Bang Bang!

The Bang Bang vintage store has been on my list of must-visit stores for the last 3 years!! Shame on me for choosing to browse books in Paperchase than to cross the street and check out this famous lil vintage box. This time around I found myself on Goodge street with my brother stuffed with pad Thai and calamari from Busaba, I decided to ditch Paperchase for Bang Bang and I have to confess I was a tad disappointed. I'm not sure if the recession hit this store badly but the racks were empty and it just seemed like a lonely Oxfam selling clothes for charity. It did have a cosy feel to it though, with smiling helpful staff I was able to find a See by Chloe over sized jersey shirt with flowers for pockets and wooden clutches. Next time I shall stick with the 'chase.

Fabric Hunting

Luma and I finally put aside our work schedules to spend a hot crispy Saturday fabric hunting. On Berwick street we hit up six fabric stores, Liberty, John Lewis, and still had time for sushi and vintage store exploring before the sun went down. My favorite fabric store was the Cloth House, for its warm hospitality, its chic decor and wonderful fabrics (You can take a tour of their store on the Cloth House website). Me and lumbars found most of our fabrics from there, including some we didn't have on our long list. All the fabric stores had something new to offer; the Silk House had a great selection of Giambatista Valli inspired fabrics, Liberty won me over with thier vintage rolls of flower prints and large black/gold buttons, and John Lewis had a variety of fine jungle/animal prints plus a range of Cathy Kidston's famous fabric prints.

Cloth House

Pretty Trimmings

Lonely Buttons

Ribbon Mania

An Assortmet of Buckles and Buttons

I imagined stitching these buckles on a t-shirt dress

Buttons in Jars

Organic Fabrics

Warm Window Display, love the pegs+the sewing machine

Our choice of fabrics

The Silk House

This fabrics store was further down the road and not on our fabric store. Store had a masculine feel to it with thicker fabcris, and darker choice of colour.

The odd stop- Beyond Retro store in Soho

Browse shopping in Liberty

Dainty tights

At the famous fabric section in Liberty I loved..
Vintage Buttons

First Aid Stitching Kits

A wad of traditional fabric samples

Trimmings, Bits and Bobs, Ribbons

A million buttons

Thread colour swatch

A whole lotta yarn

Our final picks of the buttons

If only my house was Liberty

My With Love Ribbon - had to have it, no idea what I'm going to do with it

John Lewis
Recycled tags