Although I was born in the 1970s I have never really felt at ease with the present.
I never liked modern music, fashion, architecture...well I didnt really like anything modern.
Todays design lacks style and class, everything seems to be practical, square and plastic.

I was no fun at parties as a teenager, I hated the loud music, I complained nobody knew how to dance and kept telling boys they had no proper manners...
So there I was, a 14 year old girl, behaving like a 80 year old woman...

Then there was a fifties revival and for the first time I felt a connection to the music I heard, the clothing people wore and the design.
Within minutes my room looked like a 1950's teenbopper room, posters of James Dean, the music of Eddie Cochrane and lots of bobbysocks!
But after a while this craze was out of fashion again and my classmates became interested in the 60's...long hair...flares...peace and loving...

I too wanted to move on...or rather move backwards.

Not the 1960s for me but the 1940s and 1930s.

Soon I realised I had finally found the style I was looking for all these years, everything all of a sudden made sense. The music I liked all these years...from the 1930's, the Fashionstyle I loved...from the 1930's, the designs that made me drool...from the 1930's.

Today I have almost perfected my Retro Lifestyle, I wear 1930s clothing, I go to 1930's dances and parties and my house looks just like a house would have looked during those years.

It is a great lifestyle, in a strange way we are the most polite and well dressed "underground scene"...