Winner of The Boutique Market Vintage Outfit Competition

Boutique Market Scrabble Rings

Here are the much anticipated photographs from September's Guildhall Boutique Market.  As you may remember we were running a competition to award a prize to the person best dressed  in a vintage stylee.

Ruby and Izzy Whitmore - "No more pictures please!"

 So many people walked through the doors that day, that we ended up being incredibly busy and didn't get a chance to photograph everyone that we wanted to.

Winner Natalie Tompkins looked fantastic decked out in full on charity shop chic

Natalie Tompkins looked truly terrific and the fact that all her clothes were sourced from charity shops in true thrift style - a girl after my own heart, guaranteed her the first prize!

Morgana's Fudge

Pansy and Cha Cha

 Jennifer Cook of Pansy and Cha Cha pictured above was wearing a superb dress, which you can't see in this picture,  I really wanted to capture her outfit too, but we just ran out of time.

Ruth Gaunt's Jewellery

Zoe rocking vintage 50s bought from Hideout on Albert Road and her Mummy, Boutique Market owner - Abigail

 The naughty photographer Johnny Buxton only took a picture of our top halves so you can't see Zoe's super cute 50s dress in all it's glory.  It's probably just as well, you couldn't see my pencil dress as I looked more like a marker pen in it. 

Bean Vampies in a range of retro and hand printed fabrics

Crochet by Miranda and Bespoke Glassware by Andy Greentree

Retro Rascals sitting amongst groovy decoupaged homeware

Tinker's Tea Cosies

Ian Sutton striking a stirling pose - T-shirt by Phigment, hat "borrowed" from a friend

Shoppers enjoying the Member's Room

Pretty Cushions to add some extra fun to your home

Cute Little Monkeys 

Loretta May in a top from TK Maxx had her hair done by sister Leah, while Tilly was sporting vintage stolen from "Mummy's" wardrobe!

Paula Bailey looking strikingly wow in lime green dress with matching bag

Sandra Lohmann looked stunning in vintage dress, handbag and brooch.  That fabulous hat is from Etsy

Daryl Bowen from Vintage & Very Nice rocking the vintage britches, hat and stall! 

Ruth Gaunt modeling one of her own necklace designs and wearing a French Connection top

Sarah Clay wearing a dress from a stall on Spitalfields Market and Gemma Vaughan in a cute necklace by Tatty Devine and a Topshop skirt

Original art work by Gina Simmons

Lust-Have Objects

Look out for more pictures from the Boutique Market on my main website: www.boutiquemarket.co.uk - the next date is 29th October at Little Johnny Russell's pub on Albert Road, or you can catch me every Friday running a mini-market at Portsmouth Guildhall Cafe.

Boutique Market Vintage Competition

This Sunday you can visit my fabulous Boutique Market at Portsmouth Guildhall as usual, we are open from 11-3pm.  

Vintage Nix

VIntage And Very Nice's Jacket Collection

But as a little extra, whether you are a seller or a shopper - we are asking that you wear vintage this Sunday - you can wear anything from medieval to the 1990s.

You could win two pieces of jewellery of your choice from my stall

Bento box ring - you could choose this!

Johnny and Kirstie rocked the vintage look for their wedding

You also win tea and cake for two served on our gorgeous crockery

The best dressed will win tea and cake for two served on vintage crockery at any one of our markets and two pieces of jewellery of their choice from our stall - Rare Designer Must Haves.

Zoe my little girl rocking vintage stylee at The Boutique Market

It was turquoise ribbons and beige flared boiler suit for Headhuntress aged 6 in 1981

Fast forward to aged 13 in 1990 & it's all about the leather bomber jacket & quiff

Just add a black & white filter for a vintage effect despite sporting a Warehouse maxi dress!

50s style dress spectacularly hidden by a table for Johnny & Kirstie's wedding this year

Sometimes just wearing an ancient bowler hat or a hairpiece is all it takes for a nod to vintage

If you don't like tea you could always have coffee in a pretty coffee cup....

Everyone that we spot looking suitably fabulous - whatever era they may be depicting will have their photograph taken by our professional in-house photographer and published on these pages.


So make sure you come to:

Our Day Out To Vintage London

I've been working hard on The Boutique Markets  so this blog is rather neglected.  But I thought I'd share some of the gorgeous pictures we took when I joined up with Love Southsea for a fun day of research at Vintage London.

My daughter and her boyfriend - on the train to Vintage at Southbank

Louise, owner of Love Southsea and Mary, owner of Mindworks Hypnotherapy boarded a train with us dressed in our bestest vintage-esque outfits!

Arriving At Waterloo was like arriving on holiday - the sun was streaming through the rooftop windows  ready for a glorious day at Southbank.

Posers unite

I took this picture intending to Instagram it, the red and yellow paint looked so striking against the freshly laid tarmac, like road art graffiti, but not... 

Getting closer...

I can see the London Eye!

Oh, to be this young, beautiful and hip...

Can you believe they're not even fifteen years old yet? 

iLondon

Could it possibly be this way?

Can anyone see the entrance?

Fiddledy-dee it looks like we made it!

Bargain little nick-nacks

Decoupage madness

Get yer tats out!

Everybody loves this boy

Mary gets a vintage up-do - Victory rolls!

Pop-up vintage tea room

Louise loving the Helter Skelter

Now where can we get a slap up meal?

Ooh, look, retro tourists!

Aching feet and a well earned rest for the young folk

Obviously, I was having far too much fun to take pictures of everything and some of the pictures I took aren't good enough to publish.  But we have been truly inspired by our day out, we're bursting with creativity now ready to bring new ideas to our markets.

To find out more about our indoor vintage style markets in Portsmouth and Southsea visit:

www.southsea.me for Southsea and Guildhall Boutique Markets

and

www.lovesouthsea.co.uk

for the stunning indoor vintage style markets at The Square Tower.