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Vintage Style Challenge : within 3 and under 30

25/2/2016

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Hayley Angell in vintage dress styled with a vintage clothing challenge sat in airy living room
Admit it - you love a challenge. In fact, your fervour for challenges is only superseded by one thing...
the thrill of A BARGAIN. With this in mind - today's post kind of wrote itself: set myself a ridiculous challenge in a thinly veiled attempt to legitimise my obsessive vintage shopping habit (this blogging thing sure has its benefits - Lisa actually sounded impressed when I told her I was off to spend our money...). So, with the Glasgow sun shining (expect to see this comment again in June), £30 flush in my pocket, a song in my heart and your help (thanks Instagram chums)... that's exactly what I did.

Part 1 : The Challenge

11:00am: GO TIME

Hayley Angell watch displaying 11am and beginning of vintage style challenge with brown leather vintage cloves and tweed jacket
My first stop was obvious:  my Glasgwegian home-away-from home, The Glasgow Vintage Company£10 dress rack. It's quite honestly the best thing to happen to me since I landed the coveted role of The Laughing Gnome in my school Christmas pageant (don't ask). Essentially - if there was nothing for me here, then I was chucking the whole bloody challenge in the bin as an utter lost cause. 
The Glasgow Vintage Company 10 pound dress rack to be searched for Love is in the Detail vintage style challenge
The Glasgow Vintage Company dress rack for Love is in the Detail Vintage Style Challenge
I spot a delicious autumnal print and yank it out to find it has... a pencil skirt (though, an unusually stretchy pencil skirt), I start sweating profusely and grab wildly at handfuls of other dresses in my full-circled comfort zone. Meh. Thighs-schmies, that's what shape-wear is for... right?? I whip out a £10 note and make for the register. Oohhhh.... what's that?! A scarf alight in warm greens and oranges for £2?!? Yes please!
Setting off towards Byers Road I drop into Shelter charity store. I spot a pair of cute, bronze/metallic heels (by cute, I mean mid-heel height), brand new (£50 Clarks tag, thank you very much) for £10... I umm and ahhh. What?! Shoes and winter jackets are half price? A few bracelets and £7.25 later, I'm on my way.
Glasgow charity store Shelter Scotland offering half price shoes for Love is in the Details Vintage Style Challenge

12:55pm: Is that the time?! Surely I've earned a celebratory snack...

Hayley Angell watch displaying 12:55pm and time for break from vintage style challenge with brown leather vintage gloves and tweed jacket with Glasgow cobblestones in background
If there's one thing that naturally complements the purchase of figure-hugging clothing; it's sugar, fat and carbohydrates. Time for a break! I pop into Nic's NYC Deli for an INSANELY GOOD lemon cream doughnut (and a sneaky cinnamon to go...).
Love is in the Detail takes a break from Vintage Style Challenge at NIC's NY Deli for doughnut with cup of tea and take-away donut

1:10pm: Righto, back to it!

With a belly full of tea and doughy goodness, it's the final stretch - I just need a brooch (obvs) and a few extra accessories. Oxfam DIY Shop offers up the find of the day with a sausage and mash ring (Yes: SAUSAGE AND MASH ON A RING) for £2.99 and the darlings at Vintage Guru complete my look with a fab lime-green, polished-stone brooch for £3.
Glasgow charity store Oxfam DIY Store on Byers Road selling ring for Love is in the Detail Vintage Style Challenge
Oxfam DIY shop on Buyers Road
Vintage Guru store Byers Road Glasgow for Love is in the Detail Vintage Style Challenge
Love, love, love me some Vintage Guru!

1:50pm: BOOM! #NailedIt

Hayley Angell watch displaying 1:50pm and end of vintage style challenge with brown leather vintage cloves and tweed jacket in sunshine.
And 10 minutes ahead of schedule no less (there's a first for everything). I may have missed adding a handbag and earrings - but at less than £25 (doughnut included) I'm ready to forgive myself. Okay, let's take a look...

Part 2 : The Look

Hayley Angell founder of Love is in the Detail stands in window wearing outfit from Vintage Style Challenge smiling with red lips.
Hayley Angell founder of Love is in the Detail stands in window wearing outfit from Vintage Style Challenge hands on hips.
Hayley Angell founder of Love is in the Detail stands in window wearing outfit from Vintage Style Challenge smiling with red lips and hand on hip.
Hayley Angell founder of Love is in the Detail wears outfit from Vintage Style Challenge while playing a record.
Hayley Angell founder of Love is in the Detail shows off scarf purchased as part of Vintage Style Challenge.
Hayley Angell founder of Love is in the Detail shows off pie and mash ring purchased as part of Vintage Style Challenge.
THAT ring. *drools*
Hayley Angell founder of Love is in the Detail shows off Vintage Guru brooch purchased as part of Vintage Style Challenge.
Beautifully understated, works perfectly with the dress' bold print.
Hayley Angell founder of Love is in the Detail models outfit from Vintage Style Challenge posing with Labradoodle puppy Hettie.
Snagged your own style bargain recently? (apologies if I'm wrongly assuming you're not so lame as to have masterminded your own ridiculous challenge... if I am, then tell me!). I'd love to hear about it!
Xxx Hayley
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7 Comments
Gene
26/2/2016 08:11:32 am

You are simply and inspiration in more wyas than one Miss Hayley xx

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Miss Hayley
26/2/2016 08:48:55 am

You're a doll GG! Keep making those fab op-shop donations... struggling writers like me need to shop too! xx

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Sami
26/2/2016 09:14:35 am

Positively gorgeous, Hayley!! and my gosh, THAT RING!! An outfit to die for <3
I've got to find myself something "smart casual" for a party soon, eeep! I'm hoping I have some luck with Brissie op shops, nothing like the UK, but challenge accepted! xx
p.s. I love reading your posts - they make my day! x

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Hayley
26/2/2016 09:58:28 am

Good luck Sami! I'll be sending you all my very best vintage-buying vibes! To be honest - buying this way was kind of amazing for a few reasons:
1) I am SUCH a mincer. I see something I like, then I leave it, then I go somewhere else and then I regret not buying the first one so much that I freak out, lose the will to live and buy some ugly heap instead.
2) It forced me to JUST PICK SOMETHING. If you style it up as a matching outfit, you can (evidentially) look pretty damn good in anything. I can honestly say if but for this - I would never have picked that dress and definitely not those shoes. But they really worked!
3) Focus - the thing with op shops and vintage stores is you want to kind of look at everything and you get distracted. I usually come home with 5 things unremotely connected and with no top/shoes/jacket to go with any of them. Once I had my dress (which I bought first) I didn't even look at clothes after that. Then, when I had shoes I didn't look at clothes OR shoes.
So, truly, I think I'm going to rock more challenges! Sami - will you post pics of your outfit to the FB page or tag me if you do get something? Would LOVE to see. xxx

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last year's girl link
4/3/2016 07:30:47 am

I wish I had the patience for thrifting. This is such a glorious outfit that nobody else will have... Now we are friends, you must take me shopping and show me your secrets!

Also, I had NO IDEA the Oxfam shop on Byers Road has a DIY bit, that's even better!

x

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Hayley
4/3/2016 09:47:44 am

It's a date! To be honest - I felt the same way for such a long time but, for some reason, being in Glasgow has totally re-sparked the thrifting passion I had in my teens (aspiring to Kurt Cobain's lofty style status took dedication, after all). Actually - scratch that, I know exactly the reason: having chucked in my corporate job I am once again earning about as much as I did at 16. I'm clearly regressing. Meh - happy to trade my miserable work wardrobe for a swath of classic 80s St Michaels frocks any day and Glasgow vintage stores make it so easy!

It's all about the unexpected. Today I popped into 2 little charity shops both offering nothing but ghastly Atmosphere and/or George on the clothing front... yet elsewhere: a super cute handwoven picnic-basket style handbag (Spring... YES!) and a classic vintage 1930s maroon feather headpiece (please invite me to something worthy of wearing it!), £1.99 and £3.99 respective. Love it.

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