Category: Hosiery
A mention from Gok Wan
01/10/09 16:47 , Categories: Hosiery, Celebrity , Tags: gok wan, retro seamed stockings, what katie did A big kiss for Gok Wan who's been kind enough to include our Retro Seamed Stockings in his Fashion and Style page in this month's Sky Magazine.
Stockings & Girdles are in for AW09
09/07/09 09:10 , Categories: Lingerie, Hosiery, Celebrity , Tags: dior, girdle, new look, seamed stockings Christian Dior has always been a bit of an obsession of mine - particularly his Corolle or 'New Look' collection which was launched in 1947 and included impossibly nipped in waists and full, full skirts. Last month I was lucky enough to visit his childhood home in Granville, Normandy, which now houses the Christian Dior museum and stocked up on books all about both Christian Dior and his designs.
I'm particularly captivated about how his atelier operated, with his early shows being shown on the premises with the press, favoured customers and friends finding themselves crammed into the room and all of the way up the staircase. John Galliano was also inspired by this and used it for the base of his AW09 show - which just so happens to be very 'New Look' in style. Of particular interest to us is the fact that he's either used sheer skirts, or whipped them away completely to reveal peach girdles and seamed stockings. Looking very closely at the stockings I can see that they're made in the same factory as our 15 denier seamed and 15 denier contrast seamed stockings (well, it is the best stocking factory in France!) For a similar girdle why not try our Glamour Girdle in vintage peach?
View Dior's entire AW09 collection here.
Some very exciting news!
A few weeks ago I was in the shop with manageress Clare, putting the world to rights with Ian (who's known us since our Camden days). We were discussing shops, department stores and the like and Ian said that the only department store we should even consider was Liberty - as they were quirky like us!
Unfortunately we'd already had a meeting with Liberty a couple of years before when they were looking for designers for the relaunch their lingerie room and they decided to go for brands like Stella McCartney instead of good old WKD (which I totally understood as Stella's first lingerie collection had just been launched and looked very swanky). However, someone's ears must have been burning at Liberty as a few days later Richard received a call from them saying they were interested in stocking us.
I didn't want to say anything until an order was actually placed (although I did hint at some very exciting news a few weeks ago). Well, the order has been placed and it looks like we'll be in Liberty from July. We might not be the only retro company working with them either as I know Nina's Vintage Hair Parlour are also have discussions about doing something with Liberty for Carnaby Street's 1960s week in June. We'll keep you up to date as soon as anything's confirmed.
Well, after that exciting news it's back to basics. We're currently revamping our website and this month it was the turn of our RHT seamfree stockings to be put under the spotlight. RHT stockings started being produced in 1949 and were the first stockings to be made on circular knitting machines (seamed fully fashioned stockings were made flat with the seam put in afterwards to hold the stocking together). They didn't really take off until a decade later as the first seamfree stockings were rather ill-fitting.
Our rht (reinforced heel and toe) stockings are made from 100% non stretch nylon and are ideal if you like the feel of real nylon, but don't want the attention
wearing seams can bring.
You would have thought it would have been easy to shoot lots of seamfree stockings, after all, there are no seams to worry about! There is, however, the
photographer. Tony Nylons got quite distressed when he realised that he was shooting seamfree stockings ('no seams? what's the point in that?!') and threatened mutiny. I managed to calm him down but I know he's going to let rip
in the next issue of Nylon Flash!
