Tales from the dress room -part three.
Each decade has something unique and amazing to offer modern fashionable brides. Read on and I’ll explain what makes vintage wedding dresses so special ! 30s vintage wedding dresses The 30s is very popular for its glamorous fitted full length lace, and slinky satin styles. As a general rule it is bias cut ( cut […]
Tales from the dress room -part two.
Making vintage stylish and contemporary or keeping it beautifully authentic? We can do either for our lovely brides. In Part two of my blog about how I work, I am going to explain how we can update the dresses to make them ‘fashionable’. If my clients want complete authenticity that is wonderful and I love […]
Tales from the Dress Room -part one. Vintage Fabrics.
Hello Lovelies and thanks for joining me on my blog, I want to tell you a little about what makes vintage so special and explain about my unique service. I carefully restore lovely vintage dresses to their former glory but this can only be possible if the fabrics are strong and in good condition, and […]
60s one-shoulder wedding dress for lovely bride Susan
I just received these lovely photos from Susan, courtesy of her photographer ‘Juliebee photography’. Susan was a joy to work with and the dress just needed minor fitting, in order to show off her lovely figure and her 60s style bob perfectly. In Susan’s words…. I just wanted to get in touch to say thank […]
Lovely vintage real bride Andrea, in a 60s lace tea length dress
Sweet Andrea was recently married in a vintage 60s dress, thank you so much Andrea for sending these beautiful photos. I am always so happy to see how my ‘girls’ look on their wedding day and each bride is completely unique. I love the way all the details are so delicate but effective, the rose […]
Focus on the Forties: Florence and Bette, made to order vintage-style wedding dresses.
Dear Reader, What a glorious start to the Spring! I hope you too enjoyed some lovely sunshine so far this week. I wanted to talk about the ever popular 40s. Recently I have found I get more requests for 40s vintage wedding dresses, than any other decade. I have two reproduction 40s vintage wedding dresses- […]
Making some changes to my 30s vintage reproduction dress Violette…..
With only 10 days to go until my Show at Islington Assembly rooms ( Sunday 10th March), I am just working on some of my vintage reproduction wedding dresses. I shall be taking both my vintage wedding dresses and my own collection of made to order vintage-style wedding dresses. This dress named Violette, was originally […]
Chosen Vintage Wedding Fair
Hello Lovelies, the excellent Chosen Vintage Wedding Fair is fast approaching. Do pop down and say hello, it’s on Sunday 3rd March from 11am until 3.30 pm, at Islington Assembly Hall. I shall have a nice spacious stand with lots of pretty things to show you.
70s vintage lace wedding dress for beautiful Boho bride Kahly, please scroll down to see more.
Thank you so much for the use of these beautiful wedding photos by http://www.lisajane-photography.com/blog/. Taken from London-bride.com with thanks to Charley Beard. Dear Reader, browsing the internet and looking at lovely wedding blogs (which it has to be said I spend far too much time doing ), I often find girls wearing a Heavenly […]
Lovely Real Bride Em in a satin 40s wedding gown.
Dear Reader, I really do believe that all my brides look beautiful on their wedding day. I am always so happy to show off their beautiful images on my blog here. Today want to show you Emma, looking so glamorous but also so relaxed and happy in her 1940s original vintage wedding dress, which was […]