Hey guys! I previously mentioned just HOW excited I was for the first 'field-bootfair' of the year...
Can you imagine my disappointment as I woke up bright as a button that fateful Sunday morning to find miserable moody skies and splatters of pathetic raindrops on my bedroom window :(
Alas, it was not meant to be. BUT it made it all the more sweeter when the season did kick off!
In all my years, I have never been to a bootfair quite as fucking MASSIVE as Whitstable's. Boy do they know how to host a banger. As our car was ushered in to the packed field car park, I felt more as though I was entering a festival, and i was loving it!
The morning sun was shining hard and we were in t-shirts already. The grass was greener than I've ever seen it and the sky was bluer than I last remembered. Absolute perfection :)
...I wont bore you with anymore harping on, but I will tell you this. This isn’t one of those legendary Antiques Roadshow “I picked this up for a tuppence and now it’s worth a grand” sort of places, definitely not. I grasp from first impressions that the sellers here are the once a year, post Spring- clean type, who just want the chance to be up and about unnecessarily early in a field, wandering round not knowing what their name is, but they can’t because they now have two young children and a mortgage so this is the closest they’re gonna get. It’s the one last chance to flog the clothes that you’ve either grown out of or that you can’t remember why you bought in the first place, before it gets sacked up and dropped off to charity.
In other words, there are no traditionally valuable treasures to be found here. Unless you’re a new parent. In which case, this is a GOLDMINE for once- expensive baby stuff like prams and car seats, where the sellers are obviously too busy with their young family to go through the whole Ebay process and just want it all gone in one go!
But no, no antique brooches or diamond earings in the rough to be found here....Although, I was pretty pleased with myself for striking gold...
Futuristic fashion is a HUGE trend at the moment. Holographic, metallic, irridescent, you name it- BIG. Just ask Pinterest.
That’s why when I saw this beauty gleaming, almost winking, at me from a pile of unwanted clothes, I had to have a closer look.
What I held in my hands was a piece very much inspired by Balmain’s near enough £8,000 futuristic dress, as worn flawlessly by Kate Moss. This little number had it going onnnnn. I pictured myself clubbing in it, dancing till I needed another drink to quench my thirst, strutting from the dancefloor to the bar to order myself a double vodka red bull...Flashing lights and thumping music swallowed me up....
There I was kneeling on the grass, daydreaming as I clutched the sparkly skirt material.
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| Model - Lorna Bowman |
“How much for the dress?” I asked the lady
“ohhh, 50p” she said.
I surpressed my screams as I fished out the silver coin, and thought to myself that these times are what you have to remember when the weather is getting you down.
Then I skipped off merrily through the grass singing the Beatles -Here Comes The Sun....It feels like years since you’ve been here!
