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Hey all. I spent Thursday afternoon browsing round Old Spitalfield Market with Rosie; assuming I wouldn't find much was a massive understatement. Oh If only I were rich. The first stall we looked at was the fur stand right at the very back of the market, which had a huge selection of real vintage furs for a special offer of fifty pounds each, bearing in mind most of these would usually cost hundreds of pounds per coat.
Personally I don't wear fur myself, but for those that do I strongly suggest to get down to Spitalfield Market on a Thursday, as the selection is fantastic and the lady running the stall was very friendly, and only too happy to let me take pictures for this post.

The next stall we looked at was a clothes stall, which mainly offered a selection of jumpers, one of which Rosie bought, a red and blue striped knit for a fiver (although she insisted on giving the man eight pounds for it) and a selection of cowboy boots in brown and black. The guy running the stall was also really friendly and quite happy to let me take photos.

While I left Rosie to browse in her element at the vintage music and poster stalls, I headed straight for my own calling; the jewellery stalls. I was quite literally amazed at the fantasic and beautiful pieces that were on offer, and whilst admittedly, some were incredibly overpriced, most were very reasonable, and I was surprised to see that most of the pieces looked very much like a lot of those that my Mum still has at home.

My personal favourite was a stall run by a lovely lady who chatted to me quite happily for a long time about various topics, one being her new (slightly bizzare) red and white dangly 60's earrings she had bought that day, and "didn't ever want to take out" she enthused. The stall had a lovely collection of rings, earrings and other pretty items, but I was fascinated by the collection of beautiful silver charms which ranged from two to ten pounds each. In amongst the choices were: a rocking chair, a soldier, a cherub, a turtle and my favourite, a tiny van with "Harrods" on the side in tiny writing.
I had to hold myself back from buying the whole lot, as charm bracelets are a love of mine. However, I did promise the lady behind the stall that I would be back again in a couple of weeks, as she assured me that she has different items to choose from every Thursday.

After a successful hour or so browsing the beautiful stalls we agreed to head down to some of the vintage shops down Brick Lane. This however, wasn't quite as successful as hoped, as we got as far as Blondie and Absolute Vintage (who are outlets of the same company) to find that they have a strict "no pictures" policy, which was dissapointing.

It is clear from the atmoshere and crowd in Spitalfield Market and Brick Lane from Thursday through to Sunday (Sunday Up Market) that even with competetor's such as All Saints and Agnes B just next door, Vintage is still very much "in", and won't be going anywhere for a while yet.