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VFG Fashion Parade
Monday, May 20, 2013
Everybody Loves a Parade! This week: “New Wave: Girls (and Boys) Just Want to Have Fun” The VFG has a parade every day – a VINTAGE parade, that is! Each week the VFG seller members are invited to show off their vintage that fits a theme. Themes change from week
Features
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Spring Vintage Inspiration is here!
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Each spring and fall the VFG sleuths out the historical influences on modern fashion – the Vintage Inspiration. Designers took 1950s-style full-skirted sundresses out for a spin at the fashion shows this spring, and found new inspiration in black and white, especially mod 1960s looks. With all the eyelets, openwork
Articles, Features
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The Vintage Fashion Guild Fabric Resource
Friday, August 17, 2012
Welcome to the Vintage Fashion Guild’s latest addition, the Fabric Resource! VFG member Maggie Wilds (aka denisebrain) has published a collection of fabrics and fabric terms, which you will find under VFG Resources on the homepage. Besides an A-Z index, included are ways to search for your ‘mystery’ fabric and
Features
Spring 2013 Vintage Inspiration
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Vintage Fashion: Always Inspiring Designers took 1950s-style full-skirted sundresses out for a spin at the fashion shows this spring, and found new inspiration in black and white, especially mod 1960s looks. With all the eyelets, openwork and cut-outs to be found in spring 2013 collections, it is hard not to think of the vintage ways of achieving these lacy effects. Finally, 1930s-style florals brought charm to the runways, a sweetness borrowed from our mothers’ and
Inspiration, Spring
Pulitzer, Lilly
Monday, March 18, 2013
Lilly Pulitzer started making her famous dresses in 1960. She and her dressmaker designed the original little cotton print shift dress to hide the stains she acquired working in her Palm Beach, Florida fruit juice stand. Before long, people were asking about the dress, so Pulitzer began selling the dresses at the stand. She got a tremendous boost when the first lady, Jackie Kennedy, was pictured in Life magazine wearing a Lilly Pulitzer dress. By
Labels
Jonathan Walford
Monday, March 04, 2013
Longtime VFG member Jonathan Walford has published books with subjects ranging from shoes, to forties fashion, to 60s paper dresses. His latest is 1950s American Fashion. The 1950s was the first decade when American fashion became truly American. The United States had historically relied upon Europe for its style leads, but during World War II, when necessity became the mother of invention, the country had to find its own way. American designers looked to what
VFG Member Books
Nylons - Pantyhose - Stockings - Tights
Friday, March 01, 2013
Ladies of the 1890s bought stockings of cotton, wool, silk, ballbriggin, Merino and cashmere. Some were fleece lined. In the early 1900s, they wore fancier stockings. Stockings were lace, had stripes, polka dots, embroidery, ribbed lisle thread (used until the 1940’s) and were made of wool and cotton. They came in “Opera Length” which were extra long. The 1920s brought stockings with patterns. Embroidery snaked around the ankles and up to the knees. Flesh and
Lingerie
Swim Wear History
Friday, March 01, 2013
You may think that the body-baring bikinis of today would have shocked the world centuries ago but you’d be wrong. Actually today’s swimwear is rather similar to that which was worn in ancient Greece as far back as 300 BC. As pictured on mosaic walls, ancient Greek women were barely covered by pieces of fabric, much like the scanty bikinis of the 20th century! Ladies of Pompei – Greece During the Roman Empire, the communal
Garment & Item Specifics, Swim Wear
1880 to 1890
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Popular demand brought back the bustle in 1883 but with changes. It was now worn at a lower placement with a narrower width. Dresses worn over this new frame were sturdier, being constructed in heavier fabrics such as velvet, satin and wool. Colors were darker with bottle green, deep wine, navy blue and black coming to the fore. Mercifully cotton and linen were used for summer. Drapery was harder and considerably more rigid than in
