Which Dress Shall I Choose? 1940’s Style Dilemma
Avert your eyes from the unfinished floors in this room.
I got ahead of myself when I ripped up all the carpet from the room I'd repainted. Until I get round to finishing it up let's just pretend there is lovely hardwood there.
Now only concentrate on the dress.
We are heading out to that 1940's dance this weekend and I tried out one of my possible outfits here with my Sweet Trash vintage 1940's hat, gloves and Ruche shoes. I won't be wearing the shoes for dancing, but might use them to make my *grand* entrance.
I've never really "played" with makeup styles but I had to go all out for this. Without the bold lips this wouldn't look the same.
Plus I'm kind of digging it now. My lips look bigger.
Winning!
Also…my hair has body and curl.
It's a miracle.
It only took me watching an endless series of You Tube videos showing how to create pin curls and me swearing aloud in the bathroom for over an hour and a half with my arms crying out in pain while I tried to recreate the perfect curls without being able to see the back of my head.
Easy peezy.
Then they had to set for like 5 hours. Yes I walked around all day Saturday looking like this…
Thank heavens the only things I had to do was run to the bank, buy groceries and see all of the neighbours with my hair like this (only much messier).
{wink}
At this rate I will need to start getting ready for the dance at 8 am on Saturday. How did the gals of the 40's manage?
Hat, gloves and dress are all from Sweet Trash. Hangbag is also vintage.
The dress is hand sewn.
The gal that made it must have had a tiny shrunken head because the opening for it is super small and my dressing assistant (aka slightly annoyed husband) needs to help me in and out of it.
So this is outfit possibility #1.
I have 2 other possibilities.
Can you tell I'm getting excited?
Also I made this little hair comb for my girlfriend's outfit yesterday…
She is going to wear this fancy number…
Super sweet right?
Handmade dress by Blackbird Studios not too far from where she lives. Yay for local fashion!
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Fast Fashion – Overindulged & Still Dissatisfied
I had to share these excerpts from some articles I've read recently on Fast Fashion and the impact it has on us and the environment.
Perhaps, as in the case of fast food, fast fashion is yet another degredation of our quality of life.
"Cheap fashion, " says Liz Jones, "like cheap, factory-farmed salmon and chicken, has stripped away any notion we had of something being luxurious or in any way special . It has devalued all our lives, making us ever more dissatisfied, always wanting more." More prosaically, everybody looks the same. Sure, we all have in mind the ideal of the inventive fashionista, effortlessly and creatively mixing high and low fashion into one dazzlingly chic whole. But the reality is that we are far more homogenous in our distinctively-printed designer knockoffs than we would be in simpler basics. The idea of high style comes to us pre-packaged, complete with eclectic jewelry and accessories, and I'm guessing this paradoxical illusion of the unique is at the expense of individual creativity.
The increase in the amount of clothes people consume also has consequences for the environment. More clothing is shipped and flown from the Far East to Europe than ever before and the life cycle of these garments is decreasing.
– One cotton T-shirt requires seven bathtubs of water to make. For every tonne of textile produced, the industry pollutes about 200 tonnes of fresh water — in a year, that’s the equivalent of more than five million Olympic-size pools.
– The average North American discards more than 30 kilograms of clothing annually.
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