Vintage Dresses, Vintage Style Clothing, Retro Dress, Pin up Dresses
Vintage dresses are the only dresses I will wear. I can say that now but, gee whizz (to use a nerdy 50s term) it’s only taken me most of my adult life to finally work that out! As a girl growing up I hated wearing dresses, full stop, and was happy to just hang out in shorts or jeans… a real tomboy I guess. But then later on at high school came the school formals… to my horror, I found I suddenly had to ‘frock up’. I detested the tight mini dresses the other girls wore. God, couldn’t they leave anything to the imagination?
Vintage dresses, or Vintage-style dresses were mentioned by somebody at the time, but Id never heard of them. Such a traditional, old-fashioned style of dress - why would anyone ever want to look such a square? Ha ha I even use the dorky Vintage slang to match my Vintage-style clothes! Anyway, my friend and I found a shop… a fantastic Vintage boutique shop filled with everything you could ever want from a bygone era. And yes, you guessed it, that’s where I found that very first outfit my school formal – an exquisite Vintage Dress.
Yes, I look different in my Vintage Dresses but isn’t that a good thing? They are all I wear now. I fashion my hair, my makeup and my shoes to coordinate to whatever year, nay Vintage, I am wearing – may as well do it right! And, just quietly, after a while… you start to enjoy the attention. I hardly ever wear jeans now, I like to show off my classy chassis, Daddy-o… sometimes it’s interesting to see people faces when I walk in a room and they aren’t ready for it. I just say to them ‘go with the flow Joe’ and to ‘cool it Pops!’ Ha ha… it cracks me up how such nerdy phrases can come from someone who wears such original, yet fashionable, Vintage Dresses!
Vintage Dresses don’t get any more ultimate than when they are worn on the day you get married. Yes, I intend to wear a beautiful vintage-style dress as my wedding dress next year! I’ve already picked the fabric... and the lace and the accessories. So simple, yet simply beautiful, you know? It’s copied from a picture of an early 1900s wedding dress I found. My dressmaker is an amazing woman and has handcrafted my vintage dress to look like an original Edwardian lace wedding dress… champagne coloured with delicate cream lace overlay and gorgeous mother-of-pearl buttons…and oh the lace, did I mention the lace?