I fell most in love with this dress, a Gay Gibson from the 1940's:
When I saw it, I gasped with glee and enjoyed an instant mental montage of all the amazing outfits it could create: wear it with opaque black tights and black platforms, wear it as a jumper with a long-sleeve shirt underneath, wear it to a party with a big black fur swing coat, wear it with dainty high-heeled sandals and a killer up-do. It's just glorious, isn't it? The picture here doesn't even do it justice; look at it here.This dress is both so perfect and so not my size that it has sparked a new feature here at Daddy Likey: the Fashion Humane Society. Every once in a while, when I come across an amazing, one-of-a-kind vintage item that I can't adopt myself, I will advertise it here and hopefully someone will take it in and give it the love it deserves.
If any of you lovely readers are a size 0-2 and have an extra $165 laying around or a glaring void in your Christmas list, I urge you to buy this dress. For holiday parties or just looking hot in general, it is perfection and must be given a good, stylish home as soon as possible. Open your heart. Adopt.
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It may be just a tad big, but thats just about my size! That is adorable, its so dainty but not in an overly annoying Stepford wife kind of way. Yeah, I think that will be going on my gift list. Thank you!
Oh, what's your size (if you don't mind, I know thats kind of really rude)? If I find anything amazing and one of a kind that happens to be just your size I will forward it to you, d'accord.
Carissa-
Yay! I was actually thinking of you when I posted this! I was like, "hmm...I wonder if this is her size?" I'd be so happy if you gave it the tres chic home it deserves.
I'm usually about a 10, although in vintage clothes it can be way depressingly bigger than that cuz everyone was so tiny back then, damnit. But yeah, 10ish.
Aw,thanks for the shout out. And man, I do not know what I would do in your situation--no thrift stores nearby?! I know I'd have some serious withdrawal.
That was definitely one of my favorite dresses from that site. Very pretty & so classic. I hope it finds a nice home (looking at you, Carissa.)
Wow. Now I'm itching to check that site out! There's not a lot of vintage where I am either (there may be a few finds in New Orleans, which is about an hour away from where I am). I used to frequent Wasteland on Melrose and American Rag on La Brea when I was in school in Los Angeles, but after I moved back home, my vintage shopping habit became pretty much non-existent. I do miss it. Maybe Posh Girl Vintage is just the site to get me back in the swing of things!
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