Mad on Mod - is a website dedicated to sourcing and selling the very best of vintage clothing, accessories and homewares to brighten your lives and bring smiles to those who love all things retro. Mad on Mod also introduces a new concept in styling your fashion choices: STYLE YOU Vintage Accessory Packs.
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Vintage, why buy it?...
QUALITY - Vintage clothes and accessories have stood the test of time. The quality of the materials they were crafted from and superior workmanship evident in their construction, has guaranteed the longevity of vintage items. Vintage items were made to last!
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STYLE - The fashion of the past is eternal and cyclic and provides constant inspiration to current styles: the fabulously demure but nevertheless flirtatious Fifties; the swinging psychedelic Sixties and groovy baby disco Seventies were the funkiest most fun decades of all and the most influential to contemporary designers.
SUSTAINABILITY - Be kind to the environment, we only have one Earth to sustain and protect. Recycling and Upcycling of clothing and accessories saves beautiful items items from becoming the landfill of the future. There are no fossil fuels burned in buying pre-loved items therefore, the environment is protected for future generations.
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SAVVY - The key to being stylish is to accessorise. Vintage accessories are the perfect means by which to extend a wardrobe of fundamental classic pieces. Look to the fabulous Fifties or swinging Sixties for inspiration.
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The Kinks mocked it in 1966 with gentle humour; Jacqui Kennedy worked it in the 60s as the iconic First Lady and David Bowie immortalised it in his huge 1980’s hit, FASHION. You can be a Fashionista, a Fashion Victim, a Dedicated Follower of Fashion but everyone is touched by it in some way. Fashion is an expression of individuality as personal as a palm print, it mirrors social change and political revolution. This was never more true than in the 1960s, when women strutted their stuff in teeny tiny miniskirts with knee high go-go boots, as the feminist voice rang loud and clear.
The Age of Aquarius had dawned!
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Mad on Mod presents an amazing range of spectacular vintage jewellery for sale: stylish, unique vintage pieces each selected for its special retro resonance. MAD on MOD also offers unique one-off designer pieces each handcrafted from genuine vintage and antique materials, especially Bakelite and Celluloid buttons.
Form, function, fashion and flair, the cornerstones of good jewellery design. The elegance and simplicity of timeless classical style or the quirky eccentricity of a particular bygone era, good jewellery design encompasses all. Wear it well and it can enhance the simplest outfit making it a true fashion sensation.
Wear it! Embrace it! Become a style maven in your own right!
Mad on Mod offers you the chance to purchase quality vintage items in mid-century modern style with a healthy dash of bohemian! I specialise in Barsony ceramics and other mid-century styles such as Depression Glass, which will be coming up soon on the website. Bakelite is another of my favourite materials and I will be offering some cool Bakelite pieces soon.
There’s a retro nostalgia present in mid-century modern design particularly in items from the 1950’s and 60’s that complement any modern living space. This aesthetic can encompass the earlier Art Deco period and is testament to the timeless appeal of form and function that endures. Your evolving personal style is a design palette to build upon with the judicious purchase of quality vintage homewares. A living space is like an entity; it has its own energy, dynamic and life. We are in fact curators of our own lives and the canvas we create is our home!
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If you know how to read them, buttons are peepholes into life. You can trace how we evolved into complex human societies just by looking at buttons. Modern fashion was only possible because of the evolution of the button, which meant that clothes were able to follow the shape of the body and became figure hugging and form fitting.
Women took control of their look and their lives and buttons were a major catalyst in allowing them to do so. The Feminist cause was advanced because of the humble button!
Mad on Mod makes being stylish a snip! Introducing a new concept in accessorising outfits, STYLE YOU Vintage Accessory Packs are specially selected, complementary items, packaged together to allow you to style your outfits with ease. Each package features genuine vintage items that will elevate your outfits to the style stratosphere! The example shown here features a genuine MOD pin, vintage earrings and an original 60's hat with a 60's flower pin. The style scenarios are limited only by your imagination!
Each pack is individually priced depending on contents.
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STYLE YOU Vintage Accessory Packs will be supported by YouTube videos demonstrating how to gain optimum style advantage from each pack’s contents. Keep checking the website for links and updates.
