Hangar dance attire

[RaasAlHayya]

In October, my husband and I are planning to attend the Hangar Dance at the Vintage Flying Museum in Fort Worth. The website says "Optional dress 1940s, military or civilian". Could someone (FortWorthGal?) give us some more specific ideas on appropriate vintage dress? Any help from any of you ladies and gents would be very much appreciated.

--Leslie

 

[Atomic Glee]

In October, my husband and I are planning to attend the Hangar Dance at the Vintage Flying Museum in Fort Worth. The website says "Optional dress 1940s, military or civilian". Could someone (FortWorthGal?) give us some more specific ideas on appropriate vintage dress? Any help from any of you ladies and gents would be very much appreciated.

--Leslie

Steph and I will be there, too!

We're fairly new at all this, and don't have all that much actual vintage stuff to wear, so we went with the most vintage-y things we had. Steph wore a modern, but vintage-style dress from mybabyjo.com (I think, one of the big women's repro shops anyway), some cute vintagey shoes, and some real seamed stockings from What Katie Did. I wore my J. Peterman Pigment-Dyed suit, vintage tie, and my brown Akubra Federation fedora. We actually fit in pretty well, and looked decently vintage.

 

[RaasAlHayya]

Thanks, Atomic Glee! I will make a dress for myself, but my husband isn't sure what to wear. We're afraid the DB wool pinstripe suit we just bought will be too hot.

This weekend, we'll be heading out to Gratitude to see if we can get something cooler for him.

--Leslie