Sexy Sunday: Vintage

It was a vintage day. 1960s to be precise, but a more accurate year I cannot say. The dress is early 60's, the coat is later, if I had to guess. I took my orange winter coat to the dry cleaners but then it got all wintery again...luckily I had ANOTHER orange coat. Aren't I a lucky girl?

From my friend Erin.
Thank you thank you!

Dress: gift from costume friends
Pin: Welsh dragon
Plaid tights
Nine West shoes (current favorites)

waxing bridal for a moment: Maria's wedding dress

 Forgive me while I wax bridal for a moment. As mentioned before I watched The Sound of Music yesterday which of course has my favorite all time wedding dress. I can't get over Maria's dress and I never will. It's in nowise historically accurate for approximately 1938, but I love it anyway. I love late 1950s, early 1960s wedding gowns with fitted bodices and A-line skirts with so much fullness in the back.

so much skirt!

love love love

I will hire a nun to get a shot like this at my wedding

buttons down the back, gathered lower back

such a good sized train

adjusted the color so you can see the buttons and gathered back

While Googling said dress I found Colette Komm's blog. This woman is everything I want to be! She got her fashion degree from Parsons and now designs and makes couture wedding gowns out of NYC. From her sister's wedding I'm assuming she's LDS as it sure looks like a temple wedding. LDS or not this woman creates amazingly special but modest wedding gowns. I have half a mind to save all my pennies to collaborate on my future dress with her. Browsing her site we seem to have a lot in common with our wedding dress goals and ideals and we both had mad crushes on Georg von Trapp. Look at her blog and website, she's an inspiration to anyone that wants a unique and modest gown. I have half a mind to see if I can apprentice with her for a summer. She's also a great renderer and she rightly caught that Kate's wedding dress is more Maria than Princess Grace.

1959

1950s

1963

Wedding dress horseshoes

While doing my recent collection search entry I happened upon this wedding dress which has a horseshoe sewn into the hem. I thought that was kind of odd bc it didn't register as a horseshoe in my mind, but put two and two together when I found this dress, which also had a horseshoe. Of course I looked this up and it's a bridal tradition to sew a horseshoe into the hem of your wedding dress for good luck. Isn't that a nice little tradition? I read something that a whole horseshoe used to be used, but it has since been reduced to a manageable size. I searched the other dresses for horseshoes, but to no avail, which doesn't necessarily mean they don't have them.

1941, made from curtains bc of fabric rationing!

1969 worsted wool, mildly in love

horseshoe w/ something blue