Romantic French Touch... / Le charme à la Française...

Sometimes all that, we, beings need is a bit of lightness...

and Régis Roinsart with his first film, Populaire (2012), is bringing just that to our screens...

Déborah François, Romain Duris & Bérénice Bejo star in this 50s revisited flick...

Déborah François - I love her shoes !

A think pink decor (even the typewriter !) that could come straight out of the Rayon Lingerie of a chic Parisian Department Store... with retro golden iron volutes furniture and rococo frames show-casting real perfectly manicured hands... 

Miss Twist and Baso the Dog (Episode 2)

(If you haven't yet you can read here Episode 1)

(Vous trouverez ici l'Episode 1)

Miss Twist and her friends have been welcomed in but as they were about to sit down for a cup of tea, they were invited into the garden to be shown a new feature and she discreetly stayed behind...

Après avoir été accueillis par leurs hôtes et alors qu'ils étaient sur point de prendre le thé, ils sont tous passés au jardin pour admirer un nouvel ornement... Miss Twist est restée discrètement en arrière...

Meet Miss Twist... (Episode 1)...

It's spring at last and Miss Twist is off for the week-end...
C'est enfin le printemps et Miss Twist part en week-end...

Would you care for a cup of tea ? (English version)

Pour la version française, voir article suivant...

As a child, I played a lot with plastic tea-sets and dinner-sets... In 1968-69, I remember that my sister and I had two Gégé* teasets (they were the must !) that were exactly like this one in shape (with a different motif, and smaller flowers maybe) :

Gégé tea-set

Then in 1970,...

Une petite tasse de thé ?... (Version française)

For the English version, please see post above...

Petite, j'ai beaucoup joué à la dînette... En 1968-69, je me souviens qu'avec ma soeur nous avions chacune une dînette Gégé en plastique qui ressemblait beaucoup à celle-ci (avec un motif différent, des fleurs plus petites peut-être...) :

Dînette Gégé

Puis en 1970,...

Miniature Fan / Éventail Miniature...

In preparation for summer, Miss Twist got her new fan out of her chest of drawers... 

where she keeps this rather fragile item...

This is no ordinary miniature fan... I'll let you guess what it is made of...

Let me just show you how delicately hand painted it is...

... the only reason I didn't throw it straight in the recycling bin when I realized...

...and I must admit it does look good in Miss Twist's hand...

It probably fans very well too...  

Still...

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Pink-Gingham (English version)

Pour la version française, voir article suivant...

When you hear Pink-Gingham... what does it make you think of ? 

In France, it immediately evokes Brigitte Bardot and the little dresses that she contributed to make fashionable in the 1950s... (Hang-on, you are thinking right now, this is not a blog about celebrity, isn't it ? Or even about fashion ? And if you do, you would be right, just read on and you’ll see...)

Vichy-Rose (Version française)

For the English version, please see post above...

Que vous évoque le Vichy-Rose... ? 

Ce tissu évoque presqu'immédiatement, en France, Brigitte Bardot et les petites robes qu'elle a contribué à mettre en vogue dans les années 50 ("Non mais attends", vous vous dites, "je croyais que c'était un blog sur les jouets vintage pour filles ?!"... Mais si si, c'est bien ça, vous allez voir...)

Mystery Miniature Milk Crates...

Horse cart with milk crates (and a milkwoman for a change !) -
Doris Hudson delivering milk for the Co-op Dairy in Disraeli Street, Middlesbrough(UK) in 1956

If you are a vintage toy car collector, 

you might know where these miniature milk crates belong...

Miniature lead milk crates (1.9 x 1.6 cm)

I got them in a lot of 1930s-1960s dollhouse items... They are very well made and pretty heavy (made of lead ?) and also tiny... The white paint has rubbed off in places... I would love to be able to remove and replace individually the little bottles of milk (Mind you, they could have gone missing)... Still they would look good as a prop in any scene of that scale and they have a real 50s feel to them...  

I am quite sure they were not originally meant for a dollhouse but rather, I imagine, belong to a vintage miniature milkman's van or float ? Could they originally be from a large 50s Lesney horse drawn milk cart (Made in England) ? Some of their small scale milk crates look like these...

© blue-gold-angel.de
http://www.dream-tintoys.de/index.php?page=lesney

Well certainly, you Reader and Mrs Peel are needed to help solve the milk crate riddle... 

Careful, coming off the milk float though...

The Avengers - The Hour that Never Was (Series 4 - 1965)

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