Posh Frocks Part 2

 

So this year has seen a couple of new retro styled dresses added to my wardrobe. I do love these wonderful tea/swing style dresses. And I think I look good in them. The A-line shape of the skirt section creates a flattering profile that doesn't need lots of padding to look feminine. In fact I don't wear any hip or bum padding at all with these dresses as the dress itself does all of that for me. They look good without a petticoat underneath and totally fabulous when worn with a nice frothy petticoat to create that classic A-line profile that was the epitome of 1950s fashion. 

The first of the new dresses is from my favourite retro dressmaker, Lady Vintage London. I love their elegant and classic designs and the fact that they are actually made in London, not just sold there. These are dresses of quality and as such, will last a long time and keep looking good. This dress is a Hepburn style, in a fabric pattern called 'Cobalt From The Blue '. As the name suggests it's cobalt blue in colour with a light floral design, featuring yellow tinged white flowers and seed heads.  It really is a lovely design and the shade of blue is quite unusual. I teamed it some black leather gloves and black patent Mary Jane platform shoes from Koi, along with some cute knee high, white lace socks. And a full volume petticoat to create that classic silhouette. I absolutely adored wearing this dress. 

'Cobalt From The Blue'

By Lady Vintage London 

The second new retro dress was once again my favourite Hepburn by Lady Vintage London. This time it was in a bright pink fabric with Rainbows on it, called 'Rainbow Wishes'. It's a very pink dress. The kind of colour you find in Barbie World. Being queer I love the rainbow design. One thing for sure is, this dress is making a statement and is going to be noticed. Which is good. When I wear a dress like this, I want to be noticed. I teamed the dress with a pair of pink elbow length gloves and a pair of pink and white Koi Mary Jane platform shoes with a 'Love Heart' sweets pattern. I wore white lace below the knee socks. I also wore a pair of pink framed cat's eye sunglasses to complete the retro-chic look. I really did feel like I'd stepped out of the 'Barbie' movie in this wonderful outfit. 

'Rainbow Wishes'

 by Lady Vintage London 

As well as these new retro dresses, I also wore a couple of my older favourites this Autumn,too.

I have a beautiful Hepburn by Lady Vintage London, which is black with a red rose pattern. I don't know the name of the fabric design as it's not written on the label, and I bought the dress second hand. I wore this dress in May 2024, when I visited my friend, Veronica. However, although I took plenty of photos of myself and Veronica together,  I didn't take many of myself on my own, modelling this dress. So I took an opportunity to wear it and take photographs. And most of the full length photos I took got corrupted being transferred to a memory card and as such, were unusable. I got some nice close ups but I lost nearly everything else, except some full length shots of the dress worn without a petticoat, to see this design of dress looks ok when worn like that. I think it looks ok when worn without a petticoat. It's much more subtle without the volume that a petticoat gives, but still has some feminine shape to it. So wearing these dresses like this is an option when I want to wear a pretty floral dress, but not make too much of a fashion statement. 

Of course I wasn't going to be able to wear this dress without going all out, so I slipped on a full volume petticoat. As I mentioned, these photos were lost to a technical issue. However I had plans to take photos in another dress, a couple of days later, so I also made sure that I took some full length shots in this dress.

I teamed it with a red cashmere cardigan from M&S and black diamond opaque hold ups. And also my Koi black patent Mary Janes. 

I really love this dress, so I was pleased to finally get some good photos wearing it.

Red Roses

By Lady Vintage London 

Worn Sans Petticoat 

The last retro dress I wore was yet another Hepburn by Lady Vintage London. This time it was black with small white polka dots.  It's a simple but classy looking design. I bought it second hand. I wore it with accompanying items as the previous dress. It looks great with the red cardigan. When worn with a cardigan, both this and the previous dress are perfect for both Spring and Autumn, although the colours especially suit Autumn. 

Polka Dots

By Lady Vintage London 

I'm currently looking for a nice vintage dress for the Winter. Maybe something in a tartan pattern, so I'm sure there will be another instalment of 'Posh Frocks' at some point in the future. Because I do, so love my retro dressing.

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