WHEN YOU’RE NUMBER FIVE IN A FAMILY of six girls, secondhand is part of life. “I grew up in Vinnies,” says Sarah Doyle. With a childhood like that, you might think she’d want to be surrounded by new things. Instead, Sarah wears vintage (altered to fit perfectly) or vintage-inspired pieces, and looks as if she’s stepped out of the ’50s; and she and husband Elvis Abrahanowicz’s terrace, in Sydney’s Newtown, is crammed with retro belongings.
Sarah and Elvis, who run two Argentinian restaurants, Bodega and Porteño, with their mate Ben Milgate, are crazy about rockabilly. They love the music. They love the style. “Once we found our rockabilly community,