Vintage Vouge

[mmcnealy]

Here's some vintage Vogue, or what should be vintage Vogue if there was truth in advertising, circa 1985? '84?

Yup, the dropped waist shirtdress has made a reappearence. ACK!


I do like this dress, although I'd never make it in gingham, too stressful, although the effect is cool.

Comments

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like the second dress. The other one not so much, I have a long enough torso as it is, and dropped waists make me look so much like a barrel it's not funny.

/Eva

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

I used to love the dropped waist look - but I was dumb and didn't realize that my torso is too long for that. Plus it is a dippy look (like much of 80s fashion, alas).

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

The second dress is very pretty. I like the shape, though the chequers are a bit too much (work) for the eyes

HA

[friendlytornado.livejournal.com]

I was looking at the new Vogue patterns yesterday too! Agree with your opinions on both the dresses.

[naadhira.livejournal.com]

Two designers talking...

"We need a new fashion mistake for this year... any ideas?"

"How about moving the waist seam to the widest part of a woman's butt! Then we can have a nice horizontal line to accent the girth, while creating a huge vertical that completely hides any sign of a waistline."

"Sounds great! It'll look fabulous on our stick-thin models, but horrible on anyone with any trace of a curve to their body - ideal!"

"And while we're at it, why don't we resurrect the prairie shirt with the big chest and shoulder ruffles?"

"Let's not get too carried away..."

I LOVE the effect with the gingham, but that's way too fussy a sewing job for this toddler-mom and almost-baby-mom.

[noxcat.livejournal.com]

I dunno...as short waisted as I am, the dropped waist dress might not be so bad, depending on where the seam hits. But it would need a belt to combat the waistlessness of it.