elegant evening dress with a hint of red

premierludwig

premierludwig

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Haven't managed to get decent pictures sorted out for this Hardy Amies dress yet, and am nowhere near writing it up for ebay, but I love it so much that I wanted to share it with people who'd understand how fab it was.

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I'd want to keep it except that the built in corset restricts my breathing so much I'd never be able to dance in it! It went fab with my Miss Rayne shoes though. Royal dressmaker and royal shoemaker, I felt ever so classy for a change despite the messy hair and make-up (no point getting dolled up when you're messing about taking pictures where you're going to chop your head off them anyway is there?)!

...and by the way, I don't look very much like myself in this outfit... I'm really more like this:
1960s girl

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
Senti,

That is a very posh gown, and you look very posh in it! Tres swanky :) that dress is, and I'll bet there will be a lot of interest in it, what with the label & esp. with prom season coming up. But I do love the pics of you in Swingin'/Carnaby mode - Patti Boyd had nothing on you (OK, maybe the boyfriends... but then again I don't know who you're dating!)

:D

Carolyn
 
Senti, you are soooooo pretty! (both here and in the other pics.)

This dress is gorgeous! I don't associate Hardy Amies with this type of
garment, anything I have seen has been tweeds, although granted I've only ever seen a couple of Hardy Amies labels up close and personal :)

Sue
 
Senti, I love your 1960s girl pics! I do remember those times!

Like the dress, too. I'm sure it will bring in the $$$.
 
You certainly are a fashionplate, Senti! I knew you were, this just confirms it. I especially like those white boots...but every photo is just fab. You really also know what suits you, that is for sure - both silhouette and personailty of the clothing.

The dress above, though you may think it is not your usual style, is very flattering to you too. I see what you really mean when you were saying before how hard it was to sell things when they all look so great :)
 
it's such a nice dress! i know what you mean, but always persuade myself to keep things 'incase i have a wedding to go to'. as yet i have no wedding invites but about 20 suitably lovely outfits that i really should sell..

you look fab in the pictures! as a student i lived in leeds and would get dressed up in 60's gear and go to 'move on up' (motown and northern soul night) at the underground every friday. seeing those pics reminded me..

(now i am older and too tired so i just stay in and tut at the noisy students outside, lol)
 
Harriet, I'm worse - I get invites to weddings and go and shop for vintage outfits to wear to them (usually hunting for a 1960s Petite Francaise or a Louis Feraud as they're my fave daytime formal attire), but have a vast collection of dresses to wear to balls and cocktail parties. Unfortunately I only go to one dinner dance every year at Christmas time and push the dress code a little bit and over-dress in one of my evening dresses. So there's a major back-log of beautiful dresses I need to wear!

I shall have to start holding parties at my house for a small group of friends and insist everyone dresses as OTT as they possibly can just in order that we can wear our posh frocks!

...when *is* prom season by the way? We don't have the school prom in the UK. I went to a good boarding school so we had a school ball when we finished school at 18, but I missed that too as I chose that time to aquire chicken pox! ...most people would have been devastated but I was over the moon about the timing. I hated the people I went to school with and was glad for the perfect excuse not to have to socialise with them one last time. :)

Carolyn, I am slightly envious of Pattie Boyd's boyfriends (Eric Clapton having too many bad points for me but I love his guitar playing. I'd have accepted George Harrison and Ronnie Wood any day of the week though!), but mine have treated me a lot better than her famous husbands ever did, and she majorly missed out on drummers. Mine have been very talented musicians if not prolific songwriters.... but then again I'd be *dreadfully* embarrassed if someone wrote a famous song about me. I hate excessive attention so that would be just too much for me to deal with. I'd suddenly aquire agoraphobia and never leave the house ever again! LOL!

Sue, there's loads of beautiful Hardy Amies evening dresses. That's what I associate him with because I always used to connect him with the fabulous gowns that the Queen and Princess Margaret would wear on state occasions. I was shocked that there was a selection of daywear!

Harriet - how long ago was it that you used to go out to the mod/60s things in Leeds? I did my hairdressing qualification in Leeds and used to go to things there on the few nights when I wasn't hanging out backstage at gigs. It seems like forever since I went to a mod club. Must make an effort to go.

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
Thaks for all the kind comments everyone... I shall go hide now. Not good at compliments, they make me feel everso shy. *blushes*

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
senti - too long! about 9 years ago, and sadly i think that particular night stopped a year or so later. i'm sure there must be something similar that replaced it, will ask friends that still live there where you need to be seen these days and let you know! ;)
 
Harriet, you must have been in Leeds just as I left to go to college elsewhere - just when Leeds was pulling itself up by the (accountancy-firm-and-government-funded) bootstraps and sandblasting all the 70s grime from the area around the railway station and canals. Alas, for the associated demise of pungent goth-shop 'BAD' and others...

I was a sixthformer across the road from the university, at the college on St. Mark's Ave; I've already bugged Senti about this, but did you patronise Parker's Apparel in Headingley? My first vintage buying expeditions were across Woodhouse Moor to there...

Senti, you look fabulous in your photos - I almost feel like you should have them arranged in narrative order and have a little commentary (or maybe speech bubbles!! for a photo-comic story!). What an amazing wardrobe... you'll have a complete 60s archive of museum-proportions eventually.

I wonder if there's a West Yorkshire vintage virus??

Here's to obsessive frock-buying. :booze:

L
 
that must be about right lin! i finished my a-levels then came to leeds in 97 or 8 (had so much fun dates all get a little hazy...) and yes, indeed parkers and all of the charity shops on the headrow - also one (forgotten name) on hyde park corner opposite the cafe's etc. and retro shop sugar shack (worked in both cafe and sugar shack briefly and still never had any money to buy anything decent!)

for all things goth nottingham used to be where i would head.

i miss leeds actually - this makes me want to visit and go shopping!!

:bouncy:
 
I think I started hanging out in Leeds a lot in about 1996... I got bored of sitting in sound checks for indie bands at the Town And Country one day and went for a wander and found there was a good selection of vintage clothing shops and posters for 60s clubs and gigs and from then on I became quite hooked on the place... til I moved to Liverpool which was even better! LOL!

A lot of the cool shops are no longer there but I've located one shop that's moved premises so I really should make an effort and go over there again... there's the added bonus of a Hard Rock Cafe now and I can't resist those.

I think they must put something in Yorkshire Water that makes us go all vintagey and bizarre. How else can you explain all the far out fashions worn in Leeds, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden... then again Halifax is usually full of drably dressed people that all look alike. I'm lucky working in a theatre there in the evenings, I get to see the few individual people that live in the area in their going-out gear. But mostly they're like drab clones of each other. :(

As the bumper sticker says, "normal people scare me". LOL!

love, moons and starrs,
Senti.*
 
Oh wow Senit! You're stunning! I loveeeeeee the way you photograph! I come across like a cow caught in the headlights, even when I'm trying to be saucy.
Thanks for sharing that link! It's always nice to put a face to a name! You've got one killer sense of style!
Anyhoo, here's me:
<img src='http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-3/674349/board.jpg' width=249 height=194 >
Needless to say, that's the guy that was modeling in the nekkid jacket pics aka, the fiancé.
 
It is very hard for me to believe that you photograph like a cow in the headlights. AAACK!! I am surrounded by all these beauty queens. i feel so plain!
 
Sounds like we all need a Leeds shopping session. Though I sound like such an old fart going around Leeds now
('I remember when all this was covered in grime as far as the eye can see! And there was a dry fountain there filled with Special Brew cans!')

<i>"normal people scare me". </i> You know, I'm positive that's actually part of the reason Senti - we must all be reacting to the drabness, using the bright ingredients lying around.

It was the unutterable, hopeless dullness of my secondary school (gelled perms <i>never</i> out of fashion) that sent me gothwards, combine that with the blossoming second-hand culture of Headlingly studentland (Harriet, did you ever patronise the Hyde Park cinema? One of my favourites...) and you get an embryonic vintage fiend...

Dead glamourous pic, Vix!

:USETHUMBUP:

L
 
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