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Your vintage dream outfit:- forget your figure and budget just for once

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I know Marilyn et al has a lot more cash than probably all of us here but that's the joy of vintage - you can copy/imitate your favourite star with some imagination - and perhaps by being prepared to do some serious searching!

I love that concept. I like to think of my chosen outfit as an inspiration, because although I know my "copy" won't come out like that, it's still fun to think I can get all the pieces together from my existing wardrobe. For example, if I wanted to copy Marilyn's suit, I could get close in black and silver.

Oh yes me too!! The Thin Man and HTMAM are outfit porn.

That made me laugh lol
 

Lily Powers

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Oh yes me too!! The Thin Man and HTMAM are outfit porn.

Along those same lines of "How To Marry A Millionaire," you might like the fashions in "The Opposite Sex," a 1956 remake of "The Women" (1939). It was filmed in glorious color, but this b&w photo is the least fuzzy example of the fashions I could easily find.
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[video=youtube;0wxWMIBbEmM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxWMIBbEmM[/video].
 

Amy Jeanne

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All my "dream" outfits look the same!! lol

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Jean's dress in this film is an ART MODERNE DELIGHT.

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Aside from Jean's dress, it's not the budget that prevents me from wearing this style. I can easily make these skirts and I'm sure I could find tops at Target or H&M that could pass. It's my figure that prevents me from wearing these clothes. I just don't think I look good in them. I'm also not a huge skirt fan because of the shifting -- there's a 10 inch difference between my hips and waist and I can never get it to fit right. So I stick to dresses.
 

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