We Remember Mama ~ VFG Fashion Parade for the week of May 2st

[carla rey]

Was your mom a Beatnik? Lindy hopper? A classic beauty? Was her fashion sense sophisticated chic? This week the Vintage Fashion Guild celebrates your mothers and grandmothers in style!

Share items from your shop inspired by your mother's and grandmothers' personal style. Members can post mom pics, things that remind you of your mom's style or maybe just a memory of a favorite article of clothing, piece of jewelry, etc.

We want to see all of your photos of your mothers and grandmothers, vintage or not!

 

[thespectrum]

1939

1940s

My beautiful Mother - Doris, AKA Sunny, who died when I was a toddler.

A couple of items from my Etsy shop that are her style:
Vintage 40s 50s Bergere Moderne Choker Necklace


Not only her style, but her size:
Vintage 50s Black Babydoll High Heel Shoes 4 - 5

https://www.etsy.com/listing/215169263/vintage-40s-50s-bergere-moderne-choke

 

[The Vintage Merchant]

omgosh, MS!! what a beauty!!!

 

[Alleycats]

This is my Mother-in-law in about 1950.

 

[jazzbug]

My maternal grandmother (right) had a great deal of style. . . pictured here with my fraternal grandmother and me!
I call this photo "Two Proud Grandmas"

Something she always wore: clip-on earrings, most always paired with matching necklace (from our Etsy shop):


Grandma on her wedding day:

Wedding gown pattern from our Etsy shop of grandma's era:


Mom rocks the pencil skirt!

A 1950s cotton blouse from our shop that Mom's sense of style would have embraced:

 

[carla rey]

Here my mom in a 1960s production of Antigone rocking the mini tunic

And a similar style and shape from my shop!


Here's mom in her 'beatnik' phase who would love this bedazzed sheath dress

https://www.etsy.com/listing/253736...?ga_search_query=lbd&ref=shop_items_search_11

 

[The Vintage Merchant]

this is my mom (on the left) with her sister:

and this is my mom holding my little brother, Mark, with my cousin, Keith (peeking over her shoulder), and me. 1959

 

[carla rey]

New look era teenage Arloha (mom's name) would have loved this 1950s grey floral dress

 

[pastperfect2]

I don't have a blouse like this, but I love this photo of my mother as a senior in high school in 1949:

The Going Away suits: 1953. I would love to have these clothes of parents' now.

And from the shop:

1950s Vintage Café au Lait Tailored Silk Suit SZ S-M

 

[poppysvintageclothing]

Grandmother and Grandfather Wedding Day photos

My mom and her older Sis...taken by a street photographer in the 40s.

another photo in her Sunday best as a young girl

She was actually only 14 here and was a bridesmaid at her sister's wedding.
I remember this gown as a little girl as she had kept it, it was a brocade golden yellow!

here is a similar style of dress I can remember her wearing



1950s Organza Floral Print Dress

 

[carla rey]

Loving all these great photos!!

 

[cmpollack]

Here's my mother in 1942, aged 14:

And only one year later (I really cannot believe she's 15 in this photo!):

And here's a 40s novelty print rayon dress in my Ruby Lane shop:

 

[BonniesVintageClothesLine]

This is the woman that I thought of as my Mother for the first nine years of my life. She was my Grandmother and her name was Annie(Hester Anne Hunt Watkins). She made all of her clothes and I remember that this dress was a very dark burgundy and I wish that I still had it, but sadly, I don't.

 

[jazzbug]

A wonderful parade!

Now on the move at Facebook

 

[pinky-a-gogo]

great parade!

 

[denisebrain]

These are all so wonderful!!

A couple years ago I had a simple dress from the 1940s that reminded me of one my mother wore in a photo, so I put together our pics:

I chose some items I know my mother would wear from my shop.

She was a hard working woman and liked practical gabardine and cotton—almost always in blue to match her eyes.

Navy wool gabardine skirt; plaid cotton dress

She knitted, tatted, crocheted and sewed practically everything she wore, I wore, etc.

Italian hand-knit sweater; English hand-knit sweater

She wore plaid and tartan A LOT.

Tartan pleated skirt; taffeta plaid skirt

When I think of my mothers' wardrobe I think of serious coats and slightly glamorous shoes.

40s wool melton coat; 40s shoes

 

[Midge]

My mom has the family photo albums - so I don't have the photos I would want to show here. But I've got things in my shop, that she would have worn at the time - or would still wear. She learned sewing in school, and she started making her own things from Burda patterns early, and she still sews, though mostly from vintage patterns these days. She also made me things when I was younger, and she's also knitting, embroidering, crocheting... Here's a few things that remind me of her old photos from the 60s:


She had a party dress much like the one on the right in her late teens...Simplicity 3592 60s party or cocktail dress


I can just see mom wearing that in her "off" time during one of her winter jobs, hanging out and fooling around with her friends... Simplicity 6696


Stylish dresses that required a little extra work... like smocking here Simplicity 6778 60s dress pattern


Stylish short coats... Ringier 4198 60s coat pattern

 

[pinky-a-gogo]

I don't have any pics of my mom online--but these are some of her actual 70s clothing.
She made them and did all the hand embroidery~

 

[carla rey]

Tiffany those are amazing!! What a talent!

 

[BonniesVintageClothesLine]

Tiffany, what treasures you have! They are beautiful!