Fashion projects

alt text Make do and mend special: resizing T-shirts with ‘Cut out + Keep’

Vintage shops are full of great men’s Seventies T-shirts, which would be perfect to add... 

alt text Make do and mend: How to use a pattern sheet

If there’s one thing Jennfier Knox loves more than wearing vintage it’s making her... 

alt text Make do and mend a vintage dress into a maxi skirt

Vintage and charity shops are full of dresses with unflattering cuts. As long as you like... 

News

alt text The Vintage Librarian reviews: Make Do and Mend

Have you ever put a thought to how bananas or potatoes could help rescue a pair of battered... 

alt text Stop shopping – Make Do and Mend instead

Wardrobe full of clothes, but nothing to wear? Come and learn how to customise and transform... 

alt text Vintage listings: vintage things to do for the next week

Here’s a range of vintage things to do and see in the next seven days. From fashion fairs... 

Home style projects

alt text Give your old vintage shelves a DIY makeover

Browsing junk shops, antiques markets, and car boot sales, you may be forgiven for never giving... 

alt text Make do and mend a vintage scarf into a cushion cover

Lurking in the back of your wardrobe, scrunched up in a drawer, or even languishing at the... 

alt text Make do and mend your home with architectural salvage

For years architectural salvage was reserved for the eccentric and the expert – those... 

History

alt text The Vintage Librarian reviews: Make Do and Mend

Have you ever put a thought to how bananas or potatoes could help rescue a pair of battered... 

alt text New exhibition: Feeding Britain in Wartime

Wartime rationing and British cooking in the Forties is the subject of a brilliant new exhibition,... 

alt text My grandmother – my style icon

As a vintage lover you can get your style inspiration from many places – books, films,... 

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Mad Men sets Fifties & Sixties eBay fashion sales soaring

QueensOfVintage.com’s readers have been celebrating a Fifties and Sixties look for many... 

Shellac Sister Jenny reviews Vintage At Goodwood

Shellac Sister Jenny Hammerton writes: We had a super time at the festival.  We snared a table... 

Sixties fan Georgina-Kate reviews Vintage At Goodwood

Georgina-Kate Adams writes: I have long dreamed of experiencing the life of a Sixties teenager,...