GIMME GIMME: MORE TEDDIES

THE WAY WE SEE IT, THE EASE OF THE ELASTIC OF OUR YOUTH DOESN'T HAVE TO DIE. 

THESE BLOUSY LITTLE BITS OF BLISS COME FLANKED WITH THE SWEETEST COTTON LACE AND FLOURO RIC-RAC. WHEN WE FIRST DEBUTED THE  TEDDIES A YEAR AGO, THEY FLEW IN A FLASH AND NOW WE'VE GOT A WHOLE NEW CROP OF CHARMING PANTALOONS.

SO CHECK IT:

BANANA BOAT WITH MELLOW YELLOW RICRAC

NAVY SPOTS WITH DAISY CHAIN

PROVENCE BLUE WITH ECRU RICRAC

KERMIT SPOTS WITH KACHINA TRIM

KAFFE PAISLEY WITH PURPLE RICRAC

MAUI PRINT WITH BLACK RICRAC

INDIGO CHRYSANTHEMUM WITH DAISY CHAIN

VENCE PRINT WITH CIRCLE TRIM

BIRD OF PARADISE PRINT WITH ACID TRIM

THE TEDDIE SHORTS ARE BEACH AND BIKE AND BEDTIME APPROVED AND MACHINE WASHABLE. ENTER, THE SATISFIED CUSTOMERS:

ALIX OF BOHEMIA TEDDIE SHORTS, IN VARIOUS COTTON PRINTS. 
100% COTTON, MACHINE WASHABLE.
(EACH ONE IS UNIQUE, ONE SIZE FITS MOST)

WE DON'T SHARE VERY WELL AND NEITHER WILL YOU. SHOP IT, WE'LL SHIP IT HERE.

WHAT TWEEDS MAY COME

TO TWEET OR TO TWEED?

WE SAY TWEED.

WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN PARTIAL TO THE STUFF.

 WE SKETCH AND SWATCH SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE STRUCTURED, A LITTLE MORE CLASSIC. 

MONDAYS ARE FOR MUSING, AND WE TAKE INSPIRATION FROM HERE AND THERE, THE WAY WE WEAR IT, THE WAY THEY WEAR IT, BE IT HARRIS, SILK OR DONEGAL.

INSPIRATION: WE'RE THINKING JACKETS CUT FOR THE LITTLE PRINCE IN THE HIGHLANDS:

PITTI UOMO:

 RELICS FROM OUR UNIVERSITY YEARS:

 BIBA TWEED:

 RALPHIE'S GIRLS:

THE MORNING AFTER A WEDDING IN SCOTLAND:

 ANNIE:

 MICHAEL KORS:

ON THE TRAIN TO KLOSTERS, IN A VERY LOUD VARIETY:

 SWATCHES:

 MERYL:

 MICK:

 POLO:

 CHARLOTTE:

 DANIEL:

 DETAIL:

 TOPPED WITH A BOW:

MERCI GOOGLE FOR IMAGES. 

WHAT DID WE DO BEFORE IMAGE SEARCH?

(WE HAD LOTS MORE PAPER PICTURES LYING AROUND)

PEACHES AND CREAM

IT IS FASHION WEEK IN LONDRES, AND BECAUSE WE ARE NEVER REALLY FOLLOWING THE TRENDS, WE REJECT THE STARVATION DIET OF THE FASHION HIGH SEASON AND INSTEAD RETREAT TO THE KITCHEN TO BAKE.

AND THEN WE CALL THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WE CAN FIND AND INVITE THEM FOR A LITTLE DINNER AND DRESS UP.

ENTER, THE LOVELY NORWEGIANS, ALL SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, PEACHES AND CREAM (TO COMPLIMENT OUR TARTE, BIEN SUR) AND THE DIVINE VICTORIA, FRESH IN FROM NEW YORK, BELOW:

CHARLOTTE THE MERMAID IN THE ALIX OF BOHEMIA FLEETWOOD DRESS, KILLING IT.

THAT HAIR!

OH LA LA.

AND THEN WE ALL HAVE TO TRY ON WHAT EACHOTHER IS WEARING. 

SO ANOTHER BLONDE BEAUTY GIVES THE GREEN CHIFFON A GO: LA PETITE JULIA

THE ALIX OF BOHEMIA POPPY GO LUCKY DRESS

SO MUCH BEAUTY

SWEET DARLINGS IN BATIK AND SEAWEEDS RESPECTIVELY. NORWAY IS BREEDING THEM WELL, AND WE ARE OH SO HAPPY TO BE ABLE TO DRESS THE BUNNIES IN OUR KIT.

ON THE OFF CHANCE YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE APRICOT HARVEST
(LIKE MOST THINGS WORTHWHILE, THIS CAKE IS 
BOTH BEAUTIFUL AND DELICIOUS):

Apricot Slice
(adapted from Monsieur Bill Granger)

1 and 1/2 cups flour
3/4 cup caster sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch salt
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
6 1/2 ounces softened butter
14 apricots, pitted and halved

Oven at 315 Degrees F
Sift together dry ingredients and make a well in the center.
Combine eggs, vanilla and butter and pour into well.
Beat until smooth.
Into a heavily buttered baking dish or tin, pour the mixture.
Press apricot halves, cut side up, into the mixture in rows.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Take our of the oven, sprinkle with sugar and bake for another 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when pressed in centre of tarte.
Cut in slices and let cool on a wire rack.

MORE TO LOVE

GANDHI SAYS: WHERE THERE IS LOVE THERE IS LIFE.

(CLEVER BUNNY)

WE SAY: WHERE THERE IS LOVE, THERE IS ALSO TARTAN.

HELLO, HIGHLAND FLING.

JUST IN TIME FOR V-DAY:

THE ALIX OF BOHEMIA

FLING JACKET

SHE'S KIND OF LIKE,

COCO WENT TO SCOTLAND 

AND THEN TO WOODSTOCK

TO EARN HER STRIPES (AND HEARTS AND SPOTS)

KIND OF JACKET.

YEA, WE'VE GOT ALL THOSE STANDARD COLLARLESS JACKET BITS. LIKE POCKETS AND PIPING.

HAVE YOU SEEN THE HEART ON THE SPINE?

THE SPOTTED PATCHES FROM AN VINTAGE DRESS?

BOTH HAND-STITCHED INTO PLACE.

IF THATS NOT LOVE, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.

OUR HEART IS FULL

OF TARTAN AND JOY

HAPPY ALMOST V-DAY SWEET BOHEMIANS.

MORE? MORE IS MORE, WHEN IT COMES TO TARTAN, FEATHERS AND CHOCOLATE.

GO HERE AND SAY HI TO US.