Belgium Elle have done a rather saucy photoshoot using osome of our lingerie.
Picture one shows our Mae corset in peach satin, Striptease garter and pasties,
whilst the second picture shows our Maitresse bullet bra in white and the
knickers from our Limited Edition French Maid's uniform. Although Clare was
thrilled with the pictures she did comment that British Elle hadn't called in
any of our lingerie yet - only for them to call us the following afternoon!
Fingers crossed...

Although we're not really into Formula One here at What Katie Did (to modern
and fast for our tastes) we did get excited watching Lewis Hamilton win a couple
of Sundays ago. We're just as excited to see his girlfriend, head Pussycat Doll
Nicole, in our Maitresse bullet bra in the Mail on Sunday's Live magazine this
week.

A couple of weeks ago The Hurly Burly Girlys were on Alan Titchmarsh's
afternoon chat show, dressed in What Katie Did's finest. We all missed it due to
work, but Tony Nylons has just emailed me the link to the clip on Youtube. Here
it is:

Saturday night saw Valley Gas Speedshop's 2nd Chilli night where lots of
hotrodders get together to talk cars, drink beer and have a bit of a jig to rock
n' roll. Valley Gas put together some amazing cars and are currently working on
Lord March's (Goodwood) new hotrod - which we can't wait to see completed. This year they added a little photographic exhibition and as we'd used
their garage for a shoot we were invited to show some of Tony's pictures, and
also took along Slinky Sparkles and Annette Betty (both can be seen modelling
our Glamour range) to perform before and after this year's band: Jack Rabbit
Slim. Sarah and Annette were real troupers who managed to put on a great show
despite a few sound problems, torrential rain and some rather tipsy hodrodders!

We were beginning to think that British Vogue had something against us, but
finally, after 9 years, we're in it! What's more, it's not a boring fashion shot
(not that there are many boring fashion shots in Vogue!) but part of their
fantasy Roald Dahl shoot which recreates scenes from his books. Our frilly
knickers make up the blue costume of an Oompa Loompa. Michelle has pointed out
in the film Oompa Loompas were orange, but we don't do orange frillys...
thinking about it we don't do blue either! Whether they're down to Dylon or
PhotoShop we'll never know.

The What Katie Did boutique celebrated its first birthday on Sunday 26th October and many of you flocked here to join us, despite the rain. The day was a smashing success with plenty of bubbly champagne, delicious cakes, splendid outfits and of course the wonderful Miss Slinky Sparkles, who was sensational
as always. 

All the excitement in the boutique caused quite a stir with passers-by. Not that we're attention-seekers here at What Katie Did - we just love to get dressed-up and put on a show! 

Thank you so much to those who came and for those who couldn't make it, I'm sure I can find another reason to throw another fantastic burlesque bash soon. 

I've been looking back over the last year to see how our little boutique has grown. We've got lots of new items including matching bustles for our corsets. We've also hosted lots of
workshops where you've come along and made pasties and mini top hats, or learned a few tips about retro hair and make up-styling, all while sipping tea and enjoying nibbles. I can't quite believe it's been a whole year, we don’t feel any older but certainly wiser! 

I'm so excited about what we can achieve in the next year and I certainly can't wait until
Good Time Mama Jo Jo comes to visit, so she can share with us all of her years of wisdom on the art of seduction – look out for announcements soon. We’d also like to say a big thank you to Alison Tay from Now Magazine, who has given us so much support this year. 

In fact I’d like to thank everyone for all their wonderful support over the last year - I've loved every minute of it and that's down to all of you, our fabulous customers. 

Here's to another great year, hope to lace you up soon!

Love, Clare.

(ps, here's the team, left to right: Clare, Ruka and Sarah aka Slinky - with Graham behind the camera!)

I was flicking through Look magazine this week when I came across a Gok Wan
feature on shapewear. 'We should be in that!' I thought to myself. On closer
inspection we were: they featured our Maitresse bullet bra in white.

The new edition of 21st Century Pinups is now out and includes some exclusive pictures from our September fashion show. 21CP started a few months ago with a bang and continues to get better and better! It is a must read for everyone with the slightest interest in burlesque.

Our Zip Side Girdle, Maitresse Bullet Bra and Retro Seamed Stockings are featured in cutting edge fashion magazine 'Let Them Eat Cake' this month.

The high fashion theme continues with a little feature about our boutique in Japanese magazine 'Figaro'. No wonder the Japanese are so good at sourcing hard
to find fashion items: Figaro lists just about every fashion shop in London and even delves into the antique shops of Rye!

The Sun newspaper sent one of their reporters along to one of Indiana Belle's burlesque classes a couple of weeks ago and the resulting feature was published on Friday. Indiana runs one of her Burlesque Baby classes just around the corner from our London boutique and it's had great reviews from shop manageress Clare who did a series of classes a couple of months ago. You might recognise the corset reporter Judy is wearing, it's our Pigalle Sophia! Click here to read the feature.