Tired pillaging to find in shopping malls and chain stores, something new and different? Not trying to see something in the catalogs? Then try Vintage! Where almost everything is unique! Let’s say so – you will not respond to a party!
Maybe because you are more thinking big, you can not wear vintage clothes. Yes, you can! I have big, big breasts, broad shoulders and waist, and my closet is full of great vintage clothing. Let’s put it this way: if a £ 300 drag queen can dress like Cher, you can be sure who you want to be. We start with the basics. Imagine holding my hand as we cross vintage country!
Find your unique style Vintage
As you’ve always wanted you watched? As a rockabilly wild child? A blonde bombshell like Marilyn Monroe? A temptress like Bettie Page? A flapper as Clara Bow 20s? At 40 gallons broad shoulders like Joan Crawford? A mod 60, as Edie Sedgwick? Or a large hair-80 Joan Collins? All this is possible if the pieces of classic and modern law-Mix.
Think about what time do you like best and why. This is the key to finding your vintage personality.
Some are attracted to the beads, fringes and velvet 1920th Others want the elegance of the 1930s. Still others look ultra-structured 40’s, or “bomb” look of the 50s. Some people like to mod, hippie, in fact, there are too many styles and eras that listed here!
Do not be afraid to dream! The only limit is your imagination departure.
Starting Out: The Basics
First, look to your silhouette long, and what you want to highlight. It can be your bust, your legs, your booty or your face. You need your measurements everywhere you go: chest, waist, hips, shoulders, hips, size in the step, step thighs wide, if you go buy the pants.
Yes, that’s probably part is scary. Many of us do not want to know our measurements. We deceive ourselves attract about what we are great. As soon as I take my measurements on the phone to a TV had costume, and after each test, I cried! (Fortunately, the lady had used costume.)
I also recommend you measure to see your absolute favorite songs, how to get the best fit. Not that you wear, use the pieces are now wearing. Some like it tight, like Mae West, Some Like It flowy. When it comes to defining your personal style, knowledge is power! And what of those pieces that you like? The color? Cutting? (Sweats do not count!)
You can go to your local bookstore, or check the Internet to find pictures of movie stars old days. In the old days, Hollywood fan magazines encouraged women to identify with movie stars. But who can identify with Nicole Kidman? Or Charlize Theron? This will also give you some ideas of styles and eras. Photos of actual times and personalities are much more useful than “How Vintage Guides, which look to end, making everyone equal!
Starting Out: The Basics, Part Two
Your figure type
Experts estimate there are 4:00 to 6:00 kind of figure plus size women. I choose the four most important skills.
1) The Hourglass
Their shape is curvy, hips and torso, at about the same width. Your waist is well defined, and at least seven inches smaller than your bust or hips. You can walk behind the text. Her thighs are full but narrower than the hips, lower and lower legs are shapely and proportionately low.
2) pear.
Her hips and thighs are wider than the shoulders and bust. Save more of your weight in the abdomen, thighs and buttocks. Your hip can directly extend below the waist, but is usually wider than eight inches below the waist to hip “weak”. Kate Winslet, believe it or not, is a pear.
3) a rectangle. You are above and below, with a somewhat small bust and little or no definition of greatness. You can send a fleshy rear and slightly below the neck, but you tend to arms and legs are relatively thin. Kim Cattrall is a rectangle, but you do not know.
4) The Apple. The most of your weight on the chest, waist, back, hips and legs are relatively thin. They tend to have a look a bit too heavy. Catherine Zeta-Jones as an apple!
The body shape are you?
Not everyone is exactly like the above-described forms, but choose one that is closest to you.
Well, first, any arbitrary shape to wear a kaftan or caftan, this is the road. These rules are not immutable, but only suggestions.
Hourglass: go for the sexy! Like Marilyn, you can wear tight, fitted cardigans 50s, Capri pants, skirts, dresses and maneuver. Or, as Jean Harlow, you can remove it, Slinky, sexy dress and slips cut 30s (although you may carry spanx below). You have to wear shoes, but any type of shoe that showcases your legs a good idea. Mix modern pieces like tops corset to enhance your breast or batting cover their arms when they are aware of them. You can wear almost every ten years, could not mod look “bad” on your silhouette, dresses a specific line. And flies can also look costume-y, if you are on the smaller side.
Pear: often have you done in the poor, and you can just tank tops and sleeveless other looks like. Long Victorian and Edwardian style skirts (and their counterparts from 70 years) for the excellent shape, like vintage boots, high, low and mid-calf. Remember how great Kate Winslet looked in her “Titanic” clothes? If you want to buy clothes mid-century, in search of clothes on the longest side, which will strengthen the upper and lower foam. These can be easier in the 1950s and 1970s found that the 40 or 60 years. Avoid fancy pockets on your skirts and dresses. Avoid the 70 “hip-hugger” jeans are looking for, but to dream platform from the same decade. Unlike the hourglass, you can cut the work in A-line 1960s.
Rectangle: Your wardrobe needs of the curves, but the clothes that work for the hourglass to work not on the form. Before circle skirts (not skirts!), Delicious shoes, dresses with neck and shoulder pleating of interest (not fly, but more details like darts, and sequins). They were made to wear clothes lined up nicely 1920s. Scarves and shawls also add RSS curve and your look. And you can really remove Mod!
Apple: Depending on the clothes, you too can wear Mod (remember Stacy Turnblad in “Hairspray”?). Show your legs shorter clothes, show off your cleavage in Surplice neckline modern vintage mini skirts! You can also wear beads cardigans 50s modern pants without pleats in front. As long as you avoid loose around the waist and do not hide in layers and layers of fabric, you can wear almost every ten years.
The acquisition of your wardrobe Unique Vintage
Start with basic pieces, as you would with your wardrobe today. If you like the clothes to start there. Same with separates. From research online is a better bet than most vintage stores, although you never know what you find at your local savings!
Oh, and contemporary clothing, much depends on your budget. There are more spectacular dress size is of any age, but many of them also have spectacular price tag. I do not sell expensive vintage clothing itself, but then I do not often come to a famous designer or a silk dress in perfect condition. Dior was not great.
If you only have this mink coat or taffeta dress, if you have money to buy it! You will not regret a minute. I spent more than I wanted to say once or twice, but it was the clothes that I love and wear often enough.
But if you are on a tight budget, find vintage clothing in summer. The quantity of the vintage you buy. Fashion accessories are also affordable and you can get the look with the right hat, vintage shoes, bags, jewelry, and for much less than the mink coat.
And you think it will be a part of the cost of your wardrobe is vintage interview. Unlike today, clothes, you can not your Ceil Chapman throw in the washing machine. Much of it will be professionally cleaned or washed carefully by hand.
And invest in yourself! If you have high maintenance costs is like a glamorous platinum blonde, which is part of your budget: hair, nail polish, etc. You can one do a great vintage look by wearing a shabby old microfiber bag and not destroy any more, with your hair down with your fingers.
