Old Photo Pick -2

This week I picked several photos for you.
I like these two old photos. They both represent outfits for going out, for going for a walk. And there are 70 years in between them.

Old Photo Pick - 1

One dress a month... One ritual a lifetime. Some people just don't like custom sewing. No, they wouldn't mind a new dress, but the process is killing them as they say. It is soooo much time!.. Fittings! To tell you the truth, average fitting session takes about 15 minutes. Well, there is measuring one, one fitting session, and voila! - on the third time you get your dress. Or trousers, or jacket. Sometimes there is the second fitting session required, but trust me - in this case you'll spend years more to find dress for you in-store. 

Burda Magazine Facing Fashion of the 1960th... How did it look like?

Burda Moden 02' 1969

Burda Moden 02' 1969

This is my new source of constant joy. What do you feel looking at these fashion models, especially on the faces?  I am overjoyed. Burda magazines for me mean not only patterns - as patterns I can do myself. It is life mode, mood, world view, philosophy, - all about how ladies of the time saw their ideals and expressed themselves. 

Burda Moden 02' 1969

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I love these happy faces of excited schoolgirls! Fashion of the late 1960th is wonderful - hilariously bright, everything is short and cute. 

Looking at these faces… I bet they really had a youthquake happened to them.

The more I look the more I fall in love

The details are not the details. They make the design.

                                               Charles James

Charles James is one of the brilliant world-known fashion designer of the previous century. British born, he is known as "America's First Couturier".

He is a true master of cutting and making the details really important. 

  

This photo was published in WMagazine in 2011. 

Retro - mood... and thoughts

 One can say that retro and vintage are always in trend. What is the difference between them, after all?
There's one rule: vintage is 50 and more years old, so it covers 50th and 60th of the previous century. Then retro comes onstge.
Stylists advice: if you desire to look retro, its better to quote not your personal youth decade, but take one decade earlier. You won't look old-fashioned in that case.
On the left photo - Julia demonstrates my dress and small jacket with retro features -  it is double-breasted, with round buttoned lapels and puffy short sleeves.

Photo by Kseniya Sytina.

And two photos of my red satin dress for beautiful Tatiana on her Vintage party - reasonably bouffant skirt (just a couple of petticoats of soft tulle), white bow on the back, small button on the neck.
I think that the main facet of any Vintage look - is personal fitting of the dress, especially top. It covers the forms of your and only your figure, and it matches your individuality. A sign of custom-sewing.