Favorite Vintage Photos

It's been awhile, but I have been more active on facebook with vintage posts at Oso Victoria Vintage I thought it would be nice to share some of my favorite photos I found, see what you think.

Evening dress by Pierre Balmain from 1957.

Blue-grey silk faille day dress with appliqué, embroidery and beading. Label: "Mme. Chamas, 66 rue des Petits Champs, Paris, France," c. 1890, Kent State University Museum. love D'Artagnan. 

The Fashion Museum announce that 'Royal Women' open on 3 February 2018! This ‘family tree’ exhibition will feature the clothes worn by Queen Alexandra, Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret http://ht.ly/vzB 

If this dress was blue it would be a mermaid dress. It is a reproduction of a 1920-30s dress.

1921 America Dress by Harry Collins, worn by Mrs. Francis P. Garvan (Mabel Brady) Peach silk chiffon with turquoise, chartreuse, and pink silk ribbon and metallic trim

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Little Lee of Hollywood worn by Ginger Lee.

1967 bold colors

Prom dress....cocktail gown....evening dress....love the 1960s https://www.etsy.com/listing/399361941/blue-prom-dress-vintage-60s-dress

That's it for now. I hope you enjoy browsing all these fashion from the different eras. More to come so be sure to follow my blog at OsoVictoria.com or find me on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/OsoVictoria/ for the lastest vintage fashion peeks.

Adorable Crochet Girls Cloche Hats in the Style of the 20s

My friend Irene shared this link on my Facebook page and I just had to do likewise and share here. These hats are just to cute. And they are free patterns, can't go wrong with that. Enjoy!



Girls Crochet 1920s style hats

Silver Fashion from Vintage, Designers, and 2013 Runway Show

Lately I have been fascinated with fashion in silver fabrics. From the Art Deco period to this Spring and Summer 2013 runway look. So where did it all start? Doing a little bit of research I found these bits of interesting information. 

In the 14th century China cloth of gold was called Marramas and a very similar cloth was made of silver. And, to this day the silver cloth similar to Marramas is made in India and Europe. 

Throughout history metallic fabric has been very common among the nobility and those of wealth. Charlotte, Queen Victoria's cousin was married in a wedding gown made of metallic cloth.

Princess Charlotte's 1816 wedding dress, this dress has been altered, the 'apron' is not original

Dresses from the 1920s often showed flare and style in gold and silver. Although, the gold and silver in these dresses were usually accomplished by bead and sequin work.

A lovely beaded flapper 1920's dress

1920's cream and gold lame evening dress

1920's sequin dress

Today's modern metallic fabrics made in the west are known

as lamé. 

Lanvin Silver Lame Evening Ensemble 1930

Vionnet Dress - Fall/Winter 1938-39

Moving on to the 60's and 70's starting with this silk jersey, the dress below is made of silk jersey and absolutely stunning

Dior 1960 Evening ensemble, silk jersey

The lovely Françoise Hardy in a metal-link jumpsuit by Paco Rabanne, 1968

Thierry Mugler, 1979

As we go forward in time to current fashion we have more stunning silver gowns with beautiful draping and bead and sequin work.

Versace Fall 2011

Marchesa Pre-Spring 2012

Georges Hobeika Spring Summer 2013 Ready to Wear

And, one final pretty one ~ no designer's name or date came with this one.

Hope you liked my current obsession with silver (and a touch of gold) gown, dresses and jumpsuits...

And, I would love it if you joined this blog and get the next color obsession, it is rather bold and wild, but that will come after the next free PDF knitting or crocheting instructions, until then, love fashion, love vintage!

Big Hats Galore 1908 Sears Catalog

I love these big hats and even worked up a little scaled down inexpensive version. 

As you can see none of these hats have veils, that came later in the century, What they do have are lots of flowers and ribbon. Pleated ribbon was very popular.

Most of these are straw hats decorated with silk, chiffon, or taffeta flowers and ribbon, a bit of berries and feathers are also used on these very ornate hats. 

Oh, I do wish I could see them in color!

Notice the model rendition drawings have large eyes, straight nose, and a little heart shaped mouth in a rounded face. I would call it a 'doe' face, sweet and demur.

Here is my rendition, I can see I have a ways to go with the ribbon and trim. I used an old white straw hat, covered it in blue tulle, added a wide yellow ribbon and some silk pansy flowers to both sides. What do you think?

I also want to share this link Etsy put up recently on their blog. A short video showing Behida Dolić, a wonderful cloche hat maker. Inside the Milliner’s Studio Stunning work.

Time to Don on Your Hat

With the cooler weather coming, at least for us in the northern hemiphere, it is time to grab your favorite hat and cover your head.
                  
                    Big hats for big hair dos!



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lovely vintage byhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/gledeneilivet/

A few smaller hats for a smaller hair style 

The bob

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Wow, these hats you can actually make yourself

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Modern hats for a modern girl, and fur for winter

Voltage 2010 at First Avenue, Minneapolis. Designs by Danielle Everine, hats by Angie's Hats

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/27594459@N04/ Hats by Alex
 

 I personally don't look good in hats, sad but true, but I love hats and I love seeing women wearing their hats, there is a sexy alluring quility to women who wear hats. The beret is a very popular style with the modern girl. What's your style?

I did look okay in head scarves, that I wore a lot of in the 70s, the now so-called boho look.

 

Victorian and 1920's Dresses

This is one of the most beautiful Victorian gowns I have seen. The Victorian (Queen Victoria's reign 1837 - 1901) and Edwardian (King Edward's reign 1901 - 1910) eras was one of my favorites for stylizing and designing modern clothing in the 60s. Below are two Victorian gowns and one from the 20s.

Gown on left is a 1920s, the two on the right are Victorian.

Victoria gown in light sea green silk and battenburg lace. The gown has silk lining underneath silk chiffon with the overlay of the ivory battenburg lace

The sleeves drape with the inside sleeve coming just to the elbow.

Matching sea green silk ribbon and bows embellish the top of the bodice. This dress also has a ivory silk cummerbund that fastened in the front, but I could not get it around the dress form. The underneath silk lining is shredding, but the overlay silk chiffon and lace are in perfect condition.

I love the back train on this dress and how it flows. This dress probably had a back bustle built into an underskirt. Under garments were a necessary and  important part of the dress of yesterday as just as they are today (in regards to a well fitting bra).

This is the inside bodice of the dress with boning (real bone), made in Paris. The dress (bodice and skirt) fastens with hooks and eyes.

A custom made black silk taffeta mourning gown. If these two dresses came for the same person, I can see a very slim young woman in the sea green dress and a middle aged widow in the mourning gown. I bought both dresses from the same lovely woman I bought the patterns from, So Many Sewing Patterns Both dresses and another from the 80s along with two large Victorian shawls and some pieces of lace where shoved in a box I bought for $2.00. 

Lots of hand detail work in this dress, adding all that lace and trim. Once again fastens with snaps and hooks. Thank goodness for zippers and jersey! I don't know if I would ever get dressed if I had to deal with all those snaps and hooks, let alone the undergarment of the day.

Close up of the lace trim and insets.

The back of the dress is just as detailed as the front.

Close up of back

Closer still

This lovely rooster lace piece was sewn into the inside of the back, possibly for reinforcement to the black lace. You can just barely see it in the photo above this one.

Custom made 1920s gold brocade gown with beaded side belt. This dress I picked up from my brother who got it from who knows where. He likes old funky stuff.

It took me awhile to figure out how this dress was fastened, more hooks and eyes. The right side panel drapes across the back, then up through the beaded loop and hooks onto the back skirt.

The dress had some very lovely gold beaded and netting sleeves, but the netting is shredded, the sleeves would have draped down the length of the arm with the bead in a ladder going down the draping.

A close up of the beaded belt thing. Some of the white beads have rhinestone in the center.

Back of dress, where you can see the drape.

Close up of back. This dress was probably a stunner when it was fresh and new. I find it interesting that the seamstress decided to use gold brocade for the dress. The dress is made from silk brocade and lined in an ivory silk. Most of the edges have a very fine machine loop stitch, so it may have been from a designer or made from silk drapery.

Love these dresses and love the history of fashion which was part of my studies when working on my fashion design degree, that was another era also.

What is the oldest piece of fashion you have in your closet and do you ever wear it?