Festival - Ways To Wear

With out first ever Cow Vintage Festival creeping up on us tomorrow we have pulled out two of our favourite summer pieces and teamed them with some extras that you may agree we can't live without over the festival season..

Floral Dresses

Denim Jackets

Navajo Jackets

Backpacks

Tie Dye Rework Dresses

Camouflage Jackets

T-Shirts

Denim Shorts

Backpacks

Belts

Boots

Make sure you don't miss out on our very first Cow Vintage Festival in all stores tomorrow.. 

Saturday 1st June! We are offering everyone 10% all day! DJ's and Bands! Free Summer Drinks! Free Gifts when you spend over £50! A wonderful selection of one off Vintage clothing for all you Ladies and Gents! 

We look forward to seeing you there!

COW X

What's Going On..? Manchester Day Parade

If you haven't had enough fun after our COW Vintage Festival on Saturday 1st June and you are still looking for more.. Check out the official Manchester Day Parade on Sunday 2nd June. Last year's parade was a success and thousands of Mancs and visitors took to the streets to share the fun and follow their huge decorated floats with friends and families! The Parade has a theme and this year the theme is 'Wish You Were Here' which gives you the chance to dress up, bring along props and use your imagination on how to get involved in such an exciting carnival atmosphere.

The Parade starts at 2pm from Deansgate and circles through the whole city until 4pm! If you are interested check out more of their information on the website here.

We will be popping out and going to see what's going on so hopefully see you around there!

Revamp - Refresh - REWORK

As you may know our stores and website are full to the brim with vintage pieces and because everything is chosen by our experienced buyers we are proud to say it is a case of quality not just quantity!

Even with all of this choice we aim to offer you more and started Reworking some of the items that were maybe not to everyones taste. This led to creating jobs and building up a Rework team in each store. It seemed the pieces that we had cut, trimmed, shortened, tucked in, rolled up, dyed, bleached and taken in were becoming more and more popular. This team are always looking up to street styles, catwalks shows, old movies, bands and basically everywhere for inspiration to keep up to date to create a modern spin on the older pieces we have coming through.

We have chosen our favourite styles that have been Reworked in store just for you!!

Click the links to shop: Left to Right

Orange and Green Checked Sleeveless Dress - £23

Cropped Denim Shirt - £23

Beach Print Bandeau Dress - £26

Tie Dye Cropped T-Shirt - £18

Dip Dye Denim Shorts - £25

Bleach Ralph Lauren Sleeveless Shirt - £27

Bleached and Studded Cut Off Shorts - £28

Images from Google Search

23 George Street X Magda Celler

It is nice when people look at COW Vintage from a different perspective and that is exactly what Photographer Magda Celler did when she chose 23 George Street Jewellery as her subject for this photoshoot. This shows the great range of styles available from 23 George Street (Nottingham) which is also available in all COW stores. 

With the help of her glamorous model Klaudia Weselak she captures many pieces and also makes the images look like they are from two different shoots, one being an evening look with gold and embellished pieces and the other slightly more casual with the bow necklaces, spikes and eye detail rings. 

All clothes - COW Vintage

All Jewellery - 23 George Street

We Need You.. Models Wanted!

We are always looking for new talent and faces to represent COW Vintage. We are looking for you ladies and gents to come forward and let us know if you want to model for our online product shots and  maybe our seasonal photo shoots and stye guides. We are looking for the new Cara, Jordon, Sky, Julia, James, Pascal and Jester and if you think you have what it takes please let us know..

Fancy using us to get your face out there and show people what you have. Please send us an email with this info attached..

- Name and Age

- Height and Sizes

- Your Location

- Head Shot Image

- Full Length Image

..to COW@WEARECOW.COM

THE COW VINTAGE FESTIVAL!

Festival Season is in full swing!! Unfortunately and obviously we can't got to every single one that we'd like to but here at COW we want to show our excitement and enthusiasm for this season with you and we have created our own Festival Event to make sure no one misses out.
Our recent late night lock ins and parties have proved successful and we love that we are actually making friends with you customers now so we wanted to give something back and keep that fun, happy energy going for longer than a few hours.

For the first time ever COW are opening our doors for a whole day of pure fun for absolutely everyone! As well as all the vintage- one off- hand picked pieces- from around the world available for you Ladies and Gents, we are also offering:

* SATURDAY 1ST JUNE 

* 10% OFF EVERYTHING- ALL DAY! 

* LIVE DJ'S AND BANDS IN STORE 2-7PM!

* FREE SUMMER DRINKS!

* GOODY BAGS 

*EVERYONE WELCOME*

Keep an eye on your nearest store's Facebook pages to find out who will be Dj'ing, what hot bands will be playing in stores and everything else we have planned just for you!

COW NOTTINGHAM FACEBOOK

COW SHEFFIELD FACEBOOK

COW MANCHESTER FACEBOOK

COW BIRMINGHAM FACEBOOK

Ko- Lab X COW Vintage Personal Style File

We had the lovely ladies from the fashion and trend led Ko-Lab website in our Birmingham store recently to show us their styling skills and what their favourite pieces are. These are the looks they put together. See more of their style guides and inspiration here.

All Clothing from 

Cow Birmingham

82-85 Digbeth High Street,

B5 6DY

Or check out our website to find similar items!

WWW.WEARECOW.COM

Florals For Spring..? Groundbreaking.

We know there is nothing new about getting your florals out for the summer, but there is something in that feeling you get when you dust off your floral dresses, blouses and shorts as soon as the sun starts shining again. And since we have been living under the rain clouds for so many months now, I'd say we all deserve that feeling!!!

We have put together our favourite florals and are planning our new outfits to put a spring in our step. Here's what we chose from our website and much more available!

CLICK TO LINKS BELOW TO BUY

From Left to Right:

Pink and Green Daisy Pussybow Blouse - £14

Yellow and Cream Vintage 60s Shift Dress - £32

Black and Purple Floral Pumps - £22

Green and Pink Floral Pencil Skirt - SOLD

Orange Vintage Dress - £35

Red and Yellow Shorts - £12

Model - Hannah in our Sheffield store.

James Quaintance - Get The Look

Every now and again people come into the public eye and you know they will definitely make a mark on us all. Whether it is in Fashion, Art, Movies, or Music, for decades we have been intrigued with an particular attitude and style that we undoubtably want to be involved in.

Today we are looking at the newest member of this group, model and skateboarder James Quaintance who's cocky, rebellious attitude and ability to mix old school style to classic gent to sportswear in the blink of an eye. Here at COW we all agree he has the charisma, attitude and style to pull off a long lasting style icon name for himself and we are looking at how to get this look.

COW is a haven of vintage clothes and accessories so, like James Quaintance, you can build up your own style using clothes once used for previous subcultures. Here are some of our favourite pieces we have chosen, inspired by James Quaintance but for you to wear how you wish!

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO BUY:

Left to Right- 

Leather Biker Jacket - £52

Harley Davidson Eagle T-Shirt - £18

Brown Tweed Suit Jacket - £35

Black and White Checked Shirt - £25

Black Leather Biker Boots - £36

Black and Silver Studded Leather Belt - £14

Irene Yap Photographer X Cow Collaboration

Here we have another great shoot from the photographer Irene Yap. She recently borrowed a few pieces from COW Vintage to produce some subtle and dust like images for a self published magazine as well as being shown in a Photography Festival and you can find out more about that here, if you're into Photography or just like looking at nice pictures, maybe go and check it out.

More of Irene's work can be seen on her website here.

 

Inspirational!

There is a lot of people involved in the running of COW Vintage and when we were preparing our S/S13 Campaign Photo shoot we wanted to know what everyone in COW loved and how we could take this and use it as our inspiration.

Here are the mood boards we made up to keep us going and refer to while planning and working on the shoot shared by our staff and friends from all over! We love them and no doubt will be going back to some of them in the future

All images from Google Image Search.

The Great Gatsby Is Here!

After waiting for what feels like 2 years for this movie to come out it is finally here! We are pulling out our posh frocks and shining up our sequins for a full on 1920's flap around with excitement. There is a lot of hype around this movie and here at COW we all feel like it is all absolutely worth it.

The cinematic genius Baz Luhrman seems to have definitely captured the heart of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1920's American novel. Gathering together a cast of the finest including Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire to keep your eyes busy then Mr Jay Z scoring it with the star studded soundtrack featuring his bootilicious wife Beyonce, Andre 3000, The XX, Bryan Ferry, Lana Del Ray, Florence and the Machine and many more to pleasure your ears. It's an all round no brainer really..
We will be there with feathers on, literally, for the release Friday 10th May!

If you are as inspired as us and fancy prancing around in this glamourous and timeless style, here are some of our faves pieces available online now!

CLICK TO BUY - TOP LEFT TO BOTTOM RIGHT

Black Sheer and Beaded Dress - £20

Cream Feather Cape - £32

Snakeskin Handbag - £34

Black Court Shoes - £30

Cream Beaded Flapper Dress with Tie - £40

Black Sequinned Jacket - £35

Silver Chain-mail Handbag - £16

Taupe Mary Jane Shoes - £38 

My Fashionation Chat COW Birmingham

Jermaine from My Fashionation came into our Birmingham store to chat to Store Manager Jo Worrall about the stock, the space, her style and much more!

Love the video he made showing you some of the best pieces in store and Jo seems very comfortable in front of the camera! Maybe we should get her on film more often!!

Thanks for spending time with us and check out much more street style and fashion favourites on their website MY FASHIONATION ! x

Dan Whitehouse Gig - Sheffield!

Here at COW we like to promote our much talented staff and this week one of our own, musical Dan Whitehouse, is playing a gig at The Shakespeare in Sheffield. If you are around on Friday 3rd May get yourself down to see him. Here is a short promo from his management and even though it's promotion it is all very true!! He will be supported by Dirdsbead another lovely lad close to our hearts in COW. So double trouble on Friday, we know where we will be.

DAN WHITEHOUSE:

With a story like Dan Whitehouse, it's not surprising this humble lad from Swinton has so much to say. Having been part of so many successful and musically varied bands, Dan's powerful lyrics and humble melodies remind us just how talented Sheffield folk can be. From Fights to Rossman Frister, Mabel Love to up and coming Dens, Dan Whitehouse has seen it all and found his own style of lyrically driven, emotive music.
Have a listen to more at:  http://www.soundcloud.com/whitehouse-music and watch out for an Album release early Summer 2013.
You can also keep up to date with Twitter and Tumblr 

DIRDSBEAD:

Bringing you an authentic and natural collection of songs, created with the vision of creating and performing the project 'Dirdsbead", a lad from Lincolnshire having played in bands his whole life, gives you his own personal take on all things music and life.
Have a listen at: https://soundcloud.com/dirdsbead

Tickets available to buy in Cow Sheffield! Pop in and grab one for just £3!

Check out the Facebook page for more info! 

https://www.facebook.com/events/264513250352997/

Dot to Dot Festival X PINS

Alongside our Competition to win tickets for you and a friend to attend the Dot to Dot Festival this month we are talking to some of our favourite bands that we look forward to watching there! Today we got hold of the babes from PINS and chat about what they're working on, who they are excited about seeing at Dot To Dot Festival, the best and worst thing they have ever bought at a festival and more!

HIYA LADIES! X

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN GOING FOR NOW?

Faith - "The current formation of PINS has been since January this year. We got a new drummer, Sophie. Before that I can't remember."

WHAT ARE THE PINS GIRLS WORKING ON AT THE MINUTE?

Faith - "Singing, dancing, pretending to be film stars and we've just finished recording an LP, it'll be out later in the year."

WHAT'S THE BEST GIG YOU'VE EVER PLAYED?

Faith - "We played a Christmas show at the Bunker in Manchester last December, that was special. I have a good time wherever we play but the ones we curate ourselves stand out more to me. Saying that, we opened for British Sea Power a couple of weeks ago, it was Sophie's second show with us and we played a bunch of new songs to hundreds of strangers, it was really fun!"

Lois - " Yeah I think the Christmas one for me too. All the Bunker shows have been amazing, it was cool to be able to put our own."

HOW DO FEEL ABOUT PLAYING DOT TO DOT? HAVE YOU PLAYED BEFORE?

Faith - "This is our first time, we're playing all three cities so I'm looking forward to it."

Anna - " I've been a couple of times. If I think back to the first time I went and I was dreaming of being in a band... I guess things have gone pretty well since then to be playing all three festivals days this year!"

WHAT OTHER BANDS ARE YOU MOST LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCH AT D2D?

Faith - "Swim Deep come up in our conversations a lot for one reason or another so I'd like to see them in real life. Other than that, I don't know. I like Best Friends so I'll try and catch them."

Lois - "Yeah excited, hoping to see Deap Vally and Wolf Alice."

Anna - "Hoping to catch Deap Vally, Lucy Rose and The 1975. I went to school with those boys and haven't seen them since the Drive like I do/ Big Sleep Days."

WHAT'S PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE AND WHERE WILL PINS BE AFTER THE FESTIVAL?

Faith - "We have a couple more shows in the UK and EU left after Dot to Dot then a few festivals in the Summer, come and see us!"

Lois - "End of the Road at the end of August should be cool."

WHAT IS YOUR FESTIVAL FASHION MUST HAVE?

Faith - "Sunglasses"

Lois - "Hotpants"

Anna - "A kigu"

WHAT IS THE BEST AND WORST THING YOU EVER BOUGHT AT A FESTIVAL?

Faith - "Best and worst thing would be mushroom chocolate"

Lois - "Vintage shirt for £5 best and worst is Fosters"

Anna - "The best and worst thing I considered buying at a festival was a 'Nobody knows I'm a Lesbian t-shirt."

WHAT IS THE BEST THING YOU'VE FOUND IN A VINTAGE STORE?

Faith - "I got some really cute shoes from COW last year, I wore them until they fell off my feet. Apart from that I tend to collect boys t-shirts."

Lois - "Loads of things.. Gonna go with my fringed shirt though."

Anna - "My huge black fur coat from Ryan Vintage in Manchester. I lived in it, it kept me toasty on two visits to Iceland in Winter. Also I like that people nuzzle into me like a cat. Cute."

TWITTER - @WEAREPINS

WEBSITE - www.wearepins.co.uk

All Images from Google Search.