Myself and the stunning Ally Holiday, AKA 'The Caked Crusader'

Posing with the wonderful Miss Sugar!

With my great friend Richard Pugh!

 I had a great time at Proud with my company along with Dolly and Dakota, The UK Bombshells.
We did a little catwalk show for Dolly's vintage business, Bombshells&Beatniks, here's a photo of me strutting it in a lovely original 1950's dress. Bad quality photo, it was very smoky and dark in there thanks to the smoke machines...the cameras didn't like it hehe !

3 other colours available They are a bit steep in price at £94.99 per pair, but there is something very special about these shoes that I have fallen in love with, and out of all the translucent shoes I've seen over the summer I have to say these are a clear favourite of mine!

For a beautiful, opulent evening look, try out the black Cinders slippers with Tara Starlet's Classic Evening Dress

For an elegant daytime look, team with a 1950's day dress such as this beautiful Bombshells & Beatniks dress  shown above(only one in stock at Etsy so buy it before its gone!)

Photography by Alan Jones Photography, Highbridge, Somerset

 I loved wearing this stunning original 1950's vintage dress on my shoot with Alan a couple of months back. The waist was tiny and a little bit of a squeeze! I am a 26" waist naturally, so I am guessing this may have been a 24". The bust had boning to give that lovely triangular curve to it, and it was a label-less garment indicating it was entirely hand-sewn!

We are SO super excited that Juliette has invited us to take party in her launch party. Facebook event details HERE. It's free entry so anyone in London, you'd better make the effort to come see us! *Flutters eyelashes*

Tonight reminded me of how many comments I collect when I go out in small towns away from cities. Pin Up, or alternative styles, are very much seen as alien here as there are a lot less people and subcultures rarely exist here apart from a mix of long time hippies and punks.

To let you know a background story to why I am in little towns at the moment - In the summer I stay at the seaside, and then I go back to the big smoke later this month to study and plan world domination with my co-partners of The UK Bombshells, Dolly & Dakota.

In London, no one bats an eyelid if you dress with a distinctive style as it's a hub of alternate scenes, however, place yourself as a pin up in a very small area away from alternative dress styles and you find yourself being either asked, admired or scorned for being a little bit different.
I personally think it's a great thing to be set apart from everyone else, however on the odd occasion  I have been approached by women in particular and told scornfully I'm very much 'overdressed' for the night.
 Just like every other style, pin up can be a little over the top sometimes, however dressing with a retro twist is how I dress everyday and I have slowly built the style into my wardrobe and accessories. To dress 'normally', whatever 'normal' is - would be like acting like another person for the night as I wouldn't be dressing like myself at all. I would probably feel like I dulled myself down to seem normal to others, and who wants to feel dull when they go out to watch music with friends or for dinner.

Now, with that out of the way..I do think it's awesome that everyone in the world is different and we all have our preferences and quirks which make us interesting! If we all were the same, I think the world would be a very boring place! I guess for some people I wish they could see outside the box a little sometimes, and instead of criticising being different in a bad light, embrace individuality!

So a few of my die hard followers will have already moved onto my new page, but if you haven't done already - here is the link!

I decided my look has really developed since I started pin up and I wanted a name that I felt represented me as a classic cheesecake pin up lover. Ava Winters I felt suited my new short bouncy blonde hair and my photos which are mostly inspired by American pin up artwork by Elvgren, Ekman, Driben and Vargas to name a few.

Illustration by Peter Driben



Illustration by Harry Ekman  

My favourite pin ups of all time also came into consideration, such as our British beauty Diana Dors in particular convincing me to finally take the step to go platinum!

Diana Dors

Even Debbie Harry or 'Blondie' as she is commonly referred to influenced this decision, being one of my all time favourite icons.

Golden/Yellow

Golden / Yellow Blonde

Light, ice blonde