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ladycharles · 11 months

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Rewarded myself after a tough few days of finishing off the music with these vintage Italian silver filligree earrings and brooch from the local thrift. 💖💖💖 I just find the design and workmanship on so much old jewellery so beautiful and unique, I am thinking of maybe posting more of my vintage shopping and finds. Would you like that?

(my ND ass might start talking about alloys and washes and hallmarks and stuff though)

#Jewellery #Silver filligree #Vintage finds #Vintage fashions #Lady charles #spotify #Nonbinary #Genderfluid

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sewingsillythings · 2 months

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Okay, she's now starting to look like an actual skirt! Just need to do the belting and clasps on top and the hemline on the bottom. Unfortunately that's the harder part of this particular pattern, but I'm so excited to see it coming together so far

#sewing #my sewing #myclothes #fashion #skirts #habdmade clothes #textiles #vintage fashions #30s fashion #!!!#just in time for spring too #which is so perfect

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professorpski · 2 years

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Fall Foliage, Stiff Petticoats, and Wool Skirts, McCall’s 9900

The deep brown of the skirt on the right reminds me of fallen leaves and the wool skirts that I am now pulling out of my closet. Those of us up north turn to wool when the air turns crisp as it is doing now.

This full skirt with six gores—that is six wedges from waist to hem—shows off the full hips and tiny waists that were the fashion back in 1954. The lower edge at the hem for a skirt with a 26” waist was a whooping 101 inches or almost three yards around which is a lot of fabric. But notice how the hem stands well away from the body. Now, in a crisp linen, or Zebeline suiting, a thick, silk twill, which are some of the fabrics recommended, that is a natural possibility. These fabrics would be likely to stand away from the body.

But for many of the other fabrics recommended, only a stiff petticoat beneath would have the force to defy gravity by holding up the fabric of the skirt. These fabrics include lightweight wool which would not be stiff, rayon suitings, ditto; corduroy which would be heavy, velveteen ditto; or tweed which admittedly can be a looser or a stiffer weave.

This vast range of fabric tells you that the pattern company thought it was a skirt that serve for many occasions. Corduroy was a sporty fabric and the brown skirt has topstitching along the seamlines, another sporty feature that was first used to make a seam tougher and ready for hard wear. But velveteen and Zebeline were more formal fabrics for dressier occasions.

Notice too that by the mid-1950s, skirts had moved up from the lower-calf length which debuted in 1947 with Christian Dior’s New Look and were getting closer to a hemline a bit below the knee. While we tend to think in decades having one particular silhouette or hemline, there was always some variety within a decade, and some evolution as well. Not as much as the very wide variety we have today, but enough to give almost everyone some choices worth having.

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vintagebridalscans · 1 year

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Wedding Bells Spring-Summer 1990 (2 of 6 posts, 178 scans total) Canadian bridal magazine.

#original scans #bridal fashion #bridal gowns #wedding gowns #wedding dress #Wedding Bells magazine #vintage bridal wear #vintage bride #vintage fashions

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earnedmagic · 3 months

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1930s “i’m the guy that” pinbacks, part 2

#vintage fashion #i’m the guy that eats the dates on calendars had me hooting and hollering

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anthonysperkins · 7 months

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Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts (1979) dir. Rosa von Praunheim

#Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts #Armee der Liebenden oder Aufstand der Perversen #Rosa von Praunheim #vintage gay #movies #lgbt media #fashion #*#**#filmedit #holesrus #lgbtedit

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lapinlavande · 8 months

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solid perfume necklace in the shape of a mussel from estée lauder, 1974

#mine #vintage #vintage perfume #solid perfume #estee lauder #fashion history #1974 #1970s #70s

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whimsigothwitch · 1 year

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Handle with care

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daily-spooky · 5 months

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Women in celestial dresses, 1880s

#goth #gothic #beauty #fashion #black and white #photography #moon #full moon #witch #witchcore #aesthetic #alternative #dark academia #retro #vintage #love

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iluvsatc · 1 year

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#satc #sex and the city #carrie bradshaw #carrie #2000s #early 2000s #fashion #2000s fashion #90s #vintage 90s #vintage #vintage 2000s #carrie bradshaw qoutes

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sewingsillythings · 2 months

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Small update on this one! I still need to add the clasps, and ignore how terrible the hemline looks, I still have to press and sew it, but I'm glad with how the top is coming along so far.

I've put the top belting in:

and it doesn't matter that the seam is very uneven because it goes on the inside.

Instead of hemming the underlap here like I was supposed to I just topstitched it, which I think turned out quite well, and was easier for me.

As I said the snaps still need to go on, and it still needs a bottom hem, but I'm really happy with my progress today!

#sewing #my sewing #myclothes #fashion #textiles #clothes #skirts #30s fashion #vintage sewing #vintage patterns #vintage fashions #It's not perfect but I'm pretty proud of it rn

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professorpski · 1 year

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In the evening, for dinner, on board the greatest Atlantic liners that are patronised by wealthy and fashionable folk, the masculine passengers make a careful dinner toilet, wearing short dinner jackets with their white waistcoats, white linen and black satin neckties. If a gentleman... does not wish to don full evening dress for dinner, he may... change his sack suit for a black cutaway coat and dark grey or black trousers.*

The * then leads us to the bottom of the page where we learn that frock coats are NOT for evening wear ever, and that “Most men think is better not to dress for the evening at all if they are not in a position to assume correct evening dress,” so they wear their sack suits, or everyday suits instead.

This is from Emily Holt in 1915 in Encyclopedia of Etiquette. And money seems to be no object with her on this topic as she presumes that the men who are not in a position to put on their dinner jackets because their dinner jackets “are not at hand.” It does not seem to occur to her that anyone lacked a dinner jacket because of the cost, or that they might not own a cutaway coat. But then she was discussing rich people in this section especially.

You can see how tailored clothing which made up the bulk of the expense of men’s public clothing would act as a clear marker of class. Of course, women’s clothing did this too as not everyone could afford the most luxurious fabrics or accessories. But at least the widespread skill of dressmaking, as opposed to tailoring skills, made it possible for women to use sweat equity to make up some of the difference.