Last weekend we had our very first Vintage Expo organised by
Cassandra Liebeknecht and I have to say I was very impressed, not only with the
turn out but with the way the whole thing was put together. A few of my friends
had stalls and they did amazingly well, especially Sass and Liam from Two Bit
Villian’s who not only had some great stock but were also selling my favourite
soda’s. Liam hand makes these incredible soda’s the likes of which you would
have only tasted in the fifties at a soda shop. My fave is the root beer,
actually they are all my favourites. If you go to their shop in Adelaide Arcade
you can try for yourself.
The Lindy Charm School ran a few workshops and Chrissy and
Sam had half the place looking fabulous with curls, up do’s and flowers. Next
year I’m sure we will have to make appointments as they had customers lined up.
There was a barber shop and tattoo parlour and even a Marilyn Monroe
exhibition. Someone had cleverly made reproductions of a lot of Marilyn’s gowns
and they were spot on.
My absolute favourite stall was Coutura, in all my years of
collecting and selling vintage I have never ever seen gowns and summer frocks
and hats like it. Lena, the lovely lady who ran the stall was so helpful and full of good
information about Vintage, she had been in the business a whole lot longer then
me. I saw so many cute girls all dolled up in fifties frocks, it was wonderful.
I asked one particular cutie if she would mind having her photo taken with me
and it turned out she was one of the girls off of Winner’s and Losers. The next
day when I saw her all of these people were asking to have their photo’s taken
with her, then the penny dropped. Duh!
I’m really hoping Cassandra will have the Expo again next
year as a lot of my friends in Sydney I’m sure will be very interested in a
stall.
Lucky Seven and
The Villenettes played on the Friday and Sunday and I know there were other
great bands as well. Belinda from the Satellites had a stall selling some amazing
stuff. Ginger my daughter bought another one of Steve’s Hawaiian shirts and a
gorgeous apricot beaded cardy that was Belinda's. Gorgeous Rene from In Love Again Vintage had a great stall with lots of vintage wedding gowns. I ran into so many people I knew and a lot of my customers were there wearing Hot Couture. In fact 3 of The Villenette's were wearing H.C. Awww way to make a girl happy Villenette's. The only thing I would have liked was a better selection of food as Hot dogs and chips aren't my thing but for a first time Expo it was pretty darn fine. I have only ever had a stall at the Fifites Fair in Sydney but I would definitely look at having a stall at the next one, it looked like a lot of fun. Speaking of vintage fairs I hope all my fellow stall holders in Sydney have a wonderful day tomorrow, I can't make it this year and I will miss you all. XXX Joy
