Today I want the gypsy look, a beautiful ruffled light brown skirt with gold coins sewn around it, a lacy crocheted camisole and beaded jewellery; big double circlet earrings, anklets and bangles and wedge heeled sandals.
That’s the look I’d like today, I have the skirt, but not the top, I have the shoes but not the style of jewellery.
Most of my jewellery has gone now.
My best crocheted light brown cardigan which had a sort of gypsy/Slavic style to it has lost some of its patterning with age and had to be thrown recently, that was a shame, it was my favourite summer cardigan, worn for comfort not warmth.
My hair would be styled with the curling tongs, that suits me a lot and makes me look like a porcelain doll, especially if I had make up to glamour myself up a bit better instead of making do with being a pasty natural thing.
I’ve always had a passion for the gypsy look, since I was a kid – well it’s in my blood, my grandma on mum’s side always said she’d half Romany and sent me to visit various locations where the gypsies lived to introduce me to them. Two places mostly, a caravan in Portobello road is a distant cousin and there is a fairground ride repair place in Hendon, which are all apparently relatives of mine.
I miss Portobello road for lots of reasons, it’s a place I sorely miss since leaving London. I visited it three times a year before I left London; I haven’t seen the place in almost fourteen years now.
The Cockney’s pie & mash shop there knows me well, saw me grow up – I often wonder if fourteen years is too long and maybe they’ve forgotten me, I hope not! I hope they’ll remember me when I got back again someday, I hope the lady who runs it will be there again.
I was afraid just before Covid hit, there were rumours Cockneys pie & mash shop was going to close down due to a lack of custom, I hope not. I have checked recently, they appear to still exist.
It’s one of the first things I want to do if I ever go back to London – have lunch at Cockneys!
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