Claire Gormly arrives at Mischief Cafe looking as if she just stepped off a train that left Paris or New York in the early 1950s.
Glory Days is "the premier vintage lifestyle magazine for ladies and gents who love to make the past, present" and Claire is one of its editors.
She has returned from Wellington this week to seek out more of the vintage Wanganui atmosphere the publication discovered in January.
"It was a whistle-stop tour to cover the Vintage Weekend in January and we felt that we didn't do the place justice."
"I'm revisiting the great Wanganui discoveries we featured in 'This Vintage Town' section and looking for new ones."
"We would love to make Wanganui our home base if we could" says Claire. "The buildings and the artistic community here make it such a good place to be."
The magazine is a quarterly publication and most of the stories don't become dated between issues because of the vintage content.
"One of the things that can change between issues are the places and businesses we feature so we have started a blog to create a living document that can keep our readership up-to-date between issues," says Claire.
The 1960s - the decade that rocked the world - is celebrated in issue six of the magazine.
Until recently, the magazine was only available online and readers were asked to contribute in a "pay-what-you-want" fashion to the cost of printing.
According to the website, the team decided to "thumb our nose at the declining print trend and bring our magazine into the analogue world".
Claire shares the editorship of Glory Days with Rose Jackson and Natasha Francois, who share a background in publishing and a love of things vintage.
All three editors have other jobs - Claire is a psychiatric nurse - and the magazine is run on their shared passion and contributions from advertisers.
"We keep the advertising costs low," says Claire "because we like to support people running vintage-inspired businesses."
Art director Stephen Templer is a Whanganui Design School graduate who now works in Wellington.
Designer Nathalie Gregory is the youngest member of the team who "loves looking back through the 20th century for inspiration" even though she is a child of the 90s.
The editorial team are supported by regular contributors including some Te Papa staff who regularly provide information about interesting things stored in the back rooms with historical anecdotes attached.
"We think our readership are about 75 per cent female and 25 per cent male" says Claire
"It would be good to attract more male readers, although we have a lot of focus on clothes and make-up, we cover a wide range of things vintage."
Visit glorydaysmagazine.com.