tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382754892322119466.post947443076736210044..comments2024-03-19T02:27:32.403-05:00Comments on Flashback Summer: Vintage Wearers Speak: When you first started wearing vintage, what was one thing that encouraged you to continue?Emileigh http://www.blogger.com/profile/13683866769745929646noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382754892322119466.post-41636782758661314872018-04-02T19:45:26.486-05:002018-04-02T19:45:26.486-05:00That is awesome! So fun to hear how your style ha...That is awesome! So fun to hear how your style has evolved throughout the years. And way to go on making vintage work for you!Emileigh https://www.blogger.com/profile/13683866769745929646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382754892322119466.post-80171702143402068992018-04-02T19:44:15.991-05:002018-04-02T19:44:15.991-05:00YES! That is all so true! So freeing to realize ...YES! That is all so true! So freeing to realize clothes are supposed to fit your body, not the other way around.Emileigh https://www.blogger.com/profile/13683866769745929646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382754892322119466.post-79097884664549474642018-04-01T10:24:32.753-05:002018-04-01T10:24:32.753-05:00I always loved fancy dress as a kid, especially al...I always loved fancy dress as a kid, especially all the 1930s and 1940s styles and this continued into my teen and twen years with Gothic style. However, I always felt I was wearing fancy dress, Gothic was too dramatic and too medieval for my taste, so I tried to stick to an all black palette, in modern clothes. In my late 20s I started re-enactment and while I did different eras, I felt so comfortable in certain eras that wearing the clothes (either true vintage or repros) in my normal life outside of events was a gradual transition. I'm now 50 and I returned to my roots. I wear vintage as well as a lot of reproduction dresses from the 1930s and 1940s. I mix stuff, as I am plus size and you do not get many real vintage in my size. So I mostly sew for myself from authentic patterns and buy modern thrift store stuff that can easily be altered to a more vintage look. Unahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15727175858583900193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7382754892322119466.post-33762904662268407892018-04-01T07:36:50.244-05:002018-04-01T07:36:50.244-05:00When I first started wearing vintage, I loved bein...When I first started wearing vintage, I loved being able to pick a silhouette that looked good on my body rather than trying to mold my body into whatever everyone else thought was stylish at the moment. It gave me such confidence about my body. I also loved the creative outlet of sewing my own clothes. Everything always fit and I could have exactly the pieces I wanted. Stephanie Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04210449948990020456noreply@blogger.com