posters from the 80's

From the Powerhouse today. It was good seeing them again. $3.50 to see a band! Shake head and smile longingly.

bellini...no benini

We went to the Powerhouse Museum today. We end up going nearly every school holidays but it is always interesting. They put on a good show and I like their blog and photo of the day to which I have recently started subscribing to. Cultchad I am.
My favorite today was the Benini photography and the 80's exhibition. ABBA came in a third.
I must say, going to a museum and seeing ones childhood and youth displayed before your very eyes makes for a skip of the heart. And I mean that in a emotional way not like an infarct or anything though I wasn't sure.

All photos from the Powerhouse Museum

mystery

The inside of clothes are a fascination to me. I especially like homemade clothes as there is usually alot of care that has gone into the making. I am swinging from era to era on this dress. When I first saw it I thought it was 1970's because of the material, then when I look at the style it is 1940'-50s.

Did 1940 dress patterns have notches? White cotton repair.



Would 1970's pattern bother with french seams?




The zip replaced but it looks like it was done yesterday




Buttons original or replaced. Sewn with white cotton




Button loops reworked and re sewn over new zip



Green cotton hem, so beautifully and patiently done

Made by a woman in the 1970's whose heyday was the forties? I don't know and maybe never will.

what i wore

So today I am wearing my Bourke Street Bakery dress. Thus named as I wore into Surry Hills on Wednesday and had a sweety from the bakery and wore it today into Marrickville and had another sweety. A review in the next paragraph. The dress isn't really this colour. Steph's new camera is set to pop art. I am holding my bag in front of me as I have just dropped some red curry pie from Zumbos (we are now in Rozelle)on me friggin vintage dress! The odds were against me. I have learnt my lesson...never wear vintage and eat curry at the same time. Not pictured: musk macaroon.

So these are the tarts from Bourke Street Bakery. Totally yummo. There is the chocolate and raspberry tart and the vanilla and strawberry brioche or something french sounding. Instant sugar headache. Not pictured: a loaf of sourdough bread and a tomato and cheese croissant.

And this is my new bangle I bought with my Christmas money from Wentworth Park Markets. It is 1940's plastic and wood, so the girl said. I got it specifically to go with my Bourke St dress which I found at the op-shop last year. I also have on my expandable bracelet. It is stamped 'Empire made'. Sounds so classy.