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The 2013 London Tweed Run

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Photo by Yu Fujiwara of Tokyobike

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Time for tea!

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Tweed blazer – Vintage Gerry Weber, Skirt – ASOS. Floral shirt – Zara. Shoes – Topshop. Bag – Warehouse. Bike – Tokyobike. Thank you Kit for the shots of moi!

One does not simply partake in the Tweed Run among 499 others and not come home with 49,999 photos of tweeded butts, as Boromir might say.

We spilled out into the streets, ushered by the marshals – in no particular order but close enough to each other to hold hands. Mobile boomboxes in bike baskets sang the 50’s, conversations budded up here and there while turning corners. Girls rode in heels, hands-free for some boys, and we bloggers cycled with our elbows while trying to capture every moment… At times it felt like learning to cycle all over again – half scooting, half balancing with momentum – except here when you topple over sideways you take about twenty people down with you. Every single head turned on the streets, traffic stopped, and windows opened in cheer – how exhilarating! So this is what it feels like to be a politician, or blonde. We rode through Marylebone, Oxford Circus, Saville Row, Piccadilly, Whitehall, Westminster… all the postcards of London, then ended up in Lincoln’s Inn Fields just behind Holborn for afternoon tea; then up to King’s Cross to finish the day at a pub, at which point England did what England does best and rained on a parade. Only literally, though.

Many thanks to Tokyobike once again for this wonderful experience! Check out part 1 for more tweed, less buttz.

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  1. beautiful!

    monkeyshines
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  2. your outfit is so perfect for the occasion! and love the detail shots

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  3. Love the photos! These are incredible. The tweed run looks awesome this year.

  4. Danielle

    Great shots Shini! Looks so enjoyable!

  5. You’re so funny! This looks like such a cool event. I particularly like what you wore x

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  6. Oh your so great in that outfit madame! :)
    Is it annual event or what?

  7. Great pictures!

    xx.

  8. Irene

    That’s simply amazing! I really wish I was there, riding and wearing elegant ( and a little hipster) dresses!

  9. It must have been so great, I would have loved to take pictures! All yours are so good, and the outfit you chose for the occasion is so pretty!

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  10. This just looks like something out of my sunday fantasies :)

  11. really wonderful images and such a classy and wonderful style of them all!
    it must have been a great event!
    Yuna

  12. amazing

    xoxo from rome
    K.
    kcomekarolina.com

  13. Lovely and funny pics!! xx

  14. This is so cool! Love it!

  15. I can’t believe you cycled so central! They shut the roads off right!? Also, were you snapping away whilst actually riding? The whole experience looked mucho fun!

  16. I love these photos!

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  17. You look great!!! Cool outfit! The pictures are fantastic!!!

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  18. great! wish i could see it and be there myself though.

  19. This looks like so much fun. I love your little tweet outfit too!

    Lauren
    livinginaboxx
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  20. Omg that’s so cool!!! Everyone looks so nice! And I love your outfit, and the bike! I can’t get over this.

  21. This looks fantastic, wish I could have been there! Everyone looks so dapper and if you managed to take all of these fantastic photographs whilst riding a bike, I am seriuously impressed!

  22. Can’t get over how much fun this looks! It sounds intense but wonderful. Love your tweedy outfit and your bicycle. xx

  23. This is so cool! If I was there, I’d be taking so many pictures, too!

    M.

  24. that red bike is beautiful!
    such nice images :-)

    – Janine
    http://theeoptimist.blogspot.com

  25. I’m like cursed to be nearly rolled over by every bicycle but I would have loved to see this display: so british, I would gladly taken the risk.
    Your photos are a masterpiece really, I think I’ve fallen in love with not few people you spotted.
    Such a great job, great atmosphere that I’ll just shut up and stare at the pics for a few hours more.

  26. Cor blimey! I’ve never seen so much tweed! This has given me inspiration to go looking for a vintage style bicycle now, that green one is gorge x

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  27. Holy crap this is the most brilliant thing i have ever seen

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    xx

  28. great pictures!!! Ive always love the way you see this world, so detailed and happy. The colors always really crisp and clear, how much I want to learn to be like you, use photos to tell a story!:)

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  29. I love the bikes!!!!

    S&R
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  30. Oh my god that’s awesome!! really fabulous! and again, I loved your pictures!

    xx
    Meelena

  31. Shini your photos are amazing and you look INCREDIBLE!

    Can I just say that I am obsessed with how the text appears on that first photo? Amazing touch!!! I did find myself hovering over each of the following images in case there were some hidden messages haha.

  32. Cutest post ever! As brit as it gets!

  33. Such beautiful pictures!
    Very tempted to join you next year ;)

    Maddy.xx

    http://theeternalnewbie.blogspot.co.uk/

  34. Samantha

    Wow, your photos are absolutely divine!

  35. Seraphina

    So many good looking people in one place…

  36. Your outfit is lovely!
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  37. enjoying those photos! thanks
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