RocknRomance Vintage Blog

Thinking of rocking Viva Las Vegas Rockabilly Festival Weekend?? This is amazing annual event that celebrates all things rockabilly. Held in Las Vegas, Nevada, the festival attracts fans and enthusiasts from all over the world, who come to enjoy live music, hotrods , classic cars ,dancing, vintage fashion, and more...                               The festival first began in 1998 and has now grown to become one of the largest and most popular rockabilly events in the world. It usually takes place over a weekend in April, and features...

Gillette Elvgren , known as Gil Elvgren famous for the wonderful vintage inspired pin up paintings capturing striking poses beauty & humor through his work ..    Gill was an American painter of pin up girls and advertising, he studied at a private school in Chicago at the American Academy Of Art college.. from here  Elvgren painted calendar illustrations for Brown & Bigelow a long standing company to which he worked from 1945 to 1972, Browns & Bigelow are based in Minnesota USA where they sell branded apparel and promotional merchandise still to this day, there is literally every item imaginable that can be branded. He was strongly...

As I began taming my unruly mane on the morning of Saturday 17th September, I couldn’t quite believe that I would finally be attending the Goodwood Revival with Rock ‘n’ Romance Vintage, an event I’ve wanted to go to ever since I first started wearing vintage-inspired fashion and with one of my absolute favourite vintage reproduction brands. A celebration of historic motor racing that has been held at the Goodwood Racing Circuit in Sussex since 1998, in which almost every attendee wears period dress, the Revival is truly the jewel in the crown of vintage events. But of course it’s...

What  does CC41 mean ?? Firstly, lets start at the beginning .. some of you will know this but for many of us CC41 is just a label but what does it mean?.. so to give a bit of background info CC41 stands for Civilian Clothing. The 1940s featured clothes heavily influenced by WWI and WWII. This is also where the 41 number comes into play.  Clothes, including dresses, blouses, skirts, trousers, cardigans, jackets and outerwear, rationing was announced on 1 June 1941. The British government needed to reduce production and consumption of civilian clothes to safeguard raw materials and release workers and factory...

https://youtube.com/shorts/AxRXGV2iix8?feature=share Give Me Goodwood On A Summers Day And You Can Forget The Rest Of World..             Goodwood Revival one of the most, if not THE most talked about and visited vintage festivals here in the UK.        People attend in there thousands and from all across the globe to take a step back in time to a glamorous era and celebrate the wonderful bygone eras of motorsport and fashion ..  however they are not gone .. they are here it's all here at Goodwood Revival..    3 days of pitstop madness upclose to...