Just look! It has a bustle!

[Hattysattic]

Maybe not quite what you thought I meant, but a first label Laura Ashley that I think I love.

Sorry about half steamed pictures, I realised it needs a quick wash so I didn't do it all properly and these are very preliminary 'had to share' snaps!



I am trying to reduce my stock but I couldn't leave it behind..

:saint:

Late 60s/very early 70s? I need to buy/read the Laura Ashley book (note to self!)

 

[gaildavid]

Oh, that is a lovely Laura Ashley! I love the style and the material.....very nice! And a bustle to boot. ;)

Gail

 

[vintageclothesline]

If you could hold this one, it would do fabulous toward Halloween.

I am loving that dress!

 

[Jonathan]

I see a Virginia Slims ad, with piled up Edwardian hair and loose tendrils hanging down the temples, LOTS of eyelash, pink lips and a cigarette...

 

[Aphrodite_Nymphia]

Oh that is just to die for!!!

 

[bug12oz]

ohhhhh....I think I found my Halloween costume...... what size it???


That is a very awesome dress.......

 

[Hattysattic]

It's a teeny vintage UK 10, which is about a modern UK 6 (us 2 or 4?)

I'll have to measure.. if I can bear to part, although I should really!

 

[bug12oz]

oh you are singing my sizes!!!!!!!!

 

[poppysvintageclothing]

What a lovely Laura Ashley, I have never seen one like this before! So romantic....I see a picnic on a manicured lawn with strawberries and white wine and a flirting couple!

 

[Hattysattic]

I don't think I'd dare wear white on the grass - knowing me I'd come home looking like I'd been playing football in it! I'd love to picnic in elegant outfits but sad to say I'm probably safest in dungarees..

 

[emmapeelpants]

Best. Laura Ashley. Ever.

:D

It reminds me of a film clip I saw a while back of some gals walking through London in full Laura Ashley get-up, including bustled skirts like that and carrying parasols. Before that, I never quite believed my mum when she remembered the fashion for actually looking like a milkmaid, girls would actually wear bonnets and mob caps and my mum even had a wicker basket instead of a handbag which she would take into work. Apparently a lot of girls did that.

Liz