Your Thirties style blows us away, Vintage Queen no 65
Whether she is wearing a simple feedsack dress, a knitted jumper or a period swimsuit, our fabulous Vintage Queen number 65 looks utterly amazing wearing the styles of her favourite decade, the Thirties.
My name is Jill MacLachlan and I live in a lovely Forties brick cottage home in the Victorian Village of Waterdown, Ontario, Canada, with my husband and Cavalier spaniel. I’m an online vintage seller (I was a college English literature and composition professor for the last five years until our move led me to re-evaluate my career path).
My grandmother, Adeline, definitely influenced my love of vintage fashion. This influence is reflected in the fact that I’ve named my Etsy online vintage shop, Adeline’s Attic, after her. My grandmother was a seamstress, and she made many of my dresses, often from vintage patterns she had used to make clothes for my mother when my mom was a little girl.
She also allowed me full access to her own wardrobe and storage closets, which were full of home-made house dresses and many items she had saved from the Fifties and Sixties, like glorious crinolines, so I have fond memories of traipsing around her house on weekend visits in her vintage dresses and shoes.
More generally, I also think my love of vintage clothing is a natural extension of my grandmother’s own advice to me that one should always insist upon quality and craftsmanship when buying things from the shops. As anyone who has shopped in a mall knows, many modern mass produced items are cheaply and poorly made; the level of quality I have come to see as paramount to true value and style is usually only found in vintage, especially vintage from the Thirties, Forties and Fifties.
It never ceases to amaze me that many of my Thirties dresses are holding up better than most modern garments in my closet, which start fraying at the seams after I wear them only a few times! Saying that I do love some reproduction clothing too such as Able Grable (worn below).
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I love this thirties look! I have previously been into the forties stuff but every day now I am getting more and more fascinated by the thirties, and Jill has some wonderful outfits here. Her hair and make-up are gorgeous, too. I’m finding it increasingly difficult to drag myself away from the Poirot re-runs on TV at the weekends, so it’s only a matter of time before I go for the chop and get that fantastic bob :0)
Lena, you just blow us away. What a ‘splendid’ look. Your choice of pieces is amazing, but, it is your wonderful figure and looks that really make your look so fabulous!! One is reminded of the remark by Wallis Simpson ‘you cannot ever be too rich or too thin’!
Yes Jill is amazing! Very true – she has the perfect Thirties figure!
You look so lovely.
What a lovely lady. Great hair too! I’ll try and find Jill’s Etsy shop as neither links you’ve provided are working. Enjoyable read.
Found Adeline’s Attic. Jill was already a favourite.
well deserved! she is such a favorite of mine and so good at what she does, nobody i know has such a dedication to one particular decade! her authenticity blows everybody away.
excellent choice!
so nice to “meet” the seller behind adelines – she has such good stuff in the shop. and now i want her wardrobe too! i love that she has a phd and then went on to sell vintage clothes (much more fun than academia, i’m sure).
Thank you SO much for your amazingly kind and wonderful comments on my Q of V feature and my Etsy shop! I’m really flattered and really grateful to have been chosen as #65 Queen of Vintage and am elated people like the frocks I’ve been stocking in Adeline’s Attic. BLUSHING and BEAMING over here!!!
http://www.adelinesattic.etsy.com
She’s lovely!!! love your style!
Jill has such a gorgeous style!
I love love love that swimming costume! It’s so flattering, stylish and ladylike. Shame our beaches and shores can’t say the same thing today!