Happy Spring to all our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars out there! Hope everyone had a great Valentines and St. Patrick’s Day! Let us know on Instagram, how you celebrated this year wearing your favourite Denim Star, Sock Star looks. For February and Valentine’s you’ll find out from yours truly, Ms. Emma Lucy Brown, how everything went at the Pure London fashion show and all the exciting news with Denim Star® that’s going on. We had lot’s of great feedback regarding our new “sockette” format that we’re giving a go this year just to switch things up and see how she goes. Keeping it short with the “sockettes” seems to be the lay of the land for most folks these days when we’re all tapped for time. So let us know what you think we’d love to hear from you for sure!! Otherwise, let’s jump right in and Spring into Spring with your hosts Emma & Billie.

Happy 2023 to all our beautiful Denim Star®, Sock Stars out there! Hope everyone had a great Christmas holiday. Let us know on Instagram, how the “F-word” (fine) Walkers’ experiment went, over the holiday season, when folks asked how you were doing, leading into the celebrations. Fab, if it was really relaxing & recharging, and also fab, if you authentically, called it for whatever it was at that moment too. So let’s keep it real out there folks! And so then, for this new year at Denim Star’s Socks and Sandals and Other Scandals, Morning Cuppa with Emma + Billie, we thought that we would try out a new format, while still presenting, lots of cool content, but with shorter snippets or “sockettes” if you will. Kinduv like switching it up from Denim Star’s thigh high socks to the ankle sock itself if you will lol. Keeping it short. But with the same great product, just a different style, to mix things up a bit, and to keep it fresh and mesmerizing for the New Year and all our beautiful sock stars out there!

Morning all you lovely lot out there! Happy December, Happy Christmas! Which is literally sneaking up on us as we speak, isn’t it folks? As this year just seemed to flash by didn’t it? Billie and I, try hard as we might, to wrap up our deep dive discussion on sustainability and thrifting, have, yet, again, discovered that it just seems to take on a life of its own and morph into yet another episode! It’s kinduv like those beautiful Ukrainian “matryoshka” dolls. Also known as stacking dolls, nesting dolls, babushka dolls. You know the ones. You lift one up, only to find another one there, underneath. And so on, and so forth. They are just waiting patiently to emerge, for the whole world to see them in all their majesty. We appreciate these beautiful dolls, even more than ever, now, as we stand in solidarity with our brave Ukrainian brothers and sisters. So Billie, let’s, un-stack, yet another Matryoshka doll here, in the form of yet another sustainability and thrifting episode. Let’s see it for what it is, and whether or not this, thrifting Golden Age has truly ceased to exist in the world of thrift. And where we had left off in our last episode. But more importantly, let’s see what we can try to do in the world of thrift, in the name of sustainability, throughout the Christmas season, and where that might lead us in our journey shall we? Enjoy listening.

Morning all you lovely lot out there! Welcome one and all, to our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars, to Season 2, Episode 6: Thrift Store Shopping and taking a deep dive, further, into, what is really going on in the Thrift Store world at the moment. Where we have come from, and where we might be going on our thrift store journey ahead! Especially so, as, after having the amazing, Australian TV Presenter Faye De Lanty, on the show, she really helped us, open up the dynamic world and discussion, on how ‘Thrift Shopping” has found itself at a crossroads, as there are just so many variables to consider, now, that have made our Thrift Store shopping, ever more changing, as we consider our part that we can play, in not only discovering sartorial treasures, but, also helping to make the planet a better place to live!

Morning all you lovely lot out there! Welcome all, our beautiful Denim Star, Sock Stars, to Fashion Revolution Week and Earth Day! April proved to be an amazing month, with not only Earth Day on April 22, but also the entire week, from the 18th to the 24th with none other than, Fashion Revolution Week! As you may or may not know, Fashion Revolution Week happens every year, and marks the date of, April 24th which is the anniversary of, the Rana Plaza collapse disaster in Bangladesh, back in 2013. We talked about this last year when we mentioned the Garment Worker Diaries, while remembering Rana Plaza - a building in Bangladesh, which housed a number of garment factories, employing around 5,000 people. The people in this building were manufacturing clothing for many of the biggest global fashion brands. More than 1,100 people – mostly young women – died in the collapse and another 2,500 were injured. Making it the fourth largest industrial disaster in history. Every year during Fashion Revolution Week we are reminded that no one should have to die for fashion! Listen in with Billie & Emma on this hot topic.

It’s Emma Lucy Brown, your Hosiery High Priestess here at Denim Star’s Podcast, “Socks and Sandals and Other Scandals: Morning Cuppa with Emma + Billie”. We want to celebrate International Women’s Day some more! We’ve come a long way baby since the feminist movement was gaining ground in strength and popularity back in the 1960s when the Phillip Morris Company capitalized on shifting attitudes. The ad campaign was for their new brand of ultra-smooth, Virginia Slims cigarettes, where they specifically targeted women, which was itself, said to be a new phenomenon at the time. Every ad put a woman front and centre, equating smoking Virginia Slims with being independent, stylish, confident and liberated: with the slogan “You’ve come a long way baby” speaking directly about the progress women all over, were fighting for at that time. Women indeed have come a long way since the ad first appeared in the 1960s. To this day “you’ve come a long way baby” remains one of the most famous advertising campaign lines in the United States. Now some 50+ odd years later, since the campaign took off, we still celebrate our progress with International Women’s Day every year as well as Women’s History Month every March in the US. We may not be lighting up as much now, thankfully, with our Virginia Slims in a phenomenal way, but, nevertheless, we’re still phenomenal in how far we’ve come, and who we are as women, nowadays, with no-one giving more credence to that motto, than African-American poet, educator, memoirist and civil rights activist, Maya Angelou, in her aptly named poem “Phenomenal Woman.” Here’s to us on this year’s, International Women’s Day, while we celebrate all our achievements, as we remember just how far we’ve come, and how much farther we have to go, on our progressive journey as women: Phenomenal Women! Come and listen in to Billie & I discuss March's hot topic.

So come on people. Share the love it’s not too late! We want to be inspired by all our most Va Va Va Voooomish moments that happened this February and onward, all in the name of love and for the cause of celebrating our love for denim and our romance with it throughout the world! Come and listen in with Emma & Billie!

As a side note, I had mentioned to Billie that one of the themes I noticed over the holidays in London, was that we are seeing a little more “inclusivity”, if that’s the right word for it, in our fashion models, as they appear a whole lot more, like what is mirroring back to the fashion world, as far as seeing all shapes and sizes, heights and colours, in both fashion campaigns and ads. Rather than, this unrealistic expectation of “perfection” that the adverting agencies and industry has held us to, as far as us all trying to meet those standards and goals, in order to come across as the most exquisite, specimen on the planet hahaha, when it comes to what gets sold to us, within the realm of striving for perfectionism vs the essence of our authentic selves. Inclusivity is on the menu folks! Join Billie & Emma discussing this hot topic!

We stand together, for causes, or no causes! And we literally have the heart and “soles” to take on this mission to rock out our socks and be the stars we know we are. Especially now as we head into the Christmas season this year, where we will venture together, while it’s trending, into DIY fashion. DIY as it has popped and dropped, big time during our Covid journeys and beyond. And for all those crafters out there, as well as those, crafter-curious folks weighing up your options, for finding new hobbies during the winter months, depending on where you are this time of year of course! So listen in on Emma & Billie discussing this hot new topic of DIY Fashion. Welcome!