About Miss Peelpants
Liz Eggleston – late 20th Century fashion specialist
Aspiring Roxy Girl, passionate second-hand clothing maven, perpetually doodling artist and illustrator, British Boutique Movement historian and all round geek.
I’ve always been inspired by the weirder, even seedier, aspects of popular culture, as well as art and history. I absorb myself in contemporary (to my beloved eras, that is) films, magazines, music… and am openly geeky about such things. I get grumpy when people say Mary Quant invented the mini skirt. I can spot an unlabelled Ossie Clark from twenty paces. I go to pieces when I meet designers nobody else recognises. I squeal like a girl when I see clothes I recognise in old films and magazines. I love to share information; share the pleasure all these things bring me. Consequently, I am pretty much a full time blogger these days. Although it doesn’t pay the bills, it does bring me a lot of pleasure and keeps the inspiration nice and fresh!
Photograph © Matthew Freedman
This passion for all things Sixties and Seventies means that I tend to specialize in this era, and more specifically British Boutique fashion. There’s nothing quite like owning your own little slice of history, and being a guardian for a modest collection of some extraordinary works of art. I have retained some pieces for myself which are representative of a designer or notable style, or perhaps I just fell in love.
Garments from my collection have been exhibited at The V&A (Sixties Fashion Exhibition, 2006-07), The Fashion Museum in Bath (John Bates: Fashion Designer, 2006), The Lightbox in Woking (Snap Crackle & Pop, 2011) and The Fashion and Textile Museum in Bermondsey (Foale and Tuffin, 2009-10). Ephemera from my private collection was used in Richard Lester’s book Boutique London (ACC) and a selection of magazines are currently being exhibited at Tate Liverpool‘s Glam! The Performance of Style exhibition (2013).
Despite this ‘specialization’, I am passionate about clothes from all eras and battle with sheer rarity to offer my customers some real gems. I also love the research aspect and you can often find the fruits of this on my blog.
As an illustrator, I am seeking to create beautiful images which are representative of different moods or eras and, quite frankly, pure, unadulterated glamour. Sometimes an image needs no explanation or justification beyond ‘it’s beautiful’. I am heavily inspired by the past, this is clear, but I try to create rather than duplicate. The images come from my imagination, as alternately bizarre and mundane as that can be – depending on your opinion. I can work to a ‘style’, but they will always be unique. And that’s something of a theme when it comes to Vintage-a-Peel…
Please do email me if you would like to know more.
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Hey ms Peelpants. I have been aware of your work for sometime. I show it to young fashion students because you get this thing right. I grew up in a small provincial town while the 60s swung somewhere else. Diana Rigg & Julie Driscoll, unfortunately, never walked down my street.
In the 70s I was married to a woman who’s idea of heaven was a day at Kensington Market & Biba. I really do not like my past being thrown back at me out of context or just plain wrongly. I read your stuff & always think that you are bang on it.
I’ve got my own blog now, mostly music & memories. I hope I can keep it as relevant, without the flim flam, as yours. I’ve pressed follow & look forward to receiving your posts hot off the press.
Peace Mal.
Thank you so much Mal! Such a well-considered comment which has really cheered my heart. I love what I do so much, so it’s wonderful when somebody else ‘gets’ it. I’m also glad to hear that I’m getting the tone right.
I’m now following you back and hope you continue to enjoy my posts!
I have a blouse by Ossie it’s in bad shape, it’s fragile and has issues. Do you have any ideas on how I could preserve it? I swear I saw it in a Hockney painting but I could be delusional in thinking it was a rather well known blouse. Chiffon windowpane Celia B print. Anything you know I’d so appreciate a reply.
You have been nominated for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award. Find out more here. http://thebigforestuk.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/the-very-inspiring-blogger-award-the-winners/. If blog awards aren’t your kind of thing then that is absolutely fine but we love your blog!
Arrived here looking for Cherry Twiss and found Jean Shrimpton at Rose Hill Farm (my home turf). Fab site. I’m currently indexing a vast hoard of mainly 1960s mags and picking up the sort of references I imagine you would. This will eventually see the light of day as The Tower Library, which will be open to researchers. Complete Nova, and from the 1960s, near-complete runs of all three supps, Vogue, Harpers, Vanity Fair, Queen and London Life. Quite a few Towns too. Now if you’ll excuse me, I will return to ‘Is Paris Dead?’, Tel mag 3 Sep 1965 (Cherry; photos by William Klein). (Answer: no!)
All the photos in your site are quite awesome and a rarity as well.
Thanks for all this great images you share here!
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You have a great thing going on here! I love your inspirations. They are sublime. Every one of them puts a smile to my face. There’s a lot of vintage blogs out there, but this is really something special.Keep up the great work!
Sincerely,
{theEye}
http://theeyeoffaith.com
I was searching for info. on 60s Dollyrocker dresses and Cathy Mcgowan stuff and came across your website – I am over the moon – it`s all here everything.. will take months to get through the pages but what joy.thanks so much. and thank god we have the web……..