As a long time vintage collector, you begin to know where to go to seek special one of a kind pieces, vintage clothes that you cant just buy anywhere. I thought I pretty much knew all the best places to go, that is until I stumbled upon the Rice and Beans online vintage store! It stocks some of the most beautiful vintage clothes I’ve come across, it’s individual,...

They say if you’ve lived in a city for 8 years then you can class yourself as a local. So if this is the case, then I guess I would be called a scouser? However, style wise, do I want to be? In the sixties Liverpool was known as a city at the heart of trend setting and style. Yet these days, from an outsider’s point of view, Liverpool style is viewed as over done,...

1. Serious devotees and bargain hunters buy at auctions and house clearances - you are much more likely to find real treasure - but these tend to take place during office hours making them fairly inaccessible to most shoppers. 2. Don’t worry too much if there are buttons missing, these can always be replaced by your drycleaner or tailor. 3. Rips and tears are harder...

A vintage lovely can so easily become a retro mistake. Walking into a jumble sale and decking yourself out in head to toe 80’s and 90’s does not mean you understand vintage shopping. It will not make you cool, despite what the legions of identikit 80’s Madonna tributes walking around Hoxton might like to think. Nor is dressing in head to toe fifties...