Vintage clothes...

[annwfyn]

In the recent past I've developed a strange fixation on vintage clothes.

Add to that my recent need to try and find more smart clothes for work, and suddenly I feel the need to have this in my life.

The waist is a little* large, but the jacket is actually perfect for my bust, and nice fitted jackets that fit are rare in Sally world.

Am I the only person who thinks this is strange cute? In a rather weird retro way, I think, but still cute.

This is even cuter, but I think the waist is that bit too big and would just look awkward and tent-like on me.

There are some lovely clothes elsewhere on this site too. Very very few seem to have bust measurements that would fit. Marilyn Monroe aside, I don't think women has bosoms before 1986 based on this website!


* 2"-3" too big

Comments

[suave-steve.livejournal.com]

The first one is quite cute yes.

[akonken.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I think they're both pretty cute. And the first one would totally suit you (if you'll pardon the pun).

[kissmedeadly.livejournal.com]

I like the pink one :)

People have changed size and shape ALOT since the 50's, and yeah, bigger bosoms are a key feature.

[taimatsu]

I think the second one looks terribly military; the first is quite nice :) Hurray for nice clothes!

[melsner.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time picturing you in all pink... Pink as an accent colour, yes. All pink is hard to imagine.

[oddnumbereven.livejournal.com]

I love them both, how adorable, in a grown-up way. You could swan about, pretending to be a 60s spy. Gorge, cute site, too.

[unifex.livejournal.com]

Afraid I'm going to go against the majority here, and say I prefer the look of the second...

Both are nice - I accept colour recognition skills migh desert me on the first, but hte second I like the cut of more.

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

I think they are both cute, and if well made they are a good investment buy. A decent alteration service would be able to nip the waists in a little if you want.

[adze.livejournal.com]

I have to say I agree with James in that I prefer the second one.

Also, the first one isn't exactly something I'd think of as appropriate work clothes, just for the colour.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Why not? What's wrong with colour in the workplace?

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

It's something I'm realized. I love vintage clothes, but it's really really hard to find anything that actually replicates my shape - most vintage dresses which fit my bust (and they are relatively rare) normally do need taking in at the waist.

I wish I was my sister. She's 5'1" tall and a size 8. Vintage works on her really easily, just because 'small and dainty' seems very much to have been the norm back then.

[adze.livejournal.com]

Nothing. But to my mind, that one looks very unprofessional, and not like "Smart Work Clothes".

[ulaidhan.livejournal.com]

Gyah.

The first one's nearly luminous enough to be Corsie-pink.

I'd definitely vote for the second, if you're thinking of smart work clothes. The first outfit doesn't just request attention or consideration, it shouts about demanding it.

Quite possibly I'm just a colour-repressed Ulsterman, but the pink outfit to me looks like a blatant attempt to gain attention - and that overt demand upon the eye is quite different to looking smart, or feeling good about how you're turned out....

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

*ponders*

So far you and Neill have both said you don't like the first one and have issues. I wonder if it's a cultural thing - you're a bit of an Ulsterman on the quiet, and Neill is rather northern.

Personally, I quite like colour. I think of it as cheerful, and it does make me feel good about myself, just by looking in a mirror. I just like seeing something bright and light and happy.

I think that might be a girl thing - I generally seem to get a much better response to bright colour from other girls than guys.

[adze.livejournal.com]

I haven't said that I don't like the first one(*), just that I don't think that it's appropriate work wear, if you're looking for smart things.

For me, the definition of "smart work clothes" are things that are suitable for going to meetings in, and given that you've mentioned various expansions to your roles, I've assumed that's what you meant as well.

Basically, if you were to wear that around many of the offices I've worked in, no-one would really care. If you turn up to an important meeting in it, then I'm going to make an immediate judgement based on what I've just seen - mainly that you aren't taking the meeting seriously. I'm sure I wouldn't be alone in that, and it immediately jeapordises anything you're trying to achieve in said meeting.

If my assumption is incorrect, then my objection largely goes away - I don't think that it is suitable for a great many places, but I don't think it'll go too badly where you work. But I really don't think it's appropriate for anything bigger than that.

As for the 'girl thing', consider (again if this is for meetings, functions & similar) who is going to see you wearing it. While I don't know too much about the museum industry, most fields of work are male dominated, and you need to consider the impact that will have.

* - Without meaning to penalise my argument, from the pictures, I don't like it. I think the style, whatever the colour, should have been left in the 70s, and never spoken of again.

[eladriell.livejournal.com]

Still got that top hat?

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Yup. In fact, I have two top hats these days...