UJU for the cool

To Vintage or Not to Vintage

I’m actually very fed up of the word Vintage being thrown around recklessly. Today was just the final straw when I overheard this statement in a conversation between two individuals, “I bought this vintage scarf from H&M and some other vintage bag from peackocks.” Just to elaborate, vintage in regards to clothing means clothing that is originally from another era. So this item of clothing would have been previously worn and probably belonged in an era that is not the present. A piece of clothing passed down from your grandmother which she owned when she was 18 is vintage, a scarf, made in columbia last month, brand new and purchased from H&M is certainly not vintage. If an item of clothing looks vintage then its just that, it looks vintage or has a vintage feel…that will be all. On that subject some wonderful vintage pictures I came across today….

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Its All In The Family

The Original Mr RAS

This Christmas, we were looking through old photos that my dad had scanned in to the computer. I came across some great old photos of my grandpa (the original Mr RAS) that I just had to share. I always knew that he had great style, but it wasn’t until recently that I really appreciated it. Below is the photo that motivated me to write this post.

Pink blazer with tortoise shell glasses, the guy is rocking it.

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New Years Cuff

To begin this decade,  I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year. I was inspired to write this post sitting on the train on the way to watch the London fireworks.

It begins with one site I like to follow pretty regularly, The Sartorialist.  Scott Schuman (The Photographer) concentrates on the small details in what people are wearing and set up his website to show what he believed “was a disconnect between what I was selling in the showroom and what I was seeing real people (really cool people) wearing in real life“. Visiting this website has made me spend more time really looking at what people are wearing, and try to imagine what Scott would say if he was writing about it.  With that in mind I was pleasantly surprised to look down at my cuff on the way up to London and notice that it was perfectly layered – shirt, jacket then coat.

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Kookysista Withthehair And The Smelly Boot Quest;-)

Karibuni(welcome) to uju from moi kookysistawiththehair,

I is UJU number 4. Expect anything to everything on my posts. I’m not really a fan of anonymous blogging as I would like you to be able to put the name to the face………

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Money, It’s Gotta Be The Shoes!

I am by no means the biggest sneaker freak on the block. Actually I’m not really a sneaker freak at all. But I know I love the Air Jordan III’s. Released in the mid-to-late 80s, they brought the elephant print pattern trims that I love to see on Air Jordans nowadays (when they come around, which is rare). They were said to be Mr. Michael Jordan’s favourites, and whether or not this was just to market the sneakers is a bogus idea to waste time on, but they were marketed in most beautiful way.

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Doxa Clothing

We are always looking for companies and artists that have big ideas and are starting off strong. Hanging out at my friends house today made me stumble right into one of these opportunities. She had received a great piece of design in the mail. This bit of design just happened to be on a shirt and as soon as I had a look at the promotional material that came along with it I knew that I had to look deeper into this company.

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