey bought me: this 50s handbag made out of marbled silver Lucite and woven chrome.

The bouncer asked me, entering the club: "What the hell is that? Why you carry a thing to make meat loaf in??"

 

We joined the Salon Obscure, a party row for swing lovers. They had such a fantastic surreal light there... 

and we danced a lot. I missed swing dancing so much in the almost gone by busy year.

Tired and bored from all the grey turtlenecks and black coats in this season - I chose a propper summer dress with a bright roses print. It is a "70s does 40s" crepe frock, a present from Just Another Wandrobe Experience 's fleamarket stall.
I had to wear it with furry booties underneath - it's still a rainy dark December night.
 

  And lucite again on my 50s charm bracelet with english coins - a gift I made myself.

    

Hope you all have a stressfree holiday time with your family and a very dedicated Santa!

wowsville market

Last sunday we joined a street market in front of the "Wowsville" bar and record shop in Kreuzberg. 

We - that is  just another wardrobe experience plus her husband and me.

Beside the fact that the weather was tropical and most of the expected audience had obviously better things to do than to visit a fleamarket, swimming in a lake or whatever... but we had a lot of fun! 

And I even made some money for my upcoming holidays.

  Look at her, she even looks super sexy in shorts and flats and got so many compliments...

I wore:

blouse & shorts: Heyday

hairflower set: etsy

wooden sling backs: Lasocki

 

 See the nice organizer lady and some impressions from just another wardrobe experience 's stall: 

 

the versatile dress

When I visited Madrid in March I found a very versatile dress. It´s handsewn, out of a shiny cheap lining fabric without a waistline, just a sweet ruffled detail on the shoulders and a simple collar - I would say it was homemade in the early 50s.

For a night out I styled it with bamboo and early plastic jewelery from the 40s and 50s, a vintage belt and did a Carmen Miranda inspired hairstyle with two buns in the neck and a big front roll. 

hair flowers: DIY

necklace: 40s vintage, ebay

dress: 50s vintage, Madrid

bamboo handle bag: 70s vintage, ebay

pink seamed fishnets: present from mum

sling pumps: Miss L fire

And for a walk in the sun and ice cream I paired the same dress with a cardigan and my everyday pumps.

 

 sunglasses: 40s vintage, fleamarket

cardigan: 50s vintage, vintage shop in Madrid

wicker bag: 50s vintage, vintage shop in New York

The handmade embroidery on the cardigan is so sweet.

My everyday pumps are those 40s vintage ones, worn with nude seamed fishnets froms What Katie did. This thights were my first buy from WKD years ago, they are still intact and I love the quality of the sewn seams. To show you more, I'm planning a post about my seamed stockings and nylons...

UFA Divas: Marika Rökk

I recognized that I unattended my big passion lately: old movies. So I decided to start an UFA-Diva series. 
Let´s begin with Marika Rökk. 

She was a Moulin Rouge and Broadway dancer before she signed by the Universum Film Studios in Germany. Her image was constructed by the Nazi propaganda as an Hungarian/Austrian counterpart to the Hollywood movie stars like Betty Grable. The slogans sounded like: She has the same humor and charme as the Americans, but a lot more paprika in the blood! You get it? Most of the movies that were produced in the time of the regime of Propaganda Minister Goebbels were very prude with one exception: Marika. She often wore half-naked or exotic costumes.

Let me show you some stills from the movie: "The woman of my dreams" from 1944. While the WWII was in his hard last year and the German army had high casualities, the UFA produced this revue in colour with big efforts. A little escape in a very difficult time...

Marika plays a showstar who needs a time off in the hills. The story is dull, but it contains a contemporary hit-song and the costumes are great. She was pregnant while the film was made, but you can´t see it. 

 I specially love the traditional style... 

 or this high turban with the wide shouldered silverfox fur.

The stage design is so beautiful and Art Deco. The stage costumes reaches from Balinesian dancer...

to a dangerous Spanish lady...

in a seems-like-naked dress...

or glittery floor-length evening robes with oversized hairflowers...

and even a 40s bride.

And of course everything ends up in a cheerfull happy end.

After the war, Marika was banned from the movies because of her closeness to the Nazi regime, but already in 1947 she was rehabilitated and made some more movies and TV shows. But she never reached her stardom from the 30s and 40s.Some people still remember her as a part of Nazi propaganda, others point out her talent.

So lets say goodbye to Marika Rökk with one of her Spanish dance numbers out of "Frauen sind doch bessere Diplomaten" from 1941:

all things yellow

 

Today my favourite month started and my beloved alley is so beautiful right now, with sunny islands full of daffodils. That inspired me to wear more yellow - what an incredible colour! All things yellow make me happy.

 blouse: 40s vintage, my grannys

skirt and bracelet: Mango, Madrid  

 

tulips on my desk

hedge on my way to work

my easter decoration 

Of course I visited the fleamarket today - it´s a tradition - and wore the yellow skirt again. 

I found this sweet 50s wall mask. I fell in love immediatly because it has my signature hairstyle.

bag: hookahey, present from a friend

sunglasses: six

daisy set: 60s vintage, ebay

plastic pearls and bangle: 50s vintage, ebay

 But what else I found? 

Vintage lilies and bamboo... so 50s and it´s even Coro signed!

Do you like it? 

Hope you all had a great holiday!

first picnic

 Yeah! Spring is back in Berlin! Time for our first picnic in Treptower Park.

 jacket: 50s vintage, fleamarket, years ago

skirt: H&M, years ago

picnic basket: 40s vintage, fleamarket

pizza: fennel-salami-peccorino, homemade

 picnic blanket: couch cover from around 1900

 shoes: Molly Holly

lace tights: Calzedonia

 sunglasses: found in a shopping mall

blouse with soo romantic print: Fräulein Stachelbeere

At last it was time for flowers in the hair again... Hope you all have enjoyed this weekend!

glitter in the powder room

The other day a friend and I visited a Burlesque show in the Bassy Club and she made some pics of me in the Ladies' lavatory - not the most glamourous location, I know. But my beloved 50s cocktail jacket, found on a fleamarket and my 6-inch-high beehive was worth it.

The jacket is so classic: made of crêpe, bat sleeves, a nipped in waist and very nice embroidery with little black jet pearls.

  

Pockets with scallop! 

While we powder our noses, let´s have a closer look at my make up: I used Kryolan pro-products only, padded the pink glitter on the lids just with an eyeshadow base, draw a winged liner and put tons of mascara on my natural lashes to get that spidery look - it´s not a faux pas anymore - it´s en vogue!

The huge pink glitter flower in my hair is a souvenir from fabulous Las Vegas!

The show girls were so hot, that I had to cool down myself a bit.

I hailed a taxi in my vintage Sergio Rossi high heels and felt very happy to live in a town

where you can enjoy a great show with international acts on a common wednesday.