[Music] When I first started dressing 1950s, um, about 2001, um, the reaction from the the younger generations was like, why are you dressed like that? And they were looking me up and down as if I was the mad cat lady of Stratford. And, you know, some people being, are you going to a wedding or a fancy dress party?
because vintage hadn't come in really at that point. The whole Betty Paige phenomenon hadn't blown up [Music] again. Now with my 40s, um I still wear some 50s, but yeah, with the 40s, um yeah, I I get, especially from the older generation, they say, "Oh, I remember my mom wearing that or I remember, you know, having my hair in the victory rolls.
" But uh yeah, I think it brings back some nice memories for [Music] people. It's so tricky to put, you know, a price on everything, you know, spend because we've gone to car boot sales, flee fairs, you know, online events. I've been singing at um there are always vintage stores there.
um the recycling shops, secondhand shops, some things have been gifts. You know, there's there's just no way I can I can put a cost on everything. The 1940s was such an unbelievable time.
Um I think it's the fact that everybody got together. There was so much um being done to boost morale. You know, you had some amazing entertainment, incredible films came out.
Even the Hollywood stars were going and doing their bits, whether they were fighting or they were entertaining in the war. And I guess I wanted to portray that glamour that was on screen because it was such such an important part. I really really respected that and that's why I chose to dress more glamorous than a regular civilian.
Uh and I think you know people don't really realize that. I think they think that I'm just dressing glamorous because that's how I want to dress and I don't really understand, you know, the era and I I need to read up on my history.
