60s garden party

With summer coming, there are lots of outdoor picnics and barbeques to plan for. I started looking through my magazines for inspiration and found this fun party from a vintage House and Garden. It's loaded with bright orange dots on everything- paper plates, napkins and even those fabulous cardboard chairs! I'd like to take the…

I’ve been to a lot of music festivals, but Wilderness Festival is undoubtedly the fanciest. Wilderness is a four-day boutique festival held in early August each year set in the rolling hills of the Cotswolds in Oxfordshire, England. It also has a reputation for being extremely middle-class. Say goodbye to dodgy food and watered-down beer – at Wilderness, there are lavish Long Table Banquets rustled up by big-name foodies like Yotam Ottolenghi and Deliciously Ella; a champagne garden…

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Truman Capote's Black and White Ball I absolutely adore the photos from Truman Capote's infamous Black and White Ball of 1966. Capote decided to host a party to mark the launch of "In Cold Blood" and the party would be his "great, big, all-time spectacular present" to himself! It was THE party of the century and was held in New York's Plaza Hotel with only 540 elite guests invited. Capote chose only the most powerful Hollywood stars, musicians, artists, politicians and socialites to grace…

I so enjoy food and entertaining articles from the late 1960s and early 1970s because hosts and hostesses were then just starting to forgo elaborate dinner parties and numerous courses in favor of a simple style of entertaining. These bygone articles about one-pot dinners, make-ahead recipes, and stylish, comfortable table settings still inspire today, especially considering that most of us continue to prefer simplicity over fussiness when preparing our meals. The photos featured in this…

“the supremes, 1968”