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I have had a vintage fixation from being a very small child. I was born in 1968 (I know I shouldn't tell you my age) and my Mum still had some amazing clothes from the 50s and early 60s, which she let me use for dress up, I only wish I still had them. I remember the feel and flow of the fabrics, the construction (yes I was a seam checker back then too) and how exotic they felt. I've grown up in a family of seamstresses and crafts people so I could thread a needle and sewing machine for as long as I can remember, well I can't remember NOT being able to. Which has made me enjoy the quality of construction and those vintage dresses were not the quickly put together nonsense we see today in our clothes, no quick overlocked seams back then.
Anyway I digress, my Mum was a stunning lady and I have lots of photos of her in her youth in the 1940s which I fell in love with as an era, young. Seeing Mum look so beautiful and refined in her mostly hand made clothes made me wish I was born then too.
This pic was taken in the early 60s I think in 1963 in Australia, where they lived. I love this suit, its simplicity but with a touch of something a little different in the sleeves and collar. Mum as always was finished to perfection with matching bag, gloves and beret. I still have a lot of Mum gloves, sadly she never kept her handbags (strange as we are bagaholics).
I've never been one to overtly follow fashion in my choice of clothes and have always enjoyed styling myself and others that asked for it, in an individual way. Since I started buying my own clothes in my teens I have gone for things rather different, well the clothes themselves haven't always been different but the way I put them together were. Different, that is to the majority of people in my town.
I started making my own clothes at the age of 14, I didn't have any pattern cutting skills back then so if my design was complicated my sister would cut them out, for me to sew. But generally I cut them myself thankfully it was the early 80s so the odd cuts I came up with worked.
to come.... vintage links and web reviews
Ciao Bella
(Bella is also a nickname of mine from Mum, Pumperninkel as a child, then Julibelle which got shortened to Bella as an adult, Bella is how I have always signed my name to anything for my parents)
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