After re-familiarizing myself with UK retro clothing line Collectif (which, by the way, is having a 50% off full-priced clothing sale, from now until March 3rd!), I was inspired to style a 1940s-esque outfit of my own this week for work:
The one thing I didn't have time/patience for was an era-appropriate hairstyle! I have a great book called Style Me Vintage: Hair (available here) which has excellent pictures, references and step-by-step instructions of all kinds of hairstyles, from 1920s finger waves to 1970s feathered 'dos. The problem is that I haven't had enough time to really familiarize myself with it and try out any of the styles!
Outfit details
Teal blouse: Forever 21
Black jumper: Bernie Dexter, via Ebay (similar look here from Bettie Page Clothing)
Sheer black tights: Urban Outfitters
The Best of Times Heel in Noir: ModCloth
Some of the best retro hair tutorials I've seen are from the beauty blog ruby red. The result of the victory rolls tutorial looks super clean:
She recommends this other retro styling book, which I may just have to look into...
I also love the pictures she posted of this dreamy mid-century updo:
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| All via ruby red |
Just more things to add to my ever-growing list of things I need to learn how to do. Hopefully I'll start crossing more of those items off my list soon enough. One thing I did cross off my list was figuring out how to take much better quality pictures with my camera while using the self-timer! So hopefully this will be the last of the quasi-blurry pictures for a while (fingers crossed!).
Have a lovely Sunday!
xox Sammi
