50s dress posts

’50s Style Wiggle Dress – Stop Staring! Challenge

Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
’50s Style Wiggle Dress – Stop Staring! Challenge

Stop Staring! is a women’s clothing company that draws inspiration from the 1940s and 1950s for its USA-made line.

Since being introduced to Stop Staring!, I’ve fallen for it’s ’50s-style dresses the most. So to show you how versatile a ’50s-inspired floral wiggle dress can be, I recruited my friend Hope Adela of Pink Champagne Blog to share how she’d wear it, too.

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What Inspires Me About ’50s Dresses

Sunday, June 3rd, 2012
What Inspires Me About ’50s Dresses

‘50s dresses aren’t my usual stye of choice, but I challenged my creative limits and found that each had a special story to tell. So to show you how fashion goes deeper than surface-level, keep reading after the jump to not only see these 5 vintage dresses from the ’50s but to feel how their styles inspired new thoughts in my mind and love in my heart.

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1950s Shirtwaist Dress Worn 4 Ways (Not to Look Like a Housewife!)

Monday, April 9th, 2012
1950s Shirtwaist Dress Worn 4 Ways (Not to Look Like a Housewife!)

While known as the unofficial uniform of the classic housewife, today’s girl isn’t wearing her ’50s shirtwaist dress to fulfill archaic ideas of feminine fulfillment. To show how to wear a shirtwaist dress without looking like a housewife, I asked Elegant Musings to style one with modern day funk for looks that are still functional for day, just like the dress was invented to be.

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