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Wearable Vintage Fashion

by C. Bridge & J. Waterhouse

This hands-on style guide shows you how to recreate quintessential looks from the 1920s to 1980s on a budget. Intro sections describe the silhouettes and trends of each decade. Next, get inspiration from lookbooks and day & evening wear pages filled with clothing and accessories from the author’s vintage boutique. The “Get the look” and “Icon” sections help you put together vintage outfits based on old family photos and interpret signature looks of movie stars and style icons. Street style photos of fashion bloggers and retro enthusiasts further showcase how to do vintage in modern day life.

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I ordered this book a while back from Amazon.ca and waited for some time for it to arrive. Perhaps all that waiting caused me to somewhat idealize the book and I admit I was slightly disappointed when I got to hold the copy in my hands. Overall, it is a pretty good book. There are chapters for each decade from the 1920s to the 1980s and an extensive Vintage Street Style section featuring mostly bloggers and their looks. The chapters were well organized with subsections: daywear, evening wear, “Get the look”, “Icons”, and “Look Book”. The clothes were ok, some were nice, some less inspiring. The Icons section mentioned famous people from each decade but rather than showing their pictures the authors took photos of themselves in the “inspired” look. I would prefer to see the vintage footage. The vintage street style section was a bit haphazard with some lengthy essays and some one-sentence comments. I was not that inspired from these pics and have seen better vintage street style online from other bloggers who weren’t used in this book. I won’t be keeping my copy but it was fun to look at. I have Christa Weil’s “It’s Vintage, Darling” on order now (author of “Second-hand Chic”) and look forward to that one.

June 17, 2012 at 1:16 am

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