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I should definitively hang out with these ladies !!!

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Debra

Tziporah

1. "You have to get dressed every day so you may as well get dress Well. It's like eating."


3. Pay attention to details: earrings + hat + shoes
I'm not really into jewellery but I feel stronger and stronger temptation towards large vintage brooches...and of course I love my pearls and swarovski.


4. It is true! You'll get a lot of fans. People come to me as well, they have a need to tell me how much they like the way I look and they smile. It is a "loop of love".


5. Collect, be patient and have a vision. "7 years my outfit took." There are things I don't know yet how to put together or seem to be incomplete but eventually it will happen.
"I have things in my closet, that even I wouldn't wear!" Beth Rudin DeWoody.


6. Show off the outfit !!! Biking is a great deal. I used to have vintage inspired red large bike with wattle basket but since in UK bike roads simply don't exist I had to sell it.
I am considering fold-up bike but I can't stand the idea of small wheels.
It is surprising how many people will show you their interest.


And a helmet... I don't even have one neither. It would totally destroy my hairstyle.

7. It is like a painting. I can't think about different approach. 


8. Never fallow fashion rules. How is it that a bunch of people says they know better what and how you should dress and possibly forbid you things you love or look good in?


9. "They think it's crazy." They will really do think you're a complete nut or even feel offended even though there'll be no nudity. "Do we care?" Who cares? "Harmony" is the state you gain when you're simply yourself and being by yourself in your own company is never waisted time.

10. "You're never over the top." "More is not enough." 
Yes. Why do we need minimalism if surfeit is enough ?


11. "...for hanging around at home? What the heck! I have a good time."
and here I started to think about my unhealthy addiction: house gowns, peignoirs and housecoats that took over my whole wardrobe.
Look good at home with yourself. 

12. "No one tells us what to do any more." Well my aunt recently informed me: "I'm not sure I like your style..." sounds dangerous.
"Who's going to tell me I look inappropriate? 
I don't care.
I can do whatever I want.
I'm not inappropriate.
I'm not stripping.
I'm not embarrassing anyone.
I'm just being myself."
Don't pay attention to what others say or think. Who said they have monopoly for what's right, what's wrong?


13. Experiment. I'm using one buttoned dress as a summer coat, three dresses with removed lining as nightgowns and black leather wedge shoes with oversized ribbon as slippers.

14. Buy and wear hats !!! "The only romantic thing left in life is a Hat."

Mimi Weddell

Ulyana Sergeenko Russian Inspiration

Everyone needs a change from time to time.

So I took out all my long long skirts and 30s dresses. Just to take a break from myself. 

Which probably means I am a heavy person since even I can be tired of my person. 

Ulyana Sergeenko inspired me. She is whatever anyone in fashion in Russia can possibly be: photographer, editor, designer, probably a model? fashionista? and so on and so on ...

Whatever her true career is, the look she creates is the key.

Ingredients: 

1920s 10%

1930s 20%

1940s 20%

1950s 15%

folk     35%

Her collection is nothing more or less but her own clothes and sets. Glittering in the world of no middle class, only poverty or riches.

I have to seriously consider buying red shoes! And what I really love is a scarf on the head, which I always hear that looks terrible.

I already had an idea to collect some 30s dresses just to wander around my home in it and receive guests. 

Which reminds me painful loss of this eBay auction:

It always seemed to me very brave to show up on the street in it, long and long, but as I checked it in real life, people simply don't care. I look slimmer and taller and there's no barrier between me and people. No physical barrier. From time to time someone's bumping against me...

It's definitively safer to stick to long silky 30s dresses at home and outside to large and fluffy petticoats. So you can be like a tank fighting your way.

About Ulyana Sergeenko... I've never heard about her before but I could swear I've seen her!

After a while I got to the conclusion....

T a d a m !!!!

and Ulyana:

Looks like botox overdose comes only in one pattern and is not only injected but also drunk for breakfast. 

So I checked it and looks like her face expression died. Can she smile, laugh or be surprised? 

Is botox overdose just a symbol of wealthiness ???

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0:24 - 0:28

The 1950s look - Recreating the Fashions of the fifties. Mike Brown.

I like both periods, 1940s and 1950s but if it's about this book definitively I'd buy "the 1950s look" only. 
The 1940s part I already described HERE.


There's so many chapters and details. Men, gloves, belts, cases, children, teenagers... too many to show in one post. That's why I recommend to buy this book!
...and skip 1940s.

The book starts with so famous 'New Look' by Dior from 1947.

Of course everyone knows two main directions: pencil and wide skirts.

In the book you can find description how to make your own swing skirt.

There are two kinds of coat which I really like with pencil skirts.

This 'bum - freezer' jacket looks like the one worn by Elisabeth Taylor in 'What's my line' show. And she looked fabulous !

The main point of this figure look was underwear. Specially designed undergarments gave you what's the most important. Tiny waist and perfect uplifted breasts closed in bullet bras. Without the whole engineering it wouldn't be possible.

'Remember the fashion is under the fashion'

The ultimate solution is obviously a corset. And it always works.

However shaping underwear is really hard to find. Charnos looks good and bras fit perfectly but there's not much of shaping. What Katie Did has great bullet bras! stockings! and some corsets! but shapewear... Charnos doesn't even pretend it's shaping but What Katie Did is trying without any significant effect. 6 straps belts are really good but waspies press you everywhere but not in the waist. 
I'll never shop there for shapewear any more.


Accidentally I've found Valisere and their, already sold out, Body Perfection:
- shorts with adjustable, elasticated waist

- and suspender/waspie which is constructed in such an amazing way! 
It presses only where it should so you will never look like a sausage with your clothes on which is quite possible in What Katie Did.

When you put two together... it's like a gentle corset in your waist.
...and about going to the toilette then...well, I admit it's not so easy but still possible. 
Now when I think about it... it's like a totally different skill which you need to eventually improve.
Perhaps somewhere it's possible to find it. If you know where!! Let me know!!
I have few belts and shorts in beige and black but I would get more.
I've never tried but the belt has detachable straps so I assume it's possible to work on your waist without stockings. But who would like to do that?


I have no idea how  was it possible that Marilyn Monroe looked like this!

 You can't see any corset marks. Nothing.

Knit wear created The Sweater Girl look achieved by using special bra - kind of bullet bra.

There's plenty of cardigans on ebay or etsy. Very good is vintage Laura Ashley.

I got mine from eBay or second hand shops. This cashmere one was really cheap. Maybe because using these crazy buttons is really annoying. And because it's yellow...colour of sickness.

Another one I found in Reykjavik. It's made from angora and wool and should be dry cleaned. So seems to be a trouble unless you find out how to clean it by yourself.

Nightdresses. Very fashionable Shortie Pyjamas.

I love long nightgowns and babydolls.

These few I have from Agent Provocateur I like a lot but my Love says:

...that I look like a curtain in this one.

...I'm like disabled because I can not really quickly tie this one up on the back.

...I look like I dressed up as a little girl.

However the photo doesn't make you think of this comparison.

Well...I don't like few of his clothes and although I never say it loud I think we're even.

About furs...

I know furs look so glamorous! But nowadays, when there are so many artificial fabrics imitating real fur why not to use them? Why is it good to still support animals killing? And why stinky smell together with saprophytes is considered elegant? My friend will finally receive this nice photo on her facebook wall...

when I'll be in my mood.

Anyway... there is a lot of advices!

Hats.

Stockings.

Fortunately we have stay ups.

Never wear ANY nylons for more than one day without washing them !!!

...this Vintage hygiene problem...

Bags.

Gloves.

Shoes.

Glasses.

Jewellery.

It's very easy to find brooch like this on eBay for few GBP only.

Sometimes with an imperfect hair-do, rather than starting over, I cover the flaw up with a vintage brooch. - Dita von Teese

Plastic surgery started to advertise.

And the strangest 1950s thing I could imagine.