GIVEAWAY: Win the Born Bad Betty pair of shoes of your choice

Goodness me, gals, do I have one seriously swell - and very generous - giveaway for all of you here today. As you may recall from this outfit post a couple of weeks ago, I recently had the pleasure of receiving a complimentary pair of fabulously cute strawberry adored heels from UK shoe retailed Born Bad Betty.

In that post I promised to share with you more about this exciting relative newcomer on the vintage inspired/pinup perfect footwear front and today I'm going to do just that. An independent ladies shoes and accessories company with a penchant for marrying feminine touches with sizzling hot panache, the brand currently stocks a range of charming, very wearable heels and flats, as well as a seriously swoon-worthy newly launched line of mid-century perfect handbags.




The brand sprang to life after the founder discovered a massive passion for the curve hugging styles of the 1950s following the birth of her two darling children. While clothing wasn't too hard to come by, she just wasn't hitting on many pairs of well made, attractive, comfortable vintage or vintage style shoes that jazzed with her own aesthetic. And thus after months of experimentation with different styles, fabrics and embellishments, Born Bad Betty shoes came to be, with the website hopping online in the summer of 2013.




In 2014, BBB had the distinction of making it all the way to the finals in the Breakthrough Business category of the National Vintage Awards. Currently you can find Born Bad Betty's offerings in various boutiques throughout the UK and Europe, with worldwide shipping from the site's official shop. The brand’s offerings are in full (no half sizes at present) modern ladies sizes and span a spectrum of different style that are sure to find favour with fans of numerous decades.




Fun, fresh, beautiful and more than a little bit stylish, Born Bad Betty's shoes - which marry sweetness with glamour and plenty of pinup girl-ness allure - are a great way to add pizzazz and a pop of old school style to your wardrobe. I've dotted photos of some of their glamorous and very wearable offerings throughout this post to help give you a sense of what this line carries, but you'll definitely want to click through to BBB's website and checkout the full range for yourself.






Giveaway details:

In order to gain entry in this giveaway, the fine folks at Born Bad Betty have kindly asked that you please signup for their newsletter, the Betty's Bugle, which will keep you in the up-to-the-minute know all the exciting things that this brand has in the works for 2015 and beyond.

If you would like to gain up seven addition entries for this giveaway, please do as many of the following eight things in total as you'd like, making sure to please leave a separate comment on this post letting me know about each one that you completed so as to better increase your odds of winning.


1. Sign up for the Betty's Bugle newsletter on Born Bad Betty's homepage


2. Like Born Bad Betty on Facebook and post (on FB) about the giveaway


3. Follow Born Bad Betty on Twitter and tweet about the giveaway


4. Like Born Bad Betty on Pinterest


5. Pin any of the products from Born Bad Betty's website to any Pinterest board of your choice (limit of one Pinterest entry per person for this giveaway).


6. Follow Born Bad Betty on Instagram


7. Follow Chronically Vintage on Instagram

8. Blog about this giveaway on your own site, including a link back to both this post and Born Bad Betty’s website in your post


The fine print:

This giveaway is open to readers worldwide. The lucky winner will receive one pair of Born Bad Betty Shoes of her choice (you can pick any pair from the brand’s current offerings), including the cost of shipping to your location. Exchanges from the company will only be excepted in the United Kingdom.

The giveaway will run from today's date until Tuesday March 31, 2015, with the winner being drawn using a random number generator and announced on Facebook and/or Twitter, as well as contacted directly via email, if such can be found publicly, shortly thereafter. If you have any questions about this giveaway, please don't hesitate to email me anytime.

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A new pair of shoes and spring go hand in hand like the Easter bunny and carrots in my books. It's time to set your feet free from the doldrums of winter and let them shine once more - sans risk of frostbite - and what more charmingly stylish way to do that than in a pair of Born Bad Betty's awesome vintage inspired offerings?

I know that I'll definitely be putting a lot of miles on my strawberry stunners this spring and summer, and would be willing to wager that the winner of today's Born Bad Betty giveaway will be enjoying their new pair of heels or flats a great deal, too, in the coming sun-kissed months.




Thank you very much to Born Bad Betty for so kindly offering one of my awesome Chronically Vintage readers the chance to win any pair of your gorgeous vintage inspired shoes of their choice, and to all those who take part in this fun giveaway.

Fingers and - rather fittingly in this case :) - toes crossed that you win!

Enter to win a $40 gift certificate from Fairyfiligree

As I sit here in the wee morning hours of the last Sunday in July, it strikes me that it's been a good long while since Chronically Vintage last hosted a giveaway. There's no particular reason for that, though no doubt last year's Vintage 365 project and the whirlwind of activity surrounding our move earlier this year certainly factored in.

As there is no time like the present though - or for a present, come to think of it! – today I'm thrilled to be able to offer all of you the chance to win a $40.00 gift certificate to a wonderful etsy shop called Fairyfilgree that's based out of the beautiful country of Malta. 

Featuring a handpicked selection of mid-century clothing, accessories, and jewelry, Fairyfiligree was founded in 2009 a lovely lady named Marika who has a lifelong passion for vintage clothing and jewelry (as evident by her eponymously named blog, Fairyfigree).

Culling items from the sunny, gorgeous island of Malta, as well as her travels to Italy and elsewhere throughout Europe, Marika presents shoppers with a fun, fashionable mix of reasonably priced pieces that primarily hail from the 1950s through to the 80s. Many of her pieces radiate an chic, appealing Mediterranean vibe that help them standout from the etsy crowd, such as the terrific items pictured below.



{From top left to bottom right: 1960s Polaroid sunglasses, 1970s Italian holiday souvenir scarf, vintage glass bead triple strand necklace, 1980s embroidered cotton detachable collar.}

Giveaway details

This giveaway will run between today (August 29th) and Sunday August 5, 2012. It is open to all Chronically Vintage readers from around the world.

One lucky winner will be drawn at random on August 5th, and announced here in a blog post soon after (I will also contact the winner directly to let them know that they’ve won).

The winner can put the $40.00 gift certificate, which will be provide to them by Fairyfiligree, toward the cost of whatever item(s) they would like  from Fairyfiligree’s shop.

I want my readers to have as many chances as possible to win this terrific gift certificate from Fairyfiligree , so there are five ways for you to earn as many as five separate entries in this giveaway.

1.) Post a comment below letting me know what your favourite item is that Fairyfiligree currently has in stock in this etsy shop.

2.) Add Fairyfiligree to your list of etsy favourites.

3.) Post about this giveaway, including a link back to this announcement post on Chronically Vintage, on your own blog, telling your readers about this contest (if you'd like to use the photo collage I created above, just right click on it to save it to your desktop). Once you’ve written about the giveaway, come back here and let me know you’ve done so by leaving a comment with a link back to your post.

4.) Follow Chronically Vintage with Google Friend Connect (or let me know if you're already a GFC follower).

5.) Copy and tweet the following line on Twitter: Chronically Vintage is giving away a $40 gift certificate from etsy vintage seller @Fairyfiligree.


Everybody is welcome to enter in however many of the five ways they wish, just be sure that you let me know about each entry in a separate comment, to better enhance your chances of winning (four comments for example, would give you four entries into the contest, thus four potential chances to win!). Please remember to post a separate comment for each entry.

I wish everyone who participates the absolute best of luck and thank you all in advance for taking part in this exciting etsy gift certificate giveaway!