One of the favorite colours of this coming Spring 2013 will be the Green and its wide variety of tones, from the very special “mint green” to brighter turquoise Green.
Here I give life to a beautiful Vintage Green Dress, that could easy be taken from any of high street retailers today; A flattering green dress with a fitted waistband and full skirt, ready to wear for any size M for just €22.00.
Here I am one more time with one Vintage Suggestion for the coming Spring 2013: Stripes…..
Thick or skinny, horizontal or vertical, black and white or red and white, even in navy blue and white aiming for a nautical flair, this time is all about clean stripes, it´s a hot trend to watch right now!
And why not rescue some of the vintage stripes than have been waiting in some people´s wardrobes for more than 30 years? Here I give you one vintage dress suggestion that will come soon to our online shop http://www.spanish-vintage.com: this cute dress with the classy black & white stripes on the top part and white full skirt (knitted top + woven fabric skirt €22.00).
These days, Celebrities, Retailers and Design Houses are rocking the spring season with the popular-as-ever Peplum trend, Peplums, they have twisted and turned their way out of the 40s, bounded past the 80s and landed in the now – merging with other current trends for an appeal that goes beyond the girly.
I love that old saying “Everything that is old, is new again”. It specially rings true with Peplums. The photos below were taken in the 1940s and look just like something you can find on the red carpet today
Vintage clothing offers couture quality at a fraction of the price. I was able to find you a Vintage Peplum Dress Suggestion from Spanish Vintage for just €22.00. Click on the image below to shop…..
Here I am one more week with one more Vintage Suggestion for this Spring-Summer:”Vintage Pleats”….
I have picked for you on one side a resume of styles that are offered today in some of the most famous retailers, and on the other side I show you my Vintage Pleated Dress Suggestion. Here you can appreciate clearly the similarities between today´s trends and yesterday styles, don´t you think?….
The advantages to buy a Vintage Garment before buying something new that I can see, are several:
1) Avoid waistfulness and disposable mass production.
2) Promote sustainable buying practices.
3) Avoid high and predatory prices (most average Vintage pieces from the 50s to the 80s these days are offered at very reasonable prices).
4) Enjoy the pleasure to know that the garment you pick was made decades back and comes with a history behind. That knowledge, for the Vintage Lovers is priceless……
When I discovered Etsy, I discovered a whole entire new world of Vintage Lovers online. I feel everything that is advertised there is beautiful, wordthy, handmade or vintage, exquisite, exclusive, reasonable, good value….well everything I can say about it is good, I love Etsy for so many reasons…. here are some of them for those who havent heard about this Global Online Trading Shop yet:
1) Etsy´s mission is to empower people to change the way the global economy works. They see a world in which very small businesses have much more sway in shaping the economy, local living economies are thriving everywhere, and people value authorship and provenance as much as price and convenience. They are briging heart to commerce and making the world more fair, more sustainable, and more fun.
2) Etsy allows smalls businesses not just to sell online worldwide easily and with fair fees but also allows to share the same taste and passion we all seem to have for the same type of products with histories behind.
3) Through Etsy you can get to know friendly people from the other side of the world and feel the world is smaller than what we thought at first, knowing that we are all not that different from each other at the end of the day.
This is the link for the small shop Spanish Vintage has opened in Etsy:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/spanishvintage
And these are the links for some of my favorites shops in Etsy too:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/treeandsap
http://www.etsy.com/shop/JeannieRichard
http://www.etsy.com/shop/TeresaMare
http://www.etsy.com/shop/lazydoll
http://www.etsy.com/shop/renewvintage
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