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How to Shop & Style Vintage Clothing: Outfit One

August 21, 2012

Dress: by Olenka Vintage
Belt: H&M, borrowed from Stef 
Bag and flats: H&M

Hello everyone! :) As you might have already read in the vintage guide we posted two days ago, this is the first outfit of a fashion series that Stef of Magnoliaelectric, Stefanie of Squeaky Swing and I want to show you. After sharing our knowledge about vintage shopping, we want to provide you with a few styling tips and tricks.
When Stef and Stefanie came to Potsdam and visited me, we spent one afternoon with doing outfit shoots, exchanged and shared clothes and accessories (my room was a mess, full with all our favourite dresses and shoes! :)) and composed outfits which fit together and then we thought about how to style those awesome vintage dresses best.

At first, this dress looked like a sack, there was no shape, this piece of clothing was not close-fitting at all. By simply adding a pretty belt, this looked more like a dress and gave it a completely different shape and totally changed my silhouette.
Moreover, it’s always a good idea to combine light and pale colors with bright accessories. Consequently, a good contrast is created and this makes an outfit interesting and nice to look at.
As you can see, only the dress is vintage and old, all the accessories are new and there you can see how one can easily combine old and new pieces in a way that it looks appealing. The only thing that’s important is that you pay attention to color schemes and that you take into account which colors and patterns go together well.




I hope this advice helps you a bit when styling your own outfit with a pretty vintage piece!
In the following days you’ll be able to see some more posts of this series, so don’t forget to check out the blogs of Stef of Magnoliaelectric and Stefanie of Squeaky Swing this week for more vintage outfit posts and styling ideas! :)
Lu

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Comments

  1. yoojin says: August 21, 2012 at 7:23 am

    Eine super Idee, eure Vintage-Kleidung-Serie! Rot passt wirklich toll zu dem Kleid! :) Bin schon auf die nächsten Posts gespannt…

    Liebe Grüße
    Yoojin

    Reply
  2. Julia says: August 21, 2012 at 8:42 am

    Tolles Kleid, der Gürtel gibt wirklich noch das gewisse Etwas hinzu!

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  3. *eni* says: August 21, 2012 at 9:22 am

    das kleid ist klasse und steht dir so gut!!!
    tolle idee mit der neuen rubrik! ich bin gespannt auf mehr!

    und sag mal…welchen roten lippenstift nutzt du?
    der schaut richtig schön rot aus.

    küsse
    eni

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  4. charlotte says: August 21, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    Du siehst so hübsch aus, das Outfit passt dir ausgezeichnet! Und gerade rot mag ich als Akzent sehr gern!

    Reply
  5. Bomb-in-a-birdcage says: August 21, 2012 at 6:41 pm

    Sieht wirklich klasse aus!
    Aber da hab ich auch eine direkte Frage an dich:
    Was mache ich wenn eine breite Hüfte habe?
    Angenommen, das Kleid sieht ertsmal unförmig aus, aber mit den Gürteln wird es richtig aufgepeppt. Der Nachteil ist aber, das die Taille und Hüfte dadurch extrem betont werden und ich hasse meine breite Hüfte… kann man das dann irgendwie anders lösen?

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    • luloveshandmade says: August 21, 2012 at 7:31 pm

      Hey! :) Danke für Dein Feedback!
      Mit einer breiten Hüfte kannst Du super gut Kleider und lange Tops im Babydoll Schnitt tragen. Die sind am Busen enger und werden direkt darunter weiter (man kann auch zusätzlich unterm Busen einen Gürtel tragen) und bleiben bis unten hin weiter. Sieht dann aber nicht sackförmig aus, da es ja bis unter den Busen eng geschnitten ist.
      Ansonsten kannst Du auch gut Kleider tragen, die Du zwar an der Hüfte mit einem Gürtel taillierst, die aber so weit sind, dass sie unten herum nicht wie eng anliegende Kleider die Hüfte betonen. :)
      Hat Dir das geholfen? :)
      Liebe Grüße
      Lu

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    • magnolia says: August 21, 2012 at 10:53 pm

      schau mal bei mir morgen :D ich hab eine superbreite hüfte, aber wenn man den gürtel lockerer nimmt und eine halbwegs gute taille im verhältnis hat, dann wirkt diese dadurch nur schmaler und betont, finde ich, die hüften nicht zu sehr. oder die babydollvariante, die aber aufträgt, finde ich, wenn man zB eine zu gerade figur hat (auch bei hüften, aber generell stämmig ist)

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  6. Anonymous says: August 22, 2012 at 6:32 pm

    irgendwie mag ich diese serie leider nicht so…besonders, weil es bei allen drei gleichzeitig ist, was j aan sich ne nette Idee ist, aber bisher sind die "Outfits" für mch noch nicht sooo innovativ.

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  7. laura says: August 27, 2012 at 6:38 pm

    oh, das ist ein schönes outfit! toll! (: ich mag es sehr, wie du das kleid in zarten farben mit den roten accessoires aufgepeppt hast!

    ich mag eure vintage-serie und bin schon gespannt auf die weiteren posts!

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