150 years of jeans (1873)
Jeans, also known as denim trousers, are trousers usually made of a blue, strong, twill cotton fabric (denim). The trousers feature a type of small rivets that reinforce the pockets, hence the name jeans. Jacob...
Fashion
Looking back
The 1970s was a prominent period of large scale socio-political change and counterculture during which people felt increasingly at-ease to express themselves through music, fashion and leisure pursuits and this was no different in the Channel Island, Jersey. The six-stamp...
Get in Shape!
As a young boy collecting stamps I was often more attracted to those with colour and shape rather than rarity. Diamond-shaped stamps from Hungary, Monaco and the Burundi particularly caught my eye. The stamp on the left is from Hungary...
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion
Oscar de la Renta (seen above), who died in October 2014 aged 82, was one of the world's leading fashion designers for more than 50 years. And his work has been commemorated by the United States Postal Service with a...
