Ida Catherine is one of my favourite vintage enthusiast’s who is active under the Instagram personae @idacath.
“One of my absolute most beloved vintage dresses. It’s a late 1930s cornflower blue dress with white embroideries and pockets! When I got this dress a few years ago, it had 1930s flutter sleeves, but I gathered them and hid the seam with a pearlescent button. I also replaced the damaged fabric belt buckle with this 1910s mother of pearl one. ✨ I have absolutely zero sewing skills so this just involved a few stitches. I never do alterations that are not reversible, and with this dress I feel like I’ve made it better. It’s a complete dream of a dress and the fit is absolutely amazing!”
This dress! I adore it! A vintage late 1930s early 40s black dress with amazing details. This beautifully tailored dress is made of soft black crepe rayon fabric, beautifully decorated shoulder and neckline also in crepe rayon with accent colour beige and covered with a gorgeous red cherries and green leaves embroidery. The cherries are also decorated with tiny white metal buttons. A beautiful tailored A-line skirt and the fitted waist has a zipper closure on the side, black fabric covered buttons on the back, three quarter sleeves and shoulder pads. label: junior fashions by Carole King This dress was sold on Etsy a few years ago by secreteyesonly. Oh how I would love to own her, please let me know if you have one of these dresses that you would consider parting with.
I adore this vintage 1950s knitted sweater pattern and hope to either learn to knit one for myself or get someone else to make it for me. Please let me know if you would like to be paid to knit this for me. I bought this pattern from ebay from wooltimefun.
“Lilac and cherry blossoms 🌸 1940s pale lilac dream dress and bow hat (which makes me feel like I have extra ears or propellers)🕊💜”
“One of my absolute most beloved vintage dresses. It’s a late 1930s cornflower blue dress with white embroideries and pockets! When I got this dress a few years ago, it had 1930s flutter sleeves, but I gathered them and hid the seam with a pearlescent button. I also replaced the damaged fabric belt buckle with this 1910s mother of pearl one. ✨ I have absolutely zero sewing skills so this just involved a few stitches. I never do alterations that are not reversible, and with this dress I feel like I’ve made it better. It’s a complete dream of a dress and the fit is absolutely amazing!”
“Cycle of vintage 🕊 Saw this Marie Antoinette-esque late 1930s dress on Etsy a couple of years ago, regretted not buying it (thought it would be too short), then I saw it on Instagram for sale a year or so later, but was too slow to get it. Thought it was forever lost, but then it suddenly was offered to me in a trade after a while 🎀 It obviously just wanted to live with my wardrobe!✨Will be wearing it for the vintage fair on sunday! ✨ (Not for sale!) .”
Ida Catherine is one of my favourite vintage enthusiast’s who is active under the Instagram personae @idacath.
“I’ve always been obsessed with the aesthetics of the past. I long for dreamy, fantastical universes of ballet and pastels and try to recreate these in my personal style. I dress in the late 1930s- early 1940s clothing, preferably teenage swing styles. I have extensive knowledge of vintage clothing and styles from different time periods, but I have chosen not to dress historically accurate. Instead, I incorporate influences from movies, art, and ballet to express my personal style, although my wardrobe is exactly dated between 1937 and 1943.”
I adore this knitting pattern, the perfect sweater. From a 1941 lady’s magazine called Libelle. This is on a website called Raverly (see link above). Ravelry is a place for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, weavers and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools, project and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration. The content is all user- driven; as a community they make the site what it is. Ravelry is a great place for you to keep notes about your projects, see what other people are making, find the perfect pattern and connect with people who love to play with yarn from all over the world in our forums.
Vintage Fashions – a dedicated fashion channel from British Pathé, on which we share vintage beauty shows, fabulous catwalk coverage, retro women’s lifestyle clips and other glamorous treats. Indulge!
This is an amazing You Tube channel by charismatic and knowledgeable Professor Amanda Halley with everything you need to know about fashion history and more.
