the toronto vintage clothing show Archives

In case you missed it I’m going to do my first ever vintage show as a vendor at the Toronto Vintage Clothing Show Vintage By Suzanne this weekend Oct 1-2.

Eeek!

I’m

excited

stressed

behind

anxious

nervous

excited.

Ha! Yes I wrote excited twice ; P

Here is one of my favourite pieces I’m taking to the show, what I’m calling the “show stopper”, a stunning velvet 1950’s fit and flare dress with bright delicate embroidered flowers.

There is no way I’d be selling this if it fit me. I cannot do up the back of the dress. {sobbing} But some other lucky tiny gal is going to love this ultra-feminine dress.

Toronto Vintage Clothing Show Vintage By Suzanne

Here are some of the outfits I’ve styled using pieces I will be selling at the show as I would wear them.

I have so many more fantastic vintage pieces that will be looking for new homes this weekend.

I may (we’ll see…) not be around too much this week as preparations here are frantic and furious, (just ask my husband!) (did I mention my house looks like a clothing hurricane hit?)

I still need to finish going through my personal collection to see which items I’m willing to part with. This is meant to lighten up my closet…not overwhelm my house. I think I may have missed the memo on that one.

I’m hoping to take few more photos of really special pieces before they go to a new forever home of another vintage lover.

As the show is sold out for vendors, (over 85 vendors!) I’m expecting it to be quite hectic and busy with brisk sales (fingers crossed!). If not, items will eventually show up in my Etsy store once I am able to regroup after the show.

I don’t have the whole experience down to a science like the formidable famous Vix, partying and selling nonstop at vintage shows and festivals for months on end but I’m going to give it my best shot.

If I don’t get a chance to reconnect again this week I’ll see you all on the other side : )

Linking up with Visible Monday, I Will Wear What I Like, Shoe and Tell, Turning Heads Tuesdays,

One of the reasons I wanted to go to the Toronto Vintage Clothing show was because of the dress in the middle below. Isn’t it heavenly and pretty much the perfect dress for Easter?

I literally ran to Robin’s Factory Girl Vintage booth to try on this “watercolour in the rain” pastel dress as soon as I got to the show. I wanted it so badly! The colours were amazing.

But sadly it was not meant to be.

{Sob}

That is the thing with vintage clothing, there isn’t any give in the clothes. Although this looks great from the front, what you don’t see is the two inch gap in the back where I cannot do up the zipper no matter how I tried to “suck-it-all-in”. I would need at least one rib removed to make this beauty fit. It fit perfectly everywhere else and was even long enough. How on earth did they have such tiny torsos?

I was so disappointed : (.

But…

Fear not!

That did not deter me from finding another dress in Robin’s vintage inventory to take home.

Vintage Dress Styled Contemporary

An A-line dress in an orange, magenta, metallic bronze and gold. I rarely wear this shape of dress as it can add visual weight to my frame, especially with a high neckline like this one.

Styled with bright magenta tights, bronze sparkly shoes and a gold beaded clutch the dress looks very contemporary.

Would you ever guess this dress is 55 years old?

how to wear an a-line vintage dress over 40 — Vintage 1960’s dress by Kay Silver, made in Canada.

The fabric is quite similar to my other amazing vintage dress I picked up at Sweet Trash Vintage about four years ago.

Which you can see is much more the body conscious fit I would normally be attracted to.

Of course brilliant thing about this type of tent dress is that you can have two helpings at supper, three helpings of dessert and top it all off with a few handfuls of chocolates and no one will be the wiser.

This is such a great example of a well made vintage dress that truly stands the test of time and looks as contemporary today as the day it was made.

People often worry about looking dated when wearing vintage clothing.

I never worry about that. Well designed, well made clothing stands the test of time.

Linking up with Visible Monday I Will Wear What I Like