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Some of my favourites

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Here are just a few examples of my favourite vintage garment that i own, i have tried to give a rough description of each too. Enjoy 🙂
Truly amaze dress from Story of O leeds, a nightmare to get into with its 32 buttons but totally worth it!!! As a fashion student the detailing on this simply amazed me it has tiny waist darts, a peplum, dolman sleeves and zipped cuffs. I am told it is a 1960’s dress and it is in absolutely immaculate condition considering its age. When i saw it i knew i had to have it! It has a 22in waist and i was madly determined that i WOULD fit into it. Well worth it though 🙂

CC41 platforms from ebay, which i can just about squish my feet into! They are in actual unworn condition as they were bought as deadstock, i love the platform on them and the chunky stacked heel. Why can’t anyone make shoes this beautiful anymore???

Black lace dress Hope and Harlequin- Brighton. This was one of my first “proper” pieces of vintage and i looooove it to absolute pieces I bought it before the trend for lace really came in a few seasons ago and it is one of those pieces that i know will stay with me until it perishes probably. It is actually one of the few pieces of vintage i own that i didn’t need altered at all (apart from my Horrockses dress and the obsession with this is well known!), i always have the feeling that it was meant for me. b-e-a-utiful

I so desperately want to make this…

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http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1486_couture/createAbout.php
I was just on the Victoria and Albert museum website ( i think i have a problem i seem to go on the website at east once a day for “research” purposes) and found this!!!
It is a pattern to create a Horrockses dress, definite excitement! As mentioned previously i absolutely adore horrockses, and whilst i am still on the hunt to buy another original dress i may have to satisfy myself by making one for now…this could just be my personal christmas project!
…Also if on the internet etc. anyone stumbles across an origninal 40’s/50’s horrockses dress in an original size 10 (some sellers will list it as a 6..thats basically what the size equates to today) let me know!

Acrobats and poodles

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Oh Schiaparelli, the legend that was. If there is one garment i wish i could own it is this amazing pin jacket with horse print and acrobat buttons from the 1938 circus collection it is just so beautiful and so incredibly fun. I even have the outfit in mind with which to ear it, huge diamante clip on earrings, Ray-ban wayfarers, high waisted capris a black vest and 40’s platform suede peeptoes, perfection.
I can still remember when i first saw it at the V & A exhibition in (i think) 2001. Schiaparelli did something amazing for the design world she injected fun and life in a carefree way like no other since and had an incredible ability of combining art with fashion. Many people consider the 30’s to be a period which was divided by the two gigantic female figures of Schiap and Chanel. Chanel the incredibly powerful determined and beautiful business woman, had it all but her designs simply don’t have the same degree of excitement as Schiap’s. She was far from beautiful (you may even say ugly) and saw fashion more as another form of art. But essentially she has remained important because of the influences she bought to fashion which have stayed, the shoulder pad, the zip, “shocking pink”.
Schiap, Schiap, horray 🙂