Greenock Telegraph's Fashion Fixer - 07/05/11

New Season Accessories

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Whether you’re an avid fashion follower, or a jeans and T-Shirt kind of girl, accessories are the ideal way to update your look for the new season. This summer, the high street has everything you’ll need to enhance your personal style.

Summer is the time to experiment with your handbags. Step away from your favourite black leather tote and try a slouchy leather shopper style bag in off-white or soft grey. Fabric bags are also a great way to inject colour and versatility into your summer looks. Choose a tropical, floral or nautical print bag from the high-street to carry all your summer essentials.

For a funky fashion-forward look, introduce hats to your summer wardrobe. Choose a floppy wide-brimmed sun hat for a touch of the 1970’s, or a straw boater hat with a pretty floral trim to instantly update your look. Pair your choice of hat with a colour-block maxi dress, or a simple white tee and denim shorts combo.

Essential summer jewellery is designed to make a statement, both day and night. Swap your simple studs for shoulder-skimming feather earrings, pile on woven bangles and give your fingers a treat with an oversized embellished cocktail ring.

Top Tip:

A bag-for-life with a funky print can double up as a fun beach bag on this year’s summer hols.

Barcode Scanner Technology

As part of her product design project at Glasgow School of Art, Anna McCahon has asked us here at Sew Vintage to introduce a new concept within the vintage clothing industry. If you love all things vintage and are an avid techno-kid, this is for you.

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Here's how it works: Anna has produced unique barcodes for a selction of our vintage clothing, to be scanned using your smartphone. Upon scanning, a history of the item will appear on your phone, giving you the specific background to the piece. Not only giving you the specific era the piece derives from, you will find out when the item has been worn in the past, and by whom.

This innovative piece of technology is something we find very exciting, as alot of our items we have for sale here at Sew Vintage have been sourced from unusual and interesting places - so we love the idea of passing this information onto you at your leisure.

So, the next time you're browsing around our boutique, grab your phone and scan away - you'll be surprised at what you can learn!

Gillian xx