a handful of my favorite vintage cocktail dresses:
a gorgeous 60s mandarin orange dress with rhinestone buttons.
thrifted for $3.
on the left: a super space-age sparkly silver mini dress, purchased at a local vintage shop. it was a splurge at $40.
on the right: a gorgeous emerald green gown (floor length, i think i will eventually chop it to just below the knee) with amazing jeweled neckline, thrifted for $4.50
a super sweet bubblegum pink & gold 60s tent dress, also thrifted for $4.50
a lovely mustard yellow velvet mini dress with jeweled neckline, thrifted for $6
and this fabulous silver gown (floor length, perhaps will be hemmed to the knee as well), thrifted for $4.50
with stuff like this in the closet, you can’t sit back wait for a dressy function to present itself. and stuff like this shouldn’t be just for holidays or weddings. do what i do: MAKE the occasion yourself. life is short!
have friends over for dinner and ask ‘em to dress up. surprise your sweetie after work with a bottle of wine in the park. toss one on when you’re at home listening to old records and windexing your windows.
no matter the occasion, it’s impossible to have a bad time in such a fun dress! (especially at such great prices!)
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Oh wow – those are all lovely, but I’m especially enamoured with the yellow one. Sadly, I rarely see things like this in my local thrifts and, if I do, they tend to be on the “boutique rack” and therefore very expensive, but lovely finds like this always give me hope.
I agree. Here in Portland, OR, where wearing vintage is very fashionable, the thrift stores are always very picked over. And the last time I was in Goodwill, the prices had gone up so high, it wasn’t worth it.
I’ll take the orange, mustard and silver in my size, please! you can do that right
oh===wouldn’t it be lovely!
hello, I had to comment to say, I love all your fab vintage dresses, I have a few and I never wear them, but after reading this post I might have to get them out to do the ironing in them! I love the photo on your banner too, is that you? you look so cute. I was reading your about page in the shop and I also have a partner who is obsessed with vintage tube pre-amps, in fact I share my home with quite a few (including a 6ft tall 1930′s cinema amp – lucky me)!
GORGEOUS stuff, missy. I really want to “catalog” my Top Shelf vintage. I’ve been meaning to do it for ages. I’d love to see more of your pretty dressies!
WHAT CAN I SAY U HAVE INSPIRED ME TO DRESS UP FOR DINNER EVEN IF IT IS JUST MY 1YR OLD SON AND HUBBY!!!! I LUV VINTAGE DRESSES AND IT LOOKS LIKE U KNOW WHERE TO GO!!! MY HUBBY IS IN THE USCG SO I PLAN TO HIT UP SOME VINTAGE AND THRIFT STORES IN ST.PETERSBURG (TAMPA)….ANY SHOPPING ADVICE? THX FOR ALL THE GOODIES U PUT OUT, I AM TRULY NEVER DISAPPOINTED!! SO U GONNA SELL ANY OF THOSE TEASERS U SHOWED US?
LOTS OF LUV
LIZ
Oh my gosh. Those are beautiful. I’m a thrift store virgin and have only been to one that was incredibly overpriced. Where on earth did you ever find such gorgeous dresses for such a great price?
i love them all, with this dresses theres always an excuse to dress up!
I was searching 60s cocktail dresses on google && I cam across your site. The orange & silver ones are simply stunning!
Hey how do i go about buying these clothes the first orange dress is beautiful i live in australia and was hoping to get some info please let me know, my email is cissababe@hotmail.com thanks xx